A cop who took cannabis from crime suspects then baked it in brownies made a hash of it when he called police to tell them he thought he was dying.
On a 5-minute tape of the call, obtained by the Detroit Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.
"I think we're dying," he said. "We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."
Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping.
In a subsequent interview, he admitted he got the marijuana out of the car himself and put it in the brownie mix, police said.
It was decided on Wednesday that he and his wife will not face criminal charges.
The police department's decision not to pursue a case against former policeman Edward Sanchez left a bad taste in the mouth of at least one city official, who vowed to investigate.
"If you're a cop and you're arresting people and you're confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that's bad. That's real bad," said City Councilman Doug Thomas.
Sanchez, who resigned last year from the department in Detroit, declined to comment.
The department's investigation began with an emergency call from Sanchez's home on April 21, 2006.
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