A resident of the American city of Atlanta, Juzema Goldring, spent five months in prison on suspicion of keeping drugs in a stress ball, a ball filled with a granular substance.

Fox 5 reports about this case.

A young woman's car was stopped by a police officer in the dark when she and a friend were going to the city center.

The cop got permission to look through her personal belongings and pulled out an anti-stress toy from her purse.

The officer cut open a pellet filled with a granular substance, believing the woman was storing cocaine.

After that, Juzema Goldring was arrested, and the anti-static ball was sent for examination.

"I kept telling the officer that he was making a mistake," the woman told the publication.

A month after the arrest, a report was released that showed there was no cocaine in the stress toy.

Despite this, the detainee remained behind bars for another four months, as the judges were in no hurry to read the report, and the inmate could not afford a private lawyer in criminal cases due to financial constraints.

She only had a public defender.

After Juzema Goldring was released, the Atlanta City Council decided to pay her $1.5 million in compensation.

The young woman hopes that this money will allow her to start a new path. 

It will be recalled that the Spanish police seized more than 4.5 tons of cocaine worth more than 100 million euros on the cargo ship Orion V under the flag of Togo, which was following from Colombia.

The smugglers hid the illegal cargo in cattle feed.

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