Looks like we might have our very own case of Super Troopers in Boston. The Globe reported that 10 officers working in the Boston Police Department's drug warehouse have been transferred because someone among them may have been chipping off confiscated stashes.
Captain Frank Armstrong, evidence management commander, ordered an investigation after an audit revealed drugs were missing back in August. Investigators kept taking stock of the drugs and found amounts missing.
In their public statement, the BPD is extremely careful not to finger anyone and makes clear that the officers who were transferred - which includes Captain Armstrong, who ordered the investigation in the first place - are not necessarily suspects.
Superintendent-in-Chief Albert E. Goslin says, “Due diligence requires that we transfer all employees with access to drug evidence." Ten transferred officers aren't the same as ten officers who are congratulating themselves way too much after a drug raid.
Whoever it is stealing the drugs has a sweet tooth for OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin" and best known as Rush Limbaugh's favorite painkiller.
Perhaps the BPD will get this straightened out soon so the innocent officers can get back to their jobs and whoever's been stealing the stash can find out that happy endings for drug-swiping police officers happen only in the movies.
Image of the members of Broken Lizard as small-town Vermont cops enjoying some confiscated illegal herb taken from All Movie Photo.
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