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Jun 18, 2014 · Now, we have the police video of Sharp's arrest. When Leo Sharp was curbed by Michigan State Police in 2011, federal drug agents were already onto him. They suspected he was the Sinaloa Cartel's ...
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- Chuck Goudie
Jun 10, 2014 · The D.E.A. spent months investigating the Sinaloa cartel’s operation in the Detroit area and tracking their most prolific drug mule: Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran with no criminal record.
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- The New York Times
Now, the cocaine mule is dying himself at his home in northwest Indiana. The last time we saw Sharp he had just been sentenced to prison; three years for driving truckloads of cocaine between ...
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- Chuck Goudie
Jun 11, 2014 · Video. The D.E.A. spent months investigating the Sinaloa cartel’s operation in the Detroit area and tracking their most prolific drug mule: Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran with no criminal ...
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- Sam Dolnick
- Leo Sharp Goes from Daylilies to Drugs
- The Perfect Courier
- The D.E.A. Hunt For “Tata”
- The Trial of Leo Sharp
- The True Story of The Mule
Long before he was a drug trafficker, Leo Sharp (born in Indiana in 1924) was a war hero, a veteran of World War II decorated with a Bronze Star Medal for fighting in one of the most brutal battles of the Italian campaign. Afterward, he’d settled into an honest career as one of the world’s most respected horticulturists. Sharp specialized in daylil...
“Leo is the perfect courier for the cartel,” D.E.A. Special Agent Jeremy Fitch admittedafter Sharp was caught. “He has a legitimate ID, he’s an older guy, he wouldn’t be pegged as a drug runner and he has no criminal history.” The Sinaloa Cartel saw that too and they quickly began to trust Sharp more and more. After a quick test run, they began loa...
In the end, it was a D.E.A. Special Agent named Jeff Moore who found Leo Sharp. He’d busted a small-time dealer carrying 2 kg of cocaine, and he’d pressed him to talk until he’d led him to Ramon Ramos, the bookkeeper