MEMPHIS, Tenn: Three people were arrested this week, accused of sending illegal drugs through the mail.
The crimes were not related, but the Memphis Police Department caught them within days and confiscated pot, meth and prescription drugs.
Officers said Deandre Eubanks got pot, prescription pills and cough syrup shipped to a Binghampton home yesterday.
Police said they also caught Joseph Lee IV, the son of the former MLGW president, picking up a package with 5-pounds of pot at his parent’s East Memphis home Wednesday.
Then on Monday Kelvisha Threlkeld had 177 grams of meth mailed to her Frayser apartment.
Her complex was full of kids.
“Most of the time I’m sending my kids to the mailbox. They love walking to the mailbox, and they love playing around the mailbox ,”said neighbor Dynese Lane.
Drug dealers assume the U.S.P.S., UPS and FedEx are too big and busy to track drugs.
In fact, last summer, the Department of Justice accused UPS and FedEx of not cracking down on illegal internet pharmacies shipping dangerous drugs.
Memphis Police and Shelby County deputies are now both working with postal inspectors to sniff out the drugs.
In 2013 the United States Postal Service found 45,000-pounds of pot, and more than 2,600 arrests were made nationwide.
We asked the MPD if they knew how many packages of illegal drugs officers seized within the last six months.
