Police thought this substance was meth in a traffic stop. It wasn’t - masslive.com

4/24/2020 - Amherst Police Department. (Hoang 'Leon' Nguyen / The Republican)

AMHERST — Something seemed off about the salt grinder Amherst Police officer Joseph Worthley found in the driver-side door while searching Belchertown resident Will Samot Bidot’s vehicle one night in early June.

The grinder was sealed, Samot Bidot’s attorney would later claim. But Worthley thought the size of the salt particles were strange, “much larger than that of table salt,” he would later write in his report of the arrest. The rocks, he wrote, were “identical to that of methamphetamine.”

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