Jul 10 2008
Police Loaded with Coke
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DALLAS - Police didn’t have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine — it was in an undercover car they’d been driving for two months.
An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine carefully hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments.
Apparently the vehicle that was being driven was seized in a drug raid along with another, a Honda. Both cars were searched and no drugs or other illegal items were found so the vehicles were auctioned off and Dallas PD purchased one and was using it as an under cover vehicle.
I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to believe that they searched the vehicles and didn’t locate the drugs and have been driving around with them illegally for X-Amount of time. I think it more likely someone, in the department, hid it there thinking that no one would think to search the vehicles and just got unlikely that a nosy cop decided to check. I mean really, it was a vehicle seized in a drug raid and is used in undercover assignments. What are the chances that no one is going to find the compartments and search them? Slim. More than likely, that cop never realized that vehicle had those compartments to begin with and checked them out.
That’s my thoughts on that matter anyway. I’m a highly suspicious person by nature and I just find this story hard to swallow. On the off chance that it is true though, I hope whoever bought the Honda wasn’t a civilian who has had to drive through a checkpoint at some time with it. They’re likely behind bars.
