Cops Use Drug Test Kit on Innocent Man’s Prescription Pills

Sir, I've never been to jail.Please don't send me to jail.

You're going to jail, Brian.You're under arrest, okay?Sir, if you sent my name to...Brian.

Yes, sir.

What color would you say that is?Sir, that's gold, but that's not Roxy Codone.

Can you please retest it?No, because now it says fentanyl.It's definitely not fentanyl.

Brian let cops search his car because he had nothing to hide.He knew that there was nothing illegal in his car, but he would later come to regret that decision.

What color is that?I'll show you now, sir.

Yellow?

Brian's on a road trip headed back to Florida where he works.It begins as a routine traffic stop.He gets pulled over.They ask him if he has anything illegal in his car.He knew that he had nothing illegal, so he consented to the search.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.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.

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Now let's get back to the video.On May 15th, 2024, Brian Goetjes was driving to Florida when he was pulled over by the Greenwood County, South Carolina Sheriff's Office.Brian Goetjes had been visiting his mother in South Carolina due to the recent passing of his father.He was headed back to Florida where he was employed by an addiction treatment center.At the time of this stop, he had achieved 14 and a half months of sobriety and was actually employed in the field of addiction recovery, working to help others achieve their sobriety.So it's actually really, ironic and unfortunate what would actually happen to him here.

Deputy Keener approached Brian's window and he asks for his license and registration and he also asks why Brian is headed to Florida.

You were texting somebody as soon as I was walking up.What's so worked up about that?

Heel capsule in the keychain.

The reason I stopped you just so you're aware, okay, was your window tint.But then secondly,over the road, man, y another lane, all that.B completely cooperative.

B ID and he admits that his was suspended.The officer to step out of the vehicl license?

Because this is The officers accuse Brian of being nervous, implying that he must be hiding something, but Brian replies that he's just naturally anxious.

Notably, South Carolina is in the 4th Circuit, and the 4th Circuit has held that a driver's nervousness is not a particularly good indicator of criminal activity.because most everyone is nervous when interacting with the police and it's therefore of limited value to the reasonable suspicion analysis.The officers asked Brian for permission to search his vehicle.Believing that he had nothing to hide and that cooperation with the officers would result in a more favorable outcome regarding his suspended license, Brian consented to a search.He knew that there was nothing illegal in his car and he thought that he had nothing to worry about.

He said he don't or does?

During the search of Brian's vehicle, Deputy McClinton found a blue prescription bottle marked as belonging to Brian Getges.It was labeled Dicyclamine HCL 10mg with directions to take one capsule by mouth three times a day, even identifying the medication as prescription number 49939.As indicated on the bottle, the pills were in fact Lynette Brand Dicyclamine pills that were all lawfully prescribed, non -controlled medications for the treatment of IBS, irritable bowel syndrome.Deputy McClinton yelled, Miranda, to Deputy Keener, indicating that he wanted Keener to read Brian his Miranda rights, also indicating that there was going to be an arrest.

Miranda, Brian, what's the blue pills, buddy?

That's also dicyclamine.The blue pills are 10 milligrams, sir.The little blue ones are 10 milligrams.The circle ones that look like loxies, because like I said, I'm on some biostimulant recovery, are the 20 milligrams.It's for my stomach.

Brian told the deputies that the pills were dicyclamine, his prescription for his IBS symptoms, but they completely disregarded him.

Once again, I'm very nervous.I understand that, but most pills,look like that.So we're going to test them, OK?Because these look very worn and honestly not real.And they're in the wrong pill bottle.

You understand that that's against the law, right?This pill bottle is for capsules.This pill bottle is not for pills.It's for capsules.OK. I'm sorry to say that.No, don't be sorry.

I just want to get to the bottom of it.

OK.OK.

Bodycam footage shows Deputy McClinton using his cell phone to conduct an internet search of the pill markings during the stop.In fact, his internet search confirmed Bryan's claims that the pills were in fact his prescribed meds and not a controlled substance under either state or federal law.The South Carolina State Forensic Laboratory would later confirm through visual examination that the tablets were consistent with a pharmaceutical preparation, directly contradicting the subsequent sworn testimony of these police officers.the lab would say, but we'll get back to that.Bodycam footage showed that Deputy McClinton knew that the field test result was inconsistent with the pill's identification.He said something ain't right and referenced his purported experience making pills with a pill press.

