Reality_Check© wrote:
> No drugs in cookies teen gave Lake Worth police, lab finds
>
Good news.
> 12:00 AM CDT on Friday, July 11, 2008
>
> By DEBRA DENNIS / The Dallas Morning News
> debdennis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/ The Dallas Morning News
>
> 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. Neither he nor his family would
comment
> Thursday night.
>
> "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.
>
> Mr. Phillips' attorney, L. Patrick Davis, said that his client was
> physically fine but that he was "a little upset" about the arrest and
> subsequent controversy. He said that neither he nor the family was
surprised
> about the negative test results but that no decision has been made
whether
> to pursue further legal action in the matter.
>
>
> 'Rush to judgment'
>
> In an earlier interview with KTVT-TV (Channel 11), Mr. Phillips' father,
> Glenn, said the case against his son amounted to 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," he said.
>
> Christian Phillips' story drew worldwide attention - and scorn.
>
> One Australian news anchor referred to Mr. Phillips as "disgruntled."
The
> incident was blogged on USA Today's Web site and on a Corvette forum
site.
> "Tampering with someone elses [sic] food? Lock-up and throw key away,"
one
> blogger wrote.
>
> Another typed, "Donuts dummy, not cookies."
>
> Mr. Davis said that his client was unfairly targeted by almost everyone
who
> heard about the case.
>
> "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.
>
When are MADD going to admit that he was working with them?
> 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 re****ted 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.
>
>
> Officer stands by nose
>
> 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 re****t, 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.
>
>
>
Easy. Hallucinated odors are early signs of schizophrenia. Cain is
going around the bend, most likely from endless comparisons with the
TV Detective Cain.
For the positive tests the cops were sloppy. Probably forgot to
wash their hands after a break for bud, thus contaminated the tests.
As for cannabis brownies having a rancid odor they should not.
Some people cannot even handle the smell of chocolate apparently.
later
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