Interesting story of FEDEX drug seizure.

[El Presidente]

It is amazing what some people will send through the mail

FedEx flubs; police deliver

Undercover officers arrest suspect using shipment of pot sent to wrong address

By Gus G. Sentementes and Annie Linskey | Sun reporters

July 5, 2008

When it absolutely, positively had to get there, someone in Florida used FedEx to ship marijuana to addresses in the Baltimore area. But the shipping company botched one of the deliveries, triggering an undercover operation that led to the arrest of a city man and the seizure of 600 pounds of the drug, police said yesterday.

Police were tipped off when four boxes were mistakenly delivered Tuesday to a Northeast Baltimore resident who opened one and discovered a "large shrink wrapped bundle of a green plant material," charging documents say. City officers and Maryland State Police troopers posed as FedEx employees the next day to snare the intended recipient of the 200-pound shipment.

A search yesterday of two addresses connected to the suspect, Richard Gwatidzo of the 4200 block of Diller Ave., yielded eight more FedEx packages containing nearly 400 pounds of marijuana, police said.

Maj. John Hess, a commander in the city Police Department's Violent Crime Impact Division, whose detectives led the investigation, estimated that marijuana sells for about $1,200 a pound on the street.

[craigos]

» It is amazing what some people will send through the mail

»

» FedEx flubs; police deliver

» Undercover officers arrest suspect using shipment of pot sent to wrong

» address

» By Gus G. Sentementes and Annie Linskey | Sun reporters

»

» July 5, 2008

»

» When it absolutely, positively had to get there, someone in Florida used

» FedEx to ship marijuana to addresses in the Baltimore area. But the

» shipping company botched one of the deliveries, triggering an undercover

» operation that led to the arrest of a city man and the seizure of 600

» pounds of the drug, police said yesterday.

»

» Police were tipped off when four boxes were mistakenly delivered Tuesday

» to a Northeast Baltimore resident who opened one and discovered a "large

» shrink wrapped bundle of a green plant material," charging documents say.

» City officers and Maryland State Police troopers posed as FedEx employees

» the next day to snare the intended recipient of the 200-pound shipment.

»

» A search yesterday of two addresses connected to the suspect, Richard

» Gwatidzo of the 4200 block of Diller Ave., yielded eight more FedEx

» packages containing nearly 400 pounds of marijuana, police said.

»

» Maj. John Hess, a commander in the city Police Department's Violent Crime

» Impact Division, whose detectives led the investigation, estimated that

» marijuana sells for about $1,200 a pound on the street.

Dont they know USPS is a far better means :)

[shrink]

You know, if they had taken the bands off of those joints, and reboxed them in Flor de Mindinao boxes, they would have come through fine.

[jdbrown]

that lil guy is a crack up

[mailman]

gonga cookies are way better!;-)

[Jay Hemingway]

they should have built a van out of the weed and had two guys drive it up there. they could stop off at various locations having wacky adventures while dodging the police the entire time!

:-D :-D :-D :-D