Ricky Ross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross
Through his connection to Blandón, and Blandón's supplier Norwin Meneses Cantarero, Ross was able to purchase Nicaraguan cocaine at significantly reduced rates.[20] Ross began distributing cocaine at $10,000 per kilo less than the average street price, distributing it to the Bloods and Crips street gangs. By 1982, Ross had received his moniker of "Freeway Ricky" and claimed to have sold up to US$3 million worth of cocaine per day, purchasing 1,000 pounds of cocaine a week.[8]
── Drug supply (Nicaraguan cocaine at significantly reduced rates)
Nicaragua is not a known cocaine producer (?)
Nicaragua - a trans shipment point
Central America - a trans shipment point - the planes needed a place to refuel
Columbia, - [drug producers]
Peru, - [drug producers]
and Bolivia - [drug] producers
── source:
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
── Ricky Ross <== Blandón <== Norwin Meneses Cantarero
── Nicaraguan cocaine <== ??
── significantly reduced rates (how much?)
── Ross began distributing cocaine at $10,000 per kilo less than the average street price
Ross initially invested most of his profits in houses and businesses, because he feared his mother would catch on to what he was doing if he started spending lavishly on himself. In a jailhouse interview with reporter Gary Webb, Ross said, "We were hiding our money from our mothers."[21] He invested a portion of the proceeds from his drug dealing activities in Anita Baker's first album.
Drug empire
With thousands of employees [independent contractors], Ross has said he operated drug sales not only in Los Angeles but in places across the country including St. Louis, New Orleans, Texas, Kansas City, Oklahoma, Indiana, Cincinnati, North Carolina, South Carolina, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Seattle. He has said that his most lucrative sales came from the Ohio area. He made similar claims in a 1996 PBS interview.[22]
── Ricky Ross's 1996 PBS interview
Federal prosecutors estimated that between 1982 and 1989 Ross bought and resold several metric tons of cocaine. In 1980 dollars, his gross earnings were said to be in excess of $900 million – with a profit of nearly $300 million. As his distribution empire grew to include forty-two cities, the price he paid per kilo of powder cocaine dropped from as much as $60,000 to as low as $10,000."[7]
── several metric tons of cocaine.
── the price [Ross] paid per kilo of powder cocaine dropped from as much as $60,000 to as low as $10,000."[7]
Much of Ross's success at evading law enforcement was due to his ring's possession of police scanners and voice scramblers. Furthermore, journalist Gary Webb alleged that the CIA was sponsoring the operation as part of its effort to finance Contras, giving Ross another level of protection. Following one drug bust, a Los Angeles County sheriff remarked that Ross's men had "better equipment than we have."[23]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross
Through his connection to Blandón, and Blandón's supplier Norwin Meneses Cantarero, Ross was able to purchase Nicaraguan cocaine at significantly reduced rates.[20] Ross began distributing cocaine at $10,000 per kilo less than the average street price, distributing it to the Bloods and Crips street gangs. By 1982, Ross had received his moniker of "Freeway Ricky" and claimed to have sold up to US$3 million worth of cocaine per day, purchasing 1,000 pounds of cocaine a week.[8]
── Drug supply (Nicaraguan cocaine at significantly reduced rates)
Nicaragua is not a known cocaine producer (?)
Nicaragua - a trans shipment point
Central America - a trans shipment point - the planes needed a place to refuel
Columbia, - [drug producers]
Peru, - [drug producers]
and Bolivia - [drug] producers
── source:
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
── Ricky Ross <== Blandón <== Norwin Meneses Cantarero
── Nicaraguan cocaine <== ??
── significantly reduced rates (how much?)
── Ross began distributing cocaine at $10,000 per kilo less than the average street price
Ross initially invested most of his profits in houses and businesses, because he feared his mother would catch on to what he was doing if he started spending lavishly on himself. In a jailhouse interview with reporter Gary Webb, Ross said, "We were hiding our money from our mothers."[21] He invested a portion of the proceeds from his drug dealing activities in Anita Baker's first album.
Drug empire
With thousands of employees [independent contractors], Ross has said he operated drug sales not only in Los Angeles but in places across the country including St. Louis, New Orleans, Texas, Kansas City, Oklahoma, Indiana, Cincinnati, North Carolina, South Carolina, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Seattle. He has said that his most lucrative sales came from the Ohio area. He made similar claims in a 1996 PBS interview.[22]
── Ricky Ross's 1996 PBS interview
Federal prosecutors estimated that between 1982 and 1989 Ross bought and resold several metric tons of cocaine. In 1980 dollars, his gross earnings were said to be in excess of $900 million – with a profit of nearly $300 million. As his distribution empire grew to include forty-two cities, the price he paid per kilo of powder cocaine dropped from as much as $60,000 to as low as $10,000."[7]
── several metric tons of cocaine.
── the price [Ross] paid per kilo of powder cocaine dropped from as much as $60,000 to as low as $10,000."[7]
Much of Ross's success at evading law enforcement was due to his ring's possession of police scanners and voice scramblers. Furthermore, journalist Gary Webb alleged that the CIA was sponsoring the operation as part of its effort to finance Contras, giving Ross another level of protection. Following one drug bust, a Los Angeles County sheriff remarked that Ross's men had "better equipment than we have."[23]
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