Biography Nick Barnes

Koba Jauria, he really wanted to look like a respectable and wealthy person, and not a former stub and a small street dealer, as he was once captured by the photographer’s lens from the police station. Therefore, in the year, the largest drug lord Harlem Lero Barns, nicknamed “Nicky”, agreed to star for a newspaper in order to avoid the publication of photographs taken during an arrest that he really did not like.

The signature under the heading of the article read: this is Leroy Barnes. The police say that he may be the largest drug dealer Harlem. But can they prove it? Agree that you must be very confident in your own impunity by a person in order to pose for an article with such a name and content. Especially if you are one of the largest drug dealers of not only Harlem, but all of New York.

Photo taken by Barnes for the magazine Leroy Barnes's life is a ready plot for a criminal series that has yet to be shot. Here is the story of a person who has risen from the bottom, and a lot of money, and love, and betrayal, and even a happy ending, if I may call it that. Being a diligent student at school, Barnes was forced to escape from home because of problems with his alcoholic father.

To earn a living, Barnes began to trade in drugs and quickly began to use it himself. He received the first term because he opened the parked cars hoping to pull the radio from them or something valuable. He spent the proceeds from the sale of stolen money on the next dose. Having served for three years, he managed to get rid of dependence, but after leaving the prison he returned to the usual lesson again.

This quite naturally led to the next stage in his career-the second prison term in a strict state of New York state with the romantic name Green-Haven Green Harbor. This term has changed his life. During the imprisonment, he made friends with Matthew Madonna, who was engaged in the supply and sale of heroin for the Luckez family and also hit the bars. Madonna was not some kind of small dealer there, but one of the active members of the international drug trafficking network and refuel heroin into New York.

The poppy was grown on plantations in Turkey, processing in Marseille, and then the finished goods were sent by sea to the United States. This drug chain was called French Connection. You know her according to the film of the same name “French connected”, for the main role in which Jin Hekman received his first Oscar. After the liberation, Madonna became a supplier of high -quality French heroin for Barnes, who quickly gained popularity in the Harlem market.

The goods were so good that real queues were built behind it. The scheme of work with the Italians was simple. Madonna left a car with a full trunk of heroin in one of Manhattan’s parking lots, and a few days later he took her with a full trunk of money. Moreover, it was a monthly to him on credit for a month. Then the goods were taken to a special place where it was packaged in portions.

The girls worked completely naked. This was done in order to avoid theft. The portion was equal to the so-called "New York quarter" something like a very large tablespoon in volume. Every quarter they sold 70 dollars. The final revenue was 9.8 million. Small street merchants divided the goods into smaller doses, picked up and earned more. But everyone knew that the best and most clean goods from Barnes went to him.

Times Square, The New York police year in those days was so corrupt that it practically did not prevent drug dealers from conducting their business.

The drug fighting department also mired in bribes of street merchants and their clients almost did not touch, since they had neither the strength nor funds for people from the streets and they tried to hunt for large fish. In the law enforcement system, everything was so bad that in the year in the year in the “French connected” heroin and cocaine, the amount of 73 million per year, when the police department decided to make an inventory of the seized drugs, it turned out that not heroins with cocaine, but ordinary flour and starch.

With whom he was stolen and when they could not find out. A detective suspect in the theft, he put a bullet in his heart sitting in a patrol car. In the trunk lay a note that accusing some unnamed people that they brought him to suicide. Acquaintance with the gangster increased volumes led to big income, but also turned into increased problems. In the year, Barnes was arrested with goods worth more than half a million dollars lying in the trunk of his car.

He received the next prison term in the green Havana, where he went for 15 years this time. During this imprisonment, he accepted Islam and began to study jurisprudence. But the most important thing is that this acquaintance with the famous gangster Joe Gallo from the criminal clan Gambino happened there. Gallo foreseeing the spheres of influence in Harlem due to the Black Gangs gaining strength wanted to increase his share in the heroin market, but had no ties in this mainly by the African American district.Joe Gallo in Brooklyn's court, for a year in Barnes he saw the person he needed and actually became his mentor, teaching all the wisdom of the organization of the Sales of Heroin and the basics of creating a criminal group.

