A Louisiana resident woke up Tuesday morning to find a package containing thousands of dollars worth of weed delivered to his front door.
The Uptown, New Orleans man has no idea who sent the package with $40,000 worth of marijuana that arrived at around 10 a.m., the Uptown Messenger reported.
"It was all taped up like Fort Knox," the man told the newspaper, who did not report his name. "It's definitely got my family very concerned."
The mystery began when the man's dog began barking at the front door. The owner opened it to find a postal worker walking away and the 8-pound box on his porch. He called the New Orleans Police Department when he found out what was inside.
Detectives from the major-case narcotics unit said the box- sent from Washington with the man's name misspelled on the label- contained about eight separate packages of high quality marijuana, the Uptown Messenger reported.
Whoever sent the package meant for it to arrive at Uptown man's home. The label indicated it was sent to that specific address by overnight delivery.
"I assume they did that because they thought I wouldn't be here," the resident told the newspaper.
According to the website PriceofWeed.com, an ounce of high quality weed can go for $300, which places the man's package at around $40,000, according to the Uptown Messenger.
The incident is now being investigated by the United States Postal Inspector, a federal agency that handles illegal packages, a NOPD spokeswoman told the newspaper.
Stephanie Harden, a postal inspector, said that drugs are commonly sent to homes if the sender knows the owner won't be home during the day. That way the sender can recover the bundle before the owner comes home, she told the newspaper.
It's even more common for people to send drugs to unoccupied homes.
"They'll ship to homes that are for sale, if they know residents have moved out- anything that can detach them," Harden told the newspaper.
Even the return address is often a diversion.
"The residents at that address probably have no idea their address is on the package," Harden said.
