Police Seize 29 Pounds of Pot: Two Arrested

Two Traverse Square residents were arrested May 17 on marijuana possession and intent to sell charges after Middletown Police say they accepted two delivery packages which contained 29 pounds of pot.

Police say they received a tip that four boxes from a commercial shipping service addressed to Roosevelt Freeman Jr., 43, of Traverse Square, Middletown, contained a large amount of marijuana. The Middletown Police Street Crime Unit, State Police State Wide Narcotics Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Agency witnessed Johnnie Mae Mitchell, 58, accept the packages, the report says, and found her and Theodore Roosevelt Freeman Sr., 65, inside the home.

Mitchell, Freeman's aunt, and Freeman Jr., Freeman's father, told police they had been instructed to sign for the packages and then contact Freeman, who would pick them up that day. When police arrived at his work, the Post Office on Silver Street, they were told Freeman had just left, according to the report.

Both were arrested for possession of over 4 ounces of marijuana and with intent to sell over one kilo and within a public housing project. Police have applied for a warrant for Freeman.