7Frank Lucas
Born on September 9, 1930, Frank Lucas is an American former heroin dealer, well known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade, as well as for purchasing heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle.
After traveling to Vietnam, Frank was able to ship tons of heroin from Southeast Asia.
Frank Lucas ranks #7 on our top 10 list of the most famous gangsters of all time.
In collaboration with Khun Sa, an opium lord, they managed to hide the heroin in coffins the were flown from Vietnam to the US.
‘ We did it, all right…ha, ha, ha… Who the hell is gonna look in a dead soldier’s coffin? Ha ha ha. . . .We had him make up 28 copies of the government coffins . . . except we fixed them up with false bottoms, big enough to load up with six, maybe eight kilos . . . It had to be snug. You couldn’t have shit sliding around. Ike was very smart, because he made sure we used heavy guys’ coffins. He didn’t put them in no skinny guy’s…’, he said.
In 1976, Frank Lucas was sentenced to 70 years, but was released in 1981, upon serving 5 years.
Also, he was convicted again in 1984, but released in 1991, after he had served 7 years.
