Woman Finds Cocaine Stuffed In Tampons Purchased From NPS

**Dakota Valkyrie** · May 3rd, 2012, 05:23 PM

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Somewhere there is a drug smuggler saying "WTF?"

A Salt Lake City woman got more than she bargained for when she opened her box of tampons.

Police Detective Carlie Wiechman said that earlier this week the woman found that someone had removed many of the tampons and shoved baggies full of cocaine into the cardboard applicators.

The woman immediately called police, who brought in a hazardous material team that determined the white powdery substance was, in fact, cocaine.
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She said the box apparently didn’t look like it had been tampered before the woman purchased it.

"It’s weird," Wiechman said. "It’s not something we’ve seen a ton of."

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54...olice.html.csp

Cindy Davidson purchased the tampons while shopping at The NPS Store at 1600 S. Empire Road in Salt Lake City on Saturday. She had a receipt to prove it.

On Sunday, she opened the box and found that several of the individual tampons had suspicious packaging inside the applicator.

"It was real powdery and it was in the thicker cellophane," she said. "They had taped it really good in the middle and I spent about 5 minutes trying to open it and never did get it open.

Davidson called police fearing the powder was toxic.
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The NPS Store has pulled the particular brand of tampons Davidson bought from the shelf. Police say they'll be working with the store in trying to get to the bottom of this.

"One of the officers Googled it and it wasn't Mexico where I would assume it came from," Davidson said. "It was like, I want to say Russia or some place like that."

Police fear there could be more boxes out there. They ask that anyone who finds one call to report it.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=20252930

**Obsolete** · May 3rd, 2012, 05:39 PM

"One of the officers Googled it and it wasn't Mexico where I would assume it came from," Davidson said. "It was like, I want to say Russia or some place like that."

Racist!

**Bohring** · May 3rd, 2012, 05:56 PM

someone had removed many of the tampons and shoved baggies full of cocaine into the cardboard applicators.

That is SOOOOOO 90's. In 94 or 95, a friend of mine and I were driving from Seattle to Vancouver, and had the US Border Patrol completely tear apart my car, my bag and even our DAMN TAMPONS! I couldn't figure out why they were so on our asses about it. Turns out some damn band a la Grateful Dead was playing and they were searching everyone. I was like, the tampons?!

ETA: Did anyone ever find out what all the Tide be stolen was about?

**Dakota Valkyrie** · May 3rd, 2012, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Bohring

ETA: Did anyone ever find out what all the Tide be stolen was about?

It was nothing: http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/s...ave-You-Decide

**newstarshipsmell** · May 3rd, 2012, 06:06 PM

Well thank God this woman found this and reported it. It'll make puzzling out what happened easier for local cops when they eventually come across some unresponsive junkie lying amidst a pile of tampons.

**thehesbomb** · May 3rd, 2012, 08:10 PM

The woman immediately called police,

Where is this chick's sense of capitalism? And entrepreneurship?!?

**Kitty** · May 3rd, 2012, 08:18 PM

I totally thought this was an intro from an interesting and new member.. then I recalled that the furniture got turned around... anyone ever field test alcohol soaked tampons? It's been one of those weeks.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · May 3rd, 2012, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by thehesbomb

Where is this chick's sense of capitalism? And entrepreneurship?!?

Would you snort something you found in a tampon wrapper? She had to call someone in to test it. She probably didn't know any coke experts. She just has poor judgement in testing methods. Her own rotten luck that they were "good cops".

**TKaz** · May 4th, 2012, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by Kitty

... anyone ever field test alcohol soaked tampons? It's been one of those weeks.

No....no booze soaked tampons up the butt. Please. Just, no.

But you know your week is bad when you can say you're considering doing just that. I don't have time to drink it, I just want to absorb it!!!

**Killroy** · May 10th, 2012, 01:10 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – National Products Store might be the rock star of discount stores, because a Utah mom got way more than she bargained for when she purchased a box of tampons on April 29.
The woman, 39-year-old Cindy Davidson, went to the NPS on Sunday for Crest Whitestrips, but opted to also buy a box of Boots (a British brand) tampons “bcuz they were cheap,” according to her Facebook.
Upon opening the box, that appeared to not have been tampered with, Davidson found that the applicators were stuffed with rolled and taped cellophane containing a white powder, not cotton on a string.
“I thought it was anthrax or something, a terrorist attack, so I was nervous,” Davidson stated of her initial reaction.
Instead of calling police immediately, Davidson first phoned her sister. “I called my sister and said I was going to call the manufacturer the next day and she told me to call police,” she said.
After authorities were informed of the score, a hazardous materials team was dispatched to Davidson’s residence with the police.
“They tested it, ran it through, came back that it wasn’t anything hazardous as far as a hazmat situation and we were able to test it through our field test kits and it came back positive for cocaine,” said Salt Lake City Police Det.…

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