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Police Fired After Claiming Mice Ate Half A Ton of Marijuana That Mysteriously Disappeared From Warehouse
When more than 500kg of mari- juana disap- peared from a police ware- house in Argenti na, officers had an improbable explanation: it must have been eaten by mice.
Senior officers, it seems, were not convinced, and eight mem- bers of
staff have now been fired in connection with the missing drug.
The cannabis ha d been in stor- age for more than two years at an impound warehouse in the city of Pilar, 35 miles north
of Buenos Aires, reported news outlet Pilar de
Todos
But during an inspection of the facility in April 2017, it was dis- covered that, of 6,000kg regis-
tered there, only 5,460kg remained.
A former police commissioner, Javier Specia, was questioned
about the miss- ing narcotics, along with three other officers. After all four told a judge their mouse theory, Buenos Aires’
security minister Cristian Ritondo fired them and four others.
“Mice wouldn’t mistake the drug for food,” said a
spokesperson for judge Adrián González Charvay. “And even if a large group of mice had eaten it, a lot of corpses would have been found in the warehouse.”
Forensic experts from the city’s university agreed that the explanation was implausible.
The four police officers are now accused of not properly protect- ing evidence and have been ordered to testi- fy on 4 May. The hearing will seek to deter- mine if the miss- ing marijuana was the result of “expedience or negligence”.
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