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Ross was arrested in October 2015 on suspicion of possessing cash related to the sales of illegal drugs when police discovered $100,000 in his possession during a traffic stop. [3] Ross later alleged that he had been racially profiled and stated that he was carrying a large amount of cash for the purchase of a home. [13]
May 4, 2023 · Unfortunately, he made his fortune by selling crack cocaine. Ross didn’t invent the drug or smuggle it into the United States, but he did help popularize it. For much of the 1980s, he successfully marketed his commodity as an outlaw businessman in Los Angeles and beyond.
Apr 8, 2024 · Eclipsing anything he had thought possible in his youth, Freeway Ricky Ross was rapidly becoming one of the biggest cocaine suppliers in the country. At the same time, his meteoric rise to prominence in the drug trade was catching the attention of both local police and the DEA.
May 11, 2015 · Ross's exploits as one of the country's most powerful drug dealers eclipsed any of the success he ever had in tennis. As the head of a million-dollar-a-day empire, Ross's life had...
Feb 7, 2015 · With Michael Levine, 'Freeway' Ricky Ross, Eric Sterling. FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity-more compelling than fiction, it's the real story behind America's longest war.
But to Freeway Rick—a native son who grew up to become one of America’s most notorious drug dealers, rising from the street curbs of South-Central Los Angeles to the Fortune 500 of crack...
Freeway Rick Ross built an empire of drug dealing and real estate in the mid-'80s. His reputation was stout, but he knew what he was doing and evaded legal t...
Jun 6, 2014 · Known as the notorious "Freeway Rick," Ross almost singlehandedly introduced the crack epidemic in the '80s, a phenomena that devastated black communities and made him and his cohorts very rich.
Sep 25, 2013 · The way Rick Ross sees it, he was a banker in a shadow economy, working with the only currency available to a disenfranchised segment of society. By giving out unsecured microloans, he created...
Jan 5, 2015 · In the interview, Ross tells of how he managed to build a cocaine empire by shrewdly saving and investing his profits, pioneering new business models, and switching from powder cocaine to crack...
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