South Carolina's Most Infamous Kingpins & Smugglers #southcarolina

Three true-crime stories from South Carolina’s underworld: Newby Franklin Love and the 1982 Sumter County Airport sting that seized 955.1 pounds of cocaine—a DEA helicopter raid that ended with RICO/Kingpin (21 U.S.C. §848) convictions under Operation Jackpot; Barrett T. Boulware, a Lowcountry “gentlemen smuggler” whose shrimp-boat marijuana pipelines during Operation Jackpot later intersected with Alex Murdaugh through land and business ties; and Detric “Fat” McGowan of Greenwood/Laurens, whose heroin–cocaine–fentanyl conspiracy and counterfeit “V 4812” pills led to a 35-year federal sentence, with a $1M cash pipeline and a murder-for-hire plot adding to the fallout. #southcarolinacrime #upstatesc