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Smith detained after police found elaborate kit
GREGG AAMOT / Associated Press
Posted: 27 minutes ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Vikings running back Onterrio Smith, who has a history of violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, was briefly detained by airport police last month after they found an elaborate kit used to beat drug tests.
Police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport questioned Smith on April 21 after a search of his bag discovered vials of white powder, according to a police report.
Smith told officers it was dried urine used in conjunction with a device called "The Original Whizzinator," which he said was "for making a clean urine test." In addition, he had a bottle of pills labeled "cleansing formula."
Smith told police he was taking the kit to his cousin. The police report didn't say where Smith was traveling.
Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Tice told the Star Tribune, which first reported the story Wednesday, that he didn't know about Smith being detained and had no comment.
On Wednesday, a Vikings spokesman had no comment. Smith's agent, Douglas Hendrickson, didn't immediately return a message left at his office.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said league rules state that failing to cooperate with a drug test was the same as failing it, but he wasn't sure whether there was any penalty for possessing a device designed to beat such a test. Smith was suspended last season for four games after testing positive for marijuana. It was his second "strike" in the NFL's substance-abuse program. He would earn a yearlong suspension for a third violation. In 2000, Smith was kicked out of Tennessee for using marijuana. He finished his college career at Oregon. Smith rushed for 579 yards as a rookie and led the Vikings last season with 544 yards.
Come on man... if you can't put the weed down long enough to make a few million bucks, then I say ban em for life for being STUPID
GREGG AAMOT / Associated Press
Posted: 27 minutes ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Vikings running back Onterrio Smith, who has a history of violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, was briefly detained by airport police last month after they found an elaborate kit used to beat drug tests.
Police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport questioned Smith on April 21 after a search of his bag discovered vials of white powder, according to a police report.
Smith told officers it was dried urine used in conjunction with a device called "The Original Whizzinator," which he said was "for making a clean urine test." In addition, he had a bottle of pills labeled "cleansing formula."
Smith told police he was taking the kit to his cousin. The police report didn't say where Smith was traveling.
Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Tice told the Star Tribune, which first reported the story Wednesday, that he didn't know about Smith being detained and had no comment.
On Wednesday, a Vikings spokesman had no comment. Smith's agent, Douglas Hendrickson, didn't immediately return a message left at his office.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said league rules state that failing to cooperate with a drug test was the same as failing it, but he wasn't sure whether there was any penalty for possessing a device designed to beat such a test. Smith was suspended last season for four games after testing positive for marijuana. It was his second "strike" in the NFL's substance-abuse program. He would earn a yearlong suspension for a third violation. In 2000, Smith was kicked out of Tennessee for using marijuana. He finished his college career at Oregon. Smith rushed for 579 yards as a rookie and led the Vikings last season with 544 yards.
Come on man... if you can't put the weed down long enough to make a few million bucks, then I say ban em for life for being STUPID
