Drugs drug, Frank Lucas, represented in the "American gangster", died at age 88

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Frank Lucas, one of the most famous US pillars of the drug, died Thursday night … confirmed TMZ.

Frank, famous played by Denzel Washington in the 2007 film "American Gangster", died in New Jersey, according to his brother. We were told that Frank had been transported to a hospital for an unknown health problem and died along the way.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Lucas was forced to heroin traffic in Harlem. He boasted of eliminating middlemen by buying his product directly from Southeast Asia … and then smuggling the drug back to America with the help of coffins. dead American soldiers.

Frank was born and raised in North Carolina before settling in New York … where he ended up getting into drug dealing, mingling with the Italian Mafia and making a name for himself.

Lucas has boasted that his heroine was one of the purest in the street and he sadly dubbed his product "Blue Magic". While at the top of the drug trade in New York, Frank rubbed shoulders with Hollywood elites, politics and business.

Frank was finally dismantled in the mid-1970s and all his huge assets and wealth were seized. Lucas owned properties across the country, in Chicago, Miami, Detroit, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina – and even Puerto Rico.

When the DEA raided Frank's Jersey home in 1975, agents found more than $ 584,000 in cash.

Frank was convicted of federal and state drug offenses … and sentenced to 70 years in prison. Lucas has denounced other people in the drug business, and he and his family have started a witness protection program.

After five years in jail, his sentence was reduced to a term of imprisonment and a life sentence … but he was later arrested for drug trafficking and spent another 7 years behind bars before his release in 1991.

Frank is survived by his 7 children. He was 88 years old.