re: Any of you have stories about meeting drug smugglers, cartel members, etc

In the mid 1980's we had a neighbor who lived across the river from us. He had this huge house on several hundreds of acres. As kids we would sneak onto his place and fish and hunt. Rumor was he flew coke into his private airfield and had a vault beneath his barn. We would see him everyday jogging along the road with several german shepards keeping pace and a car following not far behind.

Then one day his place gets raided. FBA, ATF, DEA, and local PD. I remember watching his plane take off when just before the raid. The next day an agent stopped by our house and asks my dad if he could speak with me. I was about 10 at the time. The agent pulls out multiple photos of my friends and I hunting, fishing, swimming on this guys property. Turns out his security was watching us the entire time. It was creepy as hell.

His property was taken over by the state and eventually auctioned off. No one ever found the owner once his plane took off. I still remember his name and last I heard he was suspected to have settled in Columbia. He was a good neighbor as far as I remember.