Posted on 05/01/2019 7:13:08 AM PDT by deplorableindc
The nation's longest-serving marijuana prisoner will be released Wednesday to a halfway home, ending a near 40-year stretch behind bars but bringing uncertainty as the 84-year-old Cuban exile prepares to report to immigration officials.
Antonio "Tony" Bascaro believes his training for the Bay of Pigs invasion will protect him from deportation, but there's no guarantee ahead of a June 11 meeting at the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.
"We are going to go to that hearing and will hear what they have to say," said daughter Myra Bascaro.
Her father, who used his aviation skills to help import marijuana, does not have an attorney, but his daughter said that he expects public support from fellow Bay of Pigs veterans if he faces deportation.
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In short he is a drug dealer who ruined many lives.
“pot sentence”
He smuggled airplane loads...
It was a smuggling sentence.
Time to queue up the "Reefer Madness" DVD.
Good grief
Really?
Sure, supply drives demand. People only wanted to smoke the pot because this guy was flying it in.
It was a smuggling sentence.
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After the failed 1961 invasion, Bascaro returned to Guatemala and married a
local before divorcing and moving to Florida, where he was recruited in
the late ‘70s to join a pot-smuggling ring. Bascaro helped import more
than a half-million pounds, using scout landing sites from above on Florida’s
coast. Bascaro said in 2016 that he earned up to $1 million over two years.
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