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Florida Man Arrested For Heroin Possession. Turns Out It Was Laundry Detergent.

Ashe Schow

Matt Crull was just an ordinary 29-year-old Florida man, until he was arrested for possessing 92 grams of heroin — which carries a street price of more than $18,000, according to American Addiction Centers.

Crull was sleeping in his newly purchased but used Astro van, parked at a KFC restaurant, when paramedics arrived. They were responding to a “suspicious van” alert. Then deputies arrived, including Steven O’Leary. In the driver’s side door was a “white powdery substance,” which was “wrapped in plastic with a hair tie around it,” according to WPTV. Crull told the deputy is was Tide laundry detergent. O’Leary didn’t buy it, and reported it was heroin, claiming a field test proved it as such, according to the Miami Herald.

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