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Griffin Daily News Friday, June 17,1977
Tighter net in Florida
forces ‘pot’ into Georgia
By JACK STILLMAN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — Increased marijuana smuggling in
Georgia probably is caused in part by a lightning of the
iaw enforcement net in Florida, a U.S. Customs official
said Thursday,
“When we tighten the net in Florida, it pushes the smug
glers into Georgia, and when we tighten the net in Georgia
it is going to push them into other states,” said Albert
Bazemore, regional commissioner of customs in Miami.
“I am rather pleased with the increase in marijuana
seizures, but I would think a heck of a lot more is coming
into the country now than last year, or the year before
that,” Bazemore said in a telephone interview.
He said most marijuana coming into the country is
coming from Colombia, either by boat or plane.
“Smuggling is a cycle,” he said. “They don’t use new
techniques. They don’t use new methods. They don’t go
out of style. It’s just like a football game — they try for the
weak side.”
Bazemore said that 86 tons of marijuana has washed
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“I am speculating that because of the shelf we have
along the Florida coast, you have distinct navigable areas
and a lot of smuggling by small boats and the mother ship.
These small boats do not know the coast, and they ap
parently have to ditch the marijuana to keep from going
aground.”
Bazemore said two things figure in the current increase
in marijuana smuggling — government economy and
leniency on the part of the courts.
“The government as a whole is trying to economize,” he
said. “One way to improve the situation in Georgia would
be to have more people, but we have only 12 patrol officers
in the state.
“I have many positions vacant, but they will not be
filled because we are economizing,” he said. “If you don’t
have people (law enforcement officers) on the street,
crime goes up.
“The courts are tempering themselves,” he said,
“because of society’s thinking. They’re all too much in
favor of the criminal. You’re innocent until proven guilty,
and you’ve got to preserve that; but there are too many
technicalities.”
Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board
took over investigation of an abandoned DC-3 airplane in
south Georgia believed to have been used to haul
marijuana from Colombia.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation disclosed that
Robert Blackbum, 37, of Marietta, Ga., identified as the
pilot of the plane which landed in Baker County early
Monday, was free on bond of $50,000 in connection with
another abandoned plane in Jeff Davis County last year.
Blackbum, hospitalized at Albany with a broken hip,
has refused to talk to officers. He is charged with
possession of marijuana.
The DC-3 crash landed on a make-shift runway and the
GBI said a nationwide alert has been posted for a second
man as yet unidentified.
Jack Barker, regional public affairs officer for the
Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said an FAA
investigation of the Jeff Davis incident found no reason for
revoking Blackbum’s pilot’s license.
He said, “Our agents today are turning over all our files
on Blackburn, the Jeff Davis County incident and the
Baker County incident, as well as anything else we may
have to the NTS investigators.”
In another marijuana arrest Wednesday, police at
Hahira jailed Edward Oberman, 28, of Dallas, Tex., and a
companion, Louise Kathleen Spangle, 26, of Glenwood,
111., both of whom are being held in Lowndes County jail on
bond of SIOO,OOO each.
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These graduates faced a gust of wind during the processional in the Gordon graduation
exercises Sunday afternoon.
3 receive Tech degrees
Three Griffinites received
degrees in commencement
exercises recently at Georgia
Tech.
Thomas W. Moore received a
bachelor of mechanical
engineering degree.
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Bruce Fisher
Bruce Fisher, son of Mrs.
Maxine Fisher and Charles
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