Owen Hanson 'Cocaine Quarterback' Trailer and Release Date Revealed by Prime Video
Former USC quarterback Owen Hanson is the subject of a new docuseries titled Cocaine Quarterback that will be released on Prime Video.
Prime Video unveiled the trailer on Wednesday after previously revealing the three-part series will premiere on the streaming service on Sept. 25.
The series, produced by Mark Wahlberg's Unrealistic Ideas, tells the cautionary tale of Hanson from his humble beginnings to making USC's football team as a walk-on in the early-2000s before getting into illegal sports bookmaking and later dealing drugs as part of an alliance with a Mexican drug cartel:
"When his harebrained money laundering scheme loses millions of the cartel's cash, Owen is caught in a web of dangerous debt, absurd criminal mishap, and thrilling FBI investigation. Fueled by the insights of people who lived all sides of the case, including Hanson himself, shocking archival, and stylish dramatization, the series details Owen's unbelievable journey from celebrated athlete to cocaine kingpin at the pinnacle of the drug world... with only one direction left to go."
Hanson's story was part of the 2024 book Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox. The opening chapter covers his arrest by the FBI in September 2015.
In 2017, after pleading guilty to conspiring to operate an international drug trafficking, gambling and money laundering enterprise in the United States, Central and South America and Australia, Hanson was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $5 million criminal forfeiture.
The official FBI website noted in May 2018 that 21 of Hanson's associates were also charged in the crime ring and all of them pleaded guilty.
