Word: turnbaugh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southeast seized roughly 1.4 million lbs. of marijuana, with a street value of $420 million, and 533 lbs. of cocaine worth $133 million. But perhaps ten times that amount got through. A pound of marijuana costs $40 in Colombia and brings $500 in New York. Says Don Turnbaugh, chief of Customs patrol in Miami: "The situation is out of control. We're fighting at best a holding action. To think of stopping them is absurd...
...Turnbaugh, who has been hired by the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) for a $7000 retainer fee, added, "We might even find a latrine here and there...
...Turnbaugh said any objects found will be the MDC's property, although the Peabody may take any findings not used as "a study collection...
...Turnbaugh said there were at least four different forts built on Castle Island site in the seventeenth century. The first known fort was built in 1634 by John Winthrop...
Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Francis Adams were each stationed there, and John Hancock was a commander there for several years, Turnbaugh said...