Saturday, May 12, 2007

Laugh of the Week and Get Out of Jail Free Card

So, a Dearborn, Michigan cop, by the name of Edward Sanchez, who confiscates recreational drugs from suspects, and then takes the drugs home for his and his wife’s consumption, decides to make some pot brownies.  Mmm, brownies.

Anyway, the cop whips up the brownies and decides to chow down on them.  No word if he had them ala mode.  After downing the brownies, this happens.

The department’s investigation began with a bizarre 911 call from Sanchez’s home in Dearborn Heights. On the night of April 21, 2006, a panicky Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.

“I think we’re dying,” he said in the 5-minute tape, obtained under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.

“We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do,” Sanchez continued.

I don’t know about you, but my experience with marijuana over the years never led me to believe I was dying.  It sounds to me like the brownies had more than just pot in them.

So, what happens to the cop and his wife after playing little Miss Suzy baker?  Nothing.

Then-Cpl. Edward Sanchez was allowed to resign from the department, but he was not charged with a crime.

And what would have happened if you or I, as common individuals, mere citizens, under the cognizance of the state’s powers, would have made such a call?  Well, I doubt very much you or I would have been able to flash a get out of jail free card.

Dearborn lets cop quit without a drug charge in marijuana brownie case

Posted by John Venlet on 05/12 at 09:13 AM
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