So last night me and a freind were just cruising around looking for something to do, when my freind forgot his turn signal and soon we saw red and blue flashing in the rear view mirror. We pull over and I stick the little glass pipe we had into my shoe in the top-right corner, a 2.5 inch chillum that fits snuggly into my shoe with no discompfort or bulges. It's a tiny pipe.

Anyway after getting pulled over the larger cop walks over and says "Don't like to signal on turns?" At which point my freind starts to respond but the large cop returns to the minivan. A few moments later he comes back and asks my freind to get out of his car, and puts himself between the door and my freind as he gets out and DOESNT LET him close the door. He walks my freind back to the minivan and tells him (i dont find this out until later) that they are DEA (they drive a minivan, like all the DEA around here) and they don't pull people over just for traffic tickets. They also tell my freind they have been tailing us for the last 30 minutes from burger king, to the park, to where we got pulled over.

Meanwhile I'm still in the car, and the original larger cop who came to the window comes back while the decoy cop continues talking to my freind. He starts scanning the front seat, floor, and whatever else he can with a flashlight, obviously looking for drugs. All the while I'm staring him down making sure he doesnt actually violate my freinds rights and go into the car. After a brief scan of the front seat he goes back and talks to the other cop (i hear them talking about pulling me out of the car), and the bald cop pulls me out of the car as the other cop returns to the driver-side door. The bald cop (decoy cop) asks if i have ever been arrested, to which i said unfortunately.

It's at this point i see the large cop, crouched next to the passenger side door, searching the interior of the car on the drivers-side door with his head in the car, arms and hands in the car, going under the seat and along the left side of the seat (that's all I saw, the door being open on my side with me standing right outside of it with the bald cop to the right of me and my freind behind me). It's at this point my freind asks "is he searching my car?" And the bald cop says "no, i don't think so" and my freind goes "i do not consent to any searches of my vehicle." it's at this point the larger cop gets up, walks over to my freind and says "this is weed" as he shows him a tiny, possibly pin-sized particle of green leaf, obviously not even weed.

It's at this point my freind denies it, saying we go frisbee golfing (we had frisbee golf frisbees int he car as well) and we're in the woods all the time, which is honestly the most likely source of that leaf. it's at this point my freind again doesn't consent to any searches of the car, at which point the bald cop mentions it was in plain site (he was on the entire other side of the car at the time, he didnt see where his partner found the 'leaf') and that it's probable cause for a search.

It's at this point the large cop begins tearing through the car, and the bald cop asks me if he can pat me down to make sure "im not gonna shoot him in the back or anything," a pat down for weapons. I said i do not consent to any searches at which point the bald cop looks away with a frustrated look on his face, no response. literally 20 seconds later he says "well if we get the dogs here they won't find anything will they?" at which point (i know they cant call dogs to search individuals, only cars) i said go ahead and PAT me down, he does keeping it nice and legal. He doesnt go in my pockets and he doesn't search my underbody. It's at this point he lets me sit down and he does the same to my freind. They find nothing.

time goes by, the bald cop radios our names and info back to the station and get a response, they find out what i was arrested for and when. At this point im like **** Nooooooooooooooooo! The large cop eventually gets out of the car after about 30 minutes and shows my freind some shake that actually WAS weed (which he aquired illigally, and to make note the large cop did NOT let me see any of what he found, every time i tried to look he we cup his hands and block my view of whatever he was holding). They continue to ask my freind as they have been doing on and off weed questions, "when was the last time someone brought weed in your car, Does your dad smoke weed in this car (its his dads car and he told them that), and several other generic unnerving statements towards my freind, threatening dogs, etc......

Eventually they run out of steam, and they ask my freind if he has anything on him that they'd find if they got dogs. He said no. He then turns to me and asks if they would find anything on me if they searched me or got dogs, and this is where i made my mistake. In my own ignorance and the stress of the time, search and pat-down were the same thing. And in a confused yet honest tone i said "well he searched me already." at which point the large officer ordered me into the position again and started searching me, putting his hands into my pockets and searching me entirely. I said (and the only reason i said this was because his hands were in my pockets at the time) go ahead and take everything in my pockets out.

The only thing he found that interested him was a piece of dog food, which he looked at with a puzzled look until i said "dogfood." At which he said "well it's a good thing we didnt call the dogs after all isnt it." He then proceeded to search down my legs and the tops of my ankles. It's at this point that he sticks his fingers down my socks and starts readjusting them, and then probes inside my shoe. it's at this point, i said in a parental tone (i got this subconcious habit from my mother, highly embaressing) "ah, ah, ah!" and immidiately after i said "I do not consent to any underbody searchs... Please stop searching my shoes" at which point he just keeps probing inside my shoes, i mean he's almost knuckle deep into my shoes at this time searching nearly the entire thing. He eventually after a few minutes finds my tiny tiny pipe in my right shoe (in the upper right edge of the shoe) and places me under arrest. He doens't read my my miranda rights, and i go to the station.


Tell me, how good of a chance do i have at fighting this? I have a alcohol offense as a minor and a drug offense that i got EXACTLY a year prior + 5 days. I REALLY cannot afford the para fines here (750-1000 dollars) and i CANNOT afford to have this on my record...