Cop Loses Job For Eating Pot-Laced Cookies At TOOL Concert

The Spokesman-Review recently reported that a Spokane, Washington city police officer resigned after being told two of his fellow officers saw him buy and eat two $1 cookies that apparently contained marijuana at a TOOL concert, a police spokesman said.

Jonathon Smith, a three-year officer, quit late last month after acting Police Chief James Nicks gave him a choice between that and being fired, Cpl. Tom Lee said.

Nicks acted after Sgt. Craig Meidl and Cpl. Robbie Dashiell, who were not with Smith, said they saw him buy and eat cookies that had been described as laced with pot during a TOOL performance on August 27, 2006 at the Gorge Amphitheater near George.

Meidl and Dashiell, who said they were offered the cookies at $1 each but didn't buy any, contacted Nicks at home and wound up working with Grant County sheriff's deputies in an investigation that resulted in the arrest of Steven Cory Mack, 26, of Bothell, for investigation of delivery of marijuana.

Investigators found 2.8 grams of marijuana in a search of Mack's seized 1999 Chevrolet Blazer, along with $300 in $1 dollar bills and a plastic container with crumbs inside, Deputy John Turley said.

Smith couldn't be located in the crowd of 22,000 people after Nicks was called and won't be charged with a crime because of the cost of tests to verify that there was pot in the cookies, Turley said.

"It's tough to do any kind of field testing on food products. We have to send that off to the (state crime) lab," the sheriff's deputy said.

"What a knucklehead he is. That dollar just cost him a $50,000 job," Turley added. "Yeah, that's pretty smart."