Pizza Shop Pot Smuggler

Published: May 26, 2020, 9:33 a.m.

#027: Raised in a gated community in a fancy Seattle neighborhood, owner of a construction company, a theater and a popular pizza parlor ... David Mendoza had it all. He was also addicted to pot smuggling. He started with hockey bag-sized loads, then graduated to trucks and helicopters. After being busted prosecutors promised to extradite him to Spain in exchange for a guilty plea, then double-crossed him.

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