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Pot meatballs a sackable offence

Article from: The Daily Telegraph

 

 

December 07, 2007 12:00am

 

A US police officer who says he failed a drugs test because his wife spiked his meatballs with marijuana is suing to get his job back.

 

Counter-terrorism officer Anthony Chiofalo, of New York Police Department, has taken the case to the Manhattan Supreme Court.

 

He was suspended in 2005 after 22 years of service, for failing a random test, reports the BBC.

 

His wife told investigators she had secretly drugged his meatballs hoping a failed test would force him to retire.

 

NYPD said the story was "not credible". Both Mr Chiofalo and his wife Catherine have passed lie detector tests about how the marijuana entered the police officer's system.

 

She testified that she just wanted her husband "not to die of a heart attack or get killed" and said: "I wanted him to be around to help raise my son."

 

Mr Chiofalo said his wife had marijuana in the house because she used it to alleviate suffering caused by chronic back pain.

 

An administrative judge recommended that Mr Chiofalo be reinstated to the Joint Terrorism Task Force but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly rejected that opinion and fired him.

 

only in America... :D

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