Try to understand this crazy story on March 27, 1981 there was a giant freighter in the international waterway 30 miles off the shores of Key West, the cargo was over 200 tons of panama red marijuana as we called it the wicked weed The marine patrol, And Coast Guard was on their ass they ended up dumping thousands of pounds overboard for some reason the entire Florida Keys we’re fishing that night ha ha but the big freighter got busted the largest drug seizure in the history of South Florida, at the time I was working for the Key West Citizen newspaper as a photographer and guess who was first photographer on site me, Lisa and I just got done partying all night till sun rise I ended up landing a Front page story with photos also sold the images to the Miami Herald and high times magazine so here’s the funny part the deputy sheriff with no gun a born and raised conch that means he’s from Key West One of the bubbas as we called them there were so many bales they had to take everybody out of the county jail to unload the freighter, so are you ready for the funny part five tractor trailers came down from the burning facility to pick up all the weed motorcycle police escort five trucks left Key West four arrived they lost one truck At the time I was very good friends with the managing editor of the newspaper Roger Bartel I was there when he got the call About the missing truck the police said don’t do a big write up on it play it down After all the smoke cleared Key West had so much incredible weed on it we couldn’t give it away it was very hard to get it off the island Key West the way it was