Tough-on-crime police chief accidentally eats entire cannabis-laced cake left at his home by his daughter's friend

A tough-talking Ohio police chief was hospitalized after he fell ill from eating a pot-laced cake at his home that was intended for his younger daughter.

Laurelville Police Chief Mike Berkemeier was hospitalized after eating a cake baked with hash oil

Laurelville Police Chief Mike Berkemeier unwittingly ate the pastry on Easter Sunday, thinking it was left by a friend as a goodwill gesture since his eldest daughter was in the hospital following a major traffic accident.



The bizarre mix up left the officer disoriented and confused and his youngest daughter revealed how a friend had baked the cake with hash oil.



Chief Berkemeier, who has pledged to clean up the community and has made good on that promise with a series of drug raids and cracking down on speeding, told the Logan Daily News about the unfortunate turn of events.

He had spent the day on March 31, Easter Sunday, at the hospital with his eldest daughter, who had been hurt in a car accident.

Arriving home exhausted after the harrowing incident, he decided to eat something and was going to fix himself a sandwich but instead opted for a delicious looking cake that was on the kitchen counter.



Shortly after eating that cake, Berkemeier says he began to feel sick like never before.

'It was flat out the worst experience of my entire life,' he said about the unintentional high he experienced.

'I have never felt like I was going to die before. Not knowing what has happened to you and feeling like you have no control over what’s happening and not knowing what’s happened, is, I can’t even describe. It’s the most awful feeling in the world. I really didn’t think I was going to live to see the next day. And that’s the God’s honest truth,' he explained.

Mix up: Laurelville Police Chief Mike Berkemeier, with his fiancee Vanessa Vara, ate the pastry on Easter Sunday, thinking it was left by a friend as a goodwill gesture

He was dumbfounded as to what caused him to feel to ill and thought maybe there were toxins in his home and so he went outside for some fresh air.



'I was on the phone with my daughter in the hospital, and I’m talking to her and I’m answering questions, but I’m not remembering what I just said. I’m going, "What is wrong me?"' Berkemeier said.

He then drove to the Laurelville police station for assistance.

'I don't remember much of the drive here, even though it's just a few blocks and was met by a couple of the medics from the fire department,' he said.

Help: After he began to feel ill, the police chief drove to the Laurelville police station to get help

He was admitted to the Berger Hospital in Circleville for a day-and-a-half while doctors performed various tests to try to understand what the problem was.

Berger's fiancee, Vanessa Vara, inquired about the cake in a conversation with her younger daughter who immediately knew what was going on.

'When Vara asked her daughter where the cake came from, a scream was immediately heard over the phone,' Berkemeier told the local paper.

'I could hear it from the hospital bed. I could hear it over my fiance's phone,' the father said.

Source: The policeman was hospitalized and doctors were dumbfounded as to the source of his sickness. His fiancee, right, found out from his daughter that the cake was loaded with hash oil

'And then I thought, what is going on? She hangs up the phone and says it was the cake, get the nurse,' he said.

Realizing the source of the problem, doctors promptly gave him a sedative and he slept off the impacts of the high.

Few details were provided about the source of the pot-laced cake, but the local news reported that a friend of the chief's younger daughter brought the cake to the family's home, even though the daughter reportedly pleaded with the friend not to store the spiked pastry in the home.