Police Officer Not Charged With Stealing and Eating Evidence

When suspects attempt to swallow drug evidence, they are routinely choked and beaten in order to cause the evidence to be coughed back up. Many are then brought up on serious felony charges indicating that consuming evidence is considered a major crime.

But when a cop arrests someone, confiscates their drugs, and consumes those drugs with family members he isn’t charged. Does it sound fair? Well it doesn’t matter if it is fair or not, it is the way our system currently works.

Officer Edward Sanchez decided he would do a little late night cooking and make himself some brownies with the marijuana he was holding as evidence after taking the herb from a suspect. Apparently the officer passed his law enforcement exam but failed his cooking class because he used just a bit too much of the magic ingredient in his batch of marijuana brownies.

Sanchez, a patrol officer with the Detroit Police Department called 911 on April 21, 2006 to report he was too high to think straight. “I think we’re dying, we made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do” reported Sanchez, apparently buying into the propaganda spread by our government that marijuana is deadly. There has never been a reported case of a marijuana overdose.

Sanchez originally told investigators his wife took the marijuana from his patrol car but later confessed to being the one who had a case of the munchies.

Neither this corrupt officer, who has since resigned from the department, nor his wife and partner in crime, will face charges. Typically a laundry list of charges including possession of a controlled substance, distribution of a controlled substance, destruction or tampering with evidence, providing false information to an officer and obstruction of justice would be filed.