Pedro Guadalupe Cruz goes to the post office to check his box mail. There’s a card telling him he has a package at the counter. Pedro is all smiles when he sees the printing on the package from Mexico. Heading home, Pedro sees a blue light in his rear view mirror. He pulls over.

"We’d like your permission to examine the package you just picked up at the post office," the cop says.

"No problem," answers Pedro as he reaches over and hands the package to the officer.

Pedro is ordered to "step out of the vehicle and spread-eagle over the hood." He is arrested and taken to the city jail.

That afternoon the chief puts out a news release claiming that "with the arrest of a Mexican national, our investigators made the largest methamphetamine bust in the history of this department."

Pedro sits in a North Carolina jail for two weeks charged with "drug trafficking" while the evidence (package from Mexico) goes to the state crime lab.

The lab report comes back with the following report: The "flour like substance" is, in fact, flour. The "waxy looking blocks of suspected methamphetamine" is nothing more than Mexican candy made from squash.

"You must understand," says the chief of police to reporters after Pedro’s release from jail, "we acted totally in good faith."

The media also interviews Pedro as he walks out of the city jail. "They never asked me what was in the package," the Mexican says. "I tried to tell them it was just candy from my mother back in Mexico City-but nobody listened to me."