Former race driver John Paul Sr. was...
Former race driver John Paul Sr. was returned to the United States from Switzerland for trial on attempted murder charges in St. Johns County, Fla., and federal drug charges in Jacksonville, Fla.
Paul, who in 1983 jumped a $500,000 bond on a charge that he tried to kill a federal drug witness by shooting him five times, was flown into Jacksonville International Airport late Thursday and taken under tight security to the St. Johns County Jail.
“We have gotten information that (someone) will try to kill him,” Lt. Byron Kirkland of the county sheriff’s office said. “So far there’s been no trouble.”
Paul, 46, is scheduled to stand trial May 12 for the attempted murder of Stephen Carson, who was shot five times in April 1983 but recovered.
Paul also faces federal charges of conspiring to smuggle 200,000 pounds of Colombian marijuana into the United States between 1975 and 1983. He was indicted in January 1985.
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