What Does the Offense Code 3599 Dangerous Drugs-Free Text Mean?
Question by 20???’s: What does the offense code 3599 Dangerous Drugs-free text mean?
I see a list of offense codes but most say felony or misdemeanor but this is blank. Also what does the free text part mean. My brother-in-law has several charges and we are trying to understand what they mean. I am assuming this is worse than an offense code with a felony/misdemeanor annotation.
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Answer by KC V
When looking at the information you provided I continued to look closer realizing the “offense codes” you’re referring to are those provided by the government when police produce the reports associated for specific crimes. This specific code is used when reporting federally those offense statistics within a state.
The offense code “3599” is used by law enforcement to report a case involving the involvement of “dangerous drugs.” Thats a no brainer of course! However, because it is the broader code associated essentially as a “catch all” code it identifies a case where there are circumstances not listed in the other codes.
Based upon my own experience with the code, I will state that this particular code does not identify an offense involving a minor possession of an illegal drug and state that the offense is that of a felony possession, sales, or distribution.
The “free text” portion allows the reporting agency to provide particular information of the case to qualify the use of the particular code.
Because you seem to know more particulars than what you’ve printed…I will keep an eye on this particular post should you decide to provide more information concerning this issue.
Best wishes!
Answer by mikeysco
It would be helpful to know what context you’re seeing this in. I’m guessing you are seeing this on a county jail website?
I don’t know if KC V and I are saying the same things in our answers, so I’ll just throw mine out there for what it’s worth.
When arrest warrants are entered into a multi-state computer system such as NCIC, the “normal” state statutes are somewhat meaningless to anyone who is not in that state. For example, in California an arrest warrant in the state warrants system could be entered with 11377 HS as the violation and anyone in California would know what that was (possession of certain controlled substances).
However, if a warrant was entered into NCIC like that, and some copper in Georgia found the warrant, he or she would have no idea what 11377 HS was, and would really be in the dark.
So, systems such as NCIC adopted “generic” codes for all crimes in all states. “3599 Dangerous Drugs” is the code used by a state when they enter a drug-related warrant into an automated, multi-state warrant system such as NCIC. That would encompass all kinds of different statues from all the states, and would mean relatively the same thing in any state.
If you are seeing this on some county jail’s website, it could be that that particular jail just uses the same offense codes as NCIC does for warrants, or that maybe the jail hadn’t received the specific statute codes yet, or who knows what else.
So, I’m not sure if KC V and I said the same thing, and without knowing where you’ve seen this I can’t promise that it’s the correct answer to your question. I know it’s the correct answer to someone’s question, because it’s accurate information, I just can’t be certain that it’s *your* answer (though I suspect it is).