His high-flying act was punctuated by multiple arrests for large quantities of either marijuana or cocaine. George Jacob Jung was born on Aug. 6, 1942, in Weymouth, Mass., south of Boston. George was a star football player in high school but was charged with soliciting a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover police officer. After graduating from high school in 1961, he briefly attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he considered studying advertising, but he soon dropped out. By 1967 he was smuggling cannabis he bought in California back to New England, where it fetched a higher price.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2021 17:03 UTC