Tuesday, October 19
The 292nd day of the year 73 days left
Today in history
On October 19, 1982, the automaker John Z. DeLorean is arrested and charged with conspiracy to obtain and distribute 55 pounds of cocaine. DeLorean was acquitted of the drug charges in August 1984, but his legal woes were only beginning.
He soon went on trial for fraud and over the next two decades was forced to pay millions o…