A U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent posing as a mailman delivered a package to a Vail home supposedly containing garlic and rosemary, but actually filled with Ecstasy – lots of Ecstasy.
The package air-mailed from the Netherlands to 2875 Manns Ranch Road in Vail contained 1,114 green and blue tablets of ecstasy, considered a party drug for its hallucinogenic and stimulative properties.
Devine Nadine Terrio, 26, was charged Monday with one count of possession with the intent to distribute ecstacy. She faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Mohammad Ikram, an agricultural specialist with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection stationed in San Francisco, intercepted a suspicious package on April 18.
Although a voucher attached to the package said it contained garlic, rosemary, almonds and sea salt, a “Gemini 1722 analyzer” indicated it contained Ecstasy, according to an arrest affidavit. HSI agents embedded a device in the package that would start beeping when it was opened.
An HSI agent dressed as a mail man and delivered the package to one of Terrio’s roommates at 10:51 a.m. on Friday. But agents didn’t knock on the door until later that day when Terrio returned to the home and opened the package.
As they knocked, the agents declared, “police with a search warrant.” Terrio later admitted that she hid the package in a kitchen cabinet before opening her front door.
The HSI agents searched the home and found the pills and nine baggies of cocaine in Terrio’s bedroom and purse, the affidavit says. Terrio admitted that a man named “Paul” that she barely knew asked her to receive that package for him.
When asked why she would agree to receive drugs for someone she doesn’t know well, Terrio replied, “I don’t know. I make stupid decisions.”
