Every once in a while a photographer catches a break I got a call one morning around 9 o’clock it was the managing editor of the Key West citizen newspaper Roger Bartel telling me to get down to the Navy base bring my press pass and a lot of film there was a massive drug bust out an international international waterway A freighter A big freighter We’re talking 200 tons of panama red it would end up being the largest drug seizure in the history of South Florida I was first photographer on site before anybody I published four images from that bust it made me a super professional Journalist by the next day and the storys that go with this bust are Key West originals let’s just say everybody and their mother had a garbage can in the garage of this wicked weed and trust me this panama red was some of the best weed I ever smoked I mean people smoked that’s what they told me March 27, 1980 when Key West was Key West
