Swedish police arrest man in 'drugs bust' after finding huge stash of sugar in car. The bags turned out to be filled with dextrose

Police in Sweden were left red-faced when they arrested a man in what was believed to be a major drugs bust, only to find he was carrying bags full of sugar, not amphetamines.

Officers found around 20 plastic bags of white powder stuffed in the back of a car after they stopped the driver in SkellefteƄ, in the north of the country.

Upon questioning, the man is alleged to have admitted to being in possession of amphetamines, according to the local SkellefteƄ newspaper Norran, before changing his story to say the bags in fact contained dextrose, a form of sugar derived from starches.

A quick on-the-spot test also suggested the presence of drugs, so officers received an arrest warrant from the district court to take the man into custody.

But according to the Swedish news agency TT, more advanced lab tests showed the white powder was indeed nothing more than dextrose. SkellefteƄ police spokesman Lars Westermark said, according to a translation by the Swedish edition of The Local: "I have never heard of anything like this happening before.

"But these quick tests have been approved, they're used for screening.

"The instruments used are sensitive so one explanation to the result could be that there had been amphetamine in the proximity of which microscopic residues had been left behind."

The man has since been released. Police say it remains unclear why the man initially said he was in possession of drugs.


Do you think he told them it was dextros for dextroamphetamine thats why he told them he had amphetamines on him, it's was a planned joke.

source and pic http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swedish-police-arrest-man-in-drugs-bust-after-finding-huge-stash-of-sugar-in-car-a7225156.html


Comments


[4 Points] None:

Nice to see that not only U.S. cops are a bunch of raging morons.


[2 Points] painlord2k:

It probably told them he had dextrose and the policemen understood he had dextroamphetamine. Policemen are not the most intelligent individuals out there, nor the most learned. They are more armed of the pacific citizens, yet.

The tests, if they are good, are of two types: 1) No false negatives. 2) No false positives.

If they use very sensible tests for the first check they have no false negative but many false positive. So they arrest a lot of innocent people they should not. If they had tests that do not give false positive, they would have some false negative (people with traces of drugs or very small quantities) and they would let go some actually "guilty" people.


[2 Points] vaporizehellaweed:

sweet bust


[1 Points] Morvu:

he maybe paid like a million euro to buy this stuff, just to get told it was sugar...sure i would claim its being drugs too when asked...a shame to get scammed like that


[1 Points] DooshNozzzle:

Plot twist- it was actually cocaine but the cops wanted to keep the cocaine. So they substituted big bags of sugar and let the guy go


[1 Points] vaporizehellaweed:

"Upon questioning, the man is alleged to have admitted to being in possession of amphetamines"

He was trolling the police lol