This man spent 3 days in jail because the cops thought cat litter was meth

A Texas man named Ross Lebeau spent three days in jail in December because law enforcement confused cat litter with methamphetamine and arrested him on drug charges. LeBeau had a bag of litter in his car which cops noticed during a routine traffic stop. The litter tested positive for meth in two field tests (false positives are an endemic problem with roadside test kits), and Lebeau was arrested. Then, the Harris County Sheriff's Office sent out a press release boasting that the arrest "may have...