Back in January of 1985, Jerry Garcia was arrested on drug possession charges in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. According to an arrest report obtained by the blog Jerry Garcia’s Middle Finger, police at Richmond Station confiscated a number of items, including a brown briefcase full of papers.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, famed Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter alleged that those papers contained a number of songs that he and Garcia had been working on at the time, saying:

The time Jerry got busted in Golden Gate Park, they took his briefcase. I haven’t gone searching for it, but I happen to know that briefcase had a number of new songs he was working on. And if the police still have them, I’d like them back, please. It doesn’t seem right. A lot of those songs disappeared.

Now, the Examiner is speculating that San Francisco Police may still have the briefcase and its lyrical contents. According to the publication, Grace Gatpandan, a spokesman for the department, was unable to confirm if the police still had the items. However, she did note that, “They purge stuff. I don’t know if they still have it…They actually could have it. For some reason they could have kept it.”

Trixie Garcia—Jerry’s daughter—also told Examiner that she has “very little faith” that the police still have the lyrics, though she added, “There is much more lost music out there.”