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Jul 8, 2008 10:26 pm US/Central
Cops Say Watauga Man Brought Them Drugged Cookies
LAKE WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Christian Phillips allegedly delivered drug-laced cookies to two North Texas police departments on July 7, 2008.
Lake Worth Police Dept.
An 18-year-old Watauga man is in jail after he allegedly tried to give drug-tainted cookies to several police officers.
Lake Worth Police Chief Brett McGuire tells CBS 11 News that Christian Phillips walked into the Blue Mound Police Department on Monday and told officers he was with Mother Against Drunk Driving.
Phillips offered cookies to the officers, McGuire says, ostensibly as a gesture of goodwill.
"He said part of his community service was to bake cookies and deliver them to police departments around the area," said Glenn Phillips, Christian's father. "While he was baking them, I was nibblin' on 'em. He and a couple of other people over here helping 'em cook."
The officers accepted the cookies, but McGuire says when they unwrapped them the officers noticed they smelled like marijuana.
They turned over the cookies to a Blue Mound detective, who called Lake Worth Police on the chance that Phillips would try to take cookies there as well.
McGuire says that's just what he did.
At 10:30 Monday morning, he says Phillips walked into the Lake Worth Police Department and offered cookies to those officers.
While Phillips was still there they opened the cookies, McGuire says, and they also noticed the smell of marijuana.
Officers arrested Phillips and tested the cookies for drugs.
McGuire says a preliminary drug test shows the cookies were laced with the hallucinogenic drug LSD.
He also says Phillips was carrying a list containing the names of at least six other police agencies to which he was apparently going to deliver cookies.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Fort Worth police say last night they also received a delivery of cookies and candy that might have been tainted. In a statement, police spokesman Lt. Paul Henderson says at least three police officers ate items from the basket. Henderson won't say whether the officers suffered any effects from what they ate. He says the items in the basket are being tested for drugs.
Phillips was taken into custody and later charged with possession of LSD.
McGuire says the Tarrant County District Attorney's office is considering additional charges.
Phillips reportedly denied trying to contaminate the goodies or harm anyone and said one of his friends may have been smoking pot while he was baking.
He has a court date scheduled for an unrealted charge Wednesday for an assault with injury charge after an altercation with a Watauga police officer.
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