A Nose for Crime
A woman in Raleigh, Tenn., has been charged with soliciting the murder of four men. Jessica Sandy Booth, 18, told the hit man — actually (of course!) an undercover Memphis police officer — that she would split the proceeds of a robbery of some drug dealers with him. She said she saw a huge block of cocaine in their house, but he had to kill the Hispanic men who lived there, along with any children old enough to testify against them, in the process. She accompanied him to the house and, once he was sure she really wanted him to go through with the murders, he arrested her. So then he and his backup went in and busted a big cocaine ring? No: the “cocaine” was actually a block of queso fresco, a white Mexican cheese. (Memphis Commercial Appeal) ...Which of course will now have to be tightly regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 12