By R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly
Four days before his 23rd birthday in 2013, Minh Phu Tran walked away from his bedroom computer and an Internet chat with a pal about good party drugs, answered the doorbell at his Placentia home and accepted what appeared to be a U.S. Postal Service delivery of a package he’d been expecting.
Pix of some of the versions of this drug, ecstasy, in plastic evidence bags at the metro police property unit. (Photo by Peter Power/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
The sender in the Netherlands had labeled the contents of the package as “documents.”
In reality, it contained an aluminum enclosure hiding more than 500 grams of the designer, party drug Ecstasy.
Whatever high Tran experienced when he opened the package didn’t last long.
The delivery person had been a Department of Homeland Security agent dressed like a postman.
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