The fuller story is that a Lexington Ky narcotics officer named Drew Thornton becomes a drug dealer in the 1970s. He expands his narco empire until it’s the largest drug importer between the east coast and Chicago. He recruits friends from the police force and they set up a front company that provides bodyguards while having a reason to buy guns, body armor and planes and an easy way to launder money. They’re involved with several missing persons cases, the theft of military hardware from China Lake, the participation of members of Kentucky Gov John Y Brown's inner circle, and the time when Woody Harrelson’s dad killed a federal judge (all true). The cocaine bear part is just the end of the story, when the feds finally catch up to Thornton and he jumps out of a plane with a huge bag of coke, but his parachute doesn’t open. The bear dies, but is taxidermied, bought by Waylon Jenning, then by Kentucky for Kentucky, a tshirt and knickknack seller in Lexington.
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The fuller story is that a Lexington Ky narcotics officer named Drew Thornton becomes a drug dealer in the 1970s. He expands his narco empire until it’s the largest drug importer between the east coast and Chicago. He recruits friends from the police force and they set up a front company that provides bodyguards while having a reason to buy guns, body armor and planes and an easy way to launder money. They’re involved with several missing persons cases, the theft of military hardware from China Lake, the participation of members of Kentucky Gov John Y Brown's inner circle, and the time when Woody Harrelson’s dad killed a federal judge (all true). The cocaine bear part is just the end of the story, when the feds finally catch up to Thornton and he jumps out of a plane with a huge bag of coke, but his parachute doesn’t open. The bear dies, but is taxidermied, bought by Waylon Jenning, then by Kentucky for Kentucky, a tshirt and knickknack seller in Lexington.