Large quantities of drugs were found inside merchandise from at least two Home Depot stores in Massachusetts, and authorities are investigating, police said Wednesday.
A contractor late last week discovered two 50-pound “bricks” of marijuana wrapped in plastic bags inside a bathroom vanity he had purchased at a Home Depot store in Tewksbury, said Chief of Detectives Lt. Dennis Peterson.
A plumber purchased a vanity in western Massachusetts on Monday in which he later found 3 kilograms of cocaine and around 40 pounds of marijuana, with a total estimated street value of $250,000, according to the Southwick Police Department.
Southwick Police Lt. David A. Ricardi said the item was purchased at “a local hardware store” but would not confirm it came from The Home Depot.
According to Peterson, a third individual discovered large quantities of illegal drugs inside Home Depot merchandise.
In each incident being investigated by Tewksbury Police, all of the merchandise boxes originated from a Texas location and were distributed through one Massachusetts warehouse, Peterson said.
“I’m sure the packages were being shipped to the distribution center and someone was supposed to intercept them,” Peterson said. “So that person [who was supposed to intercept the packages] either wasn’t on duty that day or the packages were marked wrong.”
The Southwick and Tewksbury Police Departments both said The Home Depot was cooperating fully with their investigations, and no one employed by the company is a suspect at this time.
Now, I have nothing to say about this; but, I’ll bet a lot of you can figure out what I’m thinking.
Just had an article in the paper here [Oregon] about meth being found in a tube of caulking…
A great marketing ploy by Home Depot.Buy a deck and get a bale of weed.I wonder how many people didn’t say anything when they opened their “Vanity”.
Hmm, shopping at Home Depot just became more interesting.
Time to go shopping….
J/P=?
Hey, I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Last year I was working for an european bank, when we (employees) found that one of the branches was caught on a scandal for keeping thousands of ecstasy pills inside the bank´s main safe! The police couldn´t find the responsible for that. Maybe drug users are the ones…
Weird?
Everyone in town that bought a sink will get a police visit now. And I thought paying $500 for a illegal 5 gal flush Canadian toilet was a big racket. Obviously sinks are the way to go. Poor schmuck that let this shipment get pass probably already sleeps with the fishes.
Dan — got me!
I wonder how Lowes will counter act this?
randomly dropping 40 lbs of herb into packages at home depot sounds like the most awesome sweepstakes ever…
if 3 or 4 people turned it all in….then the law of averages say that 12 didn’t mention their fully stocked vanity to anyone.
Being a law abiding citizen, I would have turned in the coke…..but I might have kept the pot….why give it to the cops for their next *police picnic*
Yeah, drugs are bad. You shouldn’t do drugs. Mmmkay.
I wouldn’t mind shopping at Home Depot if I could borrow a pot-sniffing dog for an afternoon.
“Come on, boy. Help daddy pick out a vanity.” 😉
I’d rather have the cash, not the drugs. Maybe the cash is at Lowe’s?
Damn, the advertising industry had it all wrong; thinking sex sells?