Opinion ID: 310065
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Milwaukee Connection

Text: 4 Through Philip Homburg, The Company had made connection with Charles Cocroft, a wholesale dealer in marijuana in Milwaukee. In August 1971, Homburg made several deliveries of Company marijuana to Cocroft. By the end of the month Cocroft informed The Company that he had a potential purchaser for much larger quantities of the weed-up to 1,000 pounds per week-if the price could be reduced to 100 dollars per pound. On September 11 William Estes went to Milwaukee to authorize this reduced price contract for The Company. During these negotiations with Estes, Cocroft left the meeting with approximately 100 pounds of marijuana, then returned with the 5,000 dollars, and announced that the deal with the largescale retail dealer had been consummated. Cash in hand, Estes and Willingham left immediately on the first leg of the ill-fated round trip to Sabinas Hidalgo.