Three Southern California police officers were charged Monday with theft of protein bars and cookies eaten at a medical marijuana dispensary last year. The alleged crimes by the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) officers were captured by secret video during a May raid of the Sky High Holistic dispensary in Santa Ana, just southeast of Los Angeles.

"The Orange County District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation conducted a thorough investigation, including interviewing multiple witnesses and reviewing over 16 hours of unedited video surveillance footage with the cooperation of SAPD," the Orange County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. "While other SAPD personnel ate some protein bars, there is insufficient evidence that they knew the food items belonged to the dispensary and not their fellow officers. There was also no evidence that any SAPD personnel consumed any edible marijuana items available at the dispensary."

Charged with misdemeanor theft were Brandon Matthew Sontag, 31, Nicole Lynn Quijas, 37, and Jorge Arroyo, 32. Sontag was also charged with vandalism, and he is accused of smashing five of the dispensary's security cameras, prosecutors said.

The officers had demanded that a judge block the police department from using the video tapes against them as the department investigated the officers' conduct during the raid. The cops maintained that the dispensary illegally recorded them because the officers believed they had disabled all the store's cameras and therefore had an expectation of privacy "that their conversations were no longer being recorded," according to their lawsuit. (PDF). The suit says the tapes were also "edited" and cannot be relied upon. Video also captures the officers playing darts.

The authorities said the officers ate Detour Simple protein bars and Mrs. Thinster cookies that were at the dispensary for its staff to enjoy.

The video, meanwhile, also shows the officers breaking through the door and ordering everybody down to the ground at gunpoint. Two officers in the video joke about a wheelchair-bound amputee who was at the shop.

The dispensary had two video surveillance systems. One was a visible 16-camera system. The other was a hidden 4-camera system. SAPD personnel "legally disabled 16 surveillance cameras, following investigatory and officer safety protocol. The hidden 4-camera system continued to record during the execution of the search warrant," Orange County prosecutors said in the statement.

If convicted on all counts, Arroyo and Quijas each face a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, the authorities said. Sontag faces a maximum 18 months in jail and a $2,000 fine. All are scheduled to enter a plea April 11.