Sonya610
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True, but I also have the smaller zip lock bags that are kept around my kitchen table. I make jewelry so I have itty bitty bags for seed beads and findings and such.
Actually buying those itty bitty bags for jewerly can get you flagged as a possible drug dealer (really). But of course having little itty bitty bags in with your beads and other crafts is a LOT different than sitting around on the kitchen counter next to a scale. Did they find more than one scale? The statement says "scales" as in plural which would be unusual if they were sitting out. I guess some folks say scales even in the singular format, and I wouldn't think most drug dealers use two scales to check for accuracy.
Most everybody has baggies in the kitchen drawer, and a lot of people have a digital scale for various things (dieting, small animals, etc...). I don't think the police would search a kitchen and find these items in drawers and say suspicious, they were probably out in the open and DID look suspicious.
The interview with the mother included these statements by "experts":
DAVID LOHR, CRIME CONTRIBUTOR, AOLNEWS.COM:But most interesting was the items they recovered from the kitchen area. Zip-loc bags, some small bags, white bags, pieces of them. And they found some scales, and like you had mentioned...
MIKE BROOKS, HLN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: The scales, the Zip-loc bags, that bothers me a lot, because what does that usually say when you see that, Jane? It usually says some kind of drug activity.
We don`t know that for sure. But I`m just telling you, as a former investigator, you go into a kitchen area, find that, that`s first thing investigators are going to take a look at.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/07/ijvm.01.html