Some cop pulled some quality Chief Wiggum-style police work when he mistook some cocaine in Lindsay Lohan’s possession for a breath mint. Says CelebrityFix of the incident,

Lindsay Lohan may have escaped a lengthy jail sentence because a police officer mistook her cocaine for a breath mint, according to a leaked police report.

The Santa Monica Police report from Lilo’s drink driving arrest in 2007 reveals that the officer who searched her thought he found a mint. He then threw it in the trash, contaminating the evidence.

“Now we know why Lindsay Lohan’s 2007 DUI case may have plea bargained so quickly,” writesTMZ.com after uncovering and publishing the report.

Apparently the officer “discovered a folded Clinique sun care card with an unknown substance caked on to the surface of the card in Lohan’s right rear pocket.”

“Some of the white substance fell to the floor,” writes the officer. “I used my foot to see what had fell but thought nothing of it. I did not recognise the substance attached to the card and initially thought the substance was a wet crushed breath mint.

“I put the card into the jail trash can next to the booking windows.”

The officer then admits, “I was looking at the floor and began to recognise the substance as resembling powder cocaine.

“I then recovered the card from the trash.”

The cop says the coke was in the trash for about two minutes before he put the card in an evidence envelope, then scooped up the coke that had fallen to the floor and placed it in a separate evidence envelope.

Who was this cop that he didn’t assume anything on Lindsay’s person could safely be assumed to be drugs? The “mint” being in a Clinique package didn’t seem a little strange? Yeah, I’m not buying it. Lindsay gave him an incentive to “accidentally” drop the evidence in the trash. Exhibit “B”: White powdery residue on Johnny Law’s dick.

Going to see “Eclipse” in LA: