Frank Lucas Research Paper

Frank Lucas one of the most famous criminals making more than $1,000,000 a day at his largest. Selling heroin straight from the source. Frank Lucas is the American Gangster. Frank Lucas was born on September 9, 1930 in La Grange, North Carolina. Frank grew up with his mom and dad. Frank’s mom’s name is Mahee Jone Lucas and his dad name is Fred Lucas. Frank’s childhood was not always so bad. He was a county boy who grew up in Rural, North Carolina during the great depression. He spent his early youth watching siblings and getting in trouble. It all started when lucas was about six. Frank and his 13 year old cousin was playing out one day and a few members of the KKK killed his cousin right in front of him. This led many to believe that

Frank liked the benefits so he engaged in theft of jewelry and high stakes poker games. Where Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson a NY gangster took nots of his acts and later invited him into his gang. Johnson became Lucas’s mentor and teacher. When Johnson passed away in 1968 Lucas used his death to take control of the drug market in Harlem.

Lucas took a plane to Thailand where he engaged in international drug trafficking went to a bar designed for African American soldiers. At the bar Frank met a man named Leslie Atkinson who actually ran the bar. Atkinson agreed to supply Lucas with heroin but

Frank wanting to go bigger than ever went and increased his supply and during this time he worked with his cousin husband Leslie Atkinson. Luke Traveled two weeks through the jungle with Atkinson to his main business partner a Chinese – Thai man named Luelchi Rubiwat “007”. Luelchi controlled several hundred acres of poppy fields in the “Golden Triangle” caves bored into the mountains by the poppy is where they were processed into heroin. On Lucas’s first trip he bought 132 kilos of high quality heroin for $1,200 per unit, this quality would be worth of $50,000 in