Opinion ID: 500372
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Heading: Selection of a Site to Unload the Marijuana

Text: 7 Fink asked Kinney and Deerman to recommend a safe waterfront site to unload the marijuana. Kinney and Deerman initially suggested Michael Mayer's boat maintenance and repair facility as an unloading site. Deerman and Kinney knew Mayer because they had sent Customs service vessels to Mayer's yard for repairs. After Mayer declined Edwards' offer of $100,000 for use of his repair yard, Kinney accompanied Edwards to other possible offloading sites. Based on Kinney's advice, Varca purchased riverfront property for $600,000 for the unloading site. When appellants learned that a confidential informant had advised the FBI about the possible use of this site or one in that immediate area for unloading a large amount of marijuana, appellants warned Edwards and Fink about this tip and advised against use of this site. Fink and Edwards then instructed appellants to find a new site to unload the marijuana. Appellants next suggested an abandoned riverfront warehouse in Dulac, Louisiana, that had once been seized by the U.S. Customs Service. Although appellants showed Edwards the suggested warehouse in Dulac, when Edwards attempted to drive Fink to the warehouse he lost his way and telephoned Kinney for directions. Fink approved the warehouse as an unloading site and sent the men he had hired as truck drivers (who turned out to be undercover FBI agents) to the warehouse to make repairs before the marijuana arrived. 8