A South Carolina woman who ordered a yoga mat online and received around $400,000 worth of illegal drugs instead has alerted authorities.
Choosing to stay anonymous, the woman – from Rock Hill, South Carolina – was expecting her package on Sunday but was given a box stuffed with oxycodone pills.
She asserts that there were so many that the pills were overflowing out of the bag they were shipped in.
A woman from Rock Hill, South Carolina, was surprised when she received $400,000 oxycodone pills in the mail instead of the yoga mat she ordered
After she opened the shipment, the woman alerted local police asserting that it was unknown to her who would use her personal information.
Police seized the drugs and alerted the York County Multijurisdictional Drug Enforcement Unit, who opened an investigation of their own.
Instead of the yoga mat she paid for, the package contained two bags contained approximately 10,000 pills each at a price of $20 a pill
Inside the package, the two bags contained approximately 10,000 pills each at a price of $20 a pill.
According to drug unit commander Marvin Brown, drugs are often shipped to vacant homes where someone waits for the package to arrive.
‘Vacant apartments, homes where people have gone to work for the day, Brown told WSOC-TV.
He continued by saying that the package may have been meant to be sent to the woman’s former address at a empty condo in the area.
But the address was misspelled on the package and the post office sent the package to the woman’s current address.
Brown added: ‘The dealers weren’t as intelligent as they thought they were.’
According to drug unit commander Marvin Brown, drugs are often shipped to vacant homes where someone waits for the package to arrive
The package is said to have originated from Newport Beach, California but investigators are unsure where they came from.
They believe that they are probably counterfeit and could have come from Mexico.
Oxycodone is sold as Oxycontin in the United States.
It is a pain-killer commonly abused and illegal obtained by opioid addicts