WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20 kg (44 lbs) of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity of sugar, police said on Monday.

Zbigniew Matwiej, spokesman for Poland's organised crime fighting unit, the Central Investigative Bureau, said the switch was discovered when officers were disposing of evidence that had been seized several years ago and used in trials.

"The officers noticed that something suspicious was happening with the drugs and immediately stopped the destruction process. Their suspicions that the material was not in fact cocaine proved to be well founded," Matwiej said.

The lost cocaine had a street value of about $1 million (530 million pounds), according to Polish private television TVN24.
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What a nice job of watching it those bozos did...

I wonder who did the switch-if it was an inside job? You would think they had it well guarded.

What's really scary is this probably isn't all that unusual. At least in the good ol U S of A.

They should have replace it with salt so it burn the druggie's nose.

dang, my nose burns just thinking about it.

Look for the cop with the twitchy face !!

A few years back, when I was young and foolish, a friend of mine worked as a Sheriffs Dispatcher for our County. One night he showed up at a party with some of the best weed. When we asked where he got it , he said the report said "Destroyed by Fire". So it was our civic duty to get rid of it as fast as we could.

Well we had to comply!

Don't you mean "as BEST you could"?

I don't remember. Most of that month was a BLUR!

Its good to know that those responsible for protecting us and keeping our streets safe have many corrupt rats in their ranks!

It will suplement their poor wages,if they can remember where it was they worked

ROFL! Well... it was destoyed by fire.

real responsible cops don't you think

lmao

i think the only reason the cops here even do drug raids is cause they ran out of stuff....

The news report forgot to mention they averaged a record 50 trials per day during that time period !!!

Okay.. if you smoke weed... you get high... ifd your AROUND the smoke you can get high... now.. im guessing that everyone standing around a fire, burning weed, would be feeling really skippy!