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Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside
#18720959 - 08/17/13 10:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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An Ohio man expected the gun safe he ordered online to be empty, police said. But instead, he found $425,000-worth of tightly wrapped marijuana bricks inside. "I've been in law enforcement for 47 years and I've never seen anything like this," Shelby County, Ohio, Sheriff John L. Lenhart said. "It's quite effective if you think about it: wrapped airtight to withstand high temperatures. Drug-sniffing dogs probably couldn't smell it."
It turned out the gun safes were manufactured by Champion Safe Co. in Nogales, Mexico, packaged by local inmates and shipped north, police said. "Someplace between Mexico and the warehouse in Northern Ohio, the drugs got mixed up and put in the wrong safe and got delivered to the wrong person," Lenhart said. Police hope to question a driver for Conway Inc., the truck company they said Champion hired to move the 25 to 30 gun safes to a warehouse in Ohio for local distribution. But they have not been able to find the driver, officials said. "Not only are we looking for him," Lenhart said, "but the bad guys are, too." That could be a problem for whoever screwed up the shipment, police said, but not for the anonymous northern Ohio man who, in early June, found 10 bales of pot tightly bound inside the safe he had ordered for $1,700. Police believe the man who got the 1,000-pound, 6-foot-tall safe had nothing to do with the drug shipment and was only expecting to find an empty space where he could store 24 long rifles and a dozen shotguns. The shipping method has drawn the interest of the DEA because evidence suggests that this may not be the first time sealed gun safes have been used as smuggling portals, police said. "You just spent $1,700 to get marijuana delivered wherever you want," said Shelby County Chief Deputy Jim Frye. "That's pretty cheap." Police will keep the case open for an extended period of time, focusing on notifying jurisdictions that could have a hand in solving the case. ABC News reached out to Champion Safe Co. and Conway Inc. for comment, but received no response.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: cops] 5
#18721051 - 08/17/13 10:59 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Funny how our society is, no problem with 36 high powered guns that have potential to do great harm, but but a bunch of shitty brick weed and ever one is all up and arms.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: AbstraKt_I_Am]
#18721099 - 08/17/13 11:11 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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AbstraKt_I_Am said: Funny how our society is, no problem with 36 high powered guns that have potential to do great harm, but but a bunch of shitty brick weed and ever one is all up and arms.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: cops]
#18721144 - 08/17/13 11:21 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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300 pounds of brick weed are not worth $425,000. Even if sold by the pound, in the area where this happened, this is about 240,000 dollars worth of weed. If I were this guy, I would have kept it. Free lifetime supply of weed, not very good weed, but weed, none the less. Then you could just augment your stash with dank from time to time and you'd be set!
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: greencrush420]
#18721267 - 08/17/13 11:53 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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greencrush420 said: 300 pounds of brick weed are not worth $425,000. Even if sold by the pound, in the area where this happened, this is about 240,000 dollars worth of weed. If I were this guy, I would have kept it. Free lifetime supply of weed, not very good weed, but weed, none the less. Then you could just augment your stash with dank from time to time and you'd be set!
I'm with you. Who tells the police? I'd be kinda scared it was a sting, but that would be a retarded way to sting people
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: cops] 3
#18721314 - 08/18/13 12:07 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Looka that square
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Repertoire89] 1
#18721377 - 08/18/13 12:26 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Looka that square 
I love thinking about how 'badass' cops would probably freak out if doses with psilocybin
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Psilosopherr]
#18721468 - 08/18/13 01:05 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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id be scared shitless. i mean if i was accidentally the owner of a shit ton of drugs i didnt order id be worried about who is gonna come lookin for it.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Rewindicus]
#18721591 - 08/18/13 02:48 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Rewindicus] 2
#18721641 - 08/18/13 03:33 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Rewindicus said: id be scared shitless. i mean if i was accidentally the owner of a shit ton of drugs i didnt order id be worried about who is gonna come lookin for it. 
Imagine what smoking those 300lbs of pot would do to worsen that paranoia.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: koraks]
#18721651 - 08/18/13 03:41 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Exactly!
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: AbstraKt_I_Am]
#18721905 - 08/18/13 07:26 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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AbstraKt_I_Am said: Funny how our society is, no problem with 36 high powered guns that have potential to do great harm, but but a bunch of shitty brick weed and ever one is all up and arms.
