#ROGER REAVES DEAD TV#

We could get there before dark if we hurried. There was a village ten or twelve miles to the north. However, they all had one thing in common: they were armed to the teeth with AK-47’s, pistols and shotguns with banana clips, and they were yelling us to get the hell out of there. There were light impressions of tracks in the wiregrass, where other planes had landed but, hey, were barely visible and not recent.Ī dozen irate white Colombians met us. Termite nests stood blood red like 20-foot sentinels along both sides of the track. When I figured we were in the vicinity, I flew a 20-mile grid trying to get out our location.Īround eight o’clock, I found the convergence of two rivers that matched the description, and from there the crop duster directed us on to what one might call a strip, if you used a lot of imagination. The ‘crop duster’ stood between Al and me, and it soon became plain he was as ‘lost as a loon.’ Everything looked the same, and I could only dead-reckon my position. The grey haired gentleman had marked roughly where the strip was located on a chart. And, you have probably never heard of him… till now.Įxclusive Excerpts from Amazon #1 Most Read New Books: Smuggler by Roger Reaves

#ROGER REAVES DEAD TV#

Recently, he has been featured in National Geographic’s TV series, Australia’s Hardest Prison: Lockdown Oz, where he speaks of his current stay at the maximum-security Casuarina Prison.ĭespite it all, Roger still has a twinkle in his eye as he recounts his life story. He escaped from prison on five separate occasions was shot down in both Mexico and Colombia and tortured almost to death in a Mexican prison. 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.įrom Medellin Cartel kingpins Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar to “Mr Nice” Howard Marks and the infamous Barry Seal, who was Rogers close friend and employee, his friends and associates spanned the globe.

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.

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