The new owner of the Flying Possum Leather in Fayetteville was arrested and accused of smuggling 10 pounds of marijuana through FedEx Monday.
Robert Daniel Walker, 64, of Fayetteville, his son James Wallace Walker, 32, of Mendocino, Calif., and Aimee Renae Clark, 24, of Fayetteville, all face felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with purpose to deliver.
On Monday, drug task force officers were contacted by Springdale Police about suspicious package at the FedEx Office. Officers obtained a warrant and found 10.75 pounds of pot in the package.
Undercover officers delivered the package to Clark’s residence on S. College, according to a police report. Police say Clark answered the door, signed for the package and took it into the residence.
Robert and James Walker were arrested later in the evening when police say they picked up the package at Clark’s residence and attempted to put it in the trunk of a vehicle.
Officers executed a search warrant at the residence on S. College and found a scale, six grams of marijuana, old plastic bags with marijuana residue, new plastic bags and $4,200 cash.
Robert Walker is the brother of the Flying Possum’s longtime owner, Bruce Walker, who died when the business caught fire on Dickson Street in March of last year. The brother reopened the business in a new location on Block Avenue.
