MAIL FOUND TO HOLD DRUG; 2 CHARGED

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, February 4, 1993                   TAG: 9302040231
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Douglas Pardue
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short
MAIL FOUND TO HOLD DRUG; 2 CHARGED
Two Roanoke men have been charged with using the mail to obtain an express delivery of cocaine.
Larry Glenn, 30, and Gary Johnson, 30, were charged after Postal Service inspectors Kevin Boyle and Terry Vlug used a drug-sniffing dog to check a package of express overnight mail, federal authorities said Wednesday.
A drug agent, posing as a mailman, took the package to the delivery address in the 2400 block of Massachusetts Avenue in Roanoke. Glenn was arrested after he left the back door of the house with the package and drove off in a car.
Johnson was charged after Roanoke police, working with the federal drug task force, put out word that he was wanted on a traffic warrant.
When Johnson showed up at the Police Department to find out what the warrant was about, he was arrested and told it was a "trafficking warrant," Don Lincoln, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, said.
Al Henley, special agent in charge of the DEA in Roanoke, declined to say what made the package appear suspicious. But, authorities said, Postal Service inspectors routinely monitor express-mail deliveries.
The package was mailed from Houston, but authorities said they had not been able to determine who sent it.
DEA agents said they believe the kilogram of cocaine, valued at $20,000, was to be broken down and processed into crack for sale. - DOUGLAS PARDUE

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB