"Would you like some nuts with your burger?"
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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They should have tested those cookies for his saliva or urine:)
Drunks and other drivers. Follow the money.
In the original story, these Texas law enforcement officials stated they could clearly smell marijuana from the cookies.
Dallas officials are now alleging the term "Black hole" is a racist term, now we have others arresting people for giving them cookies..
Is there something in the water there?
Oh yeah, and if he's forced to continue that, they'll be providing him with a fully stocked limo for transportation.
If I were him, I'd get the very best attorneys available.
The people he should go after is MADD. They are the ones that left him out to hang.
The article says he was held for “tampering with a consumer product” which tells me they were supermarket pre-made brownies”.
The cookies smelled “rancid”? That sounds more like spoiled butter than drugs.
This one should be blamed on cops, not lawyers. As for crime paranoia, I blame that on 24 hour news. Statistics show there is less crime than when I was a kid in the sixties and seventies, but when you watch the news you'd think we have a horrible crime epidemic like nothing we've ever seen. People don't even want to let their kids out anymore. I think the problem is that with 24 hour news they have to find something to fill all those extra hours with so they report on all sorts of crime we wouldn't have heard about a few decades ago. They beat it to death and create in us the perception that there is a bogeyman lurking around every corner.
Cops though kind of have to be afraid of getting their food tampered with. They eat more spit and other nasty stuff than most other humans because so many people hate them. I worked in restaurants throughout my teen years and I've seen some pretty nasty stuff go out to cops people didn't like. This kid was on probation for some sort of assault on a government authority figure, which could have been a cop or a teacher or someone like that. I might be a little concerned myself if I was a cop when it comes to eating food this kid prepared for me.
"Would you like some nuts with your burger?"
Actually, his reputation seems to have been "law-breaker," so maybe he has it back!
Yeah, if he used shortening with trans-fat he'd never be in this mess. ;)
Wow, where did that hateful tag to this respected group come from?
When they turned fascist / prohibitionist
Good call. I hadn't made that connection, but they've certainly worked hard to earn it.
Ping.
Kudos and props to the perpetrator(s) and keep up the good work.
Surely you jest.
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