The cautious dad, from Madison County in Alabama, traveled to Nashville in Tennessee to pick the car up with Tyrese, and even asked officials who handed it over if they’d used a sniffer dog on it.
They answered: ‘Nah, we got it all, don’t worry about it,’ before adding: ‘Whatever is in there, it’s yours.’ It was only when Rick and Tyrese got back to Alabama and opened the trunk that they discovered the Ford’s illicit extras.
He called out deputies from Madison County Sheriff’s Office, who informed the stunned foster dad that the package contained two kilos of heroin, with a street value of $300,000. They confiscated the deadly drug – and thanked Rick for his honesty.
Rick, who buys all his foster kids a first car when they are old enough, says he and Tyrese have been able to see the funny side of the bizarre incident.
Tyrese told
WKRG: ‘I’ll probably remember this for the rest of my life just because it was so unexpected it was just like a regular day and then out of nowhere, we find two kilos of heroin in our trunk.’