Police in Seattle, Wash. are still investigating how and why a 10-pound package of marijuana was delivered to a Kmart store via UPS on Monday afternoon.
When a Kmart employee opened the box, they found the weed wrapped in garbage bags covered with packing peanuts and pages from a Korean newspaper soaked with cleaning fluid. The employee reported the box and the store called 911.
According to the police department spokesman, Jonah Spagenthal-Le, "Delivery information on the package indicates it was originally shipped from Los Angeles to a Philadelphia address, but never made it to its intended destination in Philly," he told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "Whoever sent the package listed the address of the Seattle Kmart on the return label, for some reason."
The package has been placed into evidence by police.
A UPS spokesman did not confirm that the package was sent by their company on Thursday afternoon, stating that they had not been contacted by Seattle police.
The Kmart store has been located in North Seattle at 13200 Aurora Ave. N. since the 1970s.
In November, pot was legalized in the state of Washington through a voter-approved initiative that allows anyone 21 years old and older to legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana, 16 ounces of "solid marijuana-infused product" like pot brownies, cookies, etc., or 72 ounces of "marijuana-infused liquid." However, a 10-pound stash of marijuana is prohibited.
Washington's Liquor Control Board is working on implementing rules to use recreational marijuana law by the Dec. 1 deadline.
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