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The spicy story of the cop fired after testing positive on a drug test - after unkowingly eating a meatball spiked with pot - returns with a lawsuit! Anthony Chiofalo, a 22-year veteran of the NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, is suing to be reinstated, claiming his termination was "arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable and unconstitutional."
Back in 2005, Chiofalo was shocked when he tested positive for marijuana during a drug test. Then it turned out his wife twice laced a batch of meatballs with, as the Post puts it, "six joints worth of marijuana." Cathy Chiofalo, who smoked marijuana for back pain, wanted her husband to retire (he had promised he would after 20 years) and feared for his life (his brother and former partners were killed on September 11), so she got crafty - and cooking.
Both husband and wife passed polygraph tests, leading Internal Affairs to find him not guilty (by reason of "involuntary ingestion) but Police Commissioner Ray Kelly upheld Chiofalo's termination this past August. Now, with the lawsuit filed, Chiofalo's lawyer Richard Dienst noted his client's "unblemished record" and emphasized that he was clueless about the whole situation. Dienst said, "When he heard his wife put this in his meatballs, he was stunned. The guy sat in the room shaking his head for half an hour...This whole thing has left a bitter taste in his mouth." The lawyer also says the couple still loves each other.
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i can't believe no one has spoken out to compliment my pot-meatball latte-- this is the very peak of my photoshop art career!
Well if the wife did that without telling him, what's to stop her from doing it again? What happens when he shows up to work high (not by his fault, but he is still high by definition) and needs to handle something crucial, but cannot?
This situation sucks for him, since it really is not his fault (other than being married to a relative wacko). This is very interesting and could be drawn out for a long time due to the numerous legal issues involved in it.
I guess that they could say he stays fired because he knowingly lived with a drug user. Joe Friday would have slapped the cuffs on his toking wife and sent her up the river.
obviously this guy is a bad cop if he's living with a known criminal.
I for one welcome our new pot meatball latte overlords.
I know it's not the issue here but I don't think it's a bad idea for cops to smoke/eat pot when off duty. Maybe they'd mellow out and stop taseing the shit out of everyone.
Is medical marijuana legal in NY? Even so, there are usually very strict guidelines for its use, i.e. relief of nausea in cancer patients. I don't believe medical marijuana is generally considered to be an acceptable treatment for backpain which is how the wife explained her use.
Anyway this cop's wife supposedly put a good amount of weed in his meatballs and he had absolutely no clue? He didn't notice a buzz after eating said meatballs?
How dumb do you have to be to believe that story?
wow, this is some of the best photoshopping i've ever seen. who's the talented artist?