This guy look played with trouble and he got sentenced....University of Miami student Jonathan Harrington thought it would be funny to chop up some powdered sugar into lines, roll up a dollar bill and scatter some aspirin pills on his desk before his dorm room was inspected.
The prank backfired spectacularly. Though police tests confirmed the aspirin was indeed aspirin, the sugar came back positive for cocaine, and Harrington spent the night in jail. He now faces five years in prison.
Harrington insists that the cocaine test was a false positive, which is not that unlikely – on-the-spot drug tests are notoriously unreliable, and previous analyses have shown breath mints to be crack cocaine and sweets to be methamphetamine.
‘It was indeed powdered sugar — 23.7 grams of the finest you can buy at Publix,’ Harrington told the Miami New Times.
‘To them it is more plausible that I left $1,500 worth of cocaine strewn around my apartment.’
Police told the Miami New Times that the powder has been sent to a lab for more sophisticated analysis ‘but it could take up to two months to process.’
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