Man challenges Federal Express in marijuana case
Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 1:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
BROWNSVILLE – A lawsuit alleging Federal Express Corp. employees knowingly loaded 800 pounds of marijuana onto a truck may be moved to federal court in Brownsville.
A Nueces County man’s lawsuit against the company could be moved to federal court if plaintiff Reynaldo Garza does not contest the action, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
Garza alleges that while he was working as a driver for a company contracted by Federal Express, employees of Federal Express loaded 800 pounds of marijuana into the cargo area of his truck even though they smelled the odor of the illicit drug coming from the boxes.
The loading of the truck occurred in June 2007 at the Harlingen airport, said Garza’s Corpus Christi attorney, Robert Zamora.
Narcotics detector dogs sniffed out the load of drugs when Garza reached the U.S. Border Patrol’s Sarita checkpoint, Zamora said. Garza was arrested and charged with drug offenses.
Zamora said his client simply thought he was delivering boxes.
So many questions:
How does Garza know the eight hundred pounds of marijuana were so easy to smell unless he smelled it himself?
How are Federal Express employees expected to know what a box of marijuana smells like? Is this part of orientation training?
Who in the world is shipping 800 lbs. of marijuana via FedEx? And was it really 800 lbs., or was that what was left after the FedEx employees loaded it into the truck and kept some for themselves?
How does one get a job loading trucks for Federal Express?
Brian Kerr says:
July 6, 2009 at 6:08 pm
“…He was over his limit because the police weighed his medicine in the sealer jars. His grow was over his plant limit too. But weighing his weed in the jars is just bullshit.
Why don’t the cops just do their jobs and stop being jerks too.”
RE:
Because there’s nothing EFFECTIVE
stopping / preventing them
from being dishonest / corrupt…
- There should be severe penalties against
LEO’s who inflate the numbers this way…
Is there anything in WRITTEN law..?
- The weight of container(s),
weight of UN-usable parts of cannabis,
SHOULD be DIS-ALLOWED as evidence.
- If there isn’t an enforceable-law
against this corrupt-cop practice,
there sure needs to be!
Probably 800 lbs includes boxes and skids and the truck. Ok maybe not the truck.
I was talking to a Canadian medicinal exempt who had his grow busted. He was over his limit because the police weighed his medicine in the sealer jars. His grow was over his plant limit too. But weighing his weed in the jars is just bullshit. Why don’t the cops just do their jobs and stop being jerks too.