Seal agreed to testify with an American district attorney and later snitched on Reaves who was faced with either testifying himself or life imprisonment. Read 13 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Seal, the subject of 2017 Tom Cruise film American Made, entered into a working relationship with Roger and the pair became close.īut he later discovered Seal was working as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency after being caught with three tonnes of cocaine. Reaves grew up on a modest farm in Georgia and progressed from manufacturing moonshine to being one of the most skilled drug traffickers for the Medellin Cartel, one of the world’s largest at the time.
item 2 Smuggler by Roger Reaves Smuggler by Roger Reaves. He covered six continents, transporting 20 ton ship loads of hash, tons of cocaine, and completed more than 100 sorties across the US border with plane loads of marijuana.His friends and associates spanned the globe. item 1 Smuggler: A Memoir by Roger Reaves (English) Paperback Book Smuggler: A Memoir by Roger Reaves (English) Paperback Book. He is one of the world’s most prolific drug smugglers having worked with Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa in a cartel that smuggled cocaine valued up to 5 billion into the US in the 1980s. The adventures of Roger Reaves has you sitting on edge as he tells you his vivid memories of Smuggling Drugs into the U.S. While sat on a plane out of Central America, Roger sat next to a pilot called Barry Seal who told him he had just left prison for smuggling 100 kilos of cocaine. Roger Reaves grew up a poor farm boy in Georgia and went from making 'moonshine' to becoming one of the most prolific smugglers of the 20th century. Kingpin: William Roger Reaves on Skype with his daughter. Roger never confessed and was eventually released. "As he started to thaw out it looks like he's crying and the paper starts unraveling and the formaldehyde starts puddling on the floor," he recalled. They even brought in a frozen body hung on a hook, assuring him that he would be killed next. Image of cocaine smuggled by the Medellin cartel (Image: Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)Īnother tactic to get a confession was bending Roger over naked before lodging a chilli pepper in his anus.
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