Chris Matthews’ in-law charged in plot to smuggle drugs

bostonherald.com ^ | 01/03/2011 | Curt Brown

[massmike]

Nearly six weeks ago, when federal agents intercepted the 79-foot sailboat Sarah Moira heading to the U.S. from Jamaica, they scored a major international drug bust — seizing the boat’s cargo of 4,497 pounds of marijuana and arresting the captain and his crew.

Local police are now revealing that the trail to this $8.1 million pot bust began some 1,500 miles away, in Dartmouth.

The captain of the vessel and the target of a federal probe is 58-year-old James Ormonde Staveley-O’Carroll, a shipbuilder and self-described firebrand liberal, whose daughter, Sarah, is married to Michael K. Matthews, the son of MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews.

[bgill]

snicker, snicker

[Nonstatist]

Some liberals really like illegal drugs, I noticed.

[secret garden]

FPL ping. Who knew he had hetero kids?

[GeronL]

He will now call for drug legalization. lol.

[LeonardFMason]

I hope he is LIBERALLY abused in prison.

[aSeattleConservative]

While reading that story Mike, “I felt this thrill going up my leg.”

[JRios1968]

That explains the tingle up Chrissy’s leg.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Yet they’re the first to put someone down for using pain killers.

Couldn’t happen to a better person. hee-hee

[MsLady]

This is one of the people that are giving money to the violent drug cartels. He should go down for many, many years.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s his son’s father-in-law, a very tenuous connection. I would hate to be held accountable for anything my daughter’s in-laws did.

[krb]

Chris Matthews’ family represents a Clear and Present Danger.

[Moose47]

I bet that sent a tingle down Chrissy’s left leg.

[taildragger]

Is that why is so rabid on tv, they will not let him qwell his muchies, no Cheetos for him!

[moovova]

What a waste of a good boat...

I wonder when's the DEA auction?

[Hotlanta Mike]

There’s some mule in the Matthews family tree?

[FrankR]

[Cicero]

Is this the guy? From his facebook page.

[The KG9 Kid]

Unless political influence sabotages justice, the sentence for this will be severe. This bears watching. See you all in many months from now when the verdict finally comes in.

[eyeamok]

Enough of a connection to put one on the NO FLY LIST.