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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOhio Man Orders Gun Safe Online, Finds $425,000 Worth Of Marijuana Inside
Ohio man ordered a gun safe online, which he naturally expected to be empty, but upon receiving the item he found inside $425,000 worth of tightly wrapped marijuana bricks.
The gun safe was manufactured by Champion Safe Co. in Noagles, Mexico, and was packaged by local inmates and shipped north.
Shelby County Sheriff John L. Lenhart said:
Someplace between Mexico and the warehouse in Northern Ohio, the drugs got mixed up and put in the wrong safe and got delivered to the wrong person."
Lenhart also noted:
Ive been in law enforcement for 47 years and Ive never seen anything like this. Its quite effective if you think about it: wrapped airtight to withstand high temperatures. Drug-sniffing dogs probably couldnt smell it.
Champion Safe Co. hired Conway Inc. to move about 25 to 30 gun safes to a warehouse in Ohio for local distribution. Police are hoping to question a Conway driver, but have not been able to find the driver yet. Lenhart added:
Not only are we looking for him, but the bad guys are, too.
The Drug Enforcement Agency's interest has been attracted by this case because evidence suggests that that is may not be the first time that sealed gun safes have been used to smuggle drugs.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/21171
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)$425k of Mexico's finest (lol) packed into a gun safe means that gun safe is the approximate size of a grain silo
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)ConcernedCanuk
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so that would only be 100 pounds worth.
Depends what kind of weed it was, and where it's getting sold.
Interesting site/link here
http://www.narcoticnews.com/Marijuana-Prices-in-the-U.S.A.php
PRICE PER POUND OF MARIJUANA
All prices are for Commercial Grade marijuana, unless otherwise noted
ALABAMA
Birmingham $700 - $1,000
Mobile $800 - $1,200
Montgomery $800 - $1,300
ALASKA
Anchorage $2,500 - $4,000 (Sinsemilla
/snip/
WASHINGTON
Seattle $500 - $800
$2,000 - $4,800 (High Grade)
Spokane $600 - $875
$3,000 - $5,000 (High Grade)
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MUCH more at the link http://www.narcoticnews.com/Marijuana-Prices-in-the-U.S.A.php
yep, covers it all state by state.
CC
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)as they have already lost their minds.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)Guy missed his chance.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Once they figured out who had it. It would have just been a matter of time before they figured it out.
He probably saved his own life just turning it over to the authorities by being honest about it.
I certainly wouldn't want to find out who it belonged to if I were him.
Yavin4
(35,354 posts)You either turn it in or you run like hell, but if you run, you leave your loved ones in danger.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)I mean 9 bricks of marijuana!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'd like to order, um yes, one of your finest safes. I do prefer BC safes over low quality Mexican ones.
olddots
(10,237 posts)that would like really suck man .