Bundle of marijuana falls from sky, crashes through family's carport

An Arizona family was shocked when they discovered a bundle of marijuana had fallen from the sky, crashed through their carport and slammed into an empty dog crate.

Maya Donnelly said her family was woken by what sounded like thunder on Sept. 8. Donnelly said she went to investigate the next morning and saw splintered wood near the family's carport, Nogales International reported.

"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.

Donnelly lives in Nogales, Ariz., a town just a few miles from the U.S.- Mexico border, so she said she immediately assumed the bundle was drugs.

Nogales police told the family that a pilot in an ultralight aircraft likely dropped the bundle early by accident, Nogales International reported.

The 28-pound bundle of marijuana the family found is worth about $10,000, Detective Robert Ferros told CNN.

Ferros said this isn't the first time smugglers have used ultralight aircrafts to bring drugs across the border.

"We have seen bundles of marijuana being carried by ultralight aircraft weighing several hundred or a thousand pounds," he told CNN.

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