Two Murfreesboro men face a decade or more behind bars after they allegedly shipped meth overseas in boxes of cake mix and the parcels were identified as a “Birthday Gift.”
According to the Department of Justice, an investigation launched in July 2019 by Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service determined that multiple parcels had been shipped from Murfreesboro to Australia and New Zealand that contained methamphetamine. Some of the packages reportedly bore the defendants’ fingerprints.
Two of the parcels had sent from the mail room at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro on June 25, 2019. Video footage from MTSU captured a vehicle and two individuals who were subsequently indentified as 51-year-old Steven Weaver and 38-year-old Jamie Woods. Investigators were also able to capture surveillance footage of Weaver and Woods buying copious amounts of cake mix boxes from Walmart.
Weaver was sentenced Wednesday (April 30, 2024) to 140 months in prison and five years of supervised release. Woods was sentenced last week to 120 months in prison and five years of supervised release.