Special delivery! Mailman admits delivering more than 220lbs of MARIJUANA along his Baltimore route during the past year
- William McRae is said to have delivered more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of marijuana on Postal Route C-032
- The route extends from Fulton to Poppleton Streets in West Baltimore
- His co-conspirator – Michael Gray – also pleaded guilty on Monday
- McRae could face up to 40 years in prison and is to be sentenced on July 15
- Gray could face up to 20 years and will be sentenced in September
- Packages were addressed to an apartment across from the Hollins Market but none of them made it to the destination
A mailman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana on his mail route after he and a co-conspirator were seen exchanging bags of weed.
William McRae is said to have delivered more than 220 pounds of marijuana on Postal Route C-032 – which extends from Fulton to Poppleton Streets in West Baltimore – during the past year.
His co-conspirator – Michael Gray – also pleaded guilty on Monday, WJZ reports.
Investigators first began looking into McRae after they confiscated three packages containing cannabis in 2017.
William McRae is said to have delivered more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of marijuana on Postal Route C-032 – which extends from Fulton to Poppleton Streets in West Baltimore
Packages were addressed to an apartment across from the Hollins Market but none of them made it to the destination.
McRae was seen passing a package to Gray while on his route in January 2018 on the corner of West Lombard and Mount Streets.
Ten months later, surveillance was then set up at the Franklin Station Post Office and on McRae’s.
Investigators witnessed McRae passing two kilograms of cannabis to Gray.
The two were then arrested.
Packages were addressed to an apartment across from the Hollins Market but none of the cannabis (stock) made it to the destination
McRae could face up to 40 years in prison and is to be sentenced on July 15.
Gray could face up to 20 years and will be sentenced in September.
‘We trust our US postal workers, if you don’t trust anybody else,’ said Don, a Baltimore resident.
The shocked sentiment was common.
McRae was first seen passing a package to Gray while on his route in January 2018 on the corner of West Lombard and Mount Streets
‘I wouldn’t think you jeopardize a job like that. I wouldn’t,’ added another resident, Jimmie Carter.
‘He didn’t drop none at my house and I don’t know why. I mean, c’mon, that’s not right.’
Tony Stevens: ‘I’m just shocked. I mean, that’s– I know the US mail was doing bad, but I didn’t know it was doing that bad.’
Recreational marijuana is not legal in Maryland.