A man who was more afraid of fellow drug dealers than he was of the law was arrested after the 68 pounds of cocaine he had reported missing was found by Boy Scouts.

Leroy Carr, 46, told Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he had stashed two blue backpacks full of cocaine by the entrance to a Boy Scout camp near the Canadian border on Aug. 3, but when he went back the next day to get them, they were gone.

A desperate Carr asked authorities to issue a press release saying that ICE agents had seized the stash. The reason? So his employer would believe his account that he hadn't stolen the drugs from them.

But apparently, Carr was confused about where he had left the stash, because two weeks later a Boy Scout ranger found the two backpacks full of cocaine dry and safe and turned them over to police.

Armed with Carr's missing cocaine report and the missing cocaine, authorities arrested Carr on a federal charge of cocaine possession with intent to distribute. The absent-minded drug runner is scheduled for a detention hearing on Thursday.

This wasn't Carr's first brush with the law, he has been stopped at the border in the last year because he was carrying large amounts of cash and had night-vision goggles and a GPS loaded with the coordinates of a known drug smuggling trail.

But this was the first time that officials could connect Carr with actual drugs.