Tyler Wetherall had no idea her father was a drug smuggling kingpin until the police eventually tracked him down. She speaks to others who share her experience of a childhood spent on the run
With the benefit of hindsight, it was clearly ill advised. But at the time we weren’t the only family doing it, and for good reason: Ronald Reagan’s 1980s crackdown on drugs saw some sentences more than double, with mandatory minimums and no parole. The liberal approach of former president Jimmy Carter meant the weed-smuggling community had been relatively benign – hippies with a modicum of business nous and the connections to cash in on the times. But with the full might of Reagan’s newly formed Drug Task Force mobilised against them, many went on the run – and took their families along for the ride.
When we first arrived in Europe from California in 1985, we became part of a network of fugitives stretching across the whole continent. These fugitives exchanged information and contacts with each other: tips on how to get children into school under fake names, who had been arrested and how long they got, and where to hide illegal money.
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