Or just story of the day? A police detective/narc in the Miami Dade force
provided his daughter with materials for her 4th grade science fair entry--namely, three drug-sniffing dogs, and an ounce of actual cocaine (street value $1300). Take it away, Yahoo:
Not surprisingly, she won. The
first-place honor gave Emma an automatic entry into the Miami -Dade
Elementary Schools Science Fair, where her drug-sniffing project earned
an honorable mention.
“The purpose for this scientific
investigation was to find which dog would find the cocaine fastest using
it’s [sic] sense of smell,” the fourth-grader wrote in the abstract for
her project, titled "Drug Sniffing Dogs."
Bartelt, according to the Miami
Herald, fellow detective William Pedraja and Sgt. Samantha Machado
provided the dogs (a springer spaniel named Roger; Levi, a golden
retriever; and Franky, a retired chocolate labrador) and the cocaine.
(Franky showed he's still got the touch, locating the illegal substance
in 43 seconds.)
Emma's mother, Michelle Bartelt,
said the experiment was her daughter's idea and that Emma was under
constant supervision and "did not touch the cocaine."
“[Doug] handled the drugs,” she said. “He’s always very meticulous about how he handles drugs.”
John Schuster, a spokesman for
the school district, issued a statement saying the project, while
unusual, did not violate any of the science fair's rules—and that
cocaine is not a specifically banned substance.
1 comment:
Maybe possession of illegal substances is not spelled out in the rules of the science fair, but how can it be legal to ferry around a Z of coke, presumably into a school or an exhibition center?
You've got to believe me officer, it's for a science project!
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