Q: Is there a rule 76 or rule 79 that allows police to seize property from a business as evidence if they have no warrant?
An employee at my work was arrested after hours at 3:45am for selling weed/metham in the parking lot after the business had already closed at 1am & he left work after locking up at 1:30am. According to the officers that came into the store the following morning after 7am, they had sent someone into the store with a wire at 10:50pm the previous night & arranged a deal & they busted him later after business hours he came back to the parking lot after hours.
When they came in the next morning they had an employee sign a piece of paper before she could call management & when I arrived after she called & asked why we hadn't been contacted before 7am if the incident started at 10:50pm & the arrest was made at 3:45am they tried to threaten me with obstruction of justice for asking that & again when I asked if they had a warrant when they said they were taking the security camera system & said they could take anything they wanted in the store without a warrant due to rule 76 or rule 79.
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