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Woman expecting yoga mat, gets $400,000 in illegal drugs in mail instead
WSOC TV ^ | 10/2/2017 | Greg Suskin

Posted on 10/03/2017 4:52:28 AM PDT by simpson96

ROCK HILL, S.C. - A Rock Hill woman walked up to meet her mail carrier thinking the yoga mat she ordered from Walmart had arrived.

Instead, the postal worker handed her a heavy box, and a bag of pills, that had spilled from it. In all, there were more than 20,000 oxycodone pills, worth roughly $400,000.

The woman who received the package lives in a neighborhood off Ebinport Road. She didn't want to go on camera, but told Channel 9 there were so many pills, they were spilling from the packaging.

She immediately called police.

York County drug agents gave Channel 9 photos of the drugs, and the box they came in, shipped from Newport Beach, California.

Drug unit commander Marvin Brown said drugs are often shipped to empty homes where someone is sitting and waiting for the package to arrive.

"Vacant apartments, homes where people have gone to work for the day," Brown said.

Brown said it is likely the package was supposed to be sent to the woman's former address at a condo near Dave Lyle Boulevard. It's now vacant and someone was probably using that address as a drop point.

However, the street was misspelled on the package, the post office caught the mistake, and forwarded the package to the woman's current address.

"The dealers weren't as intelligent as they thought they were," Brown said.(snip)

Brown said his team will try to trace the package and also see if they can find out where it was headed, and who was supposed to receive it.

The pills have all been taken into evidence by Rock Hill police. Officers said they are likely counterfeit oxycodone pressed from powder into pills in Mexico.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsoctv.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: drugabuse; opioid; opioidepidemic; oxycodone; warondrugs

1 posted on 10/03/2017 4:52:28 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Hey man, whatever your path to enlightenment.

Who am I to judge; Isn’t yoga satanic or something?


2 posted on 10/03/2017 4:56:17 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Yoga, is OK. What is not OK, is fat women wearing yoga pants.


3 posted on 10/03/2017 5:07:04 AM PDT by ThinkingBuddha
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To: simpson96

The Feds will arrest and prosecute her anyway.


4 posted on 10/03/2017 5:15:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wouldn’t doubt it.


5 posted on 10/03/2017 5:39:31 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert

And shoot her dogs.


6 posted on 10/03/2017 5:42:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: simpson96

Everybody’s got a few aches and pains. But, she probably didn’t divert a few pills for herself because... there was no packing slip!


7 posted on 10/03/2017 6:01:16 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: simpson96
Brown said his team will try to trace the package and also see if they can find out where it was headed, and who was supposed to receive it.

Maybe the order of tracing the package and making a lot of noise about tracing the package should have been reversed.

8 posted on 10/03/2017 6:15:27 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Or...because it’s not safe! Home-made and other clandestine operation pills can be marked and colored to resemble known medications, but contain very potent other drugs, and in uncontrolled amounts and purities, instead of or in addition to the marked drug. This is one reason the current overdose epidemic is hitting the country’s ER’s and morgues. People think or are told they are buying Methadone or Oxycodone but instead are getting Fentanyl analogs, some of which are hundreds or thousands of times more potent than Morphine.


9 posted on 10/03/2017 6:18:37 AM PDT by Notthemomma
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They have to shoot her dog first


10 posted on 10/03/2017 6:24:21 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: ThinkingBuddha

I have a book entitle “What Would Buddha Do?” It applies Buddhism to everyday scenarios, and was of great help in understanding myself.

I think Buddha would oppose yoga pants on fatties.


11 posted on 10/03/2017 7:04:55 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she’s not really ill
There’s a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day


12 posted on 10/03/2017 7:28:28 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Notthemomma

Like I said, “no packing slip.” Meaning, who could possibly know what the contents were?


13 posted on 10/03/2017 8:33:05 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: jiggyboy

Yeah, they ought to solve the case first. Now someone has probably fled the country or been killed by a cartel.


14 posted on 10/03/2017 8:53:52 AM PDT by Enchante ( I lost my tagline, has anyone found it???)
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To: ThinkingBuddha

15 posted on 10/03/2017 10:52:46 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: simpson96
seems that many pills would had to have been stolen from the mfg
16 posted on 10/03/2017 6:11:28 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Notthemomma

As I was saying.....

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/us/drug-overdose-medical-examiner.html


17 posted on 10/07/2017 7:48:52 PM PDT by Notthemomma
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