A woman in Glendale, California opened an Amazon box she was expecting but was surprised by the contents: numerous bottles of narcotics like oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine, along with an invoice from the Drug Enforcement Administration. From KABC-TV:
“Let me be clear, this package was not sent by DEA and these drugs were never in DEA custody,” said Bill Bodner, special agent in charge in Los Angeles.
Bodner says a pharmacy in New York was disposing the drugs through a Texas pharmaceutical company, a process that needs to be approved by the government, which is why the DEA form was included.But he suspects something went wrong in the delivery end.
“Likely, they used a third-party shipper to ship this package and somehow the shipping labels were switched at this third-party shipper,” Bodner said.