Marshall County and federal law enforcement officers are investigating what appears to be theft of medicine mailed by a Veterans Administration pharmacy to a patient who's a resident along a Petersburg mail route.
"The search warrant pertained to the theft of mail," Sheriff Norman Dalton said in a prepared statement issued Tuesday morning, some 12 hours after Chancellor J.B. Cox signed the warrant. "It is not known whether charges will be brought ... by the Eastern U.S. District Court [in Chattanooga] or whether there will be state charges."
"Apparently the Postal Service received complaints over time that things were missing from the mail, medicine being mailed to the VA patient," Bragg said.
"They got a box [of medicine that was to be mailed] and treated the box with clue spray. It's invisible but under fluorescent light, it fluoresces," the experienced detective said. "Apparently, they contacted the person who was to receive the package asking that he contact them when it was delivered.
When it was, "they inspected it and determined that it had been tampered with," Bragg continued. "It was found to have been opened and there was a substitution made."
Shortly thereafter, "They traffic stopped him," Bragg said of Michael Murdock, the letter carrier who delivers from the Post Office on the Petersburg public square. "After he was stopped and they identified themselves as federal agents... he and his vehicle ended up in Petersburg" at the Post Office.
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