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In 1982, Vietnam veteran John Arnold was a detective sergeant in the small town of Sanford, Maine. Dealing with the DEA and other police agencies, Arnold gone undercover as a crooked cop, getting kickbacks for "looking the other way" as medicine seller Michael Sanborn flew huge shipments through the neighborhood international airport. Eventually Arnold found the "big employer", Richard Lowell Stratton, a Tx ranch owner whose participation in the medicine trade stretched again more than a decade. A task force armed with federal government search warrants captured 1,500 pounds of Stratton's marijuana and hashish - the largest such bust in the express of Maine at the time. A manhunt ensued and the truth finally visited trial, where Stratton insisted he was only a writer researching a e book on the medicine trade. The aftermath of the case involved the mystical death of a key see - a murder that hasn't been solved.
