Two Police Officers Test Positive For Marijuana

[Jim Finnel]

Two Toledo police officers could lose their jobs after investigators say they tested positive last month for marijuana.

The department has charged them on three counts: Habitual drunkenness or drug abuse, a violation of a departmental corrective and conduct unbecoming an officer. The hearings will be held next week.

Of 48 patrolmen randomly tested late last month, 40-year-old Karon Gallup tested positive for marijuana. She's been with the department for 14 years.

Fifty-two-year-old Curtis Jewell also tested positive. He's been with the TPD for 26 years.

This is the first time the department has been able to randomly test patrolmen. The procedure was agreed to in contract talks earlier this year.

Both officers and internal affairs will meet with Police Chief Mike Navarre Monday morning. He will decide what will happen to the two officers.

Navarre has said that discipline could range from suspension to termination.


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Source: WTOL
Author: Lisa Rantala
Copyright: 2009 WorldNow and WTOL
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Website: Chief Navarre to decide fate of 2 officers who tested positive for drugs

 

[Weed420]

Somebody should teach those cops about subbing.lol

 

[Rin101]

haha yeah but the article said it was random so they probably wouldn't have had a chance anyway

 

[greenkitti]

On again that lets you know the war on drugs it not working when you got the police using. They have stressful jobs . and both of them been there for some yrs,that lets you know this is not the first time smoking.

Peace

 

[michaelkaer]

Everyone knows cops have the best stuff. That is common knowledge. The reason they have the good stuff is they get to steal it from other users(abusing their power), then let them go with a warning, so no paperworks show up. That is also common knowledge. I also know cool cops who don't care what goes on in private, just don't go public with it is their main thing. I assume police have to come up with some strange rationalizations to allow them to do a job they don't believe in.