United States v. Eddie Brown, United States of America v. Horace Lewis Brown, United States of America v. Patricia Knight

On September 26, 1983, Barbara Gaddis, Horace Brown, and Patricia Knight were arrested at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for smuggling heroin. Gaddis subsequently agreed to cooperate with the government in exchange for pleading, guilty to one count of racketeering. Gad-dis testified that defendant Eddie Brown, Horace Brown’s father, asked her to travel from Dallas through Seattle to Hong Kong in April 1983 with Horace Brown and Lorraine Getchaway to smuggle heroin. Gad-dis stated that Getchaway and Horace Brown obtained heroin from a man named “Big Jim” in Bangkok during the April 1983 trip. Gaddis then successfully smuggled the heroin into the United States.

Gaddis testified that Eddie Brown asked her to take a second trip in September 1983. This time she was accompanied to Hong Kong by Horace Brown and Patricia Knight. Brown and Knight then traveled to Bangkok, and Knight was carrying a package of heroin when they returned to Hong Kong. The three were arrested at the Seattle-Tacoma airport upon their return to the United States when Gaddis wag, discovered carrying the heroin.

On October 13, 1983, a superseding indictment was filed against Eddie and Horace Brown,…