Security cam footage shows drug dealer dropping off 18 grams of marijuana in wrong mailbox

While marijuana use is legal in Massachusetts for people over the age of 21, one mom didn’t expect a dealer to place the drug in her mailbox — especially when she didn’t order it herself.

Laurel Brown Collins, who has three children, including a 19-year-old son who has autism and lives at home, admitted to Boston 25 News that she doesn’t know much about the drug. Collins doesn’t smoke and says she doesn’t even know how much Massachusetts residents are allowed to have at one time. (The answer is 1 ounce on your body and 10 ounces in your home.)

Somehow, 18 grams of marijuana ended up in Collins’s mailbox. She tweeted about it on Jan. 16 and said she’s relieved she found it before any of her children did.

As soon as she realized what, exactly, was in her mailbox, she alerted authorities. Now, police are treating it as a crime: illegal distribution.

The person, who Collins suggests is “not that bright,” didn’t realize that not only was he at the wrong address, with a different name on the mailbox, but he also missed the camera filming his actions.

Collins, who had never seen the person before, is now worried there is “potentially other drug activity in the neighborhood.”

She told Boston 25, “To have a drug dealer do that in the middle of the day and at a mailbox that is clearly labeled with not his customer’s name, uh, is kind of ballsy.”

Collins, who shared that she did vote yes to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, didn’t realize this would mean a stranger would place drugs harmfully close to her children, especially her autistic son Andrew, who may have tried to ingest them.

“There’s a significant concern he would have opened it and ingested it, certainly would have gotten the effects of it,” Collins told the news outlet. “Andrew, again, would not have known what it was, and it could have caused him harm.”

While police are hopeful that the clear video will help pinpoint the culprit, one of Collins’s neighbors may not be too happy about it. Collins tweeted on Jan. 17 that she was approached by a neighbor asking if she had “mistakenly” received “a bag of ‘stuff'” from the neighbor’s “friend.” Collins told her she could pick up the “stuff” at the police station.

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