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COWGIRLS & KILOS: The Bizarre Tale of a Dukes of Hazzard-Style Dope Ring,  Cut with a Heap of Southern Insanity

NESTLED BETWEEN THE SWAMPS of the Everglades and luxurious Palm Beach, sits the sleepy backwater town of Okeechobee. An area teeming with fishing holes, dairies, and (as it turned out) a massive methamphetamine distribution ring.

Jessie Bell, Aubrey, Jetta, Jamie, and Felisha—a crew of shit-kicking cowgirls—worked hand-in-hand with Steven “Wildman” Oakes, an overall wearing, drug kingpin to distribute meth. Drugs which originated in the “super-labs” of Mexico; smuggled into the U.S., transported in airboats through the Everglades, and trucked across Florida via Alligator Alley.

The all-female crew weren’t your typical twentysomethings, posting selfies on Instagram. No, these girls hunted at dawn and went mudding during the day; all the while, distributing millions of dollars of “dope” throughout South Florida.

Circumventing task force surveillance, outrunning federal law enforcement through the swamps in airboats, and evading capture by the U.S. Marshals; the girls’ drug fueled insanity culminated in what a federal prosecutor described as “the largest methamphetamine bust in Okeechobee history.”

COWGIRLS & KILOS would make a great true crime documentary, a narrative series or even a full-length film. Currently, I’m working on finding a production company to partner with. In the meantime, the 16,000 word true crime synopsis as well as the 300 word barbed-wire backstory are available on the website.

Read the True Crime Story

Read The Barbed-Wire Backstory