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Six Pounds of Marijuana Intercepted on the way to Grandma?s House

By Baker Associates

One of the first rules of shipping illegal drugs would probably be to make sure the package is not suspicious. Thus, it is probably a good idea to use generic named and make the package as nondescript as possible. This strategy is one that can backfire, however, if the names are too generic. As an example of how a sound strategy can go wrong, we need only look to a recent seizure of six pounds of marijuana that was packaged in a box sent by ?Grandpa Henderson? from San Diego to ?Grandma Henderson? in Talladega. Postal workers immediately suspected the package due to the super-generic labeling and contacted a task force who brought a K-9 over to sniff the package. The dog alerted to the package, so the task force waited to see who came to pick it up...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on July 30, 2010 (boomark / email).