City Hall in Downtown Biddeford, Maine
The Biddeford Dozen
On a brisk April Fools morning in 1982, locals in the picturesque town of Biddeford, Maine woke up to a stoner mystery that has been left unsolved to this day!
The curious riddle began as town residents awoke to find peculiar packages left around the city. When people picked the packages up they realized what they were, large ziplock bags filled to the brim with cannabis.
Placed around town in almost a taunting fashion, the large ziplock bags were deposited in plain site without a single witness. Seemingly playing with the police, one large bag of marijuana was placed on the sidewalk right in front of the police station doors…
Two more cannabis filled bags awaited police at the stations back door while another just leaned on a parked police cruiser’s tire.
Like a bread trail of stoner clue’s, citizens started discovering large bags of cannabis left in plain sight all throughout downtown Biddeford ending in Saco.
The 14 stuffed ziplock bags that were discovered each weighed in at a pound a piece proving a costly statement, but why?
Was the abandoned pot part of some elaborate joke, a strange April fools prank, a well timed screw you to the cops or something else completely?
With no leads and no one confessing to the ‘crime’, the curious stoner mystery of the Biddeford Dozen remains unsolved!
A police official summed up the unusual joke in the cities news release the same day,
“Who knows how many more bags were found but weren’t turned in”
Biddeford Detective with the discovered bags of cannabis, Biddeford, Maine 1982
A article from the United International Press, April 1, 1982
Copping a Bag of Weed
“BIDDEFORD, Maine — Investigators are trying to figure out who scattered plastic bags of marijuana around the police station and along downtown sidewalks.
‘If it was an April Fool’s joke, it was an awfully expensive one,’ said Police Detective Guy Godbout.
Fourteen one-pound packets were recovered late Wednesday and early Thursday in Biddeford and the adjoining city of Saco. The 11 bags found in Biddeford were worth more than $7,000, Beaupre said.
‘It was all over the place,’ he said. ‘We found one bag on the sidewalk in front of the station, two near the back door, and another we found in the parking lot adjacent to the building near a cruiser.’
Other bags were found on sidewalks in front of a bank, a community center and a post office.
‘Who knows how many more bags were found but weren’t turned in,’ Beaupre said.”
– Article from United Press International, April 1, 1982
Bob Seger- Mainstreet
Mainstreet downtown Saco, Maine where some of the bags of marijuana were found in 1982