His father, George "Sunny" Munday was a professional football player, who played four seasons in the NFL and was a machine shop owner.
[10] After careful consideration and extensive planning, Munday purchased his first plane, a 680 Aero Commander, and began transporting marijuana from South America to the US, devising methods of avoiding unwanted attention from law enforcement agencies along the way.
Munday introduced Roberts to Rafael Cardona Salazar, a high-ranking member of the Medellin Cartel and Pablo Escobar's American connection.
[11] Max Mermelstein was arrested in 1985 by Miami Police, as a multi-kilo dealer, and was implicated by a California trafficker who gave information to the US Customs Service (the predecessor to Homeland Security Investigations) in exchange for a lighter sentence.
Mermelstein turned state's witness against the Medellin Cartel after his arrest and provided information that led to the subsequent raids on Munday's properties on September 20, 1986.
[citation needed] Munday, a step ahead of law enforcement, had held agents at bay by opening the gas tank of a cocaine-laden plane and pointing a flare gun at several 55-gallon gasoline drums nearby.
[12] Munday then fled into the Florida swamps, which he knew very well, and managed to elude capture by federal authorities until 1992, when he was finally arrested in Richmond, Virginia, by U.S.
In that capacity, he has twice been invited to speak to members of such crime-fighting agencies as the DEA, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Coast Guard, police, and armed forces, to share information helpful to counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism strategies.