Police investigating 10 pound bag of pot found at Kmart

BY Ursula Reutin  on January 31, 2013 @ 10:00 am (Updated: 10:14 am - 1/31/13 )

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A Kmart employee alerted authorities after finding a 10 pound bag of pot in the stock room. (AP Photo/file) | Zoom
It was a different kind of Blue Light special at the north Seattle Kmart. An employee called police Monday after finding something unusual in the stock room.

Seattle Police Detective Renee Witt says it was a package filled with 10 pounds of weed. The marijuana was wrapped in garbage bags, packing peanuts, and pages of a Korean newspaper that were soaked in cleaning fluid.

Witt says the package was shipped from Los Angeles and was supposed to go to an address in Philadelphia but never made it. For some reason, the return label listed the Seattle Kmart on Aurora Avenue.

Witt says they're happy the Kmart employee reported the find.

"That's an honest employee," says Witt. "Hopefully we can figure out who sent it and where it was going to."

Police have placed the pot into evidence and are investigating.

Ursula Reutin, KIRO Radio Reporter
Ursula Reutin is the news anchor for The Dori Monson Show and has worked nearly every position in the KIRO Radio newsroom since her arrival in 1988.
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    How does one "investigate" a 10lb bag of pot?
    January 31, 2013 9:26 am
    Sniff, Sniff

    Yep! It smells like Mary Juana.

    Lick, Lick

    Yep! it tastes like Mary Juana.

    Just one more test to run to verify the contents.

    So; who brought the lighter...

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  • mnpat wrote...
    soo purletiv
    January 31, 2013 11:40 am
    lol
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  • R L M 456 wrote...
    pages of a Korean newspaper that were soaked in cleaning fluid.
    January 31, 2013 4:00 pm
    That is the reason it was turned in

    not smokable

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