Eight police officers sacked after claiming half a tonne of marijuana which went missing was eaten by MICE

Eight police officers have been sacked after they claimed more than half a tonne of missing marijuana was eaten by mice.

The impounded drugs went missing from a police warehouse in the town of Pilar in Argentina, not far from the capital, Buenos Aires.

The cannabis had been stored in the facility for two years, but a recent inspection found that only 5,460kg of marijuana was in the warehouse out of a registered 6,000kg.

And the missing 540kg of marijuana was blamed on hungry mice.

Former city police commissioner Javier Specia left the inventory for the impounded marijuana unsigned when he left his post last year, the Guardian reported.

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His successor, commissioner Emilio Portero, noticed the missing marijuana and the warehouse was inspected by internal affairs.

Specia and three officers told Judge Adrián González Charvay that the missing drugs were “eaten by mice”.

However, forensic experts told the court that even a large number of mice could not have gone through such a quantity of marijuana.

A spokesperson for the judge said: “Buenos Aires University experts have explained that mice wouldn’t mistake the drug for food, and that if a large group of mice had eaten it, a lot of corpses would have been found in the warehouse.”

The four officers have been called to give evidence before the judge on May 4. He will determine if the marijuana went missing because of “expedience or negligence”.