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.

via Man challenges Federal Express in marijuana case | federal, express, garza – Local News – Valley Morning Star.

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?

A Stony Point man accused of trafficking marijuana through the mail has been arrested a second time, authorities said.

Acting on a warrant, officers searched the Wayne Avenue home of Dennis Dillon, 65, on Wednesday. They reported finding three ounces of marijuana and more than $56,000. He was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana.

Stony Point detectives discovered in November that Dillon was sending weekly FedEx packages to an address in Ohio, using a fake name and return address, police said.

He was charged then with selling marijuana. He pleaded guilty last month to a reduced charge of third-degree criminal possession of marijuana.

Wait a minute.  You live in “Stony Point”, a town of 14,000, and you’ve been busted for mailing weed last year and you decide it’s a good idea to go ahead and use the same courier to commit the same crime just a few months later?  That’s not stupid, that’s masochistic and ironic.  Normally I’d say that if pot were legal, people wouldn’t have to send it to each other by FedEx, but when you’re sending out weekly packages, you’re not “helping a friend in need”, you’re operating an interstate criminal enterprise whose profits are derived from the risk that leads to 872,000 marijuana arrests per year and tens of thousands of marijuana prisoners in jail.  Some people actually have to work for bosses and endure commutes to make $56,000 in a year.