A Chalmette man was arrested after calling the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's
Office to complain he had been ripped off attempting to trade a microwave
oven for crack cocaine.

Joseph Bulot, 32, of 600 Oak Tree Lane, Apt. B, was booked Saturday just
after 4 a.m. on a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia
after he showed a sheriff's deputy a crack pipe he said he had used to smoke
what turned out to be fake cocaine, according to a sheriff's report.

Bulot had called the Sheriff's Office from the 8900 block of West Judge
Perez Drive, several blocks from his apartment. He told a deputy he traded a
microwave oven to two men for crack in the 500 block of Oak Tree Lane, but
when he took the drug home and tried to smoke it, he discovered it was
bogus, the report said...