Someone shipped a box of marijuana from a California school to Carver High School in southeast Atlanta, police said.
The package arrived via U.S. Postal Service around lunchtime Monday in the school registrar’s office.
One school employee opened the package and found it contained two pounds and 10 ounces of marijuana, Atlanta police Officer K. Barnes said in a police narrative.
The marijuana had a faint odor inside the USPS box, but it “quickly became strong as I removed the two individually packaged bundles,” Barnes said in the narrative. It was doubled wrapped inside vacuum sealed shrink bags.
School officials couldn’t find the intended recipient’s name in the Atlanta Public Schools database, and the address on the package was unclear, police said.
But officers did locate a tracking number for the package and found it had traveled through Merced and West Sacramento, Calif.; and Opa-locka, Pompano Beach and Tampa, Fla. before being delivered to Carter High’s registrar’s office at 11:44 a.m. Monday.
The marijuana was given to the Atlanta Police Department’s narcotics unit.
