It all started with a California man’s arrest six years ago. Owen Hanson grew up in Redondo Beach. He was a walk-on tight end on the 2004 University of Southern California football team, according to San Diego Union Tribune reporter Kristina Davis. After college, he saw success in real estate development, but the business tanked when the economy crashed in 2007. Then, Hanson ran a sportsbook that he took over from his father’s fishing buddy. But it wasn’t the only business Hanson would run. “It really started out as a sports betting racket and then [Hanson] got more seriously into drug trafficking,” Davis tells The Times. “He was a very unlikely drug kingpin.”