State v. Clark

EDMUNDS, Judge.

Defendant Wayne Antone Clark appeals his convictions of trafficking in marijuana and conspiracy to traffic in marijuana. We reverse the trafficking conviction and find no error in the conspiracy conviction.

The investigation began when representatives of United Parcel Service (UPS) contacted Officer Sanders of the Greensboro Police Department, Narcotics Division, to investigate a package. A number of factors aroused Officer Sanders’ suspicions that the package might contain controlled substances. The parcel had been sent from southern California, an area known to be a source of…