Chesterwyo
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Let me start off by saying I post this here because I know there are a few law enforcement officers on this board and was seeking some advise. My wife is a manager of a shoe store in our local mall and she was working the other day and one of her employees found what looked to be a rolled up piece of paper on the floor. Thinking it was something someone had lost he picked it up to see who it belonged to. When he opened it up he found what looked to be a small baggie of methamphetamine. My wife told him to put it down and she called the mall secruity gaurd and he called the police. This is where the story gets interesting. The officer arrives and does not identify himself, simply asks where the baggie was. My wife pointed to the rolled up piece of paper behind the register where they had placed it. The officer walked over to it picked it up and said "thats defineately meth" He took the baggie out of the store and left, my wife thought the situation was over with. The officer then returns and said he conducted a field test of the drugs and it was positive for meth. He then took the baggie threw in in the garbage can behind the register and walked out. Didn't say a word. No paper work, just got the drivers license information from the kid who found it and walked out. Leaveing my wife to take care of the disposal of the drugs. I don't know a lot about meth other than what I have seen on billboard signs and read about in the news. I know it's highly toxic and I'm sure there are precedures for destroying beyond throwing it in the garbage where it can end up in the landfill. Anyone have any thought. Did the officer do the right things and I am just ignorant to drug enforcement? Or was this whole situation totally botched by the officer?