Hi, uh, have you guys seen my cocaine?

Thank God for stupid criminals, for they let us feel better about ourselves while providing us with much-needed laughter. Case in point:

Federal agents thought there was something fishy about Leroy Carr. On four occasions since last December, Carr either crossed the Canadian border or was found near it with thousands of dollars in cash, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. He also sometimes carried night vision goggles and a GPS device programmed with coordinates for a well-known drug-smuggling trail.

But Carr refused to speak with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and they let him go — until he called to ask if they had seen his cocaine.

Yes, you read that right. He actually called the Feds to ask if they knew where his blow was. But it gets even better...

According to the complaint, he told agents that on Aug. 3, he had stashed two blue backpacks containing 68 pounds of cocaine by the entrance to a Boy Scout camp near the Canadian border. When he returned the next day, they were gone, he said.

Carr, of suburban Federal Way, asked if ICE could put out a news release saying that federal agents had seized the drugs. That way, according to the complaint, the organization he was working for would believe his statements that he hadn't stolen them. [my emphasis]

That's so friggin' awesome. Needless to say, Leroy got arrested. And I guess, now, the people he was working for know that he didn't steal the coke, which was found by a Boy Scout.