“A few years ago, in the waning hours of a summer barbecue, my elderly downstairs neighbor started to tell me a little bit about his life,” Jack Crosbie recently wrote. “Now, I get to tell all of you.” For a decade, Crosbie’s neighbor, Harvey Prager, ran a marijuana smuggling operation, filling the hulls of a small fleet of sailboats with Colombian weed and then moving it into the US. The logistics of Prager’s smuggling operations are fascinating enough, but the longer story of his life holds the most outlandish details. A fun caper with more than a few surprising turns (and a solid Jimmy Buffett cameo).
Prager’s extraordinary court case, which resulted…