Two UPS drivers and an accomplice arrested with 40 pounds of marijuana in Brooklyn
Undercover officers watching a UPS facility on Foster Avenue in Brooklyn saw driver Ruben Jordan load a box onto a truck he was not assigned to, then arrested him, driver Alexis Herve and a third man as the package changed hands. Police said the box held three five-gallon buckets with nearly 40 pounds of marijuana worth almost $60,000.
🇺🇸 UPS facility on Foster Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City · New York, United States
Police began investigating the UPS facility on Foster Avenue in Brooklyn after a
tip, and the case ended with two of its drivers and a third man arrested.[1]Undercover officers watching the facility on a Thursday morning grew suspicious
when driver Ruben Jordan loaded a box onto a truck he was not assigned to.[1]Officers kept the truck under watch after Jordan went off duty and left, and
another driver, Alexis Herve, drove it to a dead-end street where Jordan, 44,
was waiting with another man and a minivan.[1]
Herve, 52, handed the package to Jordan, who put it in the minivan, and police
moved in.[1]Inside the package officers found three five-gallon Home Depot
buckets stuffed with marijuana.[1]The sources put the weight at nearly 40
pounds and the street value at almost $60,000.[1]Police also recovered tens
of thousands of dollars from the front seat of the minivan.[1]
The two drivers and the man who was not a UPS employee were arrested and all
three faced drug charges.[1]
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