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No drugs in cookies teen gave Lake Worth police, lab finds
Dallas Morning News ^
| 12:00 AM CDT on Friday, July 11, 2008
| By DEBRA DENNIS Dan X. McGraw and Blanca Cantu contributed to this report.
Posted on 07/11/2008 11:28:12 AM PDT by weegee
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:28:13 AM PDT
by
weegee
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:31:05 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
To: weegee
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:31:09 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
To: weegee
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:34:17 AM PDT
by
donna
( I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth. - Barack Hussein Obama)
To: weegee
My fair city. At least they let him go when it turned out there were no drugs, and didn't snowflake him.
/johnny
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:35:01 AM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: JRandomFreeper
54 hours in jail.
And he still needs to “complete” his 10 hours of community service.
And the police are still “of the mind” that he was guilty. Their noses and field equipment shall not be challenged, citizen. The quotes are there in this and another article that they are still “sure” of what the story is.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:37:18 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
To: weegee
Who does he see to get his reputation back?
Or maybe just an apology?
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:39:39 AM PDT
by
Knitebane
(Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
To: weegee
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:39:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
To: weegee
I'll ask what "they" think the story is, next time I run into one at the QuickSak. I have a pretty good relationship with the local police.
/johnny
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:43:20 AM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: weegee
No good deed shall go unpunished.
The kid needs to sue for false imprisonment. No crime was committed and he was deprived of his liberty without cause.
Sure the taxpayers will be the ones taking the hit, but if they are burned badly enough, maybe they will start holding these idiots to a the higher standard they should be already holding themselves.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:45:57 AM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
To: weegee
Authorities said then that "field tests" they conducted on the cookies showed traces of marijuana and LSD.Assuming these "field tests" weren't a complete invention of "the authorities", I'd like to know exactly what these fields tests are, the frequency with which they produce incorrect positives, the number of people arrested because of these field tests, etc.
Of course, they'll never provide any of that. The cops will just drop it, act like it never happened and arrest the next chooch on the basis of their "field tests", which is probably just their belief that somebody looks guilty of something.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:46:19 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: weegee
54 hours in jail. And he still needs to complete his 10 hours of community service.
Sounds like he served his time.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:52:53 AM PDT
by
al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
To: weegee
On June 27, Mr. Phillips was videotaped delivering the snacks to Watauga police. He delivered more cookies to Blue Mound police Monday night and on Tuesday delivered another batch at Lake Worth. Officers there were notified by Blue Mound police officers that the cookies might be tainted. Chief McGuire said a preliminary field test conducted on the chocolate chip cookies by police detected LSD. A canine was brought in and indicated drugs were inside Mr. Phillips' car.
When he was arrested, Mr. Phillips was carrying a list of 25 police agencies in Dallas and Tarrant counties. Thirteen of the names had been checked off. Officers in some of the jurisdictions, including Fort Worth and Watauga, ate the cookies and reported no ill effects.
Lake Worth sent the cookies to the medical examiner's officer for a more thorough review. Officials there conducted more stringent chemical tests and a microscopic examination as well as tests involving gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.
Blue Mound police also sent cookie samples to the ME's office and those, too, came back negative for drugs.
But Blue Mound police Lt. Thomas Cain said Thursday that while he respects and accepts the medical examiner's report, he is sure he smelled dope on the home-baked Toll House treats.
"They did have a pungent, rancid odor," Lt. Cain said. "They did have the odor of marijuana. I got within two feet of it; I could smell it."
Blue Mound officers also conducted their own field test that came back positive for marijuana.
"How do you explain it? I don't know," Lt. Cain said.
Be very careful if you get involved with the Blue Mound Police Dept. If this is representative of their field testing for drugs, then every case they have been involved in needs to have a thorough going over.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:56:10 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: dead
They had an officer on CNN or something this morning stumbling over why the field test was positive but not the lab test. He didn’t sell me at all and then he tried to say that someone down the line might have come into contact with marijuana or something in the past. I heard that and went hmmm, doesn’t just about every dollar bill out there have some type of residue possibly then?
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:56:36 AM PDT
by
commonguymd
(Freedom and individual liberty is for everyone, including the odd and weird people like you.)
To: weegee; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
Blue Mound officers also conducted their own field test that came back positive for marijuana.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:59:04 AM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: al_c
I thought the same thing. I wonder if his case was dismissed, since being in jail prevented him from completing his community service?
That case was to have been dismissed on Wednesday if Mr. Phillips successfully completed his community service hours. He was about 10 hours away, his attorney said.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:59:14 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: weegee
sure doesn’t give me confidence in the ability of these field ‘tests’...
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posted on
07/11/2008 12:00:15 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: weegee
Everyone is just so paranoid that when someone does a good thing, they assume the worst. You can blame for lawyers of our fair country for this crap. I believe the kid should sue the hell out of the police department and also have the field equipment banned from doing wrong in the future.
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posted on
07/11/2008 12:00:41 PM PDT
by
antiunion person
(President McCain, what a disgusting phrase.)
To: dead
Of course, they'll never provide any of that. We will see. I will be asking the questions, though. It is my fair city, after all.
/johnny
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posted on
07/11/2008 12:02:32 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: weegee
not guilty
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posted on
07/11/2008 12:03:12 PM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
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