Marijuana bundle drops from the sky and crashes into Arizona family's carport

Everyone likes getting a surprise care package, but a nearly 24 pound case of marijuana crashing through the roof of your carport is probably not the ‘care’ most people would be hoping for.

That’s exactly what happened to one family in Nogales, Arizona three weeks ago.

Maya Donnelly said she woke up early on the morning of September 8 to what sounded like thunder but went back to sleep when her husband dismissed the sounds as just that, thunder, according to the Associated Press.

Donnelly said when she finally got out of bed later in the morning and went to her carport she got quite the surprise – first seeing wood splinters on the ground, and then a case with 23.8 pounds of marijuana valued at more than $13,000 CAD sitting in her dog’s crate, according to the Nogales International.

“I went out to investigate, and sure enough, I looked up to see the hole, and then my eyes trailed down and the big dog’s house was destroyed,” she told the paper. “It made a hole in that hard plastic doghouse and the bundle was inside.”

‘Hulk’ the dog was reportedly not inside at the time.

With Nogales being a border town that’s split between the U.S. and Mexico, authorities told the Donnelly’s the drugs most likely fell from a small plane or UAV attempting to smuggle them into the States, according to Headline and Global News.

While the Donnelly’s are now forced to fix their roof, the consequences for whoever sent the drugs across might be more dire.

“Someone definitely made a mistake,” Nogales Police Chief Derek Arnson told AP. “Who knows what the outcome of that mistake might be for them.”

The Donnellys said they aren’t overly worried about someone coming to claim the drugs now they’re in the hands of the police but authorities have reportedly added more patrols in the neighbourhood just to be sure.

Meanwhile, the Donnellys said the deductible on their home insurance is too steep so they plan to fix up the roof as a family project, reports Nogales International.

Maya told AP she and her husband have been getting some ribbing from family because they could have easily covered the damage with about ten grand to spare had they not called the police.

“That’s what everybody says: ‘Why did you call 911?” she said. “But how can you have a clear conscience, right? We could have made lots of home repairs with that.”