'She's a nanna, not a drug dealer!' Police seize GRAVY powder posted by a grandmother to test whether it's drugs – leaving her family eating dry meat for a week
- Police have seized 2 kilos of gravy powder, suspecting it was narcotics
- A family was sent a package with the gravy from an elderly family member
- After it was tested the gravy was found not to be an illicit substance
- They've been given back their gravy, which isn't stocked in their small town
A family who were posted a packet of gravy powder from their grandmother got a surprise when the police seized their care package for a week.
The Hines family, from the Northern Territory, had been awaiting the 2kg delivery of gravy powder, only to receive a note from police saying the powder had been seized under the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act.
The letter warned: 'Further seizures may result in criminal prosecution.'
The package came from an elderly relative of the family from New South Wales every few months.
'She's a nanna, she's 80, she's not a drug dealer,' Fallon Hines said.
The family had been awaiting the delivery of their 2 kilo delivery of gravy powder, only to receive a note from police saying the powder has been seized
Kerry Hoskins from the Drug and Organised Crime division said police suspected the brown powder, on its way to the family in Nhulunbuy, was seized in Darwin.
Police believed the gravy powder may have actually been Kava, a sedative drink made in Polynesia from the crushed roots of a plant of the pepper family.
Northern Territory police told the NT News that after testing, the powder was found not to have been an illicit substance.
Ms Hines suspects the wag of a drug dog's tail may have been at the delicious smell of the gravy rather than to alert authorities of drugs.
'The (drug detection) dog must have wagged its tail when it smelt gravy', Ms Hines said.
The family suspect the gravy powder had been seized by an over-excited sniffer dog waving its tail
'I've got three boys and they love their meat and [Maggi] gravy,' the 30-year-old mother said.
The gravy powder will be returned to the family, who get their Maggi gravy online, as it isn't sold at their local supermarkets.
Ms Hines said the unfortunate mix-up wouldn't stop having the delicious powder sent to them.
Meanwhile Maggi is chuffed with the lengths the NT family went to in order to get their hands on their favourite gravy, telling police they would send replacements to the Hines family.
Police believed the gravy powder may have actually been Kava, a sedative drink made in Polynesia from the crushed roots of a plant of the pepper family
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