Norway Post’s red mailboxes have become central in the roll – out of the drug case, which has branches throughout the country. The police fear that there are professional actors behind the distribution that has taken place via various mailboxes in the center of the small North Sea village of Sunndaløra. A number of letters and parcels have gone to addresses throughout Norway. – Based on this, this seems to be professionally performed, and can potentially have a scope beyond what we have revealed in our inspections so far, says police station chief Lars Olav Melkild at Sunndal police station. Chief of Police Lars Olav Melkild fears that there are professionals behind the drug room. Photo: Tore Ellingseter / news He does not want to say exactly how many of the letters and packages they have managed to put in the red mailboxes, but says it is “extensive”. The sellers are said to have sent drugs such as cocaine and amphetamines. Fear of new arena for buying and selling The police believe that more and more of the drug room can be accessed via social media and with the help of professional distributors, such as Norway Post. In just one year, in 2018, the Customs discovered 12,000 letters and packages of drugs and illegal drugs in the mail. – We think it is serious that traditional distributors such as Norway Post are used to send illegal drugs around the whole country, says Melkild. The police have previously gone out and asked people to lock their mailboxes to avoid being used in connection with drug trafficking. This is an example of drugs that the Customs has previously found in the mail. The chocolate contains hashish. Photo: Customs – Do you hear rattles in tablets For Norway Post, drug shipments are a known issue. Postje, head of anti-crime at Posten, Terje Ulfsten, says the courses are all staffed so that they can detect and notify such shipments. He says they are constantly discovering letters and packages with illegal content. – It can be, for example, cannabis, which has a very special smell. It could be powder leaks, or liquid that splashes or that it rattles in tablets, he says. Here from the small village of Sunndalsøra, the police fear that professionals are behind the distribution of drugs to the whole country. Photo: Jan Erik Vangen Found cocaine in kindergarten The police got on the trail of the case when kids found cocaine in a kindergarten in Sunndal about a month ago. Children playing outside the kindergarten found a suspicious, disposable powder. It turned out to be drugs. The police, for example, have no suspects in the case, and fear that those behind it have sent a number of letters and parcels before it was discovered. – Probably there may be several packages and letters we do not have control over, says police station chief Melkild. FOUND COCAINE: Here at Holssand Kindergarten, kids found drugs in June. Photo: Jan Erik Vangen
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Fear of professional drug dealers sending material in the mail to the whole country – news Møre og Romsdal – Local news, TV and radio
