FedEx Delivers 200 pounds Of Weed To Wrong Address!
Posted by NextThingJul 5
FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Florida to Baltimore via the shipping company.
Police tell The (Baltimore) Sun they learned about the shipment when it was delivered Tuesday to the wrong resident.
Authorities posed as FedEx employees and arrested the shipment’s intended recipient, 30-year-old Richard Gwatidzo.
Officials say he was charged Thursday with possession of a large quantity of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute along with other drug related charges.
Police say they also seized eight other FedEx boxes with nearly 400 pounds of the drug.
Authorities are trying to determine the sender’s identity
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19 comments
Comment by Cooper Brevard on July 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm
It’s a sad day when the police make an arrest for marijuana use and/or possession.
The War on Drugs: making more civil servants dependent upon the teat of the para-military industrial complex.
Thank you, police robots for keeping us safe from the dope smoking hippies!
Comment by Stephen on July 5, 2008 at 11:19 pm
So could the intended recipient have been charged if he didn’t have his actual weed to distribute already in his house? If yes, then couldn’t everybody be arrested if somebody sent a small amount of marijuana to everybody.
Also, good job fedex.
Comment by Bob on July 6, 2008 at 12:19 am
I for one am shocked and dismayed at the failure of FedEx. I’ll be shipping all of my quasi-illegal substances via UPS or USPS priority for now on!
Also, how many tens of thousands of dollars did the government waste rounding up all of this “dangerous” substance? good grief. I could only see justification in this if the feds were planning on divvying it up and selling it at a profit.
Comment by Jason on July 6, 2008 at 12:52 am
That week looks skunk.
Comment by amy on July 6, 2008 at 1:00 am
definitely schwag. ick.
Comment by James Jones on July 6, 2008 at 4:27 am
Ah must be nice. gosh I hate squares! Why the heck would anyone involve the Police? I sure wouldnt!
http://www.FIreMe.To/udi
Comment by SoLinkable on July 6, 2008 at 6:10 am
Even if they delivered it to the incorrect address - doesn’t the fact that they found out what was in it mean that the person at the wrong address opened it up? Isn’t that an offense?
Comment by j on July 6, 2008 at 7:14 am
so what you’re saying is that as long as it goes to the correct addressee, i can mail tons of pot through fedex. good to know.
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Comment by skizmo on July 6, 2008 at 8:17 am
So .. that’s why I didn’t get payed. .
Comment by Prince Vern on July 6, 2008 at 9:43 am
Pembroke Pines? ^_^; I used to live there a year back, prettttty insane, but not unexpected, its pretty much Miami there @_@; and FedEx sucks~
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Comment by Eliott on July 8, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Its sad that you people get mad at the cops for catching all of this. They are only doing their jobs though its true that the only justice would be to divvy up and sell it to make all the money back that they spent to fix this. And wtf is cooper talking about? para-military industrial complex? Sounds like some punk hippie babble if you don’t like America then leave don’t bring everyone down with you.
Comment by m0nkey on September 2, 2008 at 8:59 am
Actually it is true, the American gov’t is using an increasing number of paramilitary mercenary for hire companies like black water and others to handle the ‘war on drugs’.
Comment by charged? on September 21, 2008 at 9:06 am
How can they charge this guy if the pot never showed up at his house? if he was never in possession of the drug how can he be charged with possession?
And the wrong recipient opened up a package that wasn’t addressed to him, that’s mail fraud!
Comment by Austin on October 9, 2008 at 6:29 pm
How awesome if you just found a package with 200pds of weed on your door step, although i probly wouldnt open it anyway if my address wasnt on it, charged? is right thats illegal
Comment by fdgdgdgdg on December 15, 2008 at 11:34 am
holy fuck if i found 200 pound on my door step i would grab that shit so fast my address or not!!! o and fuck you Cooper Brevard eat shit and die weed is just a plant the police should stop worying about the weed and get the cocain adicts and acid shit that stuff kills man weed dose not weed just makes you happy tired and hungry why is that soo bad dude i mean i jaust a plant!!!!!!
Comment by doobiesllc on December 28, 2009 at 9:49 am
I own a Medical marijuana store in Colorado I have heard and am wondering if its legal to ship weed fed ex for medical reasons?
Comment by doobiesllc on December 28, 2009 at 9:50 am
if so my address is …….. lol