Georgia woman sues Monroe County for prison time because deputies mistook cotton candy for meth
A Georgia woman has filed a federal lawsuit in court after she spent three months in jail over a false positive on a drug test that caused her to miss "several serious life events," including her daughter suffering a miscarriage and her daughter-in-law giving birth to her twin grandsons.
According to WMAZ, Dasha Fincher's incarceration can be traced back to New Year's Eve 2016, when two deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Cody Maples and Allen Henderson, stopped her car for an apparent violation.
The deputies saw a large plastic bag inside the car and questioned Fincher over its contents, following which they were told it was blue cotton candy. But they didn't believe her and administered a roadside test called the Nark II roadside kit — known to have a history of producing false positives —that determined that the bag contained methamphetamine.