Things just disappear, it has always been thus.
Remember when you were a kid, and there really was a good reason why you didn’t have your homework, but you knew nobody would believe you, because you wouldn’t have believed somebody who told you the same thing?
Missing $31,000 in Seized Drug Money Said To Be Forever Lost in Landfill
More than $31,000 in drug money seized by Somerville police now is buried forever under tons of garbage in a Rochester, N.H., landfill after officers accidentally stashed the cash in a broken desk drawer that was being discarded.
The drug money went missing after an evidence room technician, who had been cleaning out evidence rooms at police headquarters since last Wednesday, put the $31,535 in the drawer of the broken desk, said acting police Chief Robert Bradley. On Monday, while the technician was out of the office, two other officers involved in the evidence room cleanup threw out the desk, along with broken chairs and furniture for spring cleaning.
“A very bad mistake,” Bradley said of losing the money.
In a related story, visits to the Rochester landfill have quadrupled this week and concession stands have sprung up overnight as treasure seekers dig through heap after heap of smelly garbage, mixed with the faint aroma of cash.
I thought I smelled something too, but it was more reminiscent of a substance often found around cows and bulls.
So if someone did go dig it up, could they keep it? Or would the lazy cops want it back as “evidence”?
Uh… Geoff, I’m pretty sure it’s not really there…
Uh… Geoff, I’m pretty sure it’s not really there…
You & me both…
“The $31,535, which covers about a dozen investigations conducted by Somerville police since July 1, 2005, was to have been split between the department and the Middlesex County district attorney’s office if prosecutors won convictions in those cases.”
I suspect instead that it was split between the evidence room technician and the two officers who removed the desk. 🙂
Isn’t money in an evidence room normally kept under lock and key?
Just watch for police officers making big ticket purchases … PS3’s for instance (when they go on sale) … or new “limited edition” H1s 🙂
That odor you smell? Not garbage. It’s is the smell of government theft and corruption.
#4,5,7,8.
Nice excuse though. It beats the old standby “my dog eat the evidence”.