Lawrence Journal-World 05-27-13

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From the Emerald Triangle to the Sunflower State: the inside story of Lawrence’s cross-country marijuana pipeline: Part 2

California connection runs deep in city’s biggest drug bust By Shaun Hittle and Ian Cummings Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo

LAWRENCE MOTHER REBECCA DUNN and her 2-year-old daughter, Lorelei, stop to watch as Andy Toyne, 24, of Lawrence, plays his guitar while cruising down the path on his unicycle recently in South Park.

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Service in Iraq A year and a half later, Spc. Duncan rode in the back of a Humvee, manning an M240 machine gun. His job was to patrol near Convoy Support Center Scania, about 45 miles south of Baghdad. “We would travel up and down the MSR (Major Supply Route), which is a fourlane highway, looking for IEDs (improvised explosive devices),” he said. “It was spotlighting and drinking all the Monster (energy drink) I could get my hands on so I wouldn’t die.”

The thousands of pounds of high-grade marijuana that fueled a local drug-selling network arrived via a fertile pipeline from the “Emerald Triangle,” a tri-county portion of Northern California known for prolific pot production. Through a sophisticated web of drug distribution involving fictitious businesses and a steady stream of Lawrence-area drug couriers, marijuana barrelled east to the Lawrence area, while millions in cash headed west to California, according to court documents. A former Kansas University swimmer and Lawrence swim coach, an emergency medical technician and volunteer firefighting couple, and an amateur golfer/bed-and-breakfast hotelier were among those wrapped up in the multistate federal prosecution, which has come to include more than 40 defendants.

Please see MEMORIAL, page 2A

Please see CALIFORNIA, page 7A

Baseball museum in Muscotah rounds 2nd base

JEFF HANSON show off the progress on the Joe Tinker Museum. A volunteer crew recently added a cement floor.

On Memorial Day, young veteran wants fellow citizens to think about cost of war By Adam Strunk

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IRAQ WAR VETERAN JOHNATHAN DUNCAN, right, laughs with Michael Siroky, also an Iraq War veteran, as the two socialize with other vets Thursday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the new Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 852 building at 1801 Massachusetts St. Duncan, who has experienced bouts of post traumatic stress disorder since his service, says he takes comfort in being able to assist other veterans.

By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com

Last summer, if you drove the winding Kansas Highway 159 north toward small Kansas towns such as Holton and Horton, you might not have noticed the town of Musco-

‘It’s been fun to take something from the imagination to reality’ tah, population less than 180. But an old water tower tank, plunged into the middle of the town like a meteor dropped from another planet, might have caught your eye.

At that time, the defunct water tank was just the start of Jeff Hanson’s project celebrating the town’s most famous former resident, Chicago Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker, who played for the

team when the Cubs won their last world championship in 1908. Tinker is also the subject of what baseball fans will tell

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“Activated.” Even uttered in his father’s voice, the word hit Johnathan Duncan like a brick wall on a brisk October day in 2005. The Kansas National Guard’s 161st Field Artillery, Duncan’s unit, had been called into service in Iraq. “My first thought was, ‘I’m going to die,’” he said. He would have to make good on his promise made as a 17-year-old looking to pay for college, when the second Iraq war was supposed to be a quick sequel to Operation Desert Storm. “A lot of people said, ‘You could have gone to Canada,’” he said. “But I said I was going to do something, and just

because I don’t agree with it, doesn’t mean I’m not going to do it.”

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Officials have launched a new interactive mapping system that allows the public to make suggestions to the county’s transportation system simply by clicking on a map. Page 3A

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