Elizabeth Banks' latest black comedy horror “Cocaine Bear” gets slightly darker when you pull back the layers.
Elizabeth Banks' latest black comedy horror “Cocaine Bear” gets slightly darker when you pull back the layers.
At the time, NBC Nightly News’ Tom Brokaw reported on the incident noting that “millions of dollars of cocaine dropped from the sky.” The New York Times reported that the drugs were dropped from an airplane piloted by convicted drug smuggler Andrew Thornton. When he parachuted from his plane on Sept. 11, 1985, Thornton was wearing a bulletproof vest, carrying several weapons, and had a duffle bag of drugs, officials said at the time.
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