"Hardball' Host Chris Matthews' In-Law Busted For Smuggling Pot"

An in-law of Hardball host Chris Matthews has been charged with running a major marijuana smuggling operation which brought pot to the U.S. from Jamaica.

Local police say that the trail from a pot bust -- which they claim was worth $8.1 million -- leads to Dartmouth, Massachusetts and James Ormonde Staveley-O'Carroll, a shipbuilder whose daughter, Sarah, is married to Michael Matthews, son of MSNBC's Chris Matthews.

Six weeks ago when federal agents intercepted the 79-foot sailboat Sarah Moira heading coming home from Jamaica, they seized the boat's cargo of 4,497 pounds of marijuana, and arrested the captain and crew, reports Curt Brown at the Cape Cod Times.


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Ferrie and Parker freaked out and sang like birds, telling federal investigators they were hired by Staveley-O'Carroll to prepare the boat for the trip to Jamaica and pick up a load of marijuana. They said they left Jacksonville, Florida on November 7 and arrived about two miles off the coast of Jamaica on November 14, according to the affidavit.


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