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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Define "drunk".
MADD is for removing cars from the highways and people from cars.
Wake up, for God's sake.
You may well be one of the few remaining folks who has any respect left for MADD. They have turned 100% into a neo-prohibitionist, even Stalinist group over the last 10-15 years and are utterly devoid of and respectability. They are trying, even when drunk driving is on a serious downturn, to get the laws changed to open the door to charge MANY more people with DUI by ever lowering the b/a standard to the point that even SNIFFING an alcoholic beverage from ten yards away two hours ago is enough to charge you with. They are now merely tools of the Soros crowd... create enough laws to make EVERYONE a lawbreaker and cash in on the guilt. Lovely.
The derision level from the group in the store was pretty high.
This won't be happening again.
The chief did the right thing by dropping it when the scientific results came back, and the public scorn over the event has the PD pretty much back where they belong.
The kid has learned a life-lesson.
Seems like the true hacks in all of this are the BM LEs.
/johnny
/johnny
Idiot cops jumping to wrong conclusions?!?!
The HELL you say!
Yet the tests came back zero. Typically tests can spot weed on anything even if you can't smell jack. How do we explain this?
Well, there's the "Lt. Cain" is a stupid idiot defense. It's the only one I can come up with now.
I suppose the purpose of the "field test" is to give kops probable cause to ignore IVth Amendment. In that sense, they worked good.
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