Cobb tries unique way to pass drug test

A man on probation will serve 30 days in jail for trying to fool his probation officer by using a fake penis to cheat on a drug test.

The defendant, Destry Cobb, 33, admitted he has a drug problem and would have failed his drug test if he had used his own urine. Cobb was at his probation officer?s office to submit a urine specimen as required by his probation.

It was as he was providing the specimen in the bathroom that a male officer noticed something was not right. The officer caught Cobb trying to use a fake penis he had concealed in his pants to provide a bogus urine specimen.

While unusual, probation officials say such fraud is not unheard of as some probationers will go to great lengths to avoid submitting a dirty test and being sent back to jail. Specifically, probation officials say they have caught other men using a fake penis or rubber sheath in an effort to provide a false test. In most cases, those trying to avoid detection are using urine provided by another person or, in rare cases, their own urine which has been stored until it was needed.

Officials also say it is especially hard for a man to cheat on a urine test seeing as an observer is supposed to see the urine pass from the body and into the container. It is the observers who normally catch the use of concealment devices such as the one used by Cobb.

Using such a device is treated not only as a failed test, which will end with a violation of probation charge, but it also brings the additional charge of falsifying drug test results.