Officer Says His Wife Put Pot In Meatballs

A New York detective who was suspended after testing positive for drugs says he thinks his wife is to blame.

The man, Anthony Chiofalo, says his wife served him meatballs spiked with marijuana because she wanted to keep him out of harm's way by forcing him into retirement.

And an administrative judge believes him, and recommended this week that he be reinstated.

Chiofalo was suspended without pay after a random drug test found marijuana in his system.

During an investigation, his wife confessed she had substituted marijuana for oregano in her meatball recipe in hopes of forcing him to leave police work.

She passed a lie-detector test, and offered testimony from a toxicologist that the excuse was valid.

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