Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Ruth M. Mendonça, Acting Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), and Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), announced today that DANIEL BORER and JOSEPHINE McLAUGHLIN, who is an employee of the United States Postal Service, have been charged with importing synthetic cannabinoids from China and then using them to manufacture and distribute massive wholesale quantities of smokeable synthetic cannabinoids (“SSC”) throughout the United States.
United States Postal Inspection Service