Drug checkpoints are illegal in the US, as per the law, so therefore what Ohio police officers did on the I-271 is illicit. What they did is put up signs announcing a drug checkpoint up ahead, but there was really no such thing.
All the police did was put up the signs, and hope that it would make some people act suspiciously , and it would be those citizens that they would actually pull over and search, or threaten to search in the hopes that bluffing will make them confess.
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