XPost: alt.drugs.pot, alt.law-enforcement, alt.true-crime   
   XPost: aus.legal, misc.legal   
   From: ultra@man.jp   
      
   > NYC cop fired after claiming he ate pot-spiked meatballs   
      
   > Associated Press   
   > Originally published 07:09 a.m., August 24, 2007   
   > Updated 07:09 a.m., August 24, 2007   
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   > NEW YORK - So much for the meatball defense.   
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   > A veteran counterterrorism detective's claims that he flunked a drug   
   > test because his wife served him marijuana-spiked meatballs "simply   
   > weren't credible," and he has been fired by the New York Police   
   > Department, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Thursday.   
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   > With the dismissal, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly rejected an   
   > earlier recommendation by an administrative judge that the detective,   
   > Anthony Chiofalo, be reinstated. Kelly has final say on firings.   
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   > An attorney for Chiofalo did not immediately respond to a telephone   
   > message seeking comment.   
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   > Chiofalo, a 22-year-veteran assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task   
   > Force, was suspended without pay in 2005 after a random drug test   
   > found marijuana in his system. The officer denied ever using drugs   
   > and demanded a hearing.   
   > During an investigation, his wife said she had secretly substituted   
   > marijuana for oregano in her meatball recipe in hopes of forcing him   
   > to leave police work.   
   > The detective's lawyers presented evidence that she had passed a   
   > lie-detector test, and offered testimony from a toxicologist that the   
   > excuse was valid.   
      
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