2014/11/21

The Times-Picayune November 18, 2014: Postal package containing $90K worth of bath salts leads to Destrehan woman's arrest

An express postal package from China, that was bound for a house in Destrehan, was intercepted by authorities and found to contain an estimated $90,000 worth of the illegal designer drug "Molly," St. Charles Parish authorities reported Tuesday.

According to a Sheriff's Office news release, postal inspectors intercepted the package at the John F. Kennedy International Airport mail branch in New York and found that it contained 1,042 grams of a "brown crystal rock-like substance secreted within a foil pouch."  Test on the substance was positive for the presence of MDPV-bath salts, also known as "Molly" which authorities have said can cause psychotic episodes and have been linked to several deaths. 

Authorities say the package was addressed to a home on Meadows Drive in Destrehan. On Friday (Nov. 14) investigators with the Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Divisions, with help from the U.S. Postal Service and Department of Homeland Security, delivered the package to the house. more