McClinton's incident report later characterized himself as, quote, having prior knowledge of pills consistent with these being clandestinely made and containing fentanyl.Perhaps he should explain this prior experience further.

There's supposed to be capsules in here.There's supposed to be 270 capsules in here.This was filled on 316 -23.Yeah, that's what's bothering me.Give me something else.Give me something for all of them.

MDMA is what I'm looking at here.this don't make any sense i looked them up it's land 1232 lan 1232.

what did it give you?

crumbling.

disacclamane.disacclamane.

so you run the taffle and the the the dang calfles?disacclamane calfles.yeah i know but i'm just saying like keep saying there's no one even should test the damn powder in them.

net zero five eight six why are they so it looks like 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.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.

What color is this?Yellow?Yellow says it's oxycodone, Brian.

I did.I did.

I looked it up, but I also put it in here.

Yeah, we'll test it again.

Yeah.It's hard.

Yeah.It's real hard.Well, he's on the way to Florida randomly right now.Weird, though.I'm telling you.Yeah, that's yellow.

Go look at them peels.I'm telling you, when I told you I used to make them peels, and if you didn't get the press right, they would crumble because they weren't tight enough.That's right.Look at them peels right there.You got another tick?

Huh?

They're not right, 100%.I don't know what they are, but they're not.One is fentanyl.

Yeah, that's true.Fentanyl.Yeah, yeah, yeah.That's why I went ahead, I'm going to do one of these.These all -overs.These all -overs.

I work that thing up and down, man.

Yeah, I mean, I did another one just to be sure.

Yeah, that's not right, yeah.

100%.

Cheaper made, but...

Brian, what color would you say that is?

Sir, that's gold, but that's not Roxy Codone.Can you please retest it?No, because now it says Fentanyl.It's definitely not Fentanyl.Well, why would it be orange?Sir, I don't know, but if you could look at the imprint on the pills, that's...

Yeah, the imprint on the pills don't mean nothing around here, buddy, because we run across a lot that's fake, okay?I can show you the pill bottle at home, though.

Why wouldn't it be tested positive for fistula?I don't know.I don't get that.Did you retest it?Oh, yeah.Three times.

You just saw it, buddy.

Could it be because it's an old bottle?

No, absolutely not.

And there was fentanyl in there?

No.

Like, in a bag?

Uh -oh.We just tested three different parts of the pills.

Can you test three different parts?That's not fentanyl.You couldn't look.It's...

As far as what's on the peel, right?Yes, sir.People can press peels and put all kinds of stuff on them, right?Yes, sir.I know that's pressed peels.Yeah, okay.

So why do you have, even if they are the same, you're claiming they're the same type of thing.Yes, sir.Why would you carry them in that one bottle when that one bottle is not for just that kind of peel?Yes, sir.That's the capsule bottle.

Yes, sir.

I just have so many in -peelers and I put it all together.You're saying they've been in that bottle, that they're old, and that's the reason the powder is the way they are, right?All in the bottle.But you transferred those pills into the capsule bottles, you see what I'm saying?So they have not been in there for an extended period of time.You just told me a little while ago, because you're going to Florida, you got the old pills and put them into a bottle.

No, I took the old bottle.

An old bottle.

Okay, first off, that bottle ain't that damn old when it went in there.No, no, I'm not saying it's like years old.I'm just saying it's...Eight year old.

It's just a little over a year old.

See, it's starting to turn.It's starting to turn orange.See, I'm trying not to shine.That's blue up top.

The other one was enough for me.

Yeah, well, I mean...

And then you got two like that.

Yeah, where was the other one at?That's why I want to take a picture of two.

That was the hardest to beat.If you look at those pills, you can tell how s*** they are made.Something ain't right with them.It says L. L. I got it looked up.Crush one with your fingers and watch how easy it crushes.Just break one with your finger.

