And they repaid him with their loyalty, said McCubbin, now chief of police in Shepherdsville, where he has a “Run Johnny Run” T-shirt on ... author of “The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. But while secrets around the Cornbread Mafia will forever be rooted in Marion County, there is now one undeniable fact about its most high ...

The former leader of the Cornbread Mafia was arrested in Canada on Thursday. Canadian law enforcement officials picked up John “Johnny” Robert Boone in a small town outside Montreal after an ...

LOUISVILLE — Johnny Boone, the leader of one of the largest domestic marijuana organizations dubbed the "Cornbread Mafia," pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday. The 74-year-old Marion ...

John Robert “Johnny” Boone, who once ran a multi-state marijuana-growing operation known as the Cornbread Mafia, has died at age 80. Boone died Friday night, Joe Keith Bickett wrote in a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Johnny Boone -- the leader of the 'Cornbread Mafia' -- has died. According to author Jim Higdon, John Robert Boone died Friday night at an assisted care facility.

In 2012, he wrote a book about the Cornbread Mafia. This was a group of Kentucky-based Vietnam War veterans who, in the 1970s and 1980s, became a network of 70 outlaw farmers running an extensive ...

In a Facebook post, fellow Cornbread Mafia leader Joe Keith Bickett wrote ... the newspaper found one woman wearing a t-shirt with “omerta to the bone” on the back, along with a skeleton ...

THE KENTUCKY MAN, KNOWN AS THE GODFATHER OF GRASS HAS DIED. JOHNNY BOONE LED THE INFAMOUS CORNBREAD MAFIA AND WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS BACK IN 2018 FOR MARIJUANA MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION.