Woman Spends Weeks In Jail And Loses Job After Police Mistake SpaghettiOs On Her Spoon For Meth

A woman who had been initially charged with methamphetamine possession was freed weeks later when lab results revealed she had done nothing wrong.

Ashley Gabrielle Huff, 23 years old at the time, found herself arrested by a police officer who believed she was in possession of drugs.

It all started when a Gainesville police officer noticed a spoon in the car she was riding in.

For reasons known only to them, they assumed the dried residue on the spoon was methamphetamine.

The smile of a woman who knew she did absolutely nothing wrong Hall County Sheriff's Office

Huff insisted multiple times that the residue was nothing more than leftover SpaghettiO's sauce.

However, this explanation didn’t stop her from being taken to jail.

She was arrested on July 2, 2014, and spent a month behind bars before being cleared by the lab results.

Chris van Rossem, Hall County's assistant public defender, attempted to shed some light on how this mistake came about.

He explained, "I think she said it had been SpaghettiOs." He continued, "From what I understand, she was a passenger in a car and had a spoon on her, near her, and I guess the officer, for whatever reason, thought there was some residue."

Rossem added, "She's maintained all along that there's no way in hell that's any sort of drug residue or anything like that."

If you were simply eating lunch and then got arrested for suspected drug possession, you'd definitely be insisting on your innocence, too.

Rossem also noted, "I think what the unfortunate part about her case is that she was probably willing to take the felony to close out her case so that she get out of jail, even though she always maintained innocence."

Huff, who had no prior criminal record, experienced significant personal consequences as a result of this incident.

A delicious picture of me...I mean SpaghettiO’s Getty Stock Image

During her time in jail, Huff missed her child’s birthday and lost her job at Waffle House.

At one point, she was considering taking legal action against the police department, but it’s unclear whether she followed through.

This story has circulated on social media over the years, with people expressing disbelief over the incident.

One Reddit user commented, "Any cop that mistakes spaghetti O sauce for meth shouldn't have a job."

Another person joked, "Im gonna start carrying around a bunch of spoons with dried up yogurt residue on it and just wait to be arrested. Few days in jail for a fat payout? Sure."

A third person wrote, "How can someone be so incompetent, that they think spaghetti-o sauce is meth?"