Seth Ferranti: A Brief Biography

That is precisely what occurred when the U.S. criminal justice policies sanctioned selling of drugs. It has driven the boys to accomplish more of a dangerous job in order to keep their dream alive, drug robberies. Gus the clear leader, and the other drug participant’s went through savvier lengths to torture other drugs dealers, in order to gain knowledge. Some of the characteristics of the torture methods would be electrocution, and the usage of a hot iron to burn live body parts. The drug participants were arrested for several charges, during their experience in penitentiary, Contreras explains the boys became accepting of violence and Pablo lost sanity. Systematically surviving in prison and determining ones hierarchy among other inmate’s, leads to violence. After the drug participants were released from Rikers Island (Jail), the boys intergraded their new persona of violence into society. The process of the boys in specifics Pablo and Gus being average drugs dealers to notorious drug robbers was a physiological transformation caused by the Federal and Local criminal justice

• Indicted in San Diego in 1995 for money laundering and conspiracy to import tons of cocaine. His more creative means of transport included transferring the powder inside fire extinguishers and cans labeled CHILI PEPPERS.

When he was drafted into the NBA by the Denver Nuggets, the players knew about his drug issue. Therefore, they tried to help him stay on a clean path to a drug free life. His teammates would all take turns staying with him and making sure he didn’t drink or do any drugs. He was clean for over a year, however, that was all erased after he was traded to the Boston Celtics because he relapsed again. While with The Boston Celtics, Chris used painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin, and Percocent. He was released by the Boston Celtics because of a season ending knee injury. After he recovered from that injury, Chris went to play in Europe and Asia. There he would have dealers send packages of painkillers, so he would always have his drugs. However, he was caught using drugs and sent back to America. A few months later, in the parking lot of a Dunkin’ Donuts, Chris was found unconscious and was charged with possession of heroin and driving under the influence with a revoked license. Soon Chris started to purchase and use crystal meth. While under the influence of crystal meth, Chris overdosed and crashed his car into a utility pole. The paramedics on site at the accident said he was dead for thirty seconds.

During many years of incarceration, Santana and his gang affiliates grew their business and their numbers both inside and outside the prison.

The drug profits has also risen into millions of dollars which was inspired by the leadership of Larry Hoover. Hoover were transferred to a minimum security prison in Vienna, Illinois where he lived a more luxurious lifestyle that involved new clothes, new jewelry, fresh prepared meals, and even private visitations from friends and love ones. Which made life a little more better for him inside of prison. But suspicious authorities started to wire-tap Hoover’s private meetings and discovered that he was running the GD’s from within prison systems. Which made it even harder for Hoover to get out of

The crack cocaine business continued to thrive. “Freeway Rick was at the top of his game and helping to spread crack across the country” (Planet Rock). In the beginning, crack had only been found by the DEA, to be isolated in seven major cities. Approximately a year after that, it was found to have spread to more than 40 different cities across the United States; including Dallas and Des Moines, Iowa (Planet Rock). It got to a point where people came from all over just to buy the drug. “It was kind of like exporting a business almost ...or exporting a product” (Planet Rock).

Introduction to topic: At 19 Ronald Evans got life in prison without parole for conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine. Scott Earle got 25 years in Prison for providing an informant at a bar with a hook up for painkillers, even though the judge agreed the punishment did not fit the crime. Timothy Tyler, a 25 years old who had long struggled with schizophrenia and addiction was caught distributing LSD at a grateful dead concerts and was sentenced to life in prison because of two previous drug related misdemeanors.

Tom Coleman, the officer that arrested these people, worked undercover for eighteen months, living as a poor, mischievous citizen as he “gained the trust” of prospective local drug dealers. During this time, he claimed to have purchased of an eight balls of cocaine from forty-six people throughout Tulia, in Cochran County. To give you a perspective, that is one third of the black men, arrested, at the time. During their trials, it was discovered that there was no hard

Dr. Jeffery Rosecan, director of the Cocaine Abuse Treatment Program at Colombia-Presbyterian Medical Center often describes crack addicts, often called “crack-heads” as follows, “They first start to suffer personality changes especially paranoia, then their lives start to fall apart, along with their relationships and they move into a life of emotional extremes, crime, illness, and possibly death.”

“Thousands of young black men are serving long prison sentences for selling cocaine — a drug that was virtually unobtainable in black neighborhoods before members of the CIA’s army started bringing it into South-Central in the 1980s at bargain-basement prices.”

Contributing to these drug issues throughout America are multiple street gangs, drug cartels and drug lords. These groups to transport illegal drugs into America, to sell them illegally on the streets, for a very hefty profit. High crime profiled states and cities such as, New York, Baltimore, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Chicago host some of America’s most notorious gangs, cartels, and drug lords. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the life of a notorious Baltimore drug lord, by the name of Anthony Ayeni Jones, and how a life of drugs effected his personal life, caused criminal actions, and resulted in court trials and a life sentence in prison.

Since the inception of mandatory minimum cocaine laws in 1986 to the advent of the Armstrong case, not a single white offender had been convicted of a crack cocaine offense in federal courts serving Los Angeles and its six surrounding counties. Rather, virtually all white offenders were prosecuted in state court, where they were not subject to that drug’s lengthy mandatory minimum sentences. The impact of the decision to prosecute the black defendants in federal court was significant. In federal court they faced a mandatory minimum sentence of at least 10 years and a maximum of life without parole if convicted of selling more than 50 grams of crack. By contrast, if prosecuted in California state court, the defendants would have received a minimum sentence of three years and a maximum of five years (United States v. Armstrong, 1996).

Gary Ridgway grew up like any other ordinary suburban kid. He had a problem of wetting the bed which his mother would make fun of him and embarrass him in front of family and friends. As a young teen, he was always getting into trouble such as stabbing a six year-old boy in the ribs when he was a young teen. In high school Gary continued to go down hill and get bad grades. Gary graduated high school and joined the Navy. While he was in Vietnam, he discovered prostitutes and ended up getting sexually transmitted diseases. Soon after being home from Vietnam, Gary was killing and raping prostitutes on the streets of Seattle, Washington. Gary would go on to murder about 71 young women who he targeted because they were either prostitutes or runaways.

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949- December 2, 1993 he was known as Colombia drug lord and cocaine traffic. He also was known in the 1983 as the King of cocaine. He also was the wealthiest criminal in the history with an estimated net-worth of $ 30 billion by the early 1990s. Pablo Escobar stared his criminal carrier when he was a teenager, being a teenager in the street of Medellin without the love of his family he started to commit server crime like stealing, gravestone, allegedly. Pablo also when to school for a short time he attempt to University of Antioquia. He also was involved in many crimes selling contraband cigarette, selling fake lottery ticket and stealing cars. He was committed a lot

From all of the trafficking, he claimed to have handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover. The man who once lived in poverty had lost just over two million dollars to the government and was imprisoned to carry out a 15 year sentence.