Born: 9-Sep-1930

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Criminal

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Harlem heroin kingpin

Claimed to have made $1M a day at his peak selling heroin in Harlem. After his arrest and conviction in 1975, he received a 70-year sentence, but was began informing and was released in 1981. Three years later Lucas was again arrested, after conspiring to exchange drugs with an undercover federal agent.

Subject of the 2007 film American Gangster.

Brother: Ezell
Brother: Vernon Lee
Brother: John Paul
Brother: Larry
Brother: Leevan
Daughter: Francine Lucas-Sinclair

    Drug Dealing (1975)
    Conspiracy to distribute heroin (1984)
    Violating Parole (1984)
    Risk Factors: Heroin

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