A woman in New Mexico got the shock of her life when police discovered 13.5 pounds of pot that was hidden in a used van that she bought about 10 years ago.
The woman had bought the van from a used car dealer and had been driving it around for years before the cache of pot was discovered.
“Low and behold, we discovered something that didn’t belong there,” said Peil.
Tucked away in the passenger side door of the family-friend van was 13.5 pounds of pot.
“It was pretty shocking,” she said.
Peil said she was having a hard time getting the door to lock, so a friend pried open the panel to fix it. That’s when bricks of decade-old marijuana fell out.
Police say the drugs were likely stashed there by the van’s previous owner, more than 13 years ago.
“It was packaged typically how the drug traffickers package marijuana. You know, they wrap it in foil, they wrapped it in saran wrap real tightly,” said Alamogordo Detective Lieutenant Roger Schoolcraft.
She is lucky the cops didn’t use the pot as an excuse to invoke the drug forfeiture laws and steal her car and all her money and property as so many outlaw cops are doing these days.