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Originally Posted by The Detonator
It was coke
Yeah at the airport it was the cotton swab on his clothes (different guy to the guy caught at wet republic)
At Wet Republic at the entry he had his wallet in his hand because his swim shorts didn't have pockets, the security kind of rushed him and said search and grabbed his wallet and he had some coke in there
All of this surprises me. I thought the swabs were for security. Drug searches have nothing to do with security. The whole premise as to why they are allowed to do warrantless searches is because of security concerns, so I'm actually a bit skeptical that the machines are drug sniffing. Far as I know, they sniff only for explosives or chemicals used in making explosives. I think the ACLU would be all over them if they were forcing passengers to be drug sniffed. The machine probably alerted for some innocuous thing like glycerin in hand lotion and your friend started babbling about drugs.
Further, casino security has no right to search someone without their consent. You make it sound like for no reason at all they pounced on the guy, and went through his wallet. No, I'm 99.999% sure that did not happen. I'm just confused as to what really happened.
Regardless, returning to the US is not likely to be an issue.