You drive a Lexus and instead of paying a speeding ticket you bribe a police officer with sex? Damn, they must have some harsh penalties for speeding in California...
According to the Union-Tribune in San Diego, a woman was busted at her hotel room shortly after a court appearance for having sex with the police officer who wrote her a speeding ticket but showed up to testify that the ticket was no good at her trial. Jesus, Lady, what was it? Three hundred bucks? One fifty? Whether you were attracted to him or not, you had to know that it was way less trouble to just pay the ticket rather than facing your new charge of bribing a witness.
Here are the facts:
1) The cop (California Highway Patrol Officer Abram Carabajal) wrote the driver (Shirin Zarrindej) a ticket in March for speeding.
2) In June, the cop signed a subpoena agreeing to appear in court for the case.
3) The night before their court appearance, Carabajal, who is married with children, made a reservation for the next morning. How presumptuous of him.
4) Carabajal appeared in front of a judge and stated: “I did not receive a subpoena. I request in the interest of justice this be dismissed.”
5) After testifying, unindentified individuals spotted Carabajal and Zarrindej heading to a nearby GuestHouse Inn & Suites. There, Zarrindej paid with her credit card, disappeared inside (arm-in-arm!) with her pursuer/savior, and was arrested following his departure.
So, rather than pay a couple hundred bucks... the woman commits a far greater crime, pays for a last-minute hotel reservation with her own credit card, has possibly an hour of sex with a married man, and hangs around to get busted, possibly for bribery, conspiracy, and perjury. How do you think her legal expenses, fines (or jail time), hotel bill, and lost wages from fighting this next case compare to the original traffic ticket? And are these two a match made in heaven or what?
Five officers arrived at the hotel room at 1:42 p.m. Zarrindej told them she wanted to have sex with Carabajal and didn't care that he was married and had children. She told investigators that “Carabajal was her boyfriend and that she was in love with him.” [SignOn San Diego]
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