Cops mistake sugar for fentanyl

[47of74]

Get yer oregano / weed jokes ready folks....

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.

[drray23]

1. I'm a beekeeper and use hundreds of lbs of sugar every fall/winter.

It crossed my mind that the feds might think I am making moonshine. Did not realize I also had to worry they would think its drugs... now I'm white so I'm less likely to be beat up or shot if I ever ended up in such situation.

I am wondering if this seizure of "drugs" led to innocent people being beat up, harassed and thrown in jail. I would not put it past them.

[nycbos]

2. Reminds me of "Possession of a Condiment" clip from A Few Good Men.

[47of74]

4. Yeah that's what I thought of too almost immediately.

[marble falls]

3. Their first clue was they found the stash in the baking aisle at the super market

[Aristus]

5. I'm not surprised.

Cops mistake unarmed teenage boys for murderous rampaging gun-crazies all the time.

Do cops even undergo training anymore? If they do, it isn't worth a shit...

[Marcuse]

6. Thirteen pounds of sugar could be a deadly uncontrolled substance.