Heroin escapes in coffins .. Informed information about the largest drug dealer in New York

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Frank Lukas, a top drug dealer in New York, died yesterday after a bout of illness, the biography of which was "American Gangster" produced in 2007, starring Denzel Washington Russell Crowe.

His nephew, Alduan Lasseter, said Lucas, who is 88, died on Thursday in New Jersey after his health deteriorated.

The following are the top 7 stations in his life.

1. Lucas was born in North Carolina and entered the world of criminality in the 1960s and 1970s, becoming a well-known trader, usually supplied with huge amounts of heroin.

2. US authorities confiscated more than $ 500,000 in cash when he raided his home in New Jersey, in 1975, was convicted and sentenced to decades in prison and released about five years later.

Diesel and Ashton in the movie The American Gangster

3. In a previous interview with New York magazine in 2000, the late US drug dealer revealed that he was winning $ 1 million a day because consumers were very impressed with his merchandise and his great generosity in distributing drugs.

Lucas was again arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison, and then again in 1991.

5. The story of Lucas became the main focus of the American gangster film, starring Denzel Washington as Lucas and Russell Crow as Richard Richie Roberts.

6. Lucas was a fixture in the film group, advising Washington on details such as how to carry his weapon.

7. The film recounted allegations of the Lucas legend, especially drug trafficking in the coffins of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.

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