Ciro Wayne Mancuso (born 1949) was a Nevada-based drug dealer[1] convicted of running a $140-million marijuana smuggling operation for more than a decade.
When authorities moved in on their growing operation at a small farm in Clay County, Kansas, they began importing marijuana from Mexico.
[3] Anthony White, assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada, brought charges against Mancuso in 1990 and it was hailed as one of the largest drug conspiracy cases in state history.
The indictment alleged that Mancuso used a multi-state cocaine and marijuana smuggling operation to buy ranches, mountaintop retreats, beach-front estates and anything else he might want.
[7] Mancuso's property in Hawaii was seized by the federal government and sold; the $800,000 proceeds were forwarded to the California and Nevada law enforcement agencies that pursued him.