Looking for drugs, man calls cops by mistake

CLARENCE, N.Y. (AP) - November 10, 2010

Erie County Sheriff's Detective Alan Rozansky says he got a call around noon Monday and answered with his usual "Crime Stoppers." The caller apparently didn't hear that and told Rozansky he was looking "to score" drugs.

Rozansky told a local television station that he was surprised but played along and arranged a meeting with undercover officers. The officers didn't arrest the caller but used him as an informant to lead them to another transaction taking place down the road.

There, police arrested a 35-year-old woman trying to sell her prescription painkillers to a Buffalo man.

The careless caller is off the hook for now.

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