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A police officer who admitted taking marijuana from criminal suspects and
baking it into brownies will avoid criminal charges.
The police
department's decision not to pursue a case against former police officer Edward
Sanchez left a bad taste in the mouth of at least one city official, who vowed
to investigate.
"If you're a cop and you're arresting people and you're
confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that's bad. That's real
bad," said city councillor Doug Thomas.
Sanchez, who resigned last year
from the department in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, declined to comment on
Wednesday. Police Commander Jeff Geisinger did not return calls seeking
comment.
The department's investigation began with an emergency call from
Sanchez's home on April 21 this year. On a five-minute tape of the call,
obtained by the Detroit Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher
he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.
"I think we're
dying," he said. "We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really
do."
Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the
marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping. In a subsequent
interview, he admitted he got the marijuana out of the car himself and put it in
the brownie mix, police said.
His wife was also not charged. --
Sapa-AP
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