{"id":9161,"date":"2014-11-22T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2014-11-22T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:04:47","slug":"video-drug-traffickers-target-the-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/11\/22\/video-drug-traffickers-target-the-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Drug traffickers target the post office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA, Neb. &#8211; 11.21.14 &#8211; It\u2019s about to get even busier at the post office. Thousands of holiday packages are moving through the postal service and inspectors know some of them will contain pot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen more marijuana packages lately because of the legalization in states such as Colorado,\u201d said Dave Margritz, a U.S. Postal Service inspector.<\/p>\n<p>Margritz is one of six inspectors focused on all of Nebraska and parts of Iowa. Pot carefully packed in cans of hominy, stuffed into power tool boxes and even hidden in juke boxes are called &#8220;marijuana mail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen anything from small usage amounts to 20, 30 pounds plus in a package,\u201d said Margritz. Video will load below. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ketv.com\/news\/drug-traffickers-target-the-post-office\/29868926\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZUguc7r2AjM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/drug-through-usps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/drug-through-usps-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"drug through usps\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA, Neb. &#8211; 11.21.14 &#8211; It\u2019s about to get even busier at the post office. Thousands of holiday packages are moving through the postal service and inspectors know some of them will contain pot. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen more marijuana packages lately because of the legalization in states such as Colorado,\u201d said Dave Margritz, a U.S. Postal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}