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Court records say the pair were nabbed with 20 pounds of pot.

Police arrested two Allentown men Friday after one allegedly mailed more than 20 pounds of marijuana to the other.

On Wednesday, a United States postal inspector executed a federal search warrant on a mail parcel in Philadelphia addressed to John Hall at 528 Wyoming St. in Allentown. Inside the parcel, the inspector found the marijuana, according to court records.

On Friday, a postal inspector delivered the marijuana, re-packaged in the original parcel, to Hall's Wyoming Street address. No one was home but while the inspector was there, Jonathan Reilly, 25, of 2618 Brentwood Drive, arrived in a black truck with Hall in the passenger seat, court records said. Hall identified himself to the inspector, signed for the package and placed it in the truck bed, records said. According to court records, Reilly mailed the package to Hall.

When Hall got into the truck, Allentown police and federal agents arrested both men.

A subsequent search warrant was served at Reilly's residence and police found a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia including a digital scale, plastic bags and a smoking pipe, according to court documents.

Police charged both men with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and criminal conspiracy with the intent to deliver a controlled substance. District Justice Joan Snyder arraigned both men and set bail at $20,000 each.

Reilly also was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia . Snyder set bail at $500 on those charges.

Hearings on all charges are scheduled for Wednesday at Lehigh County Courthouse.

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PotShot

I wonder what inspired the inspector to obtain a warrent? Was the parcel smelly? Do they have dogs running around the post office?

Or maybe he was worried about mail bombs. *shrug*

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Buzzby

I have obtained information from a highly reliable source inside the United States Postal Service that it does not use detection dogs as a part of its normal operations. So many millions of parcels and billions of letters pass through the system every day that the cost would be prohibitive.

When parcels containing contraband are intercepted it is usually because the postal service has received a tip from law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for such a package. When they find it the sniffers are brought in to confirm the contents and justify the issue of a warrant.

Beyond that, there is a set of criteria they use to identify "suspicious packages". Such packages are pulled from the system for further investigation.

Considering how often packages are lost or damaged, I would never consider putting an uninsured package worth thousands of dollars through the mails.

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