This article really makes me wonder "who's in charge here?"

The cops can do whatever they want and the poor saps who got busted are still facing criminal charges for doing, in essence, the same thing the cop did.

Neither should be criminal offenses, but try using that as a defense if you're NOT a cop!

And what about the stealing? Isn't anyone going to rap him on the knuckles with a ruler for that one?

DEARBORN, Mich. - A police officer will avoid criminal charges despite admitting he took marijuana from criminal suspects and, with his wife, baked it into brownies.

The police department’s decision not to pursue a case against former Cpl. Edward Sanchez left a bad taste in the mouth of at least one city official, who vowed to investigate.

“If you’re a cop and you’re arresting people and you’re confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that’s bad. That’s real bad,” said City Councilman Doug Thomas.

Sanchez, who resigned last year from the department in this Detroit suburb, declined comment Wednesday to the Detroit Free Press. Police Cmdr. Jeff Geisinger did not return calls seeking comment.

The department’s investigation began with a 911 call from Sanchez’s home on April 21, 2006. On a 5-minute tape of the call, obtained by the Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.

“I think we’re dying,” he said. “We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do.”

Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping. In a subsequent interview, he admitted he got the marijuana out of the car himself and put it in the brownie mix, police said.

His wife also was not charged.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18587902/

You're gonna love this. I have the news report of the 911 call made by the dumb-ass. If you listen to what he is saying, you will realize that this whole story was most likely contrived to implant more negativity about cannabis into the mainstream media. There is no way on this planet that this officer of the law would think he was "dying" from pot, unless it was laced with something else. But the something else never gets mentioned, only the marijuana.