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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cybergal, post: 225333, member: 2385&quot;]<b><font face="Arial"><font size="5">NYPD Rejects &#039;Dopey&#039; Meatball Defense </font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5">8/24/07</font></font></b></p><p>NEW YORK (AP) -- So much for the meatball defense. A veteran counterterrorism detective&#039;s claims that he flunked a drug test because his wife served him marijuana-spiked meatballs &quot;simply weren&#039;t credible,&quot; and he has been fired by the New York Police Department, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Thursday.</p><p>With the dismissal, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly rejected an earlier recommendation by an administrative judge that the detective, Anthony Chiofalo, be reinstated. Kelly has final say on firings.</p><p>An attorney for Chiofalo did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment.</p><p>Chiofalo, a 22-year-veteran assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, was suspended without pay in 2005 after a random drug test found marijuana in his system. The officer denied ever using drugs and demanded a hearing.</p><p>During an investigation, his wife said she had secretly substituted marijuana for oregano in her meatball recipe in hopes of forcing him to leave police work.</p><p>The detective&#039;s lawyers presented evidence that she had passed a lie-detector test, and offered testimony from a toxicologist that the excuse was valid.<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_MEATBALLS_MARIJUANA?SITE=FLTAM&amp;SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_MEATBALLS_MARIJUANA?SITE=FLTAM&amp;SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT" rel="nofollow">ap/tbo</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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