Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasionally criticized for his rulings by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. On July 23 he was scheduled to preside over one of his most important trials, that of Las Vegas Gambler Jimmy Chagra, who has been charged with conspiracy to import and distribute thousands of pounds of marijuana and cocaine. His attorneys asked Wood to remove himself from the case, arguing that he was prejudiced, but the judge refused...
Colombian officials had heard such tales before. The Guajira region where Spradley and McLemore landed is rich in marijuana-most of America's pot comes from there (TIME, Jan. 29, 1979)-and for months the army has been cracking down on clandestine flights from the U.S. that swoop in, load up and head north. The Colombians were particularly skeptical when Spradley admitted he could not remember the name of the airport he had taken off from, or his Venezuelan destination, or the company for which he was supposedly working. The missing McLemore, he said, had all the details...
After talking with Colombian authorities and Spradley in the Riohacha hospital, Chief Rogers became convinced that his man might have been seeking something other than drill bits on his ill-fated flight. Said he: "My impression is that it was a marijuana run, a drug deal gone bad. Spradley is not the smartest person in the world." So he decided to head home, leaving Everitt to pick up the pieces...
...next night, McLemore got his captors to take him to a phone. He called Everitt and said that the whole trip had actually been a bungled dope run planned in advance through a contact in Houston. The pilots were to pick up 1,500 Ibs. of marijuana and fly it to Lafayette, La. McLemore said he had written a bad check for $100,000 to his captors, and "this is probably the only thing keeping me alive." He indicated he would try to escape. "Just keep your fingers crossed and I'm going...
...airspace, an offense punishable by a fine of up to $125,000. The Houston fire department hopes the men will be back home in a few days. They may still, however, face an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which estimates that several hundred tons of marijuana come in from Colombia each month-minus, of course, the 1,500 Ibs. that may or may not have been intended for Lafayette...