A NORTH Carolina sheriff's office thought it made a huge drug bust, seizing 5.9 kilograms of fentanyl worth US$2 million on the street.
The powder was found in a home along with other drugs and paraphernalia and a field test indicated it was the powerful opioid, justifying a host of charges against three suspects.
Unfortunately for the concientious officers, a state lab test revealed the powder was not fentanyl.
Further tests at a private lab revealed the powder included no illicit ingredients, and was merely "a combination of simple and complex carbohydrates."
That is, it was sugar, worth about $8 at Woolies - sweet!
Police in Mexico have successfully recovered a hearse - and the body it was carrying - after the vehicle was stolen by a misguided car thief.
According to a Facebook post by the Tlaquepaque Police Department in the country's central region, the undertaker's vehicle was ready to take the body of a deceased 80-year-old man from a hospital in Guadalahara to a funeral home.
A 40-year-old man has admitted to spotting the keys in the ignition and absconding with the hearse.
After a brief highway chase officers managed to stop the vehicle and detain the suspect, with the hearse and body recovered without damage.
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