{"product_id":"takedown-how-an-undercover-cop-dismantled-the-biggest-drug-smuggling-ring-in-maine-9780692504222","title":"Takedown: How an Undercover Cop Dismantled the Biggest Drug-Smuggling Ring in Maine","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Darryl J. Kimball\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duffin Creative\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duffin Creative\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1982 Vietnam veteran John Arnold was a detective sergeant in the small town of Sanford, Maine. Working with the DEA and other law enforcement agencies, Arnold went undercover as a crooked cop, receiving kickbacks for \"looking the other way\" as drug dealer Michael Sanborn flew huge shipments through the local airport. Eventually Arnold met the \"big boss,\" Richard Lowell Stratton, a Texas ranch owner whose involvement in the drug trade stretched back more than a decade. A task force armed with federal search warrants captured 1,500 pounds of Stratton's marijuana and hashish - the largest such bust in the state of Maine at the time. A manhunt ensued and the case finally went to trial, where Stratton insisted he was just a writer researching a book on the drug trade. The aftermath of the case involved the mysterious death of a key witness - a murder that has never been solved. TAKEDOWN uncovers the police investigation into an international drug smuggling ring, told by the cop who made the bust . . . and how the case forever changed the lives of the cop and the smuggler.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duffin Creative","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45503125192855,"sku":"9780692504222","price":1318.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780692504222.webp?v=1767161988","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/takedown-how-an-undercover-cop-dismantled-the-biggest-drug-smuggling-ring-in-maine-9780692504222","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}