DUTCH POLICE SERVE HASHISH CAKE TO MAN SUSPECTED OF GROWING
CANNABIS

A man being held in a Dutch police cell on suspicion of growing
cannabis got an unintended treat in his lunch -- a piece of
hashish-laced cake, a spokesman said Thursday.

"It was an accident," said Alwin Don, police spokesman in the southern
province of Zeeland.

The hash cake had earlier been seized by police in an unrelated
investigation and stored in a refrigerator -- close to lunch packets
served to suspects being held in cells at the police station in Goes,
180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Amsterdam.

"Clearly it looked a lot like the other lunch packets," Don said of
the hash cake, which was served with a cup of coffee on Sunday.

"Officers returned to the cell a half hour later and the suspect told
them: 'I think you've given me something you weren't supposed to,'"
Don said.

The man had only nibbled at the cake and a doctor who was called to
examine him said he suffered no ill effects.

"It was pure coincidence that this man got the cake," Don said of the
fact that a suspected drug grower had been given the cake. "What was
in the cake had nothing to do with his case."