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Frank Lucas (drug dealer) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Frank Lucas (drug dealer)
Frank Lucas (born September 9, 1930) is an American former heroin dealer, who operated in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen,〔("The Return of Superfly" ) ''New York Magazine'', 14 August 2000.〕 but this claim is denied by his South East Asian associate, Leslie "Ike" Atkinson. Rather than hide the drugs in the coffins, they were hidden in the pallets underneath as depicted in the 2007 feature film ''American Gangster'' in which he was played by Denzel Washington, although the film fictionalized elements of Lucas' life for dramatic effect. ==Early life== Lucas was born in La Grange, North Carolina, and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina.〔("Frank Lucas, Between Issues" ) ''Metro Magazine'', 8 November 2007.〕 He was the son of Mahalee (née Jones 1909-2003) and Fred Lucas.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=TRAfCR1tWXMC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=mahalee+lucas+new+jersey&source=bl&ots=iLE5VyO0fP&sig=rISJMMsn1h6BfFs7Ercd9sAIpHU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mZToU4SsINSAygTi6IG4BA&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=mahalee%20lucas%20new%20jersey&f=false accessed 8/11/14〕〔https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VHRJ-WD8 accessed 8/11/14〕 He claims that the incident that sparked his motivation to embark on a life of crime was witnessing his 12-year-old cousin's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, for apparently "reckless eyeballing" (looking at) a Caucasian woman, in Greensboro. He drifted through a life of petty crime until one particular occasion when, after a fight with a former employer, he fled to New York on the advice of his mother. In Harlem, he indulged in petty crime and pool hustling before he was taken under the wing of gangster Bumpy Johnson.〔 Lucas' connection to Johnson has since come under some doubt; he claimed to have been Johnson's driver for 15 years, although Johnson spent just five years out of prison before his death in 1968. According to Johnson's widow, much of the narrative that Lucas claims as his actually belonged to another young hustler named Zach Walker, who lived with Johnson and his family and later betrayed him.
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