Nicky Barnes turned out to be a talented student and the case went further than sincere conversations in the prison courtyard. Having been freed, Gallo attracted his lawyer to the Barnes case, who quickly found numerous procedural violations. As a result, they reviewed the case and soon Barnes left the walls of the prison and returned to New York. After the release of Barnes, the criminal syndicate decided to use the knowledge gained and began to build a business following the example of Italian criminal families.

The ideas of Laki Luchano lay on fertile ground and soon a criminal organization called “advice” appeared in Harlem. The Council resolved all issues related to procurement and trade, as well as raised complex and conflict situations. From now on, these were not scattered gangs leading the struggle for the redistribution of the market, but a powerful organization with its own laws and rules built on a corporate principle.

The total annual income of members of the Council amounted to more than 70 million. Half of them, like Brans, were former drug addicts and rose from the bottom. Thanks to this experience, they perfectly understood what consumers needed. And a quality product was needed. A lot of quality goods. And they could give it, making good money on sale. In Harlem, they became something like superstars.

They were young, successful, influential and very rich. Everyone wanted to be familiar with them, everyone wanted to be like them. The anti-drug raid of the New York police in Harlem, the year Joe Gallo did not have time to get dividends from his black student. This was a response to the attempt on the mafia boss Joe Colombo, which was organized by Gallo. The performer was a small black thief and pimp, Jerome Johnson, who was shot by the security guards of Colombo.

They planted heroin in the year thanks to the Council in New York, a Harlem week starts-a cultural event, which has since been held annually. The Council handed out the turkey for thanksgiving, congratulated the kids for Christmas, helped orphans and single mothers. With one hand they seemed to help local residents and their area, and the other killed them and increasingly drove Harlem into the ruins.

According to the study of Colombian University in the late sixties, a third of the inhabitants of each quarter of East Harlem was heroin drug addicts. Upon returning home, their number only increased. This was facilitated by the perishable stress in the war, the post -war syndrome, the lack of rehabilitation programs and the economic situation in the former large industrial centers on the rails of deindustrialization.

For four years from a year, the number of heroin drug addicts doubled: from up to 1.42 million. All this led to a huge increase in crime, numerous deaths and the destruction of the lives of millions of Americans. New York became the leader in the number of problems related to drugs. This was also a considerable merit of Barnes. The worst thing is that the state did not even think what to do with this sudden problem.

The answer was to twist the nuts. With the presentation of the then Governor of Nelson Rockefeller in New York, the most stringent anti-drug laws in the country were introduced. For the sale of two ounces 57 gr. The measures taken could not be called effective and the number of drug addicts every year only grew. By the year, Barnes sold drugs far beyond Harlem by the year.

His sales market was the whole state of New York, neighboring Pennsylvania and even Canada. He was subordinate to seven deputies, each of whom controlled a dozen middle -level dealers, each of which, in turn, ruled at least 40 street merchants. In total, the whole army consisted of several thousand people participated in the process of heroin. Nicky Barnes and his wife Barnes himself led a luxurious lifestyle, regularly visited the best nightclubs of the city and, in addition to his wife, had several lovers.

He loved to catch up and expensive. His wardrobe totaled hacks, 50 leather coats and pairs of shoes. Barnes owned an entire park of expensive cars. To exclude the possibility of confiscation by their authorities, he created a whole network of fictitious companies, which allegedly handed them to him for long -term lease of Liz. At the peak of his career, his condition was estimated in an amount equal to at least 50 million.

The untouchable Barnes received the nickname “untouchable” for the fact that he had been able to get out of the most difficult situations related to the law for a long time. Barnes himself was not distributed and it was difficult to attract him for the Narcost. He was with great attention to the security of the business. Any conversations about drugs were banned, did not have any external contacts, paid for the services of an expensive and very good lawyer, actively legalized his income and at some point decided that everything would get away with him.

The peak of his career was an article in New York Times with which I began this post.The impudence with which he posed for the article impressed the President of the Carter himself and he gave a personal disposal to the US Prosecutor General to take all measures in order to fo the impaired drug dealer in jail. The state machine turned on at full capacity and soon Barnes was arrested, convicted and received a life period in the year without the possibility of early release.

In order to avoid any pressure on justice and for personal security participants in the process, the decision was made by the first in American history by an anonymous jury.