Suspicious package

We've received lots of weird correspondence at our firm through the years--emergency faxes pleading for help in prosecuting the FBI/CIA, inmate letters, cool marketing materials, emails from fictitious foreign clients seeking to hire us, if we will only provide them with our bank account number, routing number, etc... But, yesterday's mail was a first.

At the mid-day mail run, the postman handed my assistant a large white envelope rejected by the county jail and returned to sender, us. The packaging label was handwritten in a femine script. The sender claimed to be from our firm, though the name was slightly off. Inside was a manila envelope that had a typed label with our correct firm name and address. Someone had taken some time to really make this look like it came from a law firm... And directed to a recently booked convict. A quick internet search revealed him as a white male, in his 30s, convicted of armed robbery, home invasion and attempted murder.

Inside were some strange contents- a thick set of pages printed off the internet, taped together with clear packaging tape. The pages dealt with special U.S. armed forces. Then, there were two separate pages of bible verses, advising our inmate to seek not earthly goods but heavenly gain. Pretty spooky... and one of those pages was taped to a ziploc bag that contained 4 individual bags of a brown, powdery substance.

Well, we are fortunate to work across the street from the police department. So, we threw this suspicious package into a garbage bag and high-tailed it to the police. The first police officer took a quick peek at the substance and guessed that it was a package of brown heroine. Hmmmm... that was a lot of brown heroine. Then, they called a special narcotics agent in to test the substance, which an hour later was declared coffee.

Yes, we were relieved, but also confused. Who would spend $15.00 to mail this package to an inmate, using a fictitious name? Were they trying to see if they could sneak contraband to the inmate by pretending it came from a law firm? Were we really the intended recipients? We don't know.

But, at the end of the day, I am left with a feeling that there are crazier people living among us than those behind bars...

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