By C1 Staff
WAYNESBURG, Ohio — A man who got cold feet about attempting to pass off drug-free urine as his own to his probation officer confessed, and was charged with criminal attempt and furnishing drug-free urine.
The Observer-Reporter reports that Jeremey Michael Perry purchased a Whizzinator, a prosthetic penis that holds fake urine, for $120 in an attempt to pass a drug test at the Greene County Probation Office.
Perry confessed to police that he’d done so due to having done heroin the night before and knowing that he would test positive.
The Whizzinator may already be well known to probation and parole officers due to it making headlines in 2008 when the president of the company pleaded guilty in federal court to two charges of conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia and conspiring to defraud the government.
Even though he was sentenced to six months in a prison followed by three years supervised release, the product is still available on the Internet.
However, Greene County probation officers say it’s difficult to use the product in such a closely monitored setting. They’ve only seen two or three real Whizzinators come through the office.
Perry faces a preliminary hearing before a Greene County Magisterial District Judge Lou Dayich on Feb. 10.