In March 1975, when a dozen police cars roared to a front of a residential building in a black neighborhood in New York, dozens of heavily armed police officers stormed a black man's home, pointed submachine guns at a black man with a large waist and said, "You're arrested!" ”
The arrested black man was named Frank Lucas.
The charges given by the police were: long-term drug trade, using the remains of the US military to transport drugs.
When the news broke, the whole of New York was shocked! In the hearts of New Yorkers, Lucas was a good man, and he often spent thousands of dollars to donate money to help the poor.
Lucas's name was often in the press, and his name was often preceded by a title – Philanthropist.
How can a philanthropist turn out to be a big drug lord not shocking? But shock turned into shock, Lucas was sentenced to life in prison by a New York court because of the solid evidence.
What happened next was equally shocking, as Lucas was later released from prison and lived a life of leisure.
When the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar.
It is well known that the death penalty has in fact been abolished in the United States, so that life imprisonment is imposed on felons and generally cannot be commuted.
Lucas was not only commuted, but also released from prison.
One evening, a policeman was driving down the streets of New York, and he was going to pick up his daughter from school.
In a building not far away, a gang boss waved his hand and said to the minions, "Kill him!" ”
Then, the car driven by the police exploded and caught fire, turning into a pile of scrap iron.
This scene comes from a movie called "American Gangster".
The film is based on a true story about a black drug lord in the '70s in New York magazine, and the protagonist of the story is Frank Lucas.
Born in 1930 in a poor town in the American South, Lucas moved with his mother to Hamlet, New York at the age of 16.
Hamlet is a well-known black gathering place, but also a high incidence of crime, a paradise for gangsters and drug dealers.
At the beginning of man, he was good in nature, and Lucas in his childhood was upright, kind, and loved to help others, and he was well known in the community. It wasn't until he was 7 years old that something happened that changed him.
That year, Lucas's 20-year-old cousin was elected mayor of a small southern town through a campaign.
Just as the majority of blacks were setting up a feast to celebrate him, a group of ku Klux Klan disciples who discriminated against blacks threw gasoline on their cousins in public and lit it with incendiary bombs.
The death of his cousin caused a distortion of his character, and frank planted the seeds of hatred in his heart.
After arriving in New York in 1946, Lucas couldn't learn well. Because the community where he lived was full of gangs and drug trafficking organizations, it was a big dyeing vat without compromise, and many "aspiring young people" were pulled into the water, and Lucas was no exception.
One day, the police went to their neighborhood to arrest the criminals, and when they came out, the car was set on fire. It turned out that Lucas had poured kerosene on the car and then lit it with a lighter.
His actions were seen by a black uncle named Aylesworth Raymond Johnson. Uncle Johnson is no ordinary person, he is the prototype of the protagonist of Francis Coppola's famous movie "The Godfather".
Johnson was born on October 31, 1905 in Charleston, South Carolina. At the age of 10, his brother William was accused of killing a white man, and fearing reprisals, his parents moved most of their seven children to Harlem.
By the time Lucas was born, Johnson had become a gang boss in New York's Hamlet district, directing more than forty murders and 13 kidnappings.
The courageous and discerning Lucas soon attracted Johnson's attention and was favored by him, working as a driver under his command and part-time bodyguard.
However, at that time, drug consumption in the United States was still at a low ebb, the profits from drug trafficking were not high, and Johnson's business was still limited to collecting protection fees, collecting accounts for people and being hired to kill people.
It wasn't until the 1960s that the drug trade in the United States changed dramatically.
In the early 1960s, the United States began to intervene in the Vietnam War, and a large number of American youth left their hometowns for the Vietnamese battlefield and became cannon fodder for US imperialism.
As the war continued, the degree of U.S. involvement gradually increased, casualties increased day by day, and the anti-war voices of the American people were higher than the waves.
Dissatisfied with the government's Vietnam War policy, an emerging hippie culture emerged in the United States.
Rebellious youth in adolescence hold high the banner of freedom of sexual openness and anesthetize themselves with alcohol and psychedelics. For a time, drug use and rock 'n' roll became a fashion and trend.
In this context, the surge in drug consumption has also created many drug dealers.
At this time, Lucas had been "interning" in Johnson's gang for 10 years. With his composure, fierceness and wit, he has become Johnson's right-hand man.
Because of Lucas's loyalty, in fact, he has become the number two man in Johnson's gang.
In July 1968, at the age of 63, Johnson died in a car accident.
Johnson's death, rumored to be related to Lucas, was the biggest beneficiary of the crash. In any case, Lucas has become a climate, with a gang of horsemen and his own drug trafficking network.
However, Lucas can stand out from many drug dealers and become a big drug lord, which depends entirely on his unique strategic vision. Drugs in the United States at the time came from four places: Sicily in Italy, the Silver Triangle on the border of Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico.
Lucas, on the other hand, went his own way, buying from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia.
As we all know, the Golden Triangle is the world-famous "land of poppies", with annual production reaching 200 tons in the 1960s (when the world produced 1,000 tons of drugs per year).
Although the road is far away, the price of the goods is low.
Heroin in other markets at the time was $7,000 per kilogram, while in the Golden Triangle, $3,000 was available. And because of the golden triangle's unique geography and climate, its drugs are more pure than other regions and are more popular with drug traffickers. For every kilogram of heroin sold, $45,000 is made, a profit of 15 times.
This is obviously insignificant compared to the hundredfold profits earned by drug dealers.
But don't forget, it's still wholesale profits.
