Cops Think His Legal IBS Medication is Fentanyl

If you ever find yourself in the position of saying to yourself, I'm okay with the police searching my car or my house or my person because I have nothing to hide, then remember the story of what happened to Brian Getchius.They search his vehicle and they find his perfectly legal IBS medication that is prescribed to him.Despite having all legitimate markings, the officers claimed it was fentanyl, or maybe cocaine, they didn't know.But they did know that they really wanted to arrest and charge him.

When I was making fake pills for the prayer press, that's what they did.

Despite personally confirming the pill identification through his internet search, Deputy McClinton rejected that information and proceeded to run this medication through a fentanyl drug field test kit.

Brian, what color would you say that is?

This field test kit is a presumptive test that is widely known in law enforcement and scientific communities to produce false positive results for fentanyl.when applied to a wide range of legal medications, including dicyclamine.

Stand over here, Brian.I'm sorry, sir.They're not.You can't just give me a summons, please.

No, buddy.This is Greenwood.This ain't Florida, brother.We don't do summons like that.

Sir.Listen, man.Can I please park my car somewhere?

No, your car's gonna be towed, okay?

Sir, I can't afford all that.I didn't do nothing.

Listen to me, Brian.What you're doing right now is working yourself up because nothing you say is going to change what happens for the rest of the night, okay?I'm not being a dick, I'm being honest, okay?

He ended up spending 15 days in jail before bonding out.And even after getting out, he was placed on house arrest with an ankle monitor for another seven months, confined primarily to his mother's home in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Yeah, it ain't made for comfort.

It would take Brian one year, four months, and 28 days from the date of his arrest to clear his name.And at no point during that period of time was Brian ever in possession of any illegal controlled substances.