{"id":99623,"date":"2014-10-22T21:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T04:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99623"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T04:18:05","slug":"the-man-who-turned-speedboats-full-of-weed-into-indy-500-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99623","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Turned Speedboats Full Of Weed Into Indy 500 Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1986, everyone knew Randy Lanier was fast. He&#8217;d just won a sportscar championship and shattered an Andretti record to become the Indy 500 rookie of the year. What most people didn&#8217;t know is he paid for his racing dreams by smuggling massive quantities of marijuana past the feds.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"c26363daed386cc33e2cdaea332c4dde\">By 1988, Lanier was a fugitive in the Caribbean, running from the government and from responsibility for his role in a $300 million drug smuggling operation. Before long he would be caught and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"3677a02cdbf9f20cd627d93aba98fae6\">At the height of the Reagan-era War on Drugs, federal prosecutors charged Lanier and his associates with shipping\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-man-who-turned-speedboats-full-of-weed-into-indy-50-1644603033\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"3677a02cdbf9f20cd627d93aba98fae6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, everyone knew Randy Lanier was fast. He&#8217;d just won a sportscar championship and shattered an Andretti record to become the Indy 500 rookie of the year. What most people didn&#8217;t know is he paid for his racing dreams by smuggling massive quantities of marijuana past the feds. By 1988, Lanier was a fugitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,21,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-misc","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99624,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99623\/revisions\/99624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}