However, high profits mean high risks, and trafficking from the Golden Triangle is a long way away and the chances of being seized are high. If you want to arrive at the destination smoothly, there are two ways, one is to punch all the cards; The second is to find ways to hide poison and evade inspection.
The former insurance, but the cost is high, each link such as customs along the way, anti-smuggling boats must be dotted, and after the replacement, it will continue to spend money.
If you hide poison, it is highly profitable, but you need to use your brain, otherwise you will be beaten by chickens and eggs. Therefore, the methods of hiding drugs are strange, such as the female drug lord Blanco invented the body to hide drugs, using the "female housekeeper" to put drugs into underwear, hangers and even private parts of the human body.
But that amount of poison is small, and once it is found out, the police all over the world know it, and the method fails.
In contrast, Lucas's methods are more clever, and people can't imagine anything, that is, corpses carrying poison.
Where did the body come from? The Vietnamese battlefield, of course.
As we all know, the US military suffered heavy casualties on the battlefield in Vietnam, and the number of dead is not limited to tens of millions.
The wars in the United States after the 20th century were all fought outside the homeland, and the domestic anti-war was not stopped, so the government must treat the fallen soldiers kindly.
The pension for fallen soldiers is very high, and every American soldier who dies, regardless of officers and soldiers, is buried in a park- Boston Common, and the tombstones and graves cover an area, regardless of rank, the same size; In addition, every month, the remains of the fallen American troops are transported back to China by military aircraft and a solemn ceremony is held for burial.
The remains of these fallen soldiers are extremely sacred to the Americans, and when the bodies are transported, they are transported by the military itself, and the coffins containing the remains of the fallen soldiers are all respectful, and no one will dare to inspect them under any circumstances.
Using the corpses of American soldiers to hide drugs, the American anti-drug police would never dream of, it is indeed a fantastic idea, ingenious.
However, this must be done with the cooperation of the military, which is also very difficult.
This, of course, did not bother Lucas, who had already arranged for a horse boy from a drug trafficking organization to join the army and go to Vietnam. This American youth named Parkinson's name is just a small pony boy and has no case background, so the political trial is easy to pass.
Lucas then assigned him to the unit transporting the bodies through connections.
In this way, Parkinson's cooperation with drug trafficking organizations was pleasant, transporting drugs from the Golden Triangle to southern Vietnam through Cambodia, and then hiding these drugs in the coffins of the US military and unknowingly transporting them to the United States.
This method of hiding poisons is safe, hidden, large, and the cost is pitifully low, and even the oil money is not spent, almost negligible.
As a result, Lucas made a lot of money, made a lot of money, and soon became a billionaire.
After having money, he did not forget his black brothers who lived in the waters. Whoever marries a daughter-in-law, who buys a house and rents a house, who sees a doctor and is hospitalized, he will give generously.
He set a rule for finances that for every $100 he earned, he had to spend $30 on charity, $20 for the brethren's wages, $20 for the police, and the remaining $30 for himself.
Because Lucas was passionate about philanthropy, helping the needy in the community, and had a high prestige among blacks, every time he elected a mayor, everyone voted for him.
Lucas is an accomplished man who has invested in 5 hotels and owns 200,000 square meters of real estate in New York's Golden Mile, with assets not less than that of the former president of the United States.
Lucas alone has more than 40 mistresses, from more than 20 countries on four continents, all kinds of skin colors, all kinds of races, not supermodels, or entertainment stars, and the cost of each lover is not less than tens of millions of dollars.
Throughout Lucas's life, it can be said that he has committed many crimes, killing people, kidnapping, smuggling, and drug trafficking. What is even more intolerable is that he desecrated the remains of the US military and made the United States out of anger.
So why was Lucas released from prison?
The answer is simple: be a tainted witness.
Back in the early seventies, he was targeted by Rich Roberts, a police officer with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Lucas was cunning and escaped from Roberts several times. Not only that, but he also threw bombs into Roberts' house, mailed bullets, and intimidated people.
But Roberts did not give in, and he vowed to eliminate Lucas. After years of wits and wits, Roberts, who had become sheriff, finally gathered ironclad evidence of Qilucas and arrested him in 1975.
But Lucas, who has always been arrogant, was arrested and arrested, and immediately changed his face.
He told Roberts, "Don't you want to make a big deal out of it?" ”
Roberts said, "I would like to hear more about it." ”
Then Lucas said, "There's my undercover in the police station, don't you want to dig it up?" ”
Roberts was moved.
So Lucas made a deal with Roberts: Lucas was a tainted witness, roberts promised to work for his lightfall, and was responsible for keeping him safe for 24 hours.
After the deal was reached, Lucas told Roberts: "Stand firm buddy, I'm going to publish the name of the undercover agent." As Lucas signed up one by one, Roberts froze, and there were more than a hundred and fifty cops in the NYPD who were in cahoots with the drug lords, and they were right next to him, hiding for so many years, and he didn't know it, which was terrible.
Because of Lucas's death, he was sentenced to life in prison by the judge, but after serving a few years, he was quickly commuted and released from prison in the early 1990s.
After his release from prison, he lived in anonymity and lived in an unknown town, under the close protection of the police 24 hours a day.
Otherwise, Lucas would have died a long time ago, because after so many years of involvement in the black market, he had offended countless drug lords, and there were too many people who wanted his life.
Under the protection of the police, Lucas lived the rest of his life at ease.
On May 30, 2019, the 88-year-old Lucas died in New Jersey, ending his legendary life.