tucson gem and mineral show and really saw how specimens are purchased by museums and purchased by private collectors. and by the time we graduated, we started this business called black hills minerals as this earth science supply house. eventually my younger brother neal, who was also a student at the school of mines, and bob farrar, one of his classmates, started working with us as well. with the three of us all going to the school of mines, we were problems there, because all of us chose not to go into industry. the first year was terrible, the second year was not so good but it was sort of turning into a business. as we kept going, we kept collecting more and more fossils and had the idea of it probably would work to sell these as display specimens.
bob and i were downstairs. we were both in the prep lab. we had a buzzer on our door so that if anybody came in, it would buzz back in the prep lab, and we could go meet them in the front office. it was about 7:00 in the morning when the buzzer went off. we were met by two fbi agents with a search warrant to take sue and all records belonging to sue. they showed up expecting to seal off the building and keep anybody from going on. just wait here. we have to get pete. they sent me to get pete, and i was running. i lived in a trailer house behind the institute. the fbi s here and they are all over the place. they ve got yellow police tape around the main building. do not cross. police line. do not cross. it was hard to know what was really happening at that point.
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theft. bob farrar, false statements to customs. the jury also found the institute guilty of bringing goods into the states by making a false statements. defendants eddie cole and terry wince were not convicted on any charges. as the verdict was announced, it was almost impossible to believe that the defense had scored a great victory. however, there were some fairly significant felony convictions. the expression you could have knocked me over with a feather, you could have knocked me over with a feather. i talked to some jurors after the trial. some of them were near tears when i interviewed them about how they had hoped they could acquit on every single charge. i believe they had to have something to take this to trial. and i spent the whole trial
really saw how specimens are purchased by museums and purchased by private collectors. and by the time we graduated, we started this business called black hills minerals as this earth science supply house. eventually my younger brother neal, who was also a student at the school of mines, and bob farrar, one of his classmates, started working with us as well. with the three of us all going to the school of mines, we were problems there, because all of us chose not to go into industry. the first year was terrible, the second year was not so good but it was sort of turning into a business. as we kept going, we kept collecting more and more fossils and had the idea of it probably would work to sell these as display specimens. in 1978, we were going pretty strong. we were selling mostly fossils.