A recent holiday break to Miami soon turned into a nightmare when police found what turned out to be traces of cocaine in the trunk of our hire car.
My girlfriend and I had decided to take a last minute package holiday to Florida. We’d been lucky enough to get a really cheap last minute fly-drive deal that gave us 7 nights to explore Orlando and enjoy the Gulf coast.
We flew from Gatwick to Orlando airport and went straight to the car hire desk to collect the keys to our car. We’d pre-booked our first two nights in the Clarion Hotel and a hire car for the duration of our stay. If we liked the hotel our plan was to stay put, otherwise we would be free to move on to another location.
Our first night was spent resting in the hotel ready for our first full day which we spent sight-seeing and shopping. We finished the day at a fantastic fish restaurant that served some really delicious seafood with great service and entertainment thrown in. It was on the drive back to our hotel that things took a turn for the worse.
It was when we got on the highway that a police car came up behind us and indicated for us to pull over. The police officer told me that one of my car brake lights wasn’t working and he asked me to step out of the car to take a look. I explained that it was a rental car and that we had just arrived in the country only yesterday. The friendly and helpful police officer then asked me to open the boot so that he could take a look at the tail lamp.
When he shone his torch into the trunk he and I could see some traces of what looked like a white powder. The police officer’s manner changed immediately and he returned to his vehicle where he spent some time communicating on his radio. It must have only been a few short minutes before a second police car arrived with two officers inside. They told us that we were to accompany them to the police station to answer a few questions.
At the police station it became clear that the substance found in the trunk was cocaine and that the police suspected that we were drug dealers. My girlfriend was understandably very upset by the whole experience. It took no less than nine hours before they could verify who we were and that we were genuinely there on holiday.
Luckily for us the car hire desk was still manned, even at that late hour, and they were able to provide the police with details of the person who had hired the car before us. I’ve no idea whether the police ever caught up with the person responsible for carrying cocaine in the boot of our hire car.
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Travel tip: We saved a fortune on airport parking by booking online, in advance. Also, make certain that your travel insurance policy covers you for legal expenses abroad.
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