A drug smuggler accidentally dropped 26 pounds of marijuana worth $10000 from

Donnelly said when she finally got out of bed later in the morning and went to her carport she got quite the surprise – first seeing wood splinters on the ground, and then a case with 23.8 pounds of marijuana valued at more than $13,000 CAD sitting in her dog’s crate, according to the Nogales global.

Maya and Bill Donnelly woke up to a loud, crashing sound at their Arizona home in the border town in Nogales, thinking the boom was thunder from a lingering rainstorm before going back to sleep, authorities said.

Mrs Donnelly called police, who confirmed the package was marijuana.

The family’s German Shepherd, Hulk, was thankfully not in his doghouse because he “is a wanderer at night”, she added. Inside was 26Ibs of marijuana authorities said had fallen from a plane or drone carrying drugs across the border.”It’s all right on top of our dog’s house”, Donnelly told the Nogales worldwide newspaper following the incident earlier in September.

“Someone definitely made a mistake, and who knows what the outcome of that mistake might be for them”, fretted Nogales police chief Derek Arnson.

“Ultralights, we’ve seen those on occasion”. You can hear those kind of buzzing.

Police think the package was being smuggled from Mexico into the US via an ultralight aircraft, and had mistakenly dropped some of its drug load before reaching its destination. Arnson agreed but said police have boosted patrols in the Donnellys neighborhood for now.

Though the package was hefty, the couple only suffered $500 worth of repairs, with friends and family joking that they should have kept the bundle but Donnelly demurred. But the scenario could have been much worse for the couple and their three teenage daughters.

‘Where it landed was clear on the other side of the house from the bedrooms, ‘ Mrs Donnelly said.

‘That’s what everybody says: “‘Why did you call 911?”

Maya told AP she and her husband have been getting some ribbing from family because they could have easily covered the damage with about ten grand to spare had they not called the police. We could have made lots of home repairs with that’.