--- description: No one has come forward to stake their claim to the narcotics yet title: Virginia Police Take to Facebook to Find Rightful Owner of Lost Cocaine image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt528cd5bfc0c84b86/69877ea1524fc077b8dec6b4/facebook-threatexchange-hackers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Virginia Police Take to Facebook to Find Rightful Owner of Lost Cocaine by [Daily Dot](/author/daily-dot/) ## Daily Dot Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 20, 2015 8:20 PM CUT  The Facebook Inc. logo is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPad Air in this arranged photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014\. Facebook Inc. is expected to release earnings data on Jan. 29\. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Facebook Inc. logo is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPad Air in this arranged photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014\. Facebook Inc. is expected to release earnings data on Jan. 29\. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg via Getty Images by [Daily Dot](/author/daily-dot/) ## Daily Dot Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 20, 2015 8:20 PM CUT While there have been plenty of reports of [police brutality](http://www.dailydot.com/tags/police-brutality/ "undefined") and [racial profiling](http://www.dailydot.com/tags/racial-profiling/ "undefined") in last few months, not [every cop](http://www.dailydot.com/tags/cops/ "undefined") is out to abuse his or her power. Some officers are kind, caring individuals who seek to serve the community by reuniting lost property with its rightful owner. Take the police department of Crewe, Va., for example. After these hardworking public servants were called to a Super Dollar about a large bag of cocaine that had been found on the premises, the officers pursued ever possible channel in an attempt to find the drug’s owner. The officers stopped at nothing, even [taking to Facebook](http://www.dailydot.com/tags/facebook/ "undefined") in hopes of finding someone who might be missing their big ol’ bag of cocaine. [_Read the rest of the story at the Daily Dot._](http://www.dailydot.com/crime/police-look-for-cocaine-owner-on-facebook/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3717144/police-facebook-cocaine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3717144/police-facebook-cocaine/"},"headline":"Virginia Police Take to Facebook to Find Rightful Owner of Lost Cocaine","datePublished":"2015-02-20T20:20:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:04:28.363Z","description":"No one has come forward to stake their claim to the narcotics yet","url":"https://time.com/3717144/police-facebook-cocaine/","keywords":["Tech","Social Media","Crime","facebook"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt528cd5bfc0c84b86/69877ea1524fc077b8dec6b4/facebook-threatexchange-hackers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daily Dot","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daily-dot/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt528cd5bfc0c84b86/69877ea1524fc077b8dec6b4/facebook-threatexchange-hackers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Facebook ThreatExchange Hackers","caption":"Facebook ThreatExchange Hackers","creditText":"Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3717144/police-facebook-cocaine/","name":"Virginia Police Take to Facebook to Find Rightful Owner of Lost Cocaine"}}]}] ```