Texas Cops Push Another Hoax

Apparently, there is not enough crime out there, so some cops in Texas decided to fabricate something on their own. Remember the headlines yesterday that a teenager brought LSD-laced cookies to the police department?

Oh, it turns out to have been a hoax. The cops, who apparently live in mortal fear all of the time, despite having a legal license to kill whomever they choose, made yet another bad judgment.


Lab Results Show No Drugs In Cookies Taken To Cops

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News/AP) ― A teenager accused of delivering drug-laced cookies to a dozen police stations was the victim of overzealous officers who had very little evidence indicating drugs were inside the treats, his attorney said Thursday.

And lab results released late Thursday afternoon confirm that no drugs were present in any of the cookies.

L. Patrick Davis said initial tests found no traces of LSD inside the cookies taken to police in Lake Worth, where Christian V. Phillips remained jailed on $75,000 bond on a charge of tampering with a consumer product. In the wake of the test results, Lake Worth Police told CBS 11 News they intend to drop the charges against Phillips.

Phillips, 18, was arrested Tuesday after Lake Worth officers smelled marijuana in the basket and their preliminary tests detected LSD, Chief Brett McGuire said.

Watauga police released video Thursday of Christian Phillips delivering cookies to the police station on June 27. The tape shows the teen delivering cookies to the dispatcher, as part of his community service program. Four officers there ate the treats, but none got sick and all tested negative for drugs in their systems.

The cookies in question were delivered to the Lake Worth Police Department on Tuesday.

A similar batch was also delivered to the Blue Mound Police Department on Monday. The medical examiner’s results came back negative for drugs in those cookies.

Phillips’ father told CBS 11 News the entire case may have been the result of a ‘huge rush to judgment’. “People just need to keep rationale here in perspective and not jump the gun and accuse people of stuff before we know the full facts,” Glenn Phillips said.

Of course, would it be too much to ask the police to act like adults and not like a bunch of frightened children?

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8:32 pm on July 10, 2008