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Dec 1, 2022 · What happened to the bear in its final days, or hours, after the cocaine binge is a mystery, but the origins of the cocaine are not. Mr. Thornton was a known drug smuggler and a former police...
Mar 13, 2023 · For decades, Cocaine Bear remained a tragic footnote in the life of a legendary career in crime. But the 2023 film has made the bear’s coke-provoked end a legend of its own.
Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear (sometimes spelled Escobear) or Cokey the Bear, was a 175-pound (79-kilogram) American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985. The cocaine had been dropped by a group of Colombian drug smugglers in the wilderness in Tennessee , United States.
Feb 24, 2023 · Cocaine Bear's premise is pretty self-explanatory, but it's actually based on true events. So what really happened in a Georgia forest in the 1980s?
Feb 24, 2023 · Cocaine Bear, starring Keri Russell, dramatizes what happened after a bear found a cocaine stash that real-life drug smuggler Andrew Thornton dropped from an airplane in 1985.
Sep 28, 2023 · As hinted by the title, Elizabeth Banks ' action-comedy tells the story of a black bear who eats several packages of cocaine that had been accidentally airdropped into a Georgia forest in a...
Feb 28, 2023 · In 1985, authorities in Georgia found the decomposing body of a black bear next to 40 ripped-open packages of cocaine. No substantial quantities of the drug remained. How it happened is a story...
Feb 24, 2023 · The true story behind “Cocaine Bear” started in September 1985, when convicted drug smuggler Andrew Thornton died after a parachuting accident.
Feb 26, 2023 · The cocaine had fallen from the skies three months earlier courtesy of former narcotics investigator and army paratrooper turned drug smuggler Andrew Thornton; he had intended to parachute down from a small plane over Knoxville, Tennessee, but ended up falling to his death.
Feb 24, 2023 · 8 min. Andrew C. Thornton II, whose life was once filled with privilege and promise, decided that now was the time to parachute from a twin-engine plane in the dead of night to smuggle the...
