The original article is annoyingly unclear, but I'm pretty sure that's the case with Green as well. The Feds didn't send a fake package, they just followed a package they'd interecpted.
I don't really think there's a problem with this practice. Having a bunch of packages with drugs addressed to particular residence seems like reasonable grounds to get a search warrant for that residence.
I can ship 5 packages to your address and it'd trigger the search is the standard of evidence they are using. Its how people have been swatted.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/the-fly-has-been-swatted/
http://www.vice.com/read/i-interviewed-the-fraudster-who-fra...
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybe...
The only reason he didn't get swatted again was because he called the police because before it happened because he was monitoring the people. [Hint: He has been swatted before]
This is precisely why this "standard of evidence" is such bullshit. It can be used to harass anyone and is.
> “The trick is figuring out who’s supposed to receive it,” said Chief Deputy Tony Bacala of the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office, whose deputies arrested a St. Amant man in June after he accepted a package containing marijuana.
> From there, law enforcement officials arranged for a “controlled delivery” of the package to Allen and later found marijuana, equipment used to cultivate marijuana and steroids during a search of his residence, authorities said.
They don't seem to concerned about that part.