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Owen Hanson ran a massive illegal drug and sports-betting ring until he was arrested in 2015

He was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison in 2017 after pleading guilty to racketeering and conspiracy to distribute drugs

However, he was released in 2024 for reasons only described as "extraordinary and compelling"

Owen Hanson's story of how he went from a college athlete to a convicted cartel kingpin was so wild that Mark Wahlberg had to tell it.

In July 2022, the actor's production company, Unrealistic Ideas, announced that it had greenlit a three-part docuseries about Hanson, per Deadline . Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel premiered on Prime Video on Sept. 25 and chronicled how the former University of Southern California football player creat

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