The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History (69 page)
Authors: James Higdon
"This Is Some Absolutely Dynamite Pot Here," the Police Said . . . . . . . . . .
CHAPTERS: Cornbread in the Tropics, the Cops Don't Trust the DEA and Jimmy Bickett Sees Johnny Boone
Growers versus the Drought of 1983, a Rash of Raywick Killings and a Drug Investigation Gone Wrong .
How the Jesuit College at St. Mary's Became the First Private Prison in America . . . . . .
Johnny Boone Becomes "Mr. Grass" . . . .
The DEA Wants to Know, "Where Did You Get This Lion?" . . . . . . . . . . .
Io: The "Cornbread" Press Conference . . . . .
I I: "Welcome to the Gladiator Arena" . . . . .
The US Marshals versus James Higdon . . . .
Notes and Sources . . . . . . . . . . . .
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acknowledgments and About the Author . . . . . .
By 1980, the government estimated that Shewmaker sold forty thousand to fifty thousand pounds of hom
