U.S. Postal Inspection Service
🇺🇸 United States · Postal inspection · 4 reports
- People arrested
- 23
- Cannabis seized
- 519.449 kg
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
Six charged with murder over five deaths at illegal cannabis labs
Los Angeles County prosecutors charged six people on 1 August 2025 over five worker deaths at illegal cannabis extraction labs, four killed in a 2023 Irwindale blast and one in a 2024 South El Monte fire. Ted Chien, the alleged owner, faces five murder counts that could carry death or life without parole.
Arrested 6Charged 6Deaths 5449 g of marijuana found in package mailed to Dededo, Guam
U.S. Postal Inspectors searched a package on 14 March 2022 and found about 449 grams of marijuana addressed to a home in Liguan Terrace, Dededo, Guam, shipped from Las Vegas. No arrests or charges were reported, and a later roundup said no indictments had been made public.
Cannabis 449 gSites 1Cancer patient jailed for four years over 42 pounds of THC chocolate
Thomas J. Franzen, a Montgomery cancer patient, pleaded guilty on 30 May 2019 to possessing more than 5,000 grams of cannabis as THC-infused chocolate ordered from California and was jailed for four years, a day before Illinois legalised recreational marijuana.
Convicted 1Cannabis 19 kgPrison 4 years (2 years to serve)17 held over 500 kg mailed from Arlington to St. Croix
Federal authorities arrested six people in North Texas and 11 in St. Croix over a ring accused of mailing more than 120 parcels holding over 500 kilograms of marijuana from Arlington since 2009. Alleged ringleader Neil Nick Rene, whose sister was killed in a 1994 drug dispute, was among those released on bond.
Arrested 17Cannabis 500 kg