Posted on 04/07/2006 9:51:37 PM PDT by MassRepublicanFlyersFan
LOWELL -- Santana Baez and Luis Carmona didn't want to keep any illegal drugs in their apartment in case it got raided, police said.
So they put their stash inside their mailbox at 11 Allen St., Unit 302, in the city's Belvidere neighborhood, apparently forgetting the postal carrier comes on Monday, said Police Sgt. James Trudel.
According to police, the carrier thought the boxes were outgoing mail but then found heroin in one and cocaine in the other.
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There's a reason they call these people dopers.
Close the d*** borders.
Dumb and Dumber, illegal alien drug dealers. Great.
Peculiar. Why did the letter carrier look in the boxes? And if they're the sort of boxes checks are mailed in, what evidence do the police have they weren't slipped into the mailbox by someone else? I'm not saying the story isn't true, but if it is then it looks like a legally weak case.
Well, maybe there are fingerprints.
Eventually, maybe, depending on the outcome of pending legislation coming from Washington, and if it's decided Carmona came here to do jobs Americans don't want to do. Maybe. Eventually.
You can't make a drug war omelette without breaking constitutional eggs.
Santana Baez?
Bet he can play Evil Ways with a folk guitar!
All sorts of things end up in such boxes ~ snakes, bombs, dirt, garbage, and, sometimes, lo and behold, mail!
That's why carriers would look into the box ~ it's their job ~ and, given the design they can't help it.
It would be difficult for someone else to store their stash in your box, so next time, don't do that!
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