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Cocaine, heroin found in USPS package

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Published: Nov. 5, 2012 at 5:01 PM

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said they arrested the intended recipient of a U.S. Postal Service package containing cocaine and heroin.

The Bay County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Division said the package was intercepted as suspicious and investigators who contacted the intended recipient, Lisa Robinson, 50, of Panama City Beach.

Robinson told police the package, which had been sent from New York, contained cocaine and heroin. The individual packages of heroin were stamped with "Overdose," the distributors logo, police said.

Robinson was arrested Oct. 30 and charged with possession of heroin, possession of crack cocaine, unlawful use of a two-way communication decide and introduction of a controlled substance into the state of Florida.

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