--- title: Marijuana Bundle Crashes Outside Family Home description: $10,000 of marijuana fell from the sky and crashed into an Arizona family's carport. canonical: https://time.com/4052943/marijuana-sky-arizona/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-28T20:25:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:19.134Z og:title: $10,000 of Marijuana Fell From The Sky, Crashed Into Carport og:description: A drug delivery gone wrong og:url: https://time.com/4052943/marijuana-sky-arizona/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: $10,000 of Marijuana Fell From The Sky, Crashed Into Carport twitter:description: A drug delivery gone wrong twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # $10,000 of Marijuana Fell From The Sky and Crashed Outside A Family's Home > Sponsored content. 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Later that day, she walked outside her Nogales, Ariz., home to find that a plastic-wrapped package of marijuana had fallen from the sky, pierced her family’s carport and destroyed their dog’s unoccupied kennel. “I went out to investigate, and sure enough, I looked up to see the hole, and then my eyes trailed down and the big dog’s house was destroyed. It made a hole in that hard plastic doghouse, and the bundle was inside,” Donnelly said. With the family’s house only a few hundred yards from the U.S.-Mexico border, Donnelly and her husband Bill said the police told them the bundle likely fell from an ultralight aircraft that crossed the border and dropped one of its deliveries too early. 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