You know what I'm saying?Pills don't do that though.It's supposed to be these.Lan -1282.Diclamine hydrochloride for stomach s***.

Yeah, well that ain't it.These are fake.I mean, you can tell they're fake press.

Yeah, they look like s***.

And I got powder in there, too.I was gonna try and get the pills out.That's gonna be pee -wet powder.Yeah, see, it's turning down.

Load him up?

Sir, to you.

365, let me get a record, make some rotation of this vehicle.We had Emily's all -day buffet.You're under arrest.

Sir, I've never been to jail.Please don't arrest me.Can you give me a summons or something, please?Sir, I'm begging you.Sir, it's not drugs.

Sir, it's not fentanyl.listen to me.They don't look like manufactured pills from a pharmaceutical company, okay?I know what fake pressed pills look like, I've made them myself.Okay, they look like you didn't have the dials, or somebody didn't have the dials set tight enough because they're not pressed right.Brian, would you agree that normal pills...

No, that's not going to do anything about possession, Brian.Using and being in possession is not right this second, no sir.But if you take those pills, Brian, and you crush them between your fingers, they just fall apart.

Sir, I've never been to jail.Please don't send me to jail.

You're going to jail, Brian.You're under arrest, OK?Sir, for something I didn't do.Brian, for something you're in possession of.Sir, I didn't do nothing.Listen, this is not a guilty situation.

OK, right now, our evidence says you're in possession, OK?

Sir, I gave you permission.

I know.I'm going to give you permission for something illegal.OK, Brian.I'm just letting you know ahead of time.

Don't take me to jail.I better bail out right away tonight?

No, not tonight.You'll see a judge in the morning.Sir, please don't do this to me.Brian, you're going to jail, buddy.Sir, I'm not trying to do anything to you.

Please, I'm not trying to do anything to you.They're not drugs.I'll go have my mom bring the body right now and show you.

Brian, why are you sweating like that, brother?It's like 60 pounds.

Because I'm fat.That's why I don't want to go to jail.I'm fat too.I'm having health issues.

Brian, these are clandestinely financial bills.

Stand over here, Brian.Oh, I'm sorry, sir.They're not.Sir, I'm going to lie.And sir, I need to go to the hospital.I'm sweating like this.

My heart's beating.I have a high CK.

OK, well, that's fine.You're still going to jail after the hospital.

I have a history of a high CK.I have to go right to jail.I have a history of high CK cap.Do you think that, yeah, I'm not lying.No, I don't use it at all.No, I don't use it at all.

Sir, I've never been injured.I don't want to be injured.

I'm not a bad person.Did I say you were a bad person?

Nobody out there thinks you're a bad person.Sir, I'm not going to do nothing.Can you imagine this?

Yeah, I can.Yeah.

It's not fentanyl.Did you test on different pills or something?

Four times.

It's not fentanyl.I don't understand this.Could I be the baddest?I don't either.It is.

Because I wanted to give you the bad news.of the doubt.

I don't know.I'm shocked.Super shocked.Summons, please.

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

Sir.Listen, man.

No, your car's going to 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?All right, take a deep breath, relax, calm down.It's 60 -something degrees out here.

You're sweating like a mule.It's not drugs.It tested positive for drugs.

I know.It's not drugs, though.

OK, but did you see that it tested positive for drugs?

No, I'm saying pills like, listen, I don't know.Them pills, there is pills that break.They're soft, I guess.I don't know.Ask them.Listen.

You're arresting me just for something and put me in jail.And I've never been in jail for something I'm told you didn't do.Think about that.It's not fair.

They didn't say you did anything.They said you were in possession of something.I'm not though.It's not fair.Dude, did you see the test kit I showed you?So you're telling me it wasn't orange?

I didn't see you test it.I didn't see you put it in there.

OK, well, it's all on camera.

No, I'm not saying you're lying.I'm saying, I don't know.What he's saying is, did you see the test that he did?

Yes, and it was yellow.Yes, it was.And the other one was orange?

It looked like brown.

It was orange.

Orange and brown.

It didn't look orange.Go stand right there in front of that car right there.Stand right there in front of that car.All right, what are we doing here?

