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Manhattan dentist sent 31 pounds of pot, worth $50K, in the mail<\/a>: “A Manhattan dentist got a mystery UPS package Friday from a real dope – it was filled with 31 pounds of very pungent pot.<\/p>\n Dr. Richard Lyons couldn’t believe his nose when he opened the box that was delivered to his Chinatown office.<\/p>\n ‘From my 70’s days, when I saw the green and smelled it, I knew it was marijuana,’ said Lyons, whose graying ponytail could qualify him for a bit role in a Cheech and Chong movie.<\/p>\n Lyons, 61, said he had no idea how the pot – worth up to $50,000 on the street – wound up at his place, but he immediately called the cops.<\/p>\n ‘I was shocked – shocked! And annoyed,’ he said. ‘Even if I got an ounce of marijuana, I would have notified the police.<\/p>\n ‘It’s not legal. I didn’t buy it!’<\/p>\n Lyons said the pot was wrapped in a black plastic bag ‘with a bunch of baby wipes on top’ that had been placed inside a plastic bin and then the box.<\/p>\n It arrived at his office at 10:30 a.m. and was signed for by an assistant. When he got in about 3 p.m., he opened the box to discover the tightly packed fresh-plucked buds.<\/p>\n He said called police, but when they hadn’t arrived after an hour, he got nervous that the intended recipient might show up to collect the weed – and called the press.<\/p>\n When cops arrived at the office on Worth and Mott Sts. – where a large red canopy advertises ‘Dr. Toothy’s Dental World’ – they had to borrow blue dental masks because the fumes gave them a headache.<\/p>\n The box had a return address for a Gwendaline Lyons in Katy, Texas. No listing could be found for the person.<\/p>\n A UPS spokeswoman said the express delivery service would open an investigation in the matter and contact the NYPD.<\/p>\n Anyone wishing to claim the package can contact the 5th Precinct detective squad at (212) 334-0742.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manhattan dentist sent 31 pounds of pot, worth $50K, in the mail: “A Manhattan dentist got a mystery UPS package Friday from a real dope – it was filled with 31 pounds of very pungent pot. Dr. Richard Lyons couldn’t believe his nose when he opened the box that was delivered to his Chinatown office. … Continue reading Manhattan dentist sent 31 pounds of pot, worth $50K, in the mail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-26Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}