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Tim McBride | Marijuana Smuggler

Tim McBride is a former-marijuana smuggler. At twenty-one, he was unwittingly recruited into a job as a deckhand on a boat illegally importing marijuana in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. This band of smugglers were middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. As McBride came to accept his new role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands. Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride, now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to him. McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. During this period, the self-proclaimed "Saltwater Cowboy," evaded the Coast Guard for years, double-crossed Colombian drug lords, and risked betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally ran out. In early October 1988, McBride was indicted for importing over 150 tons of Columbian marijuana. Weeks later he was arrested by the DEA. Facing 160 years to life sentence, McBride ultimately pled guilty and was sentenced to the mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and fine $4 million. This is his story.