A Painesville man was charged in federal court after receiving nearly three pounds of MDMA shipped to him from Poland, law enforcement officials said.
Carl J. Pugh, 25, was arrested May 13 after he allegedly picked up a package believed to contain MDMA from the Mentor UPS store.
The package ended up in Mentor via a circuitous route. It, along with a second package that also contained MDMA, were shipped from Poland to a location in Nevada and were to be shipped to a Daniel Thompson in Mentor, according to the Ohio U.S. Attorney's Office.
But before they reached their target, U.S. Customs and border patrol agents intercepted them at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Investigators believe Thompson was a fictitious identity and that the drugs were really being sent to Pugh, according to a criminal complaint.
Pugh was charged in U.S. District Court with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute MDMA and smuggling goods into the United States along with other charges.
A charge is not an evidence of guilt.
