Houston police accused of eating suspect's pot brownies turn in less marijuana than they claimed to have seized

by Ted Oberg
ABC13
Oct. 07, 2011

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- We have an update to a report about police officers accused of stealing marijuana and bragging about getting high. We have messages the officers exchanged and why HPD wants to know what happened to three and a half pounds of missing dope.

Early in the morning of May 10, someone allegedly smelled pot coming from an apartment in a Kingwood complex. Whoever it was called the cops, and the cops apparently found a lot of pot.

"They started making jokes as if, oh we already know what's going on, stuff like that," 19-year-old Nicholas Hill said.

Hill was inside that apartment, and was arrested for drug possession. Now, it's the officers under internal police investigation.

Here's one of the text messages we found between officers on their in-car computers: At 1:29am, one officer writes one officer to another, "We just got 5lb of marijuana and a ton of other crap."

Sitting in their police cars in a Kingwood parking lot, that's what Houston cops bragged to each other what they'd found. The problem for them is that when they got downtown, it's not what they turned in.