No Drugs In Cookies Taken To Cops

Lab Results Show No Drugs In Cookies Taken To Cops
Reporting
Mark Johnson FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News/AP) ―

A teenager accused of delivering drug-laced cookies to a dozen police stations was the victim of overzealous officers who had very little evidence indicating drugs were inside the treats, his attorney said Thursday.

And lab results released late Thursday afternoon confirm that no drugs were present in any of the cookies.


L. Patrick Davis said initial tests found no traces of LSD inside the cookies taken to police in Lake Worth, where Christian V. Phillips remained jailed on $75,000 bond on a charge of tampering with a consumer product. In the wake of the test results, Lake Worth Police dropped the charges against Phillips.


Phillips, 18, was arrested Tuesday after Lake Worth officers smelled marijuana in the basket and their preliminary tests detected LSD, Chief Brett McGuire said.

Watauga police released video Thursday of Christian Phillips delivering cookies to the police station on June 27. The tape shows the teen delivering cookies to the dispatcher, as part of his community service program. Four officers there ate the treats, but none got sick and all tested negative for drugs in their systems.

The cookies in question were delivered to the Lake Worth Police Department on Tuesday.


A similar batch was also delivered to the Blue Mound Police Department on Monday. The medical examiner's results came back negative for drugs in those cookies.


Phillips' father told CBS 11 News the entire case may have been the result of a 'huge rush to judgment'. "People just need to keep rationale here in perspective and not jump the gun and accuse people of stuff before we know the full facts," Glenn Phillips said.

Phillips told detectives his friend may have been smoking marijuana while he was baking, and he denied contaminating the goodies or trying to harm anyone, McGuire has said.

Davis said Phillips was delivering the cookies for Mothers Against Drunk Driving as part of community service work after he was arrested last year at a party in Watauga. MADD also has confirmed that he was doing work for the organization.

Last year Phillips was charged with assault of a public servant, a felony, but it was reduced to assault with bodily injury, a misdemeanor. He did not plead guilty but was sentenced to an anger management class and about 80 hours of community service, Davis said. He was not put on probation.

If Phillips had completed the terms of his pretrial memorandum agreement, something for first-time offenders, the case would have been removed from his record -- which would have been Wednesday, Davis said.

He graduated from high school in May and was planning to attend college this fall.

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