Lancet Jades
02-28-2004, 06:53 AM
Man tells police he bought fake drug
He complains about crack dealer's rip-off
Friday February 27, 2004
By Steve Cannizaro
St. Bernard/Plaquemines bureau
A Chalmette man was arrested after calling the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office to complain he had been ripped off attempting to trade a microwave oven for crack cocaine.
Joseph Bulot, 32, of 600 Oak Tree Lane, Apt. B, was booked Saturday just after 4 a.m. on a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after he showed a sheriff's deputy a crack pipe he said he had used to smoke what turned out to be fake cocaine, according to a sheriff's report.
A sheriff's deputy field-tested the off-white rock, which showed no traces of cocaine, the incident report said.
Bulot had called the Sheriff's Office from the 8900 block of West Judge Perez Drive, several blocks from his apartment. He told a deputy he traded a microwave oven to two men for crack in the 500 block of Oak Tree Lane, but when he took the drug home and tried to smoke it, he discovered it was bogus, the report said.
"Mr. Bulot asked if (Deputy Chris) Garic would like to see the substance and the crack pipe" at his apartment, the report said.
The deputy drove Bulot back to his apartment and Bulot showed him a gold-colored metal pipe with a mesh filter and a rock of fake cocaine, which authorities confiscated, the report said.
Maj. Marcel David, chief of the sheriff's special investigations division, which conducts narcotics investigations, said he can't recall anyone ever asking a deputy to look at their drug paraphernalia, initiating their own arrest.
"That's the first I've heard of that," David said.
Bulot was released on bond.
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He complains about crack dealer's rip-off
Friday February 27, 2004
By Steve Cannizaro
St. Bernard/Plaquemines bureau
A Chalmette man was arrested after calling the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office to complain he had been ripped off attempting to trade a microwave oven for crack cocaine.
Joseph Bulot, 32, of 600 Oak Tree Lane, Apt. B, was booked Saturday just after 4 a.m. on a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after he showed a sheriff's deputy a crack pipe he said he had used to smoke what turned out to be fake cocaine, according to a sheriff's report.
A sheriff's deputy field-tested the off-white rock, which showed no traces of cocaine, the incident report said.
Bulot had called the Sheriff's Office from the 8900 block of West Judge Perez Drive, several blocks from his apartment. He told a deputy he traded a microwave oven to two men for crack in the 500 block of Oak Tree Lane, but when he took the drug home and tried to smoke it, he discovered it was bogus, the report said.
"Mr. Bulot asked if (Deputy Chris) Garic would like to see the substance and the crack pipe" at his apartment, the report said.
The deputy drove Bulot back to his apartment and Bulot showed him a gold-colored metal pipe with a mesh filter and a rock of fake cocaine, which authorities confiscated, the report said.
Maj. Marcel David, chief of the sheriff's special investigations division, which conducts narcotics investigations, said he can't recall anyone ever asking a deputy to look at their drug paraphernalia, initiating their own arrest.
"That's the first I've heard of that," David said.
Bulot was released on bond.
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