Man Arrested After Picking Up Opium
Authorities have arrested a La Habra man who allegedly received 1.6 pounds of opium compressed inside a photo album mailed from Iran.
Earlier this month, drug-sniffing dogs in Los Angeles alerted U.S. customs agents to a brown paper package addressed to a Brea post office box, Brea Police Det. Stewart McCarroll said.
After finding the opium, police resealed the package and waited for someone to claim it at the post office, McCarroll said.
Tuesday, Saied Pourghorban Sheshkalani picked up the package and drove to his home in the 1400 block of Harbor Boulevard. Police followed Sheshkalani and arrested him, McCarroll said. Sheshkalani, 38, was being held on $150,000 bail at the Brea City Jail on suspicion of possession of narcotics with intent to sell.
The opium had a street value of $50,000, McCarroll said.
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