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Man tries to hide fake penis againItem found during mandatory drug testBy GRANT BOXLEITNER
GBOXLEITNER@NEWS-PRESS.COMPublished by news-press.com on March 18, 2005
Jeffrey Neal Thompson must not have learned his lesson the first time.
For the second time in three days, the Punta Gorda man was caught with a fake penis and plastic bladder used to provide false urine samples at drug tests.
His probation officer, L.H. Severson, didn't think the stunt was very funny when Thompson, 42, pulled the contraption from around his waist during a mandatory drug test Wednesday.
Severson said Thompson was acting nervous as he started to undo his shorts zipper in the restroom of the probation office at the Charlotte Correctional Institution.
Thompson, accused of using a device to alter a drug test, was charged with violating probation and taken to the Charlotte County Jail, sheriff's officials said.
Thompson's scam was first exposed Monday by a Charlotte County sheriff's deputy, who was surprised to find a similar fake penis and plastic bladder in his trunk during a traffic stop in Port Charlotte. Thompson, who had just two days left of probation for drug use, told the deputy the item was used for urine tests, sheriff's officials said.
The deputy found marijuana and Valium in Thompson's red Corvette, arrested him and confiscated the contraption.
But Thompson didn't give up there.
He told the probation officer he drove to Fort Myers to buy another one before he took Wednesday's test, Charlotte County sheriff's spokesman Robert Carpenter said. Thompson was ordered to the probation office Wednesday to submit the urine sample because he violated terms of his probation during the initial arrest.
The contraption is called a Whizzinator and can be purchased along with dehydrated urine on a Web site.
It's not immediately known where Thompson bought the unusual item in Fort Myers.
State probation officials said the prosthetic penis contraptions have become somewhat common in ongoing attempts to fool probation officers who oversee urine tests.
Authorities say Thompson scheduled to be arraigned April 25 didn't fool anyone this time.
