Marijuana smuggler dies after 40 years on the run
Crime does not pay, unless you are good at it.
Looking at today’s jail population, it’s hard to believe that in the 1970s the maximum sentence for possessing tractor-trailer loads of marijuana was five years in prison.
Now, it’s possible to get life for selling $20 worth of weed.
It wasn’t always this way.
In 1974, marijuana smuggler and alleged fisherman Raymond Grady Stansel Jr. was indicted in Florida after being caught with 9 tons of leafy green on the Steinhatchee River in Dixie County. Nine tons of marijuana sounds like a lot, but that was only half of what Stansel, then 37, was helping drug dealers move to big cities in the U.S. when he was arrested.
The man described as a “pirate” and a “soldier of fortune” could also have been described as “very wealthy.” He has $25,000 in cash on him when arrested, receipts for Rolex...
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