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Leroy Nicholas Barnes (October 15, 1933 – June 18, 2012) was an American crime boss, active in New York City during the 1970s. In 1972, Barnes formed The Council, a seven-man African-American organized crime syndicate that controlled a significant part of the heroin trade in the Harlem area of New York City. [1]
Jun 8, 2019 · Mr. Lucas died on May 30 at 88 — a death that evoked the Harlem heroin wars of the 1970s and a question that had not been posed in years: What ever happened to Nicky Barnes?
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Nicky Barnes? Called Mr. Untouchable, Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes became one of the most infamous drug dealers in New York during the 1970s.
Oct 29, 2007 · Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes once ruled the drug trade in Harlem. They came out of retirement to talk business.
Dec 24, 2019 · This past June, one of his daughters and a former prosecutor, both speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that Nicky Barnes had died of cancer in 2012. He was 78, or possibly 79
Jun 10, 2019 · Leroy “Nicky” Barnes ran a tight, murderous ship and it gave him a supreme cockiness captured by his nickname, “Mr. Untouchable.” He simply felt that he could not be caught. Evidence against him was routinely “lost.”
Jun 14, 2019 · Mr. Barnes was the flamboyant dope peddler who flooded Harlem and other black neighborhoods with heroin, led cops on frivolous 100 m.p.h. car chases and redefined bling.
Jan 13, 1984 · Four men who took over a Harlem heroin ring once headed by Leroy (Nicky) Barnes were sentenced yesterday to life in prison without parole following their convictions based in large part on ...
Jun 13, 2019 · Nicky Barnes was one of my heroes as a young man in Harlem. By the time I'd made him into New Jack City’s Nino Brown, he’d disappeared—with an assist from Rudy Giuliani.
Oct 26, 2007 · Mr. Untouchable: Directed by Marc Levin. With Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes, David Breitbart, Walter Cronkite, Louie Diaz. The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s.