Guitar Center employees discover piles of drugs stuffed inside ampStaff at a Guitar Center store in Lawrenceville, Georgia, made a shocking discovery inside a guitar amplifier earlier this month.
On July 17, employees opened a box that was shipped to the store’s location, only to discover thousands of dollars worth of cocaine and methamphetamine packed into the amplifier inside the delivery.

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According to Sgt. Collin Flynn of the Gwinnett County Police via WSB-TV, the drugs were never meant to show up to the store. The package came with an out-of-state shipping address, and the Guitar Center in Lawrenceville was listed as its return address. “It’s extremely rare this happens at any business,” he says.
However, Flynn says this incident is part of a greater and more complex problem surrounding the shipping of various forms of drugs through the United States Postal Service.
“They will often try and make the box appear as real as possible. They’ll attach business logos or business return addresses on the box,” he says.
Last year, a specialist drug enforcement unit in Gwinnett, the county where the Guitar Center in question is located, intercepted 4,500 lbs of drugs sent through postal services. “That equalled about $70 million that had been sent through FedEx or UPS, that officers were able to seize through the help of a K9,” Flynn said.
A representative for Guitar Center says the business has been cooperating with law enforcement since the drugs were discovered. The police do not suspect that anyone at the store was involved in shipping the drugs found.

This isn’t the first time narcotics have appeared alongside music equipment. In 2019, reports circulated of a synthesizer repair engineer who became intoxicated while cleaning a vintage Buchla Model 100 synth from the 60s. The engineer entered a 9-hour LSD trip, which was verified by tests on the synth later on. Talk about high voltage.
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