[2] Boone won state 4-H titles in high school for both sheep breeding and tobacco growing.
[2] In the 1980s, Boone was a leader in the Cornbread Mafia, a drug organization in Kentucky dubbed the "largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history".
[3] In June 2008, police discovered Boone growing 2,421 marijuana seedlings on his farm outside Springfield, Kentucky, in Washington County, but he escaped arrest, under threat of a life sentence without parole because the bust would be his third federal conviction under the Three Strikes Law.
[7] He was sentenced to 57 months in prison,[8] but was released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton in June 2020 due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
Marshals were unable to get information from people on his whereabouts, being told by residents they would not tell his location even if they knew.