Good news if you've been charged with drug possession in the past 18 months: your lab technician may have totally mishandled your stash and sweet Lady Loophole could come to your rescue. Lab tech Marlem Megalla allegedly made more than a hundred mistakes in her last 50 evidence tests, and an investigation by the Queens DA has revealed that Megalla has mislabeled, incorrectly weighed, and flat out lost many of the drugs she was supposed to test. All while continuing to receive her $69,000 annual salary, the Post reports. more ›

We all know that smoking crack and driving is just a bad combination, right? Because if it isn't the "coke bugs" crawling all over you that distracts you from the terrifying hallucinations flying around your car driving, then it'll probably be the argument you get into due to your extreme paranoia and irritability...as one Long Island woman learned the hard way. more ›

So let's say you've just led police on a four-mile-long high speed car chase, which only came to an end after you struck a state police cruiser and slammed into the center median barrier of I-84. Do you get out of the car, admit defeat, and demurely go with the police? Or do you tell them to wait while you finish smoking your crack cocaine? more ›

Two sweet-toothed men are bitter after being mistakenly arrested for possession of crack cocaine. "I spent five days in jail for possession of coconut candy," said 33-year-old dad Cesar Rodriguez, who works as a plumber's assistant. Now he and his friend want their just desserts--they're planning a $2 million lawsuit against the NYPD, who their lawyer say was careless and didn't follow protocol. more ›

The Daily News reports that when a rookie cop realized he'd been hit while patrolling a Bed-Stuy housing project, he and his partner decided to check out an apartment with an open window: "Inside the apartment, they found 15 people, a Crosman BB gun, an unloaded .358 Magnum, ammunition and crack cocaine...Elliot Allen, 22, admitted he fired the BB gun, claiming he wasn't aiming at anyone. Police said they believe Allen wanted to get back at the officer because he had arrested one of the men in the apartment, Tyrike Dario, earlier in the evening and gave him a summons for disorderly conduct." more ›