The “Cocaine Bear” movie scheduled for release Feb. 24 appears to be pretty different from what two former Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents say really happened when a bear stumbled upon a cache of cocaine in the Georgia mountains 38 years ago.
“It’s kind of surprising to me that they’re going to make a movie about it,” former agent Paul Loggins said in a 2021 interview with the Herald-Leader soon after the movie was announced.
Fran Wiley was the assistant special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Office of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation when the remains of the bear were found in Fannin County in late 1985.
