Storm Riders : Messengers of Change

An investigation into an apparent shipwreck off Maryland's Eastern Shore 15 months ago ended with the indictments of 22 persons for drug smuggling in what U.S. law enforcement officials said yesterday was one of the single largest drug operations ever uncovered in the United States.

From the debris of wood splinters and old inner-tubes that washed ashore in August 1980, investigators with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration traced a path of international intrigue, starting in the hemp fields of Lebanon and leading from the docks of Annapolis and Ocean City to the streets of California and Nevada.