Peterson v. State

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

On August 26,1988, a man dropped off a package at the Markair Cargo office in the Anchorage International Airport. He paid for the package to be shipped to Terry Barton in Bethel, Alaska. The Markair employee at the desk became suspicious about the contents of the package; the weight did not coincide with the man’s description of the contents and he had failed to put a return address on it. Because he was concerned that the package contained hazardous materials, he and another Mar-kair employee opened it. The two employees testified that Markair policy was to open any…