The Orlando police officer who arrested a man after she mistook doughnut glaze for amphetamine has resigned to be a stay-at-home mom.
Shelby Riggs-Hopkins, 38, left the department Jan. 22, about a week after she was given a written reprimand for making a false arrest, records show.
She had worked at the agency for a decade.
She arrested Daniel Rushing, a retired city of Orlando employee, during a Dec. 11, 2015, traffic stop when she spotted several white specks on the floor of his car, according to his arrest report.
Rushing told her they were bits of glaze that had fallen off a doughnut, but she was unconvinced.
She did a series of roadside drug tests but got two of them wrong and handcuffed Rushing and took him to jail.
A state crime lab confirmed several months later that the specks were not an illegal substance.
Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins of the Orlando Police Department has been disciplined after making a false arrest based on an incorrectly-administered drug test which identified Krispy Kreme dougnut glaze as amphetamine.
Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins of the Orlando Police Department has been disciplined after making a false arrest based on an incorrectly-administered drug test which identified Krispy Kreme dougnut glaze as amphetamine.
Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins of the Orlando Police Department has been disciplined after making a false arrest based on an incorrectly-administered drug test which identified Krispy Kreme dougnut glaze as amphetamine.
Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins of the Orlando Police Department has been disciplined after making a false arrest based on an incorrectly-administered drug test which identified Krispy Kreme dougnut glaze as amphetamine.
The cause of death in a Winter Park teen death has been determined. 15-year-old Roger Trindade died from blunt force trauma and the medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide.
The cause of death in a Winter Park teen death has been determined. 15-year-old Roger Trindade died from blunt force trauma and the medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide.
An executive at Florida Hospital Oceanside is accused of fraudulently using other people’s information, including his child’s, to get prescription pills
An executive at Florida Hospital Oceanside is accused of fraudulently using other people’s information, including his child’s, to get prescription pills
Security footage reveals three armed men wearing masks robbing a Denny’s restaurant in Eustis early Monday.
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A man opened fire in a parking lot near Pine Hills in December. The shots hit five people, killing one. It happened around 9:50 p.m. Dec. 11 at a plaza at 5100 block of North Lane.
A man opened fire in a parking lot near Pine Hills in December. The shots hit five people, killing one. It happened around 9:50 p.m. Dec. 11 at a plaza at 5100 block of North Lane.
Rushing hired attorney William Ruffier and has sued the city and the manufacturer of the kits, Safariland LLC.
On Thursday, the city released the department’s internal affairs report into Riggs-Hopkins’ conduct that day. OPD concluded that she made a false arrest and thus had violated department policy but had not acted with malice.
Riggs-Hopkins could not be reached for comment.
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