Just days after the seemingly feel-good story went viral on social media — along with a photo posted by one of the grateful Girl Scouts' mothers of him posing with two girls and a silver crucifix dangling from his neck — McGowan is now in custody, named in a federal drug-trafficking indictment.
He was hailed a hero when he bought out a South Carolina Girl Scout cookie stand so two young troop members didn't have to stay out in the cold selling thin mints and do-si-dos. But, now federal drug agents are portraying Detric Lee McGowan as a cookie monster.
"One thing that I can say, and it's been a pretty big question, is the Girl Scout cookie story had nothing to do with this guy being picked up by us," Special Agent Chuvalo Truesdell, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, told ABC News on Wednesday."We had already been investigating him. It was just a mere coincidence that that happened. Unfortunately, not good timing for him.
"The gentleman pulled back up in his car and said, 'load up all your cookies, that little girl is cold,'" Ludwig told ABC News."He said, 'load ‘em all up, I'm gonna buy them all." "Nobody was hurt. Nobody was threatened. We had no reason to believe that this man was anything other than one of our valuable customers that is helping Girl Scouts power awesome experiences through the Girl Scout Cookie Program," Karen Kelly, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of South Carolina, said in a statement following McGowan's arrest.
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