Double baco cheesbuger...it's for a cop!
Posted on 07/11/2008 11:28:12 AM PDT by weegee
LAKE WORTH – The case against a teenager accused of delivering drug-tainted cookies to police crumbled Thursday after scientific tests revealed no traces of narcotics. Christian Phillips, 18, became a cookie monster and the butt of jokes around the globe following his arrest Tuesday after he left a basket of treats at Lake Worth police headquarters. Authorities said then that "field tests" they conducted on the cookies showed traces of marijuana and LSD. But lab tests performed by the Tarrant County medical examiner's office were negative for drugs, and Mr. Phillips – who had been charged with tampering with a consumer product – was released from jail shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday. The felony charge was dropped. Mr. Phillips, of Watauga, was facing up to 20 years in prison and fine of $10,000 if he had been convicted.
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"These are the facts of the case, and if the lab says it ain't dope, that's what I'm going to go with," Lake Worth Police Chief Brett McGuire said.
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"He got convicted before he got a chance," Mr. Davis said. "He got buried in the media. He has been derailed, and we need to get him back on course." Community service Mr. Phillips was delivering cookies as part of his 80-hour court-supervised community service following his arrest last year on charges of assaulting a police officer. That charge was reduced to simple assault, a misdemeanor, and Mr. Phillips was serving court-appointed community service with Mothers Against Drunk Driving when he delivered the cookies. 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. On June 27, Mr. Phillips was videotaped delivering the snacks to Watauga police...
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Double baco cheesbuger...it's for a cop!
You know, I have thought about this myself, especially when coming back into the US from an overseas trip, and they have these drug-sniffing dogs come right up to you. I remember seeing them pull a young man out of line right in front of me one day. I was thinking can these dogs smell drug residue on any money I may be carrying? Hmmm?
That’s to bad. When I read this story the other day, the visual of a bunch of cops tripping face made me literally LOL.
Somehow, "community service" and working with this fascist / prohibitionist group don't seem to fit together.
As for this case, they tried him without any concrete evidence. Is this a view of the typical "guilty until proven innocent" police mentality these days?
Their story at the time was that they contact MADD and they were NOT delivering cookies to the police. Now they acknowledge he was serving community service for them.
Although I'm not really fond of most lawyers, I'd blame the cops for this one.
Wasn’t there some officer who “accidently” had some of his wife’s hash brownies last year?
Then there are all of the “false positive” collars on suspected “drunk” drivers.
Even the founder of MADD now speaks out against them as engaging in neo-prohibition.
yeah.
Somehow, "community service" and working with this fascist / prohibitionist group don't seem to fit together.
Wow, where did that hateful tag to this respected group come from?
The field test in that situation is entirely subjective (”you’re coming down to the station”). And in the case of P.I., there is no breath test. You are guilty if they say you are.
In court, it would come down to witnesses.
no. but there was a detectives wife who put weed in his homemade meatballs so he would get drug tested and caught and would retire.
Respected?? By who?!
It came from the woman who FOUNDED MADD, Candy Lightner.
She left in 1985 feeling that there had been a change in goals, from going after drunk drivers to going after any driver who’d been drinking.
Founder of Anti-Drunk-Driving Group Now Lobbies for Breweries
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: January 15, 1994
Legislators who knew Candy Lightner as the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving may be startled when they next hear from her.
Ms. Lightner, whose daughter was killed by a drunken driver in 1980, is now a lobbyist for a trade group representing breweries and restaurants — and her first project is working against state laws tightening the standards for drunken driving.
Good ole big D. I guess those cookies disappeared down a “black hole”??? LOL
"I DIDN'T DO IT! It wasn't me!!!"
Me, for one. Why not you? They do a much needed job pushing the cops to getting the drunks off the highways.
There’s a reason the 13th Floor Elevators didn’t record their legendary psychedelic albums in Big D. They kept getting hassled by the cops of there. And the substance wasn’t even illegal then.
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