Pablo Escobar. Cocaine Cowboys. Manuel Noriega.
The guy who hunted them down was a Southern gentleman with a blend of street smarts and worldly sophistication, not to mention a sharp wit: “Escobar was to cocaine what Ford was to automobiles,” he would say.
Thomas V. Cash, who served nearly 30 years as a federal agent, including seven as special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in South Florida, was known not only for his “Cashisms,” but for making some of the biggest trafficking cases during the “Miami Vice” era. Cash, an Atlanta native who lived in Fort Lauderdale, died on Christmas Day at the age of 85.
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