Express mail from Puerto Rico Victor Encarnacion arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine over 200 grams

An express mail package from Puerto Rico that contained about 2 pounds of cocaine was seized by deputies and its Polk County recipient was arrested Wednesday, according to Sheriff's Office reports.
Victor Encarnacion, 30, of Kissimmee was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine over 200 grams, reports said.
The package, addressed to Ariel Mendez at 739 Caribou Drive in Kissimmee, was flagged by postal inspectors in Puerto Rico as being suspicious and forwarded to the USPS Postal Inspectors in Orlando, reports said.
A federal search warrant was obtained after drugs were detected by a K-9 unit. When the package was inspected, detectives found 1 pound and 14 ounces of cocaine hidden inside bags of coffee. Another search warrant was then obtained for the Kissimmee address in Polk County where the package was to be shipped, according to the arrest affidavit.Undercover detectives and a postal inspector delivered the package to that address and a man identifying himself as Mendez signed for the package, reports said. The man then took the package, walked out the back door of the home and to the backyard of a neighbor's home and hid the package in some brush. Detectives arrested the man, who was later identified as Encarnacion, the Polk Sheriff's Office reported.