Opinion ID: 484754
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Heading Rank: 8

Heading: the september 1980 unsuccessful load

Text: 32 Ambrit's distrust of Stan led him to ask Bennie to run the next load alone without Stan's knowledge or assistance. Bennie agreed and offered to form a different ground crew than the one Stan had been using so as to avoid Stan knowing about the load. Bennie later contacted Stan and told him all the details of what had transpired. Stan agreed to allow Bennie to run the load as long as Stan could be close by to make sure that he did not get ripped off. 33 Bishop suggested that it would be safer to attempt an air drop instead of an actual landing. Bennie agreed and chose a location in Dade County for the drop. 34 Bishop and a copilot flew the Cessna to Jamaica where Ambrit loaded 640 pounds of marijuana onto the plane. When the plane returned, Bennie and Jim were waiting at the drop site. Bishop's copilot dumped the marijuana but the bales scattered for about a mile and a half in every direction. Bennie recovered only 100 of the 640 pounds. 35 Bishop landed the Cessna at the Opa Locka West airstrip but the plane slid off the runway and got stuck in the mud. The next day, Metro-Dade police confiscated the aircraft. Stan later claimed that the plane had been stolen and recovered the aircraft after taking title in his name. Believing that Bennie had once again stolen from him, he declared that their partnership was over.