Title: Cops mistake sugar for fentanyl Post by: sprite75 on August 28, 2018, 07:32:57 PM Ooops (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nope-not-fentanyl-175928)
Quote When North Carolina police last month announced the seizure of 13 pounds of fentanyl, they estimated that the narcotics haul had a street value in excess of $2 million and could yield dealers hundreds of thousands of bags of the deadly opioid. Turns out, however, the “fentanyl” was actually sugar. After heralding the confiscation at a Wilmington home as one of the largest fentanyl seizures in the state’s history, New Hanover County investigators have revealed that a field test of the white powder (seen above) resulted in a false positive at the time of an early-July raid. A subsequent test at a state crime lab revealed that powder was sugar. The field test used by police was manufactured by Scott Company Drug Testing, a Texas firm that sells a variety of narcotics testing kits to law enforcement agencies nationwide. Two observations here.... A) "...and you're going to spend the next three months going blind on paperwork because a Signalman Second Class bought and smoked a dime bag of oregano." B) Hi-yo! Title: Re: Cops mistake sugar for fentanyl Post by: Trevor on August 29, 2018, 07:29:42 AM Ooops ([url]http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nope-not-fentanyl-175928[/url]) Quote When North Carolina police last month announced the seizure of 13 pounds of fentanyl, they estimated that the narcotics haul had a street value in excess of $2 million and could yield dealers hundreds of thousands of bags of the deadly opioid. Turns out, however, the “fentanyl” was actually sugar. After heralding the confiscation at a Wilmington home as one of the largest fentanyl seizures in the state’s history, New Hanover County investigators have revealed that a field test of the white powder (seen above) resulted in a false positive at the time of an early-July raid. A subsequent test at a state crime lab revealed that powder was sugar. The field test used by police was manufactured by Scott Company Drug Testing, a Texas firm that sells a variety of narcotics testing kits to law enforcement agencies nationwide. Two observations here.... A) "...and you're going to spend the next three months going blind on paperwork because a Signalman Second Class bought and smoked a dime bag of oregano." B) Hi-yo! :teddyr: :teddyr: Reminds me of the famous 1970s song Sugarman, which later became the basis for the Oscar winning documentary Searching For Sugarman. :teddyr: |