Delivery Driver's Tip Yields Big Marijuana Bust

CUMMING, GA -- A delivery driver tipping off Forsyth County sheriff's deputies to a suspicious package led to a bust that captured what authorities say was $72,000 worth of marijuana.

The bust, announced Wednesday on the sheriff's office Facebook page, happened February 24, when a FedEx delivery driver approached deputies who were conducting a subdivision check and told them he smelled marijuana in his vehicle.

A K-9 unit was called to the area and the dog immediately alerted to drugs being in a package. A search warrant was obtained and five pounds of marijuana were found inside it, according to sheriff's deputies.

A Powder Springs man, 38-year-old David Mendy, was arrested the next day when he came to pick up the package, according to Forsyth sheriff's spokesman Epifanio Rodriguez.

Three more pounds of marijuana and more than $900 in cash was seized from his vehicle after officers searched it.

Mendy is being held awaiting bond at Forsyth County Jail, Rodriguez said Thursday.