Police officer's huge drugs seizure turned out to be 8kg of pot potpourri

A police officer in Staffordshire headed to a parcel sorting depot after a call reporting several suspicious packages.

Upon arrival he was shown several large cardboard boxes which had been returned from an address in the south of England. The convinced officer thought he had stumbled upon a large quantity of drugs due to the strange aroma emitting from the boxes.



He seized all the boxes which filled his entire police car and hastily made his way back to the police station, where he spent 30 minutes unloading all the boxes into the report writing room and informing his colleagues that he may have found a huge amount of drugs.

The officer requested the presence of a drugs dog which was diverted from a distance of 20 miles away. But when the boxes were opened, the dog showed very little interest in the 8kg of pot potpourri discovered inside – by which time the room was filled with a most wonderful aroma. The officer then spent the next hour packaging up his find and sheepishly returned back to the parcel depot with his catch.