It's brilliant. I lol'ed. Kind of reminds me of listening to the JRE podcast, and he had Duncan Trussell on talking about all kinds of shit, but Duncan made a good point about the war when he mentioned a sniper shooting someone and "making another kid grow up without a father" or something like that. I don't know. It was deep.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: un-known-ome]
#18722249 - 08/18/13 10:23 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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were did he get that safe yo i want two of them shits lol but wait the guy called the cops to tell them he has mad pot wtf i dont think i would tell no one about that shit and just smoke out for days
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: boxx]
#18722287 - 08/18/13 10:33 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Oh the irony.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: cops]
#18722329 - 08/18/13 10:43 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've got to admit, if it happened to me, 50/50 chance I'd go ahead and keep that shit and smoke it. The only thing that would make me not keep it is the fact that it's dirty Mexican weed that has been god knows where and in contact with god knows what.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: nooneman] 1
#18723166 - 08/18/13 02:47 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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You could make awesome hash or brownies out of that even If it was shitty. That's like hitting the ultimate gold mine.
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Repertoire89
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Greengrassmatt93]
#18723185 - 08/18/13 02:52 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Greengrassmatt93 said: You could make awesome hash or brownies out of that even If it was shitty.
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dokunai
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Repertoire89]
#18723466 - 08/18/13 03:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Repertoire89 said:
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Greengrassmatt93 said: You could make awesome hash or brownies out of that even If it was shitty.

That's what I was thinking as well. Time to order some bubble bags.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: dokunai]
#18725522 - 08/19/13 12:02 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Or you could just vape it.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: IoRhinz]
#18730332 - 08/19/13 11:03 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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holy fick i wish i was thatguy
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Does]
#18734863 - 08/20/13 10:46 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'd sell it & get some real bud along with every other drug I desire. & a new house and car. & some bitches.
I'd get my boys who already sell bud, sell them a pound at a time til it's gone. 100% profit.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: D.M.T]
#18735918 - 08/21/13 05:16 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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until some drug lords gunman shows up at your place wanting his weed. Also when you buy a new house and car out of the blue it raises red flags to the police/credit bureaus. And the bitches will evaporate as soon as the drugs and money are gone. Drug/money sluts are overrated.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Rewindicus]
#18736875 - 08/21/13 10:51 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Rewindicus said:
when you buy a new house and car out of the blue it raises red flags to the police/credit bureaus.
That can be covered its a relatively easy process if you know what you're doing
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: Rewindicus]
#18740103 - 08/21/13 10:12 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Rewindicus said: until some drug lords gunman shows up at your place wanting his weed. Also when you buy a new house and car out of the blue it raises red flags to the police/credit bureaus. And the bitches will evaporate as soon as the drugs and money are gone. Drug/money sluts are overrated. 
How would the gunman know I have his bud and where I live? Only the driver would know and he is either hiding or already dead. I would assume he did a lot more deliveries than just those two, so pinpointing wouldn't be easy. With a network of stash locations they wouldn't find the weed even if they did come looking. Mexicans make mistakes like this and lose hundreds of pounds on a daily basis. I don't really think they're that concerned.
You have a point about money laundering. but since 300 lbs wouldn't sell overnight, you probably couldn't make money fast enough to be suspicious since I already have a good-paying job. If it did sell quick, business fronts could always be an option. Among other things.
It's a risk I'd take before I'd smoke that shit, I'll tell you that.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: D.M.T]
#18740211 - 08/21/13 10:47 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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D.M.T said:
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Rewindicus said: until some drug lords gunman shows up at your place wanting his weed. Also when you buy a new house and car out of the blue it raises red flags to the police/credit bureaus. And the bitches will evaporate as soon as the drugs and money are gone. Drug/money sluts are overrated. 
How would the gunman know I have his bud and where I live? Only the driver would know and he is either hiding or already dead. I would assume he did a lot more deliveries than just those two, so pinpointing wouldn't be easy. With a network of stash locations they wouldn't find the weed even if they did come looking. Mexicans make mistakes like this and lose hundreds of pounds on a daily basis. I don't really think they're that concerned.
You have a point about money laundering. but since 300 lbs wouldn't sell overnight, you probably couldn't make money fast enough to be suspicious since I already have a good-paying job. If it did sell quick, business fronts could always be an option. Among other things.
It's a risk I'd take before I'd smoke that shit, I'll tell you that.
It isn't really that much money, just a few hundred thousand, so I doubt it would draw that much attention. Plus, after you sold all of the weed, it isn't like you would keep dealing, so even if they did get suspicious, there would be nothing for them to bust you for. Just get rid of it all before you start spending all of that cash, and there would be no evidence that you had ever sold any weed. They could prove nothing. Maybe you're really lucky at scratch off tickets and you've been saving your winnings for all your life, or maybe you found it laying in the street. It is none of their business unless they can prove that it is drug money.
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Re: Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside [Re: greencrush420]
#18741598 - 08/22/13 10:11 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Idiot!!!! this guy.....wtf? U dont tell the poes! you give it away or keep it. it was a godsend, a gift not a curse. just plain dumbass!
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