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How to Get Arrested When You Have Drugs in the Car You're being pulled over and you have illegal drugs in the car!  What do you do now?  Don't run from the cops. As soon as you are requested by the police to stop your car, immediately pull over to the side of the road.  If you are on the highway and there is a grassy area or shoulder, pull over immediately.  If there is no safe area on the highway: Slow your car to a speed that is below the speed limit; Put on your emergency flasher to let the police officer know that you are going to pull over; At night, turn on the interior dome light so the police officer can see that you are not trying to hide anything or reach for a gun; Pull over as soon as you come to a safe area or at the next exit; and Keep your hands on the top of the steering wheel or out the window; Listen carefully to what the police officer tells you to do and follow the instructions exactly; If the police officer asks for permission to search your car, just politely say NO; Do not answer questions or give explanations, except to identify who you are; If arrested, request to speak with a lawyer immediately and before you say anything else. If you run from the police, you have now committed another crime and will probably commit several more.  You may have now given the police probable cause to search your car and find your drugs.  You can now be arrested and your car impounded word can be inventoried and searched without probable cause.  It is extremely unlikely that you will get away.  The probable result is that there will be violence.  If you are not shot and possibly killed by the police, a police officer may be injured or killed and you will be looking at substantially more time in prison. Even if you stole a car, have drugs for personal use, or you're a drug dealer with a large quantity of drugs in the car, you're far better off pulling over.  A drug lawyer may even be able to get the charges dismissed if it can be proved that the police officer did not have probable cause to make the stop or search your car.  Many times, police officers will not have probable cause to search your car even if they had probable cause to make the stop.  After making the stop, the police officer can then seek to obtain probable cause to search your car.  Failing to obtain probable cause, many police officers will simply ask for permission to search the car. Do not give the police officer permission to search your car or your trunk.  You are not required to give permission and contrary to what the police officer tells you, your situation cannot get worse because you do not give permission.  If you do not give permission to search your trunk and the police officer does not have probable cause to make the search, anything that is found will be excluded as evidence against you.  If you do give permission, anything found can be used as evidence against you. The police officer may go ahead and search your car or trunk anyway.  That's ok.  It is very possible that the police officer did not have probable cause either to pull you over or to search your car.  If there was no probable cause, your criminal drug lawyer will succeed in getting the evidence excluded from trial and the charges will likely be dismissed, even with 100 kilos of cocaine in the trunk! Do not talk to any of the police officers, except to provide your name.  Do not give any explanations in an attempt to avoid arrest.  To your surprise and your lawyer's dismay, your explanation will accomplish only two things.  It will give the police officer probable cause to search your car and find evidence to arrest you. At the time you are being arrested, you will be read your Miranda rights.  The Miranda warning tells you that you do not have to say anything without a lawyer being present.  There is a good reason the police have to tell you this.  Don't say anything except "I don't want to say anything without a lawyer".  If you can say that in front of the police car's video camera or witnesses, even better.  Don't say anything else except to your drug lawyer. Drug Lawyers  © Philip L. Franckel, Esq.