The drug dealers knew where they sent the package. It was a deliberate attempt to get around package interdiction programs run by law enforcement. Law enforcement will run dogs through Fed Ex, USPS and UPS shipping hubs and will pull packages that fit various profiles. Those packages are then put under the dog’s nose, and if there is an alert, they get a search warrant for the package. If narcotics are found, then a transmitter triggered by opening the package is enclosed, and the package resealed. The package is then delivered in a “controlled delivery” by law enforcement officers, who are in possession of an “anticipatory search warrant” that allows them to make entry if the transmitter indicates the package is opened.
In this case, the drug traffickers were trying to defeat that process with several layers of protection, the first being all the scented candles, potpourri and the like. If there was a “controlled delivery” by law enforcement, it would be on the home of this poor innocent woman, not the intended recipient. The idea was that the drug traffickers would be at the home waiting for the delivery, and if there were no unmarked police vans around, they would go get the package with some veiled threats involved.
This woman is lucky she didn’t get a visit by the SWAT team.
This woman is lucky she didn’t get a visit by the SWAT team.Who would have shot her dogs and tied up and terrorized her elderly mother. This happened in Maryland to the mayor of one of our towns, whose front step was used in this way for a drug drop. The family were completely traumatized. And, of course, the taxpayer paid the damages.
"The deputies opened fire and executed our dogs the very second they broke down our front door," Calvo, 37, said at a news conference on his front lawn Thursday. "We were harmed by the very people who took an oath to protect us."
