Her second day on the job, a rookie undercover officer in Florida was assigned to purchase some prescription drugs from a known pill dealer. She was given a list of pills to buy and the quantity needed for a good “bust.”
“I wasn’t familiar with any of them at the time,” she remembers. “I had to write down the names of all the drugs and take the list with me.”
When the officer arrived at the “Pill Palace” with her shopping list, she began placing her order. “You’d think the dealer might have been a little suspicious since I couldn’t tell her what I wanted without consulting my list. I was awful . . . I kept mispronouncing the drugs’ names, and she would even correct me.”
The suspect sold the officer $250 worth of stolen pills and was arrested moments later.
“I saw her later at the station and heard her asking if anyone had an aspirin. Ironic, isn’t it? She had every pill you could imagine, but didn’t have an aspirin!”