I didn’t know that actually found drugs.
But it wasn’t just there. My friend used to tell me about whole families being found murdered, people just disappearing without a trace, wild parties at the Governor’s mansion, etc. He lived about a two hour drive from Mena (there were no major roads to my friend’s county).
I used to visit him. All I remember was it was a dry county and you’d have to buy from a bootlegger who lived in a trailer in the woods.
The sheriff’s department knew about him but strangely he was the only one who never got caught selling alcohol. And yes we could buy it from him when we weren’t 18 (that was the legal age back then).
That was the rumor. It was at the exact same time that Barry Seal was flying drugs in for the Columbians.