SCHENECTADY Mailed marijuana draws felony counts BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Steven Cook at 395-3122 or scook@dailygazette.com. Palem.
A city man received a special delivery Wednesday and soon after was in police custody. Fifteen pounds of marijuana was reported inside the package delivered to and signed for by the man authorities said used a false name. Tigris Hobbs, 38, of 51 Washington Ave., was arrested Wednesday on one count each of fi rst-degree criminal possession of marijuana and second-degree forgery. Both are felonies. Hobbs is accused of signing for the package, delivered to a Fifth Avenue address, just after 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Postal inspectors, though, had tracked the package after a drugsniffing dog alerted them to it, said James R. Burns, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Albany district office. Postal inspectors were assisted in the case by DEA agents and Schenectady police offi cers. The package came from Arizona, city police spokesman Capt. Peter Frisoni said. “Based on giving a fake name, he obviously didn’t want anyone to know his true identity,” Frisoni said. ....................>>>>...........................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01404&AppName=1
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