Weed Man by John McCaslin

Author:John McCaslin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

THE HIDDEN COMPARTMENTS THE CHIEF AND JIMMY had custom-built into their fleet of fishing boats were unparalleled—so meticulously designed, crafted, and positioned, they were undetectable to the naked eye of a badge-carrying officer, even though each held a ton or more of marijuana. The Coast Guard and drug enforcement officers were professionally trained to locate contraband secreted inside water tanks, fuel tanks, and other unusual hiding places. But when the cowboys had a hold carved beneath the fiberglass deck of a vessel, to find it somebody would have to either disassemble the entire boat—marine bolt by marine nut by marine screw—or else cut the craft completely in half. And anybody pulling over one of the crew’s fishing boats wasn’t equipped to do that—not yet, at least.

“Here is what is absolutely amazing,” Jimmy says. “The two guys on the boat that I towed to the Lake Worth boatyard didn’t say a word to the authorities about knowing me. They just said their boat broke down, that they called for assistance, and had no idea who I was when I showed up to tow them in. I’m not sure if the authorities believed them or not, but here’s the real strange thing: the DEA never found the stash in the boat. Can you believe it? They didn’t drill in those days, and they didn’t cut your boats up. The guys had one bale that wouldn’t fit in the hold, so like idiots they put it in their cooler, and that’s all the DEA found. If they had been smart enough to throw it over the side, they would have walked away that day. And you want to hear something really bizarre? The Chief got the boat back with all two thousand pounds intact, still down in the hold. They never found the weed. The two guys were charged with possession of one bale of marijuana, which they argued they had found floating in the Florida Straits while they were fishing. The Chief got our attorney to represent them, and all they got was a slap on the wrist.”

Jimmy enjoyed several days of visiting his family and friends in Nassau. The time he didn’t spend with his young daughter, born to Charon, he spent with Olive. And one afternoon he even picked up a hammer and helped Kirkwood bang a few nails at one of his stepmother’s construction sites. Otherwise, he took it upon himself to purchase a bucket of aqua paint and paid a neighborhood kid good money to touch up the Kemp Road house. He also stocked Olive’s refrigerator with meat and vegetables and treated his family to a steak-and-lobster dinner on the town—yes, lobster had suddenly become quite the trendy menu item, if you could even afford it. For the first time, Jimmy had noticed that age was taking its toll on his stepparents, which reminded him to promise Olive that he would soon pay another visit to Jacob on Long Island, and an extended one at that. What Jimmy could not tell her is that because U.

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