We're going.

All right.

I'm ready to go when I'm going.

All right, Brian, come over here, buddy.

All right, look, ain't nothing in there right now, so have a seat.

Not right in a second, no, sir.

Have a seat.It ain't made for comfort.He ain't gonna be doing no moving.

Brian Getchius was placed under arrest and transported to the Greenwood County Detention Center.After he was transported, the deputies performed a second more thorough search of Brian's car, including looking under the hood, inside his battery box, along the door panels and trim, as well as the tires, but they found nothing.Also after the arrest, the deputies performed a second field drug test kit on the same pills.This time it was a cocaine field test kit.This kit also yielded a positive result, but this time it labeled the pills as cocaine HCL freebase crack.

The judge is saying I'm looking at 45 years, 15 years to count.

So the following day, Deputy James Travis Freeman, who was not a responding or arresting officer from the night before, and who was not present at all at this traffic stop and arrest, swore to and submitted three arrest warrant affidavits and presented them to the court.Based on these sworn affidavits from Deputy Freeman, Magistrate Cheryl Warren issued three criminal warrants for three charges against Brian Getchin.Trafficking fentanyl, first defense, carrying a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in prison without the possibility of parole.And also two separate counts for manufacture, distribution, or possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, presumably one for each field test result.All three warrant affidavits submitted to the court by Deputy Freeman omitted entirely the exculpatory fact that Deputy McClinton had actually identified the pill markings as dicyclamine through an internet search conducted at the scene.I'll point out here that the U .

S.Supreme Court has held, in the case of Franks v. Delaware, that if an officer knowingly, unintentionally, or with reckless disregard for the truth included a false statement in an arrest warrant affidavit, and that false statement or omission of a material fact was necessary to the finding of probable cause, the warrant is invalid.Here, the police report authored by Deputy McClinton further omitted from the formal case record the pill imprint identification and internet search done at the scene confirming the pill's legitimate pharmaceutical origin.And Brian Getchius paid the price for that.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.

During that time, Brian was unable to return to his job in Florida or to maintain the sponsorship relationships and recovery community support that had sustained his sobriety for almost 15 months.Brian also ended up incurring tens of thousands of dollars in attorney's fees and costs defending against these false charges.And those false charges were supported by evidence that was submittedthe South Carolina SLED State Forensic Laboratory, where due to a backlog of around 18 ,000 cases, the results were not returned for over six months.But then on October 1st of 2025, a SLED scientist issued a lab report confirming that the alleged fentanyl and cocaine was actually just Dicyclamine, a legal prescription medication that is not even a controlled substance under either state or federal law.But it wasn't over yet.

Even after receiving the SLED lab results, Greenwood County, South Carolina prosecutors held onto the results for approximately two weeks before even disclosing them to the public.to the defense, despite daily inquiries from Bryan's defense lawyer.

Charles Gross, who was on the case, Bryan was pushing him.Hey, get the drug test.Get the drug test.I promise you, it's not fentanyl.Calling him three times a day?Mind you, most lawyers, when they hear the case, they're like, hey, they may not even believe their client.

They think, hey, he's telling me this, but I don't know.It's not from Bryan, and this may be fentanyl.You really want me to get the exam?You really want to get the results?Charles eventually gets the results, and he calls Bryan.Hey, you know it was your lucky day.

Celebrities Oaks are showing it is the IBS medication.Brings information back to Brian, the state is offering a plea to possession for the time that you served.And Brian's like, you know.Hell no, I'm not doing that.Like, I'm innocent.

Shockingly, prosecutors still didn't dismiss the charges.Even after disclosing the results to the defense, they still offered Brian a plea deal.They asked him to plead guilty to a reduced possession charge in exchange for a dismissal of the trafficking charge, despite lab confirmation that no controlled substances were even present.

Now, most people who don't have a paid lawyer could say,If you plead guilty to something, Brian could have never came before y 'all today and said I was innocent, that was IBS medication.

Thankfully, Brian refused to plead guilty to something that he did not do, and the charges were eventually dismissed.But in total, it took Brian one year, four months, and 28 days from the date of his illegal arrest to clear his name.And at no point during that period of time was Brian Goetschius ever in possession of of any illegal controlled substances.

Yes, they said they said that I was swerving and that my windows were tinted.And Florida, it's legal to have tinted windows.They were tinted.The cop didn't notice until he got to my car.You could see on the footage.And on the arrest warrant, he claims I didn't have any of my IDs and stuff, which first thing you see on the footage is me handing my IDs and stuff.

Yeah, he was stopped.Allegedly, he tells them his license is suspended.He was never charged with driving under a suspended license.It's a huge problem.So if you get arrested for a drug case, and you say it's not drugs, and SLED has some testes to give actual reliable evidence if it's going to be used in prosecution at trial.And so SLED has a huge backlog.

And it's really a civil rights issue, because people's freedom is waiting on test.Brian's freedom waited on that test.

And I had a paid lawyer, thank God.But there are so many people in there whodidn't, who were represented by, you know, public defenders and who didn't have the luck I had.And I'm grateful for that.But they treated me like I was the biggest piece of trash on Earth from the second they pulled up.

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.He also had nothing to hide.He had absolutely nothing illegal in his car, yet deputies McClinton and Keener of the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office suspected that he did.Just like many officers that I've shown you in these videos, they had a hunch.Based off of nothing other than Brian appearing to be nervous, which is something that almost everyone is when they get pulled over by men with guns looking for ways to incarcerate them and confiscate their belongings.Even though the federal courts in that very jurisdiction have made clear that being nervous is not alone a basis to expand the scope of a routine traffic stop into this drug investigation, these deputies just ignored that actual constitutional law and did their own thing.

Sadly, their own thing was at best, grossly incompetent.Now they did have him on driving with a suspended license, but that just wasn't enough.They wanted so badly to ruin this man's life to send him to prison that they got overly excited just finding an everyday pill bottle.The same type of prescription medication ordinary pill bottle that we all carry with us when we travel.I've done other videos where they found legally prescribed medications that were unmarked or not in their original container or that had eroded into loose powder or something like that.This is not even one of those situations.

This is a case where a prescriptionmedication was in its actually properly marked container and where the pill was capable of being ID'd just from its own markings.Even more shockingly, this is a case where the officer was able to actually make a correct ID of that medication right there at the scene.Yet for some reason, they still wanted to get him so badly.that they ran it through unreliable field test kits, which are pretty much always going to give a false positive on these sorts of legally prescribed medications.Then they just ran with that, and it got even worse.

They lied to the court by omitting material exculpatory facts about what actually happened, and just let this man sit there under home incarceration for seven months waiting on lab results, even though the warrants were constitutionally invalid due to their misrepresentations.But it got even worse than that.The prosecutors, after receiving the actual lab results exonerating Brian Goetjes, withheld them for two weeks from the defense and then, even after producing them, still attempted to coerce Brian into pleading guilty to a crime that they knew for a fact he did not commit.It took him one year, four months, and 28 days to clear his name, even though he did not have anything illegal, even though he had nothing to hide.

I would like to see departments across the state say let's re -examine how we are doing these field drug tests, and let's find a more reliable way that's more accurate.What we're pushing for is justice and accountability here.And what I would like to see done in Bryan, too, is that there will be change.We want to see some reform.We want to see more reliable drug tests being used.We want to see SLED figure out a way to get rid of this thousands of case backlog where innocent people are out there fighting for their freedom right now.

We want to see change and that's what we're pushing for.

So remember that story.If a police officer ever asks to search your vehicle and your first thought is, well, I have nothing to hide.Disagree?Let me know why in a comment.It seems to me that you would be placing blind trust in someone who may be a tyrannical idiot such as one of these police officers.You just don't know.

There's plenty of evidence of things like this happening over and over again.and over and over again, but this is one that is truly a great example of this happening.So share it with your friends, share it with your family so that they are aware.A lawsuit has been filed, and I'll post a copy of the complaint at the link below.It's still in the early stages, so nothing has yet happened.I'm in touch with his lawyer, and hopefully we'll get an update at some point once something does happen.

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