Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Growing up in the Martinsburg and Bladensburg area in the 1940s and ’50s, Forest Butler didn’t expect to spend the vast majority of his adult life living along the United States-Mexico border where drug smugglers would use his property as a shortcut to the big cities like Tucson and Phoenix.
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Butler battles border-busting banditos

Growing up in the Martinsburg and Bladensburg area in the 1940s and ’50s, Forest Butler didn’t expect to spend the vast majority of his adult life living along the United States-Mexico border where drug smugglers would use his property as a shortcut to the big cities like Tucson and Phoenix.

Samantha Scoles

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