Officials: Clermont man receives ecstasy pills in mail, arrested by undercover deputies

CLERMONT, Fla. — Undercover deputies arrested a Clermont man they said was waiting on a package filled with thousands of dollars' worth of ecstasy pills to his home.
 
Investigators said Michael Crane is facing drug charges after he tried to have more than 100 ecstasy pills delivered to his home inside a Clermont gated community.
 
Homeland Security agents discovered the pills while checking out mail at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility in Chicago.
 
"I guess the agent's K9 hit on an envelope that happened to be ecstasy pills," Fred Jones of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said.
 
Agents contacted Lake County deputies, who used undercover deputies to bring the envelope filled with pills to Crane's home. Officials said deputies pretended to be a neighbor who got the mail by accident.
 
"He definitely gave the impression that he was expecting it," Jones said.
 
Deputies said they arrested Crane once they were sure the package was for him.
 
"Hopefully this will be an example that you're not going to send drugs to Lake County and put them on the streets," Jones said.

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Officials said the drugs have a street value of $3,000. They have “red bull” on one side and a picture of a bull on the other.

Deputies aren’t sure where the drugs came from, but said homeland security agents are investigating.

Deputies said Lake County doesn’t have an ecstasy problem and they want to keep it that way.

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