XPost: alt.drugs.pot, alt.law-enforcement, alt.true-crime   
   XPost: aus.legal, misc.legal   
   From: theprof@jonez.net   
      
   > ¥ UltraMan ¥ presented the following explanation :   
   >>> 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   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> NEW YORK - So much for the meatball defense.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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. An attorney for Chiofalo did not immediately respond to a   
   telephone   
   >>> message seeking comment.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > Was he ever their when she was cooking becsuse the oregano has a   
   > distinct smell, so does marijuana.   
   >   
   > I won't even go with this as regards how it should have tasted.   
      
   Or how good the sex was after dinner ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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