A box of mail containing 54 grams of suspected heroin arrived on Guam on June 17, 2022, along with more than two-and-a-half pounds of methamphetamine. According to documents recently unsealed in the U.S. District Court of Guam, a U.S. Postal Service Inspector suspected the package contained drugs before coordinating for a drug detection dog to alert to the presence of narcotics inside the box.
The dog, Cappy, “did alert to the presence of narcotics,” on June 22, last year. The inspector applied for a federal search warrant, which designated-magistrate judge Heather Kennedy signed the same day. She also granted the inspector’s request to seal the warrant and its request, “Because this is an ongoing investigation.”
The following day, law enforcement officers opened the package and found the drugs inside.
The package states the sender’s name is Leon Dulatre, who used a Utah address, though the postage paid label is from Arizona. Arizona is among the states that raise the suspicions of postal inspectors and other law enforcers as states from which drugs are mailed to Guam and the CNMI.
The package was addressed to Lazlo Mapilizan at 415 Chalan San Antonio PMB #1010, Tamuning.
No other unsealed documents in federal court suggest any other action has been taken by federal law enforcement related to the finding of these drugs in the mail, though that does not mean arrests or indictments have not yet been made. It is common for the federal government to keep such documents sealed while law enforcement is investigating, or having those indicted in secret work for law enforcement as confidential informants taking down larger criminal targets.
Kandit has asked Guam Police Department spokeswoman Berlyn Savella whether Guam Police Department officers have confiscated any heroin over the past year, and if any person has been arrested for heroin possession and trafficking. Ms. Savella has not responded as of the publication of this story.
Guam suffered through a violent crime wave in the 1970s and early 1980s due to heroin addiction.
