In Georgia, women bought a box of Lego pieces and found about $ 40,000 worth of methamphetamine.

Three women from the state of Georgia, United States, they thought they had bought a Lego vegetable box at a great price during an auction at a post office during a trip that they did in Charleston, South Carolina, but they found a surprise: a pack of drugs.

The minor was the one who discovered, by opening the box, that did not contain Legos, but drug: about 1.4 kg of methamphetamine with a market value of about 40 000 dollars.

Women, without knowing it, They had committed several possible crimes: first by buying the drug, then pbading it from one state to another, and then handing the package to a child..

In discovering the situation, theThe women delivered the drug to the local sheriff's office and warned the agents of the Drug Control Administration. (the DEA, for his acronyms in English).

Bulloch County righal, to which the Statesboro community belongs, Jim Riggs, badured the local media that the boy to whom the package was given was disappointed, but the real recipient "would certainly be more frustrated".

Sheriff's Office considered that the intention of the sender was to intentionally send the package by post with the contraband drug, with the address of a false or abandoned house, and that someone would have picked up or returned to the post office.

However, United States Postal Service does not generally leave abandoned packages: Give them to a neighbor or get them back to return the package to the sender.

The postal service, when accumulates a respectable amount of abandoned packages, usually auctions to sell to people who want to pay money for packages without really knowing their content, as happened with the ladies who joined the Legos.

South Carolina es the second state with the largest number of clandestine methamphetamine laboratories in 2016according to the US government and the DEA, who perform an annual badysis of these cases.

Methamphetamine, whatever its presentation, is one of the most addictive and harmful drugs. In 2017, 30% of government agencies consulted by the US government said methamphetamine was the main drug problem..

According to the New York Times, about 6,000 Americans died of stimulants, including methamphetamine, in 2015. "This is one of the biggest threats in South Carolina today," a DEA official told a local newspaper..