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Dec 5, 2018 · Leo Sharp died several years after I wrote my story. I met him only once. Outside the courtroom on the day of his sentencing I saw him sitting on a bench, hunched over and staring blankly at the wall.
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- Sam Dolnick
Aug 17, 2019 · Leo Sharp—whose name in the movie is Earl Stone—was a real person, known by his code name Tata among the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. He was one of the cartel’s biggest couriers, driving ...
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Jun 20, 2023 · Leo Sharp died in 2016 — the veteran’s cause of death revealed. Leo was captured in October 2011 by the Michigan State Police Department. At the time, he was traveling with 200 kilograms of cocaine in his trunk. Ultimately, he was charged with drug trafficking and sentenced to three years in prison, though, he only served one year before he ...
Dec 24, 2018 · Leo Sharp allegedly had a drug running past that Clint Eastwood’s character Earl doesn’t have in the movie, though. “During the early 2000s, it has been alleged by the federal government in ...
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- Jessica McBride
Jan 18, 2019 · The real-life tale of Leo Sharp, who was arrested near Ann Arbor and sentenced in Detroit to prison at age 90 for his role as a drug mule for El Chapo's crime organization. Sharp's odyssey loosely ...
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- Julie Hinds
Leo Sharp. Leonard Sharp (May 7, 1924 – December 12, 2016) was an American World War II veteran and notorious drug courier, or "mule". [2] He transported drugs, mostly cocaine, across the United States, mostly to and from the southern US border and Detroit, Michigan. He allegedly transported more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine during his years ...
Nov 5, 2019 · The Mule is based on the true-life tale of Leo Sharp, a horticulturist and WWII veteran who began bringing cocaine into Michigan in the final decade of his life. While Eastwood ’s film presents a Robin Hood kind of tale, the real story is much more complex. At the peak of his bootlegging days, Sharp was the ideal drug runner.
