Frank Lucas The American Gangster Frank Lucas was born in La Grange, North Carolina on September 9, 1930. He made a living in Harlem, New York in the 1960’s and 70’s as a heroin dealer and organized crime boss. He was successful mainly for cutting out the middleman and buying his heroin directly from Southeast Asia. A rumor, denied by Leslie Atkinson, was that he smuggled heroin into the U.S. in the coffins of dead servicemen (American Gangster True Story). Much of Frank Lucas’s childhood life explains his motivation for living a life of crime.
Jon Roberts who flooded Miami with $2 billion worth of cocaine in the '80s,was one of the drug trafficker and government informant who operated in the Miami area and was an associate of Medellín Cartel during the growth phase in cocaine trafficking. Soon after he hooked up with Medellin Cartel he began using his own method to ship cocaine into the United States. He began orchestrating plane shipments of hundreds of kilos of cocaine a week. He was associated with Mickey Munday who is the last Cocaine Cowboys left alive. He was also involved in the cocaine business during that time.
Paid in Full is about a young man who rises to the top of the cocaine industry in Harlem; which is common for most African Americans to do for those who grew up without father figures. At the beginning of the movie, Ace is stuck in a dead end job working in a dry cleaner's shop. His sister's boyfriend, Calvin, is a big time drug dealer who often tries to lure Ace into becoming a part of the drug trade with promises of fast money and glamour. Ace resists these temptations, warning constantly that Calvin's flashy style and audacious method of dealing will get him arrested. When Calvin does get locked up, Ace ends up taking his position on the streets after a chance encounter with Lulu, a Dominican drug dealer.
He started playing for other people until he started his own band in 1949. All social factors surrounding Ray were not good. On November 14, 1961, Charles was arrested on a narcotics charge in an Indiana hotel room, where he waited to perform. The detectives seized heroin, marijuana,and other items. Charles, then 31, stated that he had been a drug addict since the age of 16.
“I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.” Mr. Reta was 13 when he was recruited by the Zetas, the infamous assassins of the Gulf Cartel, law enforcement officials say. He was one of a group of American teenagers from the impoverished streets of Laredo who was lured into the drug wars across the Rio Grande in Mexico with promises
Malcolm X was a street hustler dealing in drugs and prostitution when the age of school. He was convicted of robbery in 1946 and sent to prison for seven years. Malcolm X has opened up a future that totally different from his street and prison life by learning new words, continuously reading books and copying dictionary while he is in prison. He became a noted black civil rights leader, reformer, author and speaker after getting out of jail. Malcolm X is a great man.
K. By 1914, Rothstein had become one of the kings of gambling in New York. He was also highly skilled as a smuggler and trafficked in diamonds; heroin; cocaine; and later, liquor. He gained control of the garment industry first by using thugs to break strikes and then later by gaining control of labor
Beatrice millet Criminology 21 Professor Thomas March 13 2013 Assignment #1 The article “Drug snitch takes bullet in Mercedes” written by Mitchel Maddux and Dan Macleod from the NY post is about a man named Burton Dennison by the age of 44, a resident of queens New York who was gunned down in Brooklyn NY on January, 13 2013 sources say he was murdered for being an informant. The article states that Dennison became an informant after he was arrested in September 2011 for selling a kilo of cocaine to an informant who himself was angling for a lighter sentence for money laundering and drug dealing. After being arrested Dennison ratted out one of his alleged partner and pled guilty to pursuant to a corporation agreement,
To begin, here is some background on the gangs that will be discussed. One gang that has grown rapidly throughout the years in New Jersey is the Bloods. The Bloods are an African-American gang that started in Los Angeles, California. The primary reason why the Bloods are so huge and notorious today is because they wanted to compete against the intimidation and rivalry of the Crips. It all started when the Pirus, a set underneath the Crips, separated during an internal gang war.
In the late 1960s the illegal use of drugs began to be more widespread and the government acted very aggressively with a broad program of arresting drug law violator, having a large number of the drug law violators incarcerated, patrol the borders in an attempt to stop drug smuggling, forming an alliance with other countries to assist in shutting down criminal organizations that manufacture and distribute drugs, and mounting efforts to reduce demand for drugs. The increase of violent crimes committed by juveniles rose at a fast rate. Violent crimes committed by juveniles had reached its epidemic proportions by the late 1980s. The growing market for cocaine and its derivative crack was tied in the 1980s and the easy access to guns. Young people started to get involved in street gangs by working as street soldiers in drug distribution networks, arming themselves, and began to kill each other at a high rate.