In 2014, a woman named Ashley Gabrielle Huff from Georgia, USA, got into big trouble over something surprising. She was 23 years old when police stopped her car and found a spoon with some dried stuff on it. The officer thought it was methamphetamine, a dangerous drug, and arrested her. But it wasn’t drugs—it was just leftover SpaghettiOs, a canned pasta snack. Even so, Ashley ended up spending a month in jail because of this mix-up.
The trouble started one night when Ashley was driving home. A police officer pulled her over for a small traffic problem. While checking her car, he saw the dirty spoon on the passenger seat. It had some crusty tomato sauce and bits of pasta stuck to it from a meal she’d eaten earlier. The officer didn’t believe her story and thought the residue looked like m*th. He tested it quickly, and the test said it was drugs. Ashley tried to explain it was just food, but he arrested her anyway and charged her with drug possession.
