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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 20 August 2016 - 05:32 AM

Northwest Cable News, 8/18:
 

Cops target drug smugglers on Portland to Chicago train

 

Merrick Bonneau was glad to be home. He had just returned from a cross-country trip on Amtrak. But as the 40-year old Portland man stepped off the train at Union Station, he noticed several passengers being questioned by a group of men on the platform.

 

They were drug cops waiting for Amtrak’s Empire Builder train line to arrive from Chicago.

 

“I wanted this to be an awesome trip, but at the end of it, it turned into a nightmare where people are getting searched and I’m being arrested for no reason,” said Bonneau.

 

Bonneau was hauled away in handcuffs and held in a cell at Portland Police Drugs and Vice Division. After nearly six hours in custody, he was released.  He wasn’t carrying any illegal drugs.

 

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