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Frank Lucas
American crime figure (1930–2019)
For other people with the same name, see Frank Lucas (disambiguation).
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen,[6][7] as depicted in the feature film American Gangster (2007), which fictionalized aspects of his life. This claim was denied by his Southeast Asian associate Leslie "Ike" Atkinson.[8]
In 1976, Lucas was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 70 years in prison, but after becoming an informant, he and his family were placed in the Witness Protection Program. In 1981, his federal and state prison sentences were reduced to time served[2] plus lifetime parole.[9] In 1984 he was convicted a second time for drug offenses, and was released from prison in 1991.[10] In 2012, he pled guilty to attempting to cash a $17,000 federal disability benefit check twice, and because of his age and poor health, received a sentence of
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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 hat he wore to the 1971 Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier championship fight. (Other sources say the coat and hat cost only $60,000.) His high profile at that event contributed to the increased attention he re
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