Upcoming Events at Meeting Rooms, Fort Myers Regional Library
Mon Sep 17, 6:30 PM - Mon Sep 17, 8:00 PM
Meeting Rooms, Fort Myers Regional Library
1651 Lee St., Fort Myers, FL 33901
Community: Fort Myers
Description
Tim McBride went from small-town pothead to one of the most prolific pot haulers in American history, before being sentenced to ten years in prison for presiding over a drug-smuggling empire.
Event Details
He’s a former marijuana smuggler/pot hauler/ living on the edge of the Everglades in Southwest Florida. From 1979 to 1989 he ran these southern waters and the Caribbean with a band of modern day pirates known by locals as, Saltwater Cowboys.
In the nearly ten years that he was involved in smuggling, an estimated 25 million plus pounds of Colombian and Jamaican marijuana was brought through this little corner of the world and distributed throughout North America. “If you were tokin’ on fine Columbian and Jamaican weed during the late ’70s and all through the ’80s, chances are we hand our hands on it first.”
But it all ended in late 1988 when the United States government, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the DEA, the United States Customs, the U.S. Marshals, and state and local law enforcement initiated “Operation Peacemaker.” It wasn’t long before a knock on his door was followed with a piece of paper that read, 'The United States of America verses Timothy S. McBride.'” The war on drug’s had finally caught up with him.
He was sentenced to 10 years mandatory to life. But that was only the beginning…
In the nearly ten years that he was involved in smuggling, an estimated 25 million plus pounds of Colombian and Jamaican marijuana was brought through this little corner of the world and distributed throughout North America. “If you were tokin’ on fine Columbian and Jamaican weed during the late ’70s and all through the ’80s, chances are we hand our hands on it first.”
But it all ended in late 1988 when the United States government, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the DEA, the United States Customs, the U.S. Marshals, and state and local law enforcement initiated “Operation Peacemaker.” It wasn’t long before a knock on his door was followed with a piece of paper that read, 'The United States of America verses Timothy S. McBride.'” The war on drug’s had finally caught up with him.
He was sentenced to 10 years mandatory to life. But that was only the beginning…
