So, a guy I built a house for in 1990 just got out of jail, served 27 years for smuggling marijuana into Southern Oregon coast by fish-boat. Many, many tons of marijuana, some of which washed up on the beach during their final, failed effort. He was convicted of the smuggling charges, as well as flight to avoid prosecution. They caught him when he returned to attend his mother's funeral, about 1992.

So, I'm at a book store this morning and I see an announcement of a book signing locally by my former client/customer, recounting events of smuggling, etc.

I'm going. I'll buy a copy of his book and say hello. He treated me good, and he's paid for his behavior (to me, 27 years seems like a long time for smuggling pot).

Am I wrong?

He did his time. Why not make money off of the story from it, everyone else does. Dont see anything wrong chief

sorry, got my time-line off. Looks like he served about 17 years. IIRC, he was sentenced to a total of like 35 years.

Wow. That is some serious time for MJ. You don't ever want to haul drugs, that's some heavy time, but especially not enough to get the feds interested. Some people serve less time for murder.

Consider the quality of the person. If you're comfortable with that, then go. I'm still amazed at that sentence. That's some farking heavy time for hauling MJ.

17 years is a lot of time for weed . . .

Hell, 1/2 the charter boat captains in The Keys made their money haulin' dope . . .

Chief,,,

How many Kilos do you charge to build a nice house?

( with an escape tunnel)

just wondering..

wheel,

was he recently on an MSNBC special?

but to your Q

no you did nothing wrong... unless he took the fall for you

Pacman,

The vessel 'Pacific Sun' was involved, if that rings a bell. Apparently, this was the (or one of the) single largest drug smuggling operations in Pacific Northwest in many years.

$750,000 was discovered buried in Rob's front yard, and most of that, as well as the proceeds from the sale of the house and the fish boat (a 65' commercial crab boat) went to build our county a new jail. I think that all of this fell under the RICO law.

I believe the stiff sentence was primarily due to the fact that he fled the country to avoid prosecution.

Otherwise, I dunno...

The fallout in the years after Rob's conviction made for an extensive article in the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday supplement when his (Rob's) defense atty. was assasinated at his home, and the Pacific Sun event figured prominently in police speculation over motive, but to my knowledge that murder investigation met a dead-end (no pun intended).

I cannot believe that Rob had any involvement there--that is just too far-fetched for me.

TDub,

I don't know about any MSNBC special. It is possible, this was a big case for the area.

During the spousal support part of my divorce, Rob's name and my work for him played no small role in the idiot judge's decision to award my ex- an unrealistic monthly fee because of my 'underworld connections'--punishment, I suppose. With a tear, I LOL at this now (though at the time it stung badly. So absurd).

All I did was build a nice house for the guy.

See if he has any left. 😉

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Take it to the trades board.