Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Brian_ODea> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 77 of
77
with 100 triples per page.
- Brian_ODea abstract "Brian O'Dea (born 1948) is a Canadian former drug smuggler.Born in Newfoundland, he first worked as a minor drug dealer in the province. Moving up he became an importer of marijuana to Canada from the United Kingdom. After being arrested on a minor charge in Canada he served a brief sentence before moving to Jamaica, where he coordinated marijuana and cocaine smuggling operations going from Colombia to the United States and Canada.Moving to California, he became one of the leaders in exporting marijuana from Southeast Asia in the years after the Vietnam War. Using fishing vessels as cover he brought boatloads of drugs into the pacific northwest United States. Controlling a trucking company, two hundred-foot fishing vessels, and a workforce of 120, O'Dea and crew imported hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of marijuana to ports in Washington at the business' peak in the early 1980s. He and his partners would then sell the drugs throughout the U.S.Under increasing threat from the Drug Enforcement Administration, he quit the business in 1986, but his life declined and he became addicted to drugs. After suffering an overdose in 1988 he rejected drugs, becoming a drug and alcohol addiction counselor. Three years later, however, the DEA finally had assembled a case against him and arrested him. He pled guilty and was sentenced to ten years in jail, being transferred to the Springhill Penitentiary in Canada in 1992.In 1993 he was paroled and became a venture capitalist in Toronto. He attracted much media attention when, in 2001, he published a long advertisement in the National Post, advertising his executive management skills and being blatantly upfront about his past, arguing it was the greatest proof of his abilities. He went on to become a television and film producer, producing a number one show, Creepy Canada, on two Canadian networks.He wrote the book HIGH: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler, released 11 April 2006 (published by Random House), in July (by Virgin Books in the UK and Australia), and in May 2009 by Other Press for the USA market. His book won the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime Book. O'Dea can be heard narrating the 2009 documentary Hangman's Graveyard, which tells the story of an archaeological investigation at Toronto's Old Don Jail to uncover a long forgotten cemetery.In 2012, O'Dea appeared as Kevin O'Leary's advisor on the CBC Television Reality TV Show Redemption Inc., a show where ex-convicts compete for a chance to have Kevin O'Leary invest in their legitimate start-up business, and earn redemption. O'Dea's role was to serve as a sort of liaison between the ex-convicts and the rest of the show. For O'Leary, he explains the ex-convict's world (including arranging for O'Leary to spend a night in prison), giving him an idea of where they need to be accommodated and where not. For the ex-convicts, he serves as a mentor during the game challenges, helping them work through their personal challenges as someone who knows what they have been through, how they think, and what their issues might be in a way that would not be as trusted as someone who had not been there, and gotten through it.O'Dea told his story of smuggling drugs, getting caught and changing his life in the \"Trust Me\" segment of the Snap Judgment radio show.".
- Brian_ODea wikiPageExternalLink brianodea.com.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageExternalLink Best-Resume-Ever-m.jpg.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageExternalLink odea.html.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageExternalLink employment_wanted.html.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageExternalLink results.pperl?authorid=54468.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageExternalLink 20060427b.html.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageID "1023587".
- Brian_ODea wikiPageLength "5701".
- Brian_ODea wikiPageOutDegree "36".
- Brian_ODea wikiPageRevisionID "703717163".
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Arthur_Ellis_Awards.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink CBC_Television.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Cannabis_(drug).
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:1948_births.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_criminals.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_drug_traffickers.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_mobsters_of_Irish_descent.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_smugglers.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_television_producers.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Newfoundland_(island).
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Cocaine.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Colombia.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Creepy_Canada.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Dominion_of_Newfoundland.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Don_Jail.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Drug_Enforcement_Administration.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Hangmans_Graveyard.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Jamaica.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Kevin_OLeary.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink National_Post.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Random_House.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Redemption_Inc..
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Smuggling.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Snap_Judgment_(radio_show).
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Southeast_Asia.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Springhill_Institution.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Toronto.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Venture_capital.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Vietnam_War.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Virgin_Books.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLink Washington_(state).
- Brian_ODea wikiPageWikiLinkText "Brian O'Dea".
- Brian_ODea wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Authority_control.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cn.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Brian_ODea wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Use_dmy_dates.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:1948_births.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:Canadian_criminals.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:Canadian_drug_traffickers.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:Canadian_mobsters_of_Irish_descent.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:Canadian_smugglers.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:Canadian_television_producers.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:Living_people.
- Brian_ODea subject Category:People_from_Newfoundland_(island).
- Brian_ODea hypernym Smuggler.
- Brian_ODea type Drug.
- Brian_ODea type List.
- Brian_ODea type Person.
- Brian_ODea type Producer.
- Brian_ODea type Drug.
- Brian_ODea type List.
- Brian_ODea type Producer.
- Brian_ODea type Thing.
- Brian_ODea comment "Brian O'Dea (born 1948) is a Canadian former drug smuggler.Born in Newfoundland, he first worked as a minor drug dealer in the province. Moving up he became an importer of marijuana to Canada from the United Kingdom.".
- Brian_ODea label "Brian O'Dea".
- Brian_ODea sameAs Q4964902.
- Brian_ODea sameAs m.03_5m5.
- Brian_ODea sameAs Q4964902.
- Brian_ODea wasDerivedFrom Brian_ODea?oldid=703717163.
- Brian_ODea homepage brianodea.com.
- Brian_ODea isPrimaryTopicOf Brian_ODea.