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WBIR News Coverage surrounding the 1985 plane Crash of Andrew Thronton - Cocaine Bear
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Andrew C. Thornton II was a founder of "The Company". A drug smuggling ring centered in Kentucky. Thornton is famously known for jumping out of his plane loaded with 75 pounds of cocaine over the Chattahoochee National Forest. A black bear consumed cocaine dropped by Thornton creating the Cocaine Bear.
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WBIR-TV Knoxville, TN
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