Man led multimillion-dollar drug ring from his wheelchair
July 20th, 2008From the Boston Globe, a profile of 51-year-old Michael Pelletier, a man from a small town in northern Maine.
Pelletier lost the use of his legs in a tractor accident as a boy, but “did not settle for the life provided by a government disability check.” Instead, he used his “entrepreneurial mind and zeal for risk-taking” to mastermind an international drug ring, paying swimmers to carry thousands of pounds of marijuana across the St. John River from Canada into the United States.
He has been convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and Social Security fraud, and has been sentenced to life in prison.


