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Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the ...
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...
Frank Dean Lucas (born January 6, 1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district since 2003, having previously represented the 6th district from 1994 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Lucas has chaired the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology since 2023.
NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie "American Gangster," has died, a relative said Friday. NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Lucas, the ...
Frank Lucas, the former heroin dealer and drug kingpin whose life became the subject of Ridley Scott's 2007 film "American Gangster," died Thursday. He was 88. Lucas' nephew, Aldwan Lassiter ...
For only the sixth time in 16 election cycles as an incumbent congressman from Oklahoma, U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas has drawn a Republican primary challenge this year for his district, which covers ...
Former Criminal Defense Attorney (1975–2015) Known for. The prosecution of drug kingpin Frank Lucas. Richard M. Roberts (born November 28, 1937) [1][2] is an American attorney. Roberts was a former law enforcement officer who worked as a detective in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Essex County Bureau of Narcotics. After completing ...
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