The flying marijuana bundle, estimated by law enforcement officers to be worth around $10,000 (nearly €9,000), fell from the sky on September 8, early in the morning. But when they investigated later in the morning, what they found shocked them: a 24-pound bundle of marijuana – likely dropped from a passing plane – had crashed through the roof of the family’s garage and destroyed the family dog’s, Hulk’s, doghouse.
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With Nogales being a border town that’s split between the USA and Mexico, authorities told the Donnelly’s the drugs most likely fell from a small plane or UAV attempting to smuggle them into the States, according to Headline and Global News.
The family’s German shepherd, Hulk, was not in his plastic pet crate at the time.
How did a 26 pound marijuana bundle end up on one Arizona family home?
Suspecting the package contained drugs, Donnelly immediately called the cops. “It just made a perfectly round hole through our carport”, said Donnelly.
But after waking up again, she discovered a hole in the family’s carport and several pieces of wood from the structure lying on the ground.
The Nogales police, who responded to the marijuana drop, told the mystified husband-and-wife that an ultralight aircraft trafficking marijuana from south of the border had probably gone sideways, accidentally dumping its load early.
Nogales Police Chief Derek Arnson said it’s the first time in his three-year tenure that he’s ever seen a load of drugs hit a building. “Who knows what the outcome of that mistake might be for them”.
“Ultralights, we’ve seen those on occasion. They come at nighttime and they don’t land, they just drop and go back to Mexico”, Arnson added.
‘That’s what everybody says: “Why did you call 911?”
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Donnelly does say her friends keep asking why she didn’t simply hold onto the drugs, but she needed to keep “a clear conscience”. “I understand there are drones of different sizes and capacities”, he said, ” but no one witnessed the aircraft, and given our experience at the border we’re assuming this is an ultralight, manned aircraft used for short-distance traveling”. We could have made lots of home repairs with that’.
