Sandcastles

In December 1968, Customs Agents, assisted by local law enforcement officers in Southern California, launched an early morning roundup of suspects that would lead to the largest drug smuggling conspiracy case in the history of the United States Customs Service. The operation resulted in a gigantic conspiracy indictment of 61 individuals.

This is the story of that operation and how it came about. More than that, it is the story Don and Richard, where they came from, how they got to be what they were, and how it ended for them.

The primary sources were, of course, the surviving principal characters in the story, on both sides of the law. They may suffer from lapses of memory after so many years but in the main the story is as they told it.