This Week in History, 1927: A prominent Vancouver business leader is arrested for rum-running in San Francisco

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This Week in History, 1927: British Columbia businesses smuggled a lot of booze to the U.S. during Prohibition

“the largest and most powerful smuggling syndicate , controlling a near monopoly of smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico and on the West Coast.”

Parsons went to Tahiti to “obtain the landing certificate” of the Malahat, which would release his clients from the bond. He got it, then boarded the SS Tahiti and went back to San Francisco. New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach , watching agents pour liquor into a sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition.One of the other men charged was John Murphy, who the Examiner described as a former general agent for Consolidated Exporters in San Francisco and was now a “fugitive from justice” running the company’s operations in Tahiti.

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