A New Brighton, Minnesota, man has been federally charged with drug crimes after a package was intercepted by police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport last month.
Court documents filed in mid-September show the man is charged with one count of possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it, as well as one count of possessing a gun during a drug trafficking crime.
According to documents, the package was being shipped by FedEx, and was discovered on Sept. 11. It was being sent to a home in New Brighton, and during a routine inspection done under FedEx policy, an employee found the box had a “large amount of what appeared to be controlled substances.”…