CNN.com - Drug caches found in Home Depot vanities - Jun 14, 2006

A contractor in Massachusetts is saying a vanity he purchased recently at Home Depot, contained two 50-pound bricks of marijuana.

The estimated street value of that quantity of the drug was estimated at $145,000, the CNN story below says.

A plumber in Massachusetts a vanity Monday, and he found 3 kilograms of cocaine and about 40 pounds of marijuana. The police department put the street value of this cache of drugs at $250,000, the CNN article says.

CNN.com:

Large quantities of drugs were found inside merchandise from at least two Home Depot stores in Massachusetts, and authorities are investigating, police said Wednesday.

A contractor late last week discovered two 50-pound "bricks" of marijuana wrapped in plastic bags inside a bathroom vanity he had purchased at a Home Depot store in Tewksbury, said Chief of Detectives Lt. Dennis Peterson.

Maybe the quest for ever higher profits is being taken just too far.

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