Crime & Safety
Area Man Receives Suspicious Package Containing Amphetamines
Package included a note that said "Love You."
Unexpected packages in the mail can be exciting — or alarming, as one Gardiner Avenue man found out recently.
On April 15, police said the man came to police headquarters to report that he got a suspicious package that day.
The man said he and his wife met the mail carrier as he was delivering mail and they got a bubble-wrapped envelope that needed additional postage of $1.34.
The man said he paid the postage but didn't recognize the name on the envelope, which was addressed to a woman in Richmond, Va. The local family's address was written as the return address.
Inside the package was a box of Orbit gum with two orange pills wrapped in cellophane. Also included was a note card with "Love You" written on it, police said.
The pills were identified as amphetamine and dextroamphetamine.
Police are investigating.
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