Police left cocaine in hotel room

NAPLES, Fla., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said a package of cocaine noticed missing from a K9 narcotics training kit was likely left in a hotel room.

The recently released results of an internal affairs investigation at the Naples Police Department said veteran officers Chuck Ankenbauer and Linda Lines noticed the training kit was short a cocaine package during a May training exercise and concluded it must have been left at a previous training site, the Naples (Fla.) Daily News reported Thursday.

The officers told investigators the package was most likely left in a room at a Best Western hotel April 29 when Lines, who usually handles the narcotics during training exercises, was called away to a crime scene.

Naples police spokesman Michael Herman confirmed the allegations against the officers were sustained, but no disciplinary measures were taken.

"It was looked at as strictly an honest mistake by two hardworking police officers," Herman said.

"These are highly responsible veteran officers who as human beings made a simple mistake. They immediately notified their supervisors to the situation."