City police deliver lost drugs, get receipt, make their arrest

When FedEx left 200 pounds of marijuana at the wrong Northeast Baltimore address, police were eager to help correct the mistake — so they could arrest whoever the grass was intended for.

A man who mistakenly received four boxes of marijuana called police, who confiscated them and alerted FedEx.

The next day, the suspect called FedEx to check on the packages. A state trooper, pretending to be a FedEx employee, arranged for the boxes to be delivered that afternoon. And they were — by a city detective who, according to charging documents, had Richard Gwatidzo sign for the packages.

Other officers then rushed in and arrested Gwatidzo.

When police checked two other addresses connected to Gwatidzo, they found eight more FedEx packages containing almost 400 more pounds of marijuana shipped from Pembroke Pines, Fla., by a sender investigators hope to identify.

— The Sun