They are likely holding up the dig cam to show to the other guys in a bar and saying 'look at this guy, we scared the sh*t out of him today then we
smoked his stash' ---then they deleted it. It sounds like you were the least of their problems that day.
i dont know if this has been already said but have you takin into sondieration that the Fed might have been a family member at all that you didnt know
about>?
I think the most likely explanation is that the Police were operating within a Federal Jurisdiction. The fed didn't like this so he blew their whole
pot bust out of the water.
I'll bet it was someone impersonating a federal agent. Someone very good at it, apparently. The trick with the cell phone and shaking hands kind of
adds up if you look at it in detail.
The guy may not have done "all" his research to impersonate a federal agent, so he made a couple of mistakes which no one else ('cept you') seemed
to notice.
Your face is now in a database for facial recognition. Also I suspect you may have someone or something connected to you that you may not be aware of.
Be grateful yes, but also be wary. They may have decided to be nice to you in the hopes you would not say you saw something they feel you may have
seen. Scenarios are multi possible.
I think it may have been some type of gray E.T. Fringe, yes, but it was odd that the car simply said POLICE. Perhaps you have some suppressed memories
of an abduction. Don't get mad at me for suggesting it, after all this is A.T.S.
In an isolated place like that with them outnumbering it just went a lot smoother and is a lot saner to just allow the search. Allowing searches
without cause isn't something I wouldn't often recommend but if the cop cars were off and pulled over (no dash cams on likely) and not being on a
public street/busy area, being friendly with these guys was a good idea.