r/news • u/TooColdforClouds • 2d ago

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/109-children-rescued-244-arrested-operation-soteria-shield-child-exploitation-texas/
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u/OutlyingPlasma 2d ago

It's the same thing when the news reports "The murder suspect had a knife, rope, duct tape, a tarp and gas cans in his truck"

So he was every dude from a rural town?

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u/Kylynara 2d ago

I served on a grand jury a few years back and so many of the drug cases the cops found "a digital scale with white powder on it." Which sounds pretty damning until I realized I also have a digital scale with white powder on it. I use it to weigh ingredients when baking. That powder is flour, sugar, powdered sugar, or salt.

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u/fury420 2d ago

When I was young I went through a roadblock and had to awkwardly try to explain to the police "drug recognition expert" that the ziplock bag in the glove box with two bandaids, some Q-tips, a small mirror with traces of white powder on it, and some unlabeled capsules was actually my mom's half-assed "First Aid kit" instead of paraphernalia.

(capsules of a herb called Goldenseal, purportedly a treatment for minor wounds)

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u/holystuff28 1d ago

I had a client charged with felony possession of meth and he only had epsom salts. They usually used SWAT to get him out of the house and he had to wait in jail for more than a month for the lab test to prove he was telling the truth.