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Cops Make Major Drug Bust When FedEx Delivers Pot Package to Wrong Address

by PEP | July 5, 2008 at 07:58 am | 764 views | 2 comments

And here I thought that Big Brown and FedEx trucks mostly brought goodies from shopping or expedited business materials. But one drug pusher decided that his business would do best by FedEx--which luckily then took a shipment to the wrong address.

When it absolutely, positively had to get there, someone in Florida used Fed-Ex 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.

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René

at 10:14 on July 5th, 2008

good stuff:

Oh, too bad. Really stupid to trust Fed-Ex. UPS makes major delivery mistakes too.

PEP

at 13:24 on July 5th, 2008

Kinda like the druggie recently who stopped a cop with a complaint--he thought he'd been cheated on his last drug buy and asked the cop to check out his buy and tell him if it was the real deal or not. It was, he went to jail.

Given that they now have to have a task force for drugs in the mail/package delivery firms, it probably won't be too long before our mail will be run through x-ray or other type scanners. And then people will yell about privacy--and no doubt, also go back to a) wanting to de-crim drugs b)agitating to get more criminals out of jail faster.

People don't get that the by-product of all criminal activity, from terrorists and bombs to the local drug punks, is more means employed to defeat them. And those means have to affect the entire community.

Thanks for the read and the flag.