Man arrested after calling police

Man arrested after calling police over drug rip-off

A New Orleans man has been arrested after calling police to complain he'd been ripped off trying to trade a microwave oven for crack cocaine.

Joseph Bulot, of Chalmette, was arrested on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

The 32-year-old had showed a sheriff's deputy a crack pipe he said he'd used to smoke what turned out to be fake cocaine.

A sheriff's deputy tested the off-white rock. It showed no traces of cocaine.

Maj. Marcel David, chief of the sheriff's special investigations division, which conducts drugs investigations, said he can't recall anyone ever asking a deputy to look at their drug paraphernalia, initiating their own arrest.

Bulot was released on bond, says The Times-Picayune.