Smuggler for Hire

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Testing the general theory that former poachers make the best game wardens, one man in Canada is using advertising to orchestrate a remarkable comeback from the depths of a prison cell.

Brian O’Dea, a 52-year-old man from Newfoundland, was no friend to the U.S. in the 1980s, running a drug ring that smuggled tons of marijuana into the country. Having completed a 10-year jail sentence, though, he is advertising his skills in Canada’s National Post in the hopes of finding a more legitimate job.

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