Cop says he put drugs on random vehicles to test police dogs

Police taking drugs from evidence locker and planting them on random vehicles to test drug dog training.


[link to www.stltoday.com]

"Officer Michael Reichert explains in a recording posted online that officers sometimes planted or smeared illicit drugs on vehicles parked overnight at businesses or motels, to test the dogs’ abilities."

“We’d go to a hotel or grocery store parking lots, throw (drugs) on U-Haul trucks ... underneath big trucks and 18-wheelers and so forth,” Reichert says, acknowledging that it was sometimes done without the vehicle owner’s permission. And sometimes, he said, marijuana was wiped across a car door."

“If you’ve stayed at the Days Inn, Motel 6 or any hotel near the Bluff Road exit in Collinsville, you may have unknowingly had drugs or drug scent planted on your vehicle.”