Marijuana Package Mailed Without Address; Calif. Man at Return Address Arrested

MILL VALLEY, Calif. Feb 24, 2006 (AP)— A man who allegedly mailed a half-pound of marijuana without an address label on the package was arrested after authorities returned it to its sender.

Steven Coburn, 48, of Mill Valley was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of drug possession for sale and investigators found another 1 1/2 pounds of marijuana worth $10,000 at his home behind Tamalpais High School, said Det. Matt Lethin of the Marin County Major Crimes Task Force.

The private Corte Madera shipping company where Coburn tried to mail the package on Feb. 16 followed company protocol by opening the package to see whether the label was accidentally sealed inside, Lethin said.

"Once they opened it up and saw what was inside, they immediately called law enforcement," Lethin said.

Investigators said they are not sure whether Coburn forgot to affix the address label or it fell off, but it had a return address on it that led to Coburn.

He was booked into Marin County Jail and posted bail. A court date was set for March 8.

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Another idiot.

They're allowed to open someone elses mail? What?

Yeah, they search it after 9/11 more direly now.

Evidently it wasn't a 20-something guy who opened the package!



Payday has come early lads!

Well its kinda hard to miss a package with 20lbs of marijuana and besides who cares if you open the mail when it doesnt even have an adress on it?

Without an address? I have an address...

Half a pound....jeez...you'd be gone for...a good while.

*tear* Feels like a part of me is missing now.

Return To Sender . . . . . . Makes me think of that Elvis tune

*mutters* so that's where it went....

It's only hard to miss if it's in a see-through bag or plastic container. I don't know many people that can see through cardboard.

i can, I have cardboard ray vision ,i bet he forgot who he was sending it to

You know now exactly why there were some pounds left in his home.

Must of been some good sh**.
Address-*?%@#?---,"naaa cant be bothered,maybe the package will fly there,yippeee.... "

what are saying?

Maybe he didnt want to smoke it all at once and it was his intention all along to have the package returned to him at a later date ?

Thats a lot of pot though!! !!