Journey into Darkness; Nowhere to Land; The Fall Guy in the World Famous John Z. DeLorean Drug Trial
Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 223, [1] pages. Rear cover is creased. Foreword by James Walsh Inscribed and signed by the author. Inscription reads For The Bethesda Coes Family, With hope, Stephen Arrington. One of the members of the family (Amber Coe) in turn gave the family copies for Christmas, 1993. Amber capitalized in red the C in Coes in the inscription. Stephen Arrington is an American motivational and drug education speaker and writer. In the past, he was a Navy bomb disposal diver and Vietnam veteran. Arrington started his career serving at Navy bomb disposal unit (including service in Vietnam) from 1966 till 1971. He left the service as a chief petty officer and in 1979 he was caught selling a small amount of marijuana to another sailor and discharged, ending his 14-year military career. He was later hired as a pilot by someone he would find out was connected to the Medellin cartel and in 1982 was arrested after ditching the car with 55 pounds of cocaine in it at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles as federal investigators were building a case against auto executive John DeLorean.
One year later, after he was freed from the prison, he became an inmate fireman for Boron Prison Camp. He held that position for three years and then became an air diving supervisor at the College of Oceaneering. From 1987 to 1993, Arrington worked as an expedition leader and chief diver at the Cousteau Society. Since then, he works as a motivational and drug education speaker and writer, living in Paradise, California. Arrington also holds the position of a founder and president of the Dream Machine Foundation. In October 1982, DeLorean was charged with cocaine trafficking after FBI informant James Hoffman solicited him as financier in a scheme to sell 220 lb. (100 kg) of cocaine worth approximately $24 million. DMC was insolvent at the time and in debt for $17 million. Hoffman had approached DeLorean, a man whom he barely knew with no prior criminal record, and DeLorean was able to successfully defend himself at trial under the procedural defense of police entrapment. The trial ended in a not guilty verdict in August 1984, by which time DMC had declared bankruptcy and shut down. The author unwittingly became the "Fall Guy" in the highly publicized John DeLorean drug case. Naval career shattered, his youthful innocence stripped from him, and friends and family put to the test of loyalty, Arrington locked on one hope during his savage stay in federal prison. This is the personal story of Stephen Arrington, the "Fall Guy" in the highly publicized John Z. DeLorean drug case. "...When I began to write this book in my prison cell, I never would have believed that I would finish it on a Cousteau Expedition vessel" Condition: Good.
Keywords: Drug Cases, John DeLorean, Federal Prison, James Walsh, Cocaine, James Hoffman, FBI, Police Entrapment, Navy Diver, Cousteau Society, Redemption
ISBN: 1563840030
[Book #80486]
Price: $65.00