(RNN) – Police in Argentina have taken the “dog ate my homework” excuse to a extraordinary new height.
When nearly 1,200 pounds of marijuana went missing from a police warehouse outside Buenos Aires, a group of officers and the former commissioner came under suspicion.
But they claimed their innocence, and pointed to who they said was the real culprit: mice.
Call it the story of “three baked mice.”
The judge in the case, Adrian Gonzalez Charvay, was unconvinced.
A spokesperson for the judge said that Buenos Aires University experts said “if a large group of mice had eaten it, a lot of corpses would have been found in the warehouse.”
To be fair to the officers, some blogs do claim mice frequently eat cannabis plants.
The commissioner, Javier Specia, left his post in April 2017. His successor, Emilio Portero, noticed that of a 6,000-kilogram seizure which was stored in the warehouse, 5,460 kilograms remained.
The officers involved in the matter were fired this week. They will be questioned in court again on May 4.
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