How did frank lucas son, ray died
- •
Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas (9 Eylül 1930;[1]La Grange, Kuzey Karolina - 30 Mayıs 2019, New Jersey) Amerikalı uyuşturucu kaçakçısı, gangster ve mafya lideri.
1960'lı yılların sonunda ve 1970'li yılların başında Harlem'de uyuşturucu satıcılığı ve organize suç örgütü patronluğu yapmış bir gangsterdir. En önemli başarısı uyuşturucu ticaretinde aracıları ortadan kaldırarak Güneydoğu Asya'dan uyuşturucuyu direkt olarak satın almasıdır. Her ne kadar Vietnam'dan eroini ölü Amerikan askerlerinin tabutlarında ülkeye soktuğu gibi yaygın bir inanış olsa da birçok eski DEA ajanı ve kendisi bu iddiayı yalanlamaktadır.
Hayatının bir kısmı 2007 yapımı Amerikan Gangsteri adlı filmde işlenmiş ve Lucas, aktör Denzel Washington tarafından canlandırılmıştır.
Kariyeri
[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]Lucas kendi iddiasına göre 116. Cadde'de uyuşturucu satarak günde 1 milyon dolar kazanmaktaydı. O sırada New York'ta narkotik davalar konusunda uzman savcı olan yargıç Sterling Johnson'a göre Lucas operasyonu dönemin en önemli uluslararası uyuşturucu kaçakçılığı davasıydı. Bunun nedeni L
- •
Frank Lucas
(1930-2019)
Who Was Frank Lucas?
Born September 9, 1930, in La Grange, North Carolina, Frank Lucas moved to Harlem in 1946 where he entered the world of street crime. By the 1960s, he had constructed an international drug empire that spanned from New York to South East Asia. Killings, extortion, and bribery were his modus operandi. Lucas had millions in cash and property in several cities when he was busted in 1975.
Early Life
Born September 9, 1930, in La Grange, North Carolina, Frank Lucas was a country boy who grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. As with many larger-than-life personalities, the biography of Frank Lucas is shrouded in fact, mystery and myth, much of which has been perpetuated by Lucas himself.
Lucas grew up in rural North Carolina during the depths of the Great Depression. Many Americans in the rural South were poor at this time, but most African Americans suffered the deepest poverty. Lucas spent much of his early youth looking after his younger siblings and getting into trouble. He has claimed that the one incident that sparked his life
- •
Frank Lucas, the drug kingpin who inspired ‘American Gangster, is dead
Frank Lucas, the brash New York drug kingpin whose life was depicted in the popular movie American Gangster, died Thursday, May 30, in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. He was 88.
Born and raised in rural North Carolina, Lucas moved to New York as a teenager, and became involved in an array of street crime. He rose to the top of the New York drug world in the late 1960s. Lucas said he was mentored by Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, the legendary Harlem gambling boss.
In order to break the Mafia’s stranglehold on heroin sales in Harlem, Lucas developed a direct pipeline from the so-called Golden Triangle area of southeast Asia. In this way, Lucas could acquire large amounts of heroin much more cheaply than buying it from Mafia sources.
In his heyday in the early 1970s, when he was earning $1 million per day from selling his “Blue Magic” heroin, Lucas spent his profits freely, investing in real estate around the country. His profligate ways were perhaps best exemplified by the $125,000 chinchilla coat and matching
Copyright ©dewpant.pages.dev 2025