Frank Lucas Nicky Barnes
During the harlem heroin plague of the seventies few dealers were bigger than frank lucas and leroy nicky barnes.
Frank lucas nicky barnes. Leroy nicholas barnes october 15 1933 june 18 2012 was an american crime boss active in new york city during the 1970s. In the movie titled mr. For those too.
During their heyday in the 60s and 70s they flooded harlem with heroin. If we had reported nicky barnes s death promptly chances are it would have appeared on the inside obituary page like frank lucas s. In a documentary about rival gangster nicky barnes cuba gooding jr.
But nicky got the last laugh. Money from drug dealing made them rich and famous and the black community less safe. In the 60s and 70s harlem and the bronx were plagued by two notorious drug kingpins frank lucas and nicky barnes.
A far bigger and wealthier drug dealer than the better known nicky barnes and more famous frank lucas frank matthews born 1944 was in a league of his own he was america s biggest narcotics trafficker when he jumped bail in 1973 and disappeared with 20 million. The real frank lucas responded to nicky s accusation in an mtv interview nicky was a flamboyant guy who was kind of live. In 1972 barnes formed the council a seven man african american organized crime syndicate that controlled a significant part of the heroin trade in the harlem area of new york city.
Frank lucas the drug lord who inspired american gangster dies aged 88 read more according to the new york times barnes died aged 78 or possibly 79 in 2012. Untouchable the real nicky barnes said that frank was actually the more flamboyant of the two of them. American gangster a movie released in 2017 profiled lucas.
Everyone is just learning that the drug kingpin died in 2012. Frank matthews went on the lam taking his girlfriend and 20 million in cash.
