A decade ago, Chandler harvested marijuana in these hills as a sideline to the construction work he performed from here to the Atlanta suburbs. In April 1991, Chandler was tried and convicted as a drug kingpin --- from a place where it seems that nobody could be a kingpin of anything. Prosecutors described him as the ruthless mastermind of a large-scale dope operation who ordered the murder of a snitch and made two local men who stole his pot disappear.
