Baldwin County Man Arrested in Global Drug Investigation
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
August 8, 2025
BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. Law enforcement say that they have arrested a Baldwin County man who they say is involved in a global drug trafficking ring.
Local, state, and federal law enforcement have been conducting a global drug investigation involving many moving parts, including Alabama resident Leeladhar Tandel who was taken into police custody on several charges.
An undercover investigation that began in New York led to the arrest of Leeladhar Tandel, an Alabama resident.
Federal court documents said that special agents uncovered some websites believed to be part of a larger drug trafficking organization.
Although authorities haven’t stated how they became aware of the drug network, we do know that postal inspectors played a role in the investigation.
Part of the federal investigation included pictures of the drugs found in the mail.
Tandel and two others, in other states, have allegedly been sending those drugs to customers worldwide through the United States Postal Service.
Investigators said the global organization sends bulk shipments of drugs via mail to the U.S., where multiple people break them down into smaller packages and send them to smaller re-shippers.
Court documents revealed investigators found one of the packages had come from the Post Office in Summerdale.
Investigators said after a deeper dive, they discovered about 40 packages had been mailed out by Tandel from this office.
As law enforcement continued to put the pieces together, agents finally intercepted one of those packages, which led them to understand how the drug operation was setup.
Court records said this parcel included 36 grams of suspected Clonazepam pills, a controlled substance.
Federal agents met Tandel at a gas station in Foley, and during questioning, he told them he was mailing the packages for a friend back in India.
Tandel is accused of mailing out almost 7,000 pills in about 40 packages from the Summerdale Post Office.
Law enforcement stated that the investigation is ongoing.
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