Frank Lucas: The American Gangster

INTRO

There is no question that when you hear about the true “American Gangster” someone is talking about Frank Lucas. Before being arrested and sentenced to jail, Frank claimed to be making $1 million a day selling drugs on 116th Street in Harlem, NY. He was known for buying his supply directly from Southeast Asia, also called the “Golden Triangle”. It was said that he would smuggle the drugs using the coffins of American service men. Frank Lucas was a heroin dealer and organized crime boss. These theories and research will prove so.

BACKGROUND

Frank Lucas was born on September, 1930 in La Grange (Lenoir County), North Carolina, but raised in Greensboro, North Carolina (A&E). He was encouraged to a life of crime after witnessing his 12-year-old cousin murdered at the hands of five members of the Klu Klux Klan, for “reckless eyeballing”. That is, looking at a Caucasian woman.

Lucas then involved himself in small......

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