Haywood Co., NC. His “legend” is a made up crock of bull, created by some buddies from Maggie Valley and fed to flatlander, tourist Floridiots who considered him a quaint old man. One would have thought he fought George Washington in the Whisky Rebellion.
Problem is, he was really only 62. He and his brothers ran liquor in their early years. They didn’t get caught. Popcorn did. His still blew up and caught his house on fire about 7-8 years ago. That’s how he got caught. Then he ran his mouth and the Feds watched and waited to nab him again. He should have gotten 10+ years for the gun they found alone. Instead he got 8 months and he couldn’t face that. Rumor has it he wasn’t a well man either.
He never talked about when he nearly killed a local man by slitting his throat here. That part is left out of his hero story the papers like to print.
He was no more than a common every day criminal thug with a nice media campaign.
“He should have gotten 10+ years for the gun they found alone.”
Why? Is it illegal to own guns where he lives?
Popcorn was the finest man alive, willing to stand by his principles. They MADE him into a so-called criminal, when all he was trying to do was help the downtrodden. He was a patriot in every sense of the word, and how dare you cast dispersions on this wonderful man.