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The United States Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service, announced the arrest of 137 individuals in a simultaneous, multi-state raid yesterday. Special Agents from the Postal Service seized more than 42 tons of contraband pumpkin pie spice, scales, postage meters, stamps, baggies, envelopes, and other paraphernalia used to ship illegal pumpkin spice through the mail. Also found at the crime scene were more than two tons of Hazelnut-flavored coffee beans mailed with the spice to conceal the packages from pumpkin spice-sniffing dogs. While this raid is the largest since pumpkin pie spice was declared a Schedule I substance in 2020, it is still a small victory over an illegal trade consisting of more than 350 tons of pumpkin pie spice in 2022. Encrypted computers seized in the raid are suspected to have the mailing addresses of several coffee retailers that offer illicit pumpkin spice lattes. The Postal Service has requested the help of the National Security Agency to decrypt the data. More arrests are expected in the coming days.