Now that's a pothole! Gran finds huge cannabis stash in door of her second-hand van after 15 YEARS
Astonished Melodie Peil uncovered the bricks of pot in the door of her brown 1990 Chevrolet in Alamogordo, New Mexico - but police said it's so old it'll no longer have a kick
Astonished Melodie Peil uncovered the bricks of pot in the door of her brown 1990 Chevrolet in Alamogordo, New Mexico - but police said it's so old it'll no longer have a kick
A baffled gran uncovered 13 pounds of cannabis hidden in her van - more than a decade after she bought it.
Police believe the stash, found in a hole in the door of Melodie Peil's 1990 brown Chevrolet, was put there by the van's previous owner 15 years ago and was so well-hidden it remained undetected until last week.
Innocent Melodie bought the van from a local dealership in 2001 and spent years ferrying her grandchildren to sports matches without being any the wiser.
She passed through at least 10 border checks by police near her home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and none of them noticed either.
It was only uncovered when a family friend took the passenger door apart to repair a broken handle and found the five bricks of drugs.
She immediately called police, who used sniffer dogs to check there wasn't anything else hidden inside the car.
The huge stash would normally be worth £2,200, but police said it is so old it has lost all its potency and will no longer be any use to anyone.
It doesn't even smell like cannabis, they added.
Melodie told the Alamogordo News: "My jaw dropped when I saw that... That's all in that one door? Man!"
She added: "I was just glad we found it and not Border Patrol. Can you imagine if I got busted for that? My poor kids."
Alamogordo Police Sergeant David McColley said the packaged bricks had probably been in the vehicle for at least 15 years - and it's common practice for drug dealers so close to the border with Mexico.
"Any open area in the vehicle, they hide it in there," he told the newspaper.
US officials waging a war on drugs seized nearly 2 million pounds of cannabis on the border with Mexico in 2011 - along with 72,000 pounds of cocaine and 1,400 pounds of heroin.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/now-thats-pothole-gran-finds-5075665 31/01/2015
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