• A new book reveals how disgraced lawmen and elite soldiers formed a cartel pipeline from Fort Bragg to Mexican traffickers. The scandal exposes a covert underworld network of drug-running, weapon theft, and assassinations embedded in America’s most prestigious military base, with explosive implications for national security and accountability.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (TDR) — Once lauded as the crown jewel of America’s Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg now finds itself at the center of a narcotics and corruption scandal more sinister than fiction. A forthcoming exposé by investigative journalist Seth Harp, titled The Fort Bragg Cartel, reveals a network of elite military operatives and former law enforcement agents who allegedly built a militarized criminal enterprise rivaling the very cartels they once fought.

The book, set for release August 12, is already drawing sharp attention following an explosive excerpt published by Rolling Stone. At the heart of the story lies the December 2020 double homicide of Master Sergeant William “Billy” Lavigne II and Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Dumas Sr.—both linked to elite Army units. Their bodies, riddled with bullets and dumped in a training area, bore hallmarks of a professional execution.

The Rise of a “Little Cartel”

Though a man named Kenneth Maurice Quick Jr. was later indicted, the deeper narrative follows Freddie Wayne Huff II, a former state trooper turned cartel asset who claims to have operated a narcotics pipeline from Mexico through North Carolina with help from Fort Bragg insiders. Huff, fired in 2014 under controversial circumstances, vowed revenge against the law enforcement system that abandoned him.

“I told myself I was going to use every f***ing thing I had known, learned, and taught against them,” Huff recalled.

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He did just that. Operating under the guise of an appliance export business, Huff became a key distributor for Los Zetas, one of Mexico’s most brutal cartels—whose own founders, ironically, trained at Fort Bragg decades earlier. According to Harp’s reporting, Huff moved up to 100 kilograms of cocaine weekly, protected by a cadre of former police and military personnel who offered skills—and plausible deniability.

Elite Soldiers, Black Market Arms

More alarming is Huff’s claim that Chief Warrant Officer Dumas introduced him to an internal drug ring operating within the base itself.

“Tim told me about basically a gang,” Huff said. “A drug-trafficking organization within the military… guys that are trained killers… who would resort to anything, including murder.”

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Dumas is also implicated in a scheme to steal weapons—falsifying military logs to smuggle grenades and automatic firearms into the black market. The implication that military-grade arms were circulating through criminal networks under the cover of Fort Bragg’s prestige raises urgent questions about internal oversight.

The Heroin File

Perhaps most damning is the mention of a “blackmail letter” Dumas allegedly entrusted to Huff, naming soldiers involved in trafficking opiates sourced from Afghanistan into the U.S. The document, if real, may link elements of America’s longest war to a stateside criminal enterprise fueled by addiction and secrecy.

“It was seriously incriminating shit,” Huff said, claiming the heroin was sold to both American troops and civilians.

A Shadow State Within

Federal prosecutor Randall Galyon described Huff’s protectors as more than enablers:

“They were former law enforcement, former military… they provided a set of skills that would be useful to him.”

The portrait that emerges is chilling: a disciplined, militarized cartel operating under the nation’s nose, housed in its most elite base. Harp’s book may trigger renewed scrutiny into domestic security vulnerabilities within America’s armed forces—particularly at a time of heightened concern over foreign and domestic infiltration.

If Fort Bragg can become the epicenter of such a conspiracy, where else might corruption take root beneath a cloak of honor and valor?

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