{"id":77672,"date":"2025-12-09T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:42:07","slug":"welcome-to-florida-smuggling-in-the-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77672\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Florida: Smuggling in the Everglades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Smuggling in the Everglades<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is proud to acknowledge that it didn&#8217;t follow science when recommending a black bear hunt. 2. Our guest this episode is documentary filmmaker Rob Hoovis. In November of 2025, he premiered &#8220;Outlaws of the Everglades,&#8221; a film detailing the marijuana smuggling pipeline from Central America and the Caribbean that flowed through the 10,000 Islands area of rural southwestern Florida during the 1970s and 80s.                <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109950\" class=\"wp-image-109950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Outlaws-of-the-Everglades-smuiggling-film-marijuana-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"978\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-109950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images: outlawsoftheeverglades.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smuggling in the Everglades 1. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is proud to acknowledge that it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-77672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}