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Special delivery: 262 pounds of marijuana falls from the sky in San Diego

Police found 187 marijuana plants, 4.5 kilograms of processed marijuana and almost $23,000 in cash when they searched a Hamilton home after a tip from the utility about its electricity use.

Marijuana falling from the sky might sound like a pothead's dream, but for two men sitting in jail right now, it was a drug-smuggling operation far too conspicuous to succeed.

On Monday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) found 262 pounds of marijuana, tightly secured in 10 bundles, in a field near San Diego's Brown Field Airport, about two miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The street value of the pot: $157,000.

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Federal officials say the marijuana was dropped from an ultra-light aircraft that crossed the border from Mexico. According to NBC Bay Area, after dropping the bundles from a cage typically used to hold cargo around 4:15 a.m., the plane turned around and returned to Mexico without landing.

CBP's Office of Air and Marine spotted and tracked the plane — and got to the drop-off location just as two men were trying to claim their manna from Heaven.

Two Mexican men were arrested, a 32-year-old undocumented immigrant and a 49-year-old legal permanent resident, NBC Bay Area reported.

The pilot escaped.

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