The Cornbread Mafia
Subtitle: a homegrown syndicate's code of silence and the biggest marijuana bust in American history
By: James Higdon
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762778232
Subjects: Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Marijuana
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A county is born: Catholic migration, the Civil War, Prohibition and John Dillinger; title: The hot air-conditioner incident, the Lebanese mayor of Lebanon and the killing of Charlie Stiles; title: The dark side of Cornbread, starring Garland Russell; title: "This is some absolutely dynamite pot here," the police said; title: Cornbread in the tropics, the cops don't trust the DEA and Jimmy Bickett sees Johnny Boone on television; title: Growers versus the drought of 1983, a rash of Raywick killings and a drug investigation gone wrong; title: How the Jesuit College at St. Mary's became the first private prison in America; title: Johnny Boone becomes "Mr. Grass"; title: The DEA wants to know, "where did you get this lion?"; title: The "Cornbread" press conference; title: "Welcome to the gladiator arena"; title: The US marshals versus James Higdon.