Package Containing $30K Of 'Molly' Drug Intercepted; Sonoma Co. Man Arrested

SONOMA COUNTY, CA – A Rohnert Park man was arrested Thursday in connection with having more than four pounds of MDMA shipped to him in the mail.

Aaron Olesen, 37, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of sales and transportation of a controlled substance, according to Rohnert Park police.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security contacted Rohnert Park police regarding a package that had been intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in San Francisco.

The package, which contained more than four pounds of MDMA, had been shipped from the Netherlands and was addressed to an "Aaron Holeson" at a P.O. Box in Rohnert Park, police said.

Police said the illegal substance - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine - is known as the street drugs Ecstasy and Molly.

The MDMA was in the package with plastic toy building blocks. The street value of the MDMA shipped was approximately $30,000, police said.

On Thursday, Homeland Security agents brought the package to Rohnert Park for a joint operation with Rohnert Park police.

The law enforcement officials work with the business where the P.O. Box was located and set up a controlled delivery of the package. Just before 6 p.m., a man, later identified as Olesen, arrived at the business and requested the package, police said.

Olesen was given the package and was arrested in the parking lot of the business.

A search warrant was served on Olesen’s residence in Rohnert Park for additional evidence, and an open box of European plastic toy blocks was found in his bedroom that appeared to have drug residue on it, police said.

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