The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by James Higdon

Author:James Higdon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780762778232
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2012-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

"I got out to go see J. C.," Boone said. "And the chaplain got out and came around that fucking car. I had something [a pistol] in my hand, but he didn't know it when he came charging around that car. Hair up like this, still had his tie on, eyes wild."

Only when the chaplain was face to face with Boone did he see the steel in his hand.

"Are you sure?" Boone asked him.

"And that motherfucker ran around the car and slammed the fucking door," Boone said later.

Then Boone leaned down to J. C. Abell's window.

"So much for your help," Boone said. "Now what?"

There were dozens of witnesses, including Steve Lowery, the newspaper editor.

"He [Boone] casually got into his pickup truck," Lowery said later, "and knocked that Corvette all the way into about next week. I mean, it just tore the hell out of it. The Corvette was destroyed. Then he got out and said, `You want to fuck with me now? You want some more?'

"No report was ever made. A lot of this stuff was folklore, but it happened."

This incident caused relations to sour between the crews of Johnny Boone and Bobby Joe Shewmaker, to which J. C. Abell belonged. Boone wanted them out of the cocaine business, and to Shewmaker and his men, that was just inconceivable. The conversation ended in a standoff, culminating in death threats from both sides. But no one wanted to be the man who shot Johnny Boone, and Johnny Boone didn't want to shoot anyone at all. He just wished they would pay attention and see that he was right and they were wrong, but that wasn't going to happen, either.

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