Yes, you read that headline correctly — A student ordered a Terrorism textbook for her spring semester of college on Amazon.com and when she received it in the mail, she discovered $400 worth of cocaine inside! Get the full story after the jump…
Cocaine isn’t your typical study aid — but it helped a college junior learn the lesson: buyer beware, according to a WPTV report.
Sophia Stockton, a junior at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, ordered a textbook called Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues for her Spring semester.
After flipping through the pages on Monday she “discovered a bag of white powder had fallen to the ground,” the station reports.
Fearing the mysterious substance was anthrax, the college brought the bag to the local police department the next day.
“I told them white powder was in my terrorism textbook and so I put it on the table and they’re like ‘oh, okay,’ and so he went back and tested,” Stockton told WPTV.
“He comes back and says ‘you didn’t happen to order some cocaine with your textbook, did you?’ And I was like, ‘no!’”
The police estimated there may have been up to $400 worth of cocaine in the baggie, and officials are investigating where the drugs may have come from, according to WTPTV.
Stockton had purchased the pre-owned textbook through Warehouse Deals, an Amazon storefront that offers “deep discounts on open-box, like-new, refurbished or used products that are in good condition but do not meet Amazon.com’s rigorous standards of ‘new.'”
Warehouse Deals guarantees all its items are inspected prior to sale, and Stockton could potentially file a claim that the book was “not the item depicted in the seller’s description,” but the student is choosing to take a diplomatic position.
“I have ordered many times from Amazon and this is the first time I’ve seen anything like this. I don’t think that Amazon is at fault in this case. They can’t check every book that goes through their warehouse. I’m guessing that it (the cocaine) was just left in there by the previous owner of the book,” Stockton told the community news site GardnerEDGE.com.
