[3] Using the shrimp boats Agnes Pauline, Monkey, Jubilee, and Bayou Blues, the group made six trips from Colombia to Texas.
[4] The group was arrested in 1978 after the federal government seized the Agnes Pauline when they were unloading their cargo in Port Arthur, Texas.
Frank Bryant was in 3 of the 26 counts indicted that were issued in Texas, one of them being conspiring an operation to smuggle marijuana to the United States.
[10] Rex Cauble, who was considered the headman of the operation was sentenced to a maximum of 95 years and was in risk of losing a third of his holdings, which were estimated to be 55 to 80 million dollars.
[3] In August 1981, Rex Cauble was indicted by a grand jury, as the government believed he was the financial backer of the smugglers.
In the Fall of 2017, a pseudo-semi-nonfiction book written by Barker Milford titled "Catching the Katy" was released through Dorrance Publishing that depicted additional accounts of The Cowboy Mafia.