WINONA, Minn.  – Somehow, police admit, they missed the meth when they arrested Christopher Wayne James Swinger, 45, of Lewiston. But they caught it at the jail house. As Swinger was changing into orange jail garb, he recovered methamphetamine from somewhere on his body and started ingesting it. Officers recovered some of the drug and rushed Swinger to hospital. Who knows what the stuff can do in the digestive track? Back at the jail, officers completed paperwork for Swinger to be charged. The original arrest had followed a complaint that he was high on meth. Then there was a new charge: Introducing contraband into a correctional facility.

Swinger. How desperate to destroy evidence?