I have been selling this photo for over 40 years

This was one of my front page photos in the Key West Citizen newspaper and high times magazine, it was the largest drug seizure in South Florida at that time March 27 1980 two hundred tons of panama red as we called it the wicked weed before they made that bust out at sea there was tons of it thrown overboard anybody who had a boat that week had a bale or two so here’s the funny part about this photo and what happened after unloading the giant cargo ship with the 20 prisoners from Munro County Jail, they had a major police escort out of Key West with five tractor trailers to bring the weed to the burning facility five trucks leave with sheriffs and local police escort four tractor trailers show up at the burning facility they lost one only one road out of Key West I was at the newspaper with the managing editor Roger Bartel when we got to call they asked to play the story down ha ha Key west the way it was

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