Opinion ID: 484754
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Heading: the april 1980 successful load

Text: 11 Upon arriving in the United States, Bennie and Kentz were called by Stan and told to return to Jamaica because Stan had arranged for another load. Bennie and Kentz took a commercial flight to Jamaica where they were met by David Ambrit, a marijuana supplier. 12 A few days later, Bennie and Kentz went to an airport in Jamaica where Ambrit had arranged for an aircraft and a load of marijuana. Bennie stole some gas for the airplane and Ambrit arrived a few hours later with the marijuana. Several Jamaican military policemen assisted Ambrit in loading the marijuana onto the plane. Bennie and Kentz took off for the United States. 13 Kentz got lost attempting to find the landing strip that Stan had shown him near Lake Okeechobee. 4 The aircraft was low on fuel and, given Bennie's recently developed adversity to water landings, they decided to land at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. After landing, they locked the aircraft in the hangar and took a taxi to a motel. 14 After unsuccessfully attempting to contact Stan, Basso, and Graham, Bennie finally reached an individual named Dick who lived near Lake Okeechobee and arranged to off-load the marijuana into pickup trucks sometime after dark. 15 Bennie followed the trucks to a trailer house near Lake Okeechobee where Stan, Basso, Graham, Gene Slusser, and two deputy sheriffs were waiting. 5 They weighed the marijuana and found that there was less than 1600 pounds instead of the 1900 pounds that was supposedly loaded on the plane. Bennie was accused of stealing part of the load. 16 Slusser and the deputies were to receive one half of the load for providing an airstrip and security out of which they were to pay Ambrit for supplying the marijuana. After Stan helped Ambrit collect from Slusser, Ambrit agreed to allow Stan and Bennie to deal directly with him as Slusser had done.