Eight Police Officers Fired After Claiming Mice Ate Half a Tonne of Marijuana
Eight police officers in Argentina have been fired after they claimed that mice ate 560 kilograms of marijuana stored in a police warehouse. Six tonnes of marijuana had been sitting in a warehouse in Pilar, 60 kilometers outside of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, when it was discovered that more than half a tonne was missing.
Of the 6,000 kg of marijuana that was registered, it was discovered that only 5,460 kg were remaining. Suspicion fell on the city’s former police commissioner, Javier Specia, who had forgot to sign the inventory before he left in April 2017. The new commissioner, Emilio Portero, noticed the missing marijuana and notified internal affairs who investigated.
Specia and three of his subordinates were called before judge Adrian Gonzalez Charvay, and offered up the same explanation for the missing marijuana – it was “eaten by mice.”
“Buenos Aires University experts have explained that mice wouldn’t mistake the drug for food, and that if a large group of mice had eaten it, a lot of corpses would have been found in the warehouse,” a spokesperson for the judge said.
