☰

Biographies & Memoirs

The Golden Gate Smuggling Company: A San Francisco Marijuana Empire

Not Available / Digital Item

The Golden Gate Smuggling Company: A San Francisco Marijuana Empire

%In 1979, Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year, a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking for professional seamen and found a few, including the author. The fishermen he recruited became a crew that played an integral part in smuggling more than 250 tons of marijuana that FBI agents credited to the â€œPerlowin Conspiracy.â€

The Golden Gate Smuggling Company provides a true, behind-the-scenes story of â€œThe Company,â€ the largest marijuana smuggling operation in the history of San Francisco. In the early 1980s, commercial tuna fishermen used long-range tuna boats specially outfitted for the eight-thousand-mile round-trip between San Francisco and Colombia. Each boat carried at least 30 million dollars worth of marijuana to the Companyâ€™s private pier in the San Francisco Bay area. Douglas, a fisherman who lived through it all, narrates this adventure from load number one to the federal courthouse in San Jose four years later.

Through the story of the Company, Douglas chronicles a laid-back, Californiastyle drug-smuggling empire that operated free of Hollywood clichÃ©s: no guns, no violence, no dramatic shoot-outs or car chases.

Country	USA
Author	Brett Douglas
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781462055678
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	iUniverse
Manufacturer	iUniverse
NumberOfPages	175
PublicationDate	2011-10-24
Publisher	iUniverse
ReleaseDate	2011-10-24
Studio	iUniverse

You might also like...

Shoulda Robbed a Bank

Shoulda Robbed a Bank

Marijuana Smuggling For Fun and Profit

Marijuana Smuggling For Fun and Profit

Snow on the Palms

Snow on the Palms

The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War

The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War

Snowbird: The Rise and Fall of a Medellin Drug Pilot

Snowbird: The Rise and Fall of a Medellin Drug Pilot