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>'Penis' found floating in bottle was mold, police say

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'Penis' found floating in bottle was mold, police say

By Tillie Fong, News Staff Writer

Commerce City police said Wednesday that an object found in a fruit drink

last week is not a human penis as they previously said, but mold or

bacteria.

" We worked off the best information we had, " said Elaine Rowe, spokeswoman

for the Commerce City police.

" We didn't have any clue that it could be anything else. It's very strange.

I've never seen anything like this in law enforcement. "

On Thursday, machinist -Marchez, 41, found what appeared to be a

3-inch section of a human penis in his 20-ounce Ora Potency Fruit Punch

after he had downed two-thirds of the drink.

He turned it over to Commerce City police, who sent it to the County

Coroner's Office, which determined it was part of a human penis.

The police issued a press release Friday, and the drink was taken off

grocery-store shelves.

On Wednesday, Rowe said the pathologist from the coroner's office didn't do

a tissue sample but only an external examination of the object before

identifying it as a penis.

Rowe said she could see how the pathologist could come to that conclusion.

" If you saw it, you would have believed it, " she said.

The determination that it was mold or bacteria was made Wednesday.

In the meantime, when the Denver distributor of the drink, Vancol, went

through the bottles from the recall, workers made a disturbing discovery.

" They found a second bottle with a round, cylindrical object inside, " said

Rowe.

Vancol notified the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday, which in turn,

notified Commerce City police.

Investigators took the second bottle and its contents and sent it to the

coroner's office for examination.

" The assumption is that it is the same thing that was in the first bottle,

so it was sent off to the FDA for a more thorough test, " Rowe said.

Samples of the object found in the first bottle were also sent to the FDA

for additional analysis.

FDA officials could not be reached for comment late Wednesday evening.

October 4, 2001