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"Andrew Carter Thornton II (October 30, 1944 – September 11, 1985) was a former narcotics officer and lawyer who became the head member of "The Company", a drug smuggling ring in Kentucky. The son of Carter and Peggy Thornton of Threave Main Stud farm in southern Bourbon County, Kentucky, Thornton grew up living a privileged life in the Lexington, Kentucky, area and attended the prestigious private Sayre School and the Iroquois Polo Club along with other Lexington blue bloods. He later transferred to Sewanee Military Academy and then joined the army as a paratrooper. After quitting the army, he became a Lexington police officer on the narcotics task force. He then attended the University of Kentucky Law School. During his tenure, he began smuggling. After resigning from the police in 1977, Thornton practiced law in Lexington. Four years later, he was among 25 men accused in Fresno, California, in a theft of weapons from the China Lake Naval Weapons Center and of conspiring to smuggle 1,000 pounds of marijuana into the United States. Thornton left California after pleading not guilty and was arrested as a fugitive in North Carolina, wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a pistol. He pleaded no contest in Fresno to a misdemeanor drug charge and the felony charges were dropped. He was sentenced to six months in prison, fined $500, placed on probation for five years, and had his law license suspended. On a smuggling run from Colombia, having dumped packages of cocaine off near Blairsville, Georgia, Thornton and a partner jumped from his auto-piloted Cessna 404. In the September 11, 1985, jump, he was caught in his parachute and ended up in a free fall to the ground. His dead body was found in the driveway of Knoxville, Tennessee, resident Fred Myers. The plane crashed over away in Hayesville, North Carolina. At the time of his death Thornton was wearing a bulletproof vest and Gucci loafers, and in possession of night vision goggles, a green army duffel bag containing approximately 40 kilos (88 lbs.) of cocaine valued at $15 million, $4,500 in cash, six . gold Krugerrands, knives, and two pistols. Three months later, a dead black bear was found in the Chattahoochee National Forest that had apparently overdosed on cocaine dropped by Thornton. The story of Thornton was examined in Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice and in Sally Denton's The Bluegrass Conspiracy.Sally Denton, The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power Greed, Drugs and Murder, revised edition, Avon, 1990; Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2001. Robert L. Williams, Cowboys Caravan, looks into the death of his son David, and his skydiving relationship with Thornton. Thornton was also detailed in a Discovery Channel double-length episode of The FBI Files named "Dangerous Company" in 2003. His death also served as the inspiration for the story arc of season four of FX Network's Justified.https://ew.com/article/2013/01/08/justified- season-4-premiere-postmortem-graham-yost/ The beginning of episode one features a flashback to 1983 in which a male falls to his death, parachute still attached, with bricks of cocaine scattered around his body. The bag that had carried the cocaine becomes the focus of a mystery roughly 30 years later. Known associates *Frank Barclay, former smuggling partner *Harold Brown, DEA agent *Bradley F. Bryant, childhood friend and partner in "The Company" *William Taulbee Canan, former Lexington police officer *Dan Chandler, son of Kentucky Governor Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. *James Purdy Lambert, owner of Lexington's Library Lounge night club and friend and business associate of Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. *Henry S. Vance, staff member of Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. *Wallace McClure Kelly AKA Mike Kelly - deceased associate of Thornton's in Lexington. *David "Cowboy" Williams, skydiver, good friend, alleged smuggler, died in plane crash along with the pilot and 15 other skydivers, two weeks after Thornton. *Rebecca Sharp, girlfriend and confidante of Andrew Thornton. *Derrick W. James, AKA "Rex", associate in Fort Lauderdale, arrested in December, 1982, for selling "lookout list" of the federal government. The "lookout list" consisted of three possible routes from South America to the United States: between Mexico and Cuba, between Cuba and Haiti, and between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The documents at issue were marked "UNCLASSIFIED." After a guilty plea, he received a 10-year sentence for selling unclassified information. He served just under two years. He owned a transport business, called Cargo Dominica, which he operated from the Hotel Susserou in Roseau, Dominica. External links * Drew Thornton's Last Adventure published October 20, 1985, in The Washington Post References 1944 births 1985 deaths People from Lexington, Kentucky American drug traffickers Criminals from Kentucky Drug policy of the United States University of Kentucky alumni University of Kentucky College of Law alumni Kentucky lawyers Parachuting deaths Accidental deaths in Tennessee 20th-century American lawyers Wealth in the United States "
"Exotic outback vegetation on the crests east of Yudnamutana. Yudnamutana ( ) is an historic mining valley in the Northern Flinders Ranges, located at Mount Freeling, North West of Arkaroola on the edge of the wilderness sanctuary. It is accessible by four-wheel drive from the south. Ancient mining sites give the opportunity for ecologically responsible bush camping, but no supplies are available. Walks across the crests of the mountains deliver splendid views over the Flinders Ranges into the plains of the outback. The northern pass hosts black rocks of magnetite. History=Indigenous people This area was inhabited by the Adnyamathanha tribe, of Indigenous Australians prior to Europeans. They were Stone Age hunter-gatherers and inhabited much of the area to the south. European settlement This area was first settled by pastoralists in the 1850s but prospectors followed shortly after, hoping for another Burra style deposit. A copper deposit was found, in 1859, by A Frost and H Gleeson.Yudnamutana, South Australia Journal of the Mineralogical Society of South Australia, Accessed 16/11/07 Record of the mines of South Australia Internet Archive, Canadian Libraries Yudnamutana was the site of an early South Australia copper mine. First mined in 1862, it reached fame in Adelaide shortly after when a four tonne block of ore was paraded through the streets. A drought in 1869 forced the closure of the mine because not enough water was available for animals used for transport at the mine. Another attempt was made at mining the site at the start of the 20th century, though this also closed by 1912. Transport was easier this time but ore still had to be drayed to the train line at Farina, 100 km away. All that remains of this settlement are two large boilers, some mine shafts, some dugouts and the cemetery. NotesExternal links * History of Yudnamutana * Picture Australia Ghost towns in South Australia Flinders Ranges Far North (South Australia) 1862 establishments in Australia "
"A Little Green Book of Monster Stories is a collection of short stories written by American author Joe R. Lansdale, published by Borderlands Press as part of their "Little Book" series. It was limited to five hundred copies. It contained the following stories, and possibly one more not listed here: *"Artificial Man" *"Bar Talk" (originally published in New Blood #7, 1990) *"Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland" (originally published in Midnight Graffiti, Fall 1989) *"Chompers" (originally published in Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1982) *"The Dump" (originally published in Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1981) *"Huitzilopochtli" (originally published in The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent, 1997) *"Night They Missed the Horror Show" (originally published in Silver Scream, ed. David J. Schow (1988)) *"Personality Problem" (originally published in Twilight Zone Magazine, Jan/Feb 1983) *"The White Rabbit" (originally published in The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini (1981)) "Artificial Man" has never been published anywhere else, and "The White Rabbit" has only been collected in the now out-of-print Bestsellers Guaranteed. ReferencesExternal links *Author's Official Website Short story collections by Joe R. Lansdale 2003 short story collections Horror short story collections Works by Joe R. Lansdale "