RV driver arrested in pot bust

Knight Ridder Newspapers

May 03, 2002

ORLANDO - Hiring retirees as drug smugglers worked until a Mexican marijuana ring lost 828 pounds of pot this week on its arrival to Florida.

Arrests beginning Tuesday rounded up the accused grower, a rancher with 5,000 acres in Sonora, Mexico; the smugglers; the driver; and a pot-smoking Florida teenager who served as interpreter, according to testimony Thursday in federal court in Orlando.

Robert Dean Stephenson, a 60-year-old veteran living on a military pension, unknowingly allowed the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to tail his aging motor home on a weeklong round trip from De Land, Fla., to pick up the dope in Arizona, an agent testified.

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