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![This week’s FOIA round-up: DMVs selling out the public, cop fails cocaine-or-bird-poop test, and a Providence bike fight](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/09/06/DMVcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
This week’s FOIA round-up: DMVs selling out the public, cop fails cocaine-or-bird-poop test, and a Providence bike fight
A star quarterback’s career almost cut short over a case of fecal misidentification, a questionable profit center for departments of motor vehicles, and the citizen gripes behind a brewing Rhode Island bike war. All in a week’s work for public records.
![The strange death, and even stranger life of "Cocaine Cowboy" Andrew Carter Thornton II](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/04/28/ACTII.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The strange death, and even stranger life of “Cocaine Cowboy” Andrew Carter Thornton II
Andrew Carter Thornton II (ACT II) is a name unknown to most except as a piece of historical trivia - the man who fell from the sky in 1985 with millions of dollars of cocaine strapped to his body. To a few others, he’s one of the men tied to a drug operation that was fueling and fueled by government corruption, whose roots were traced as far as the Kentucky Governor’s mansion. But reality, revealed through his FBI file, is even stranger, tracing the corruption surrounding ACT II all the way back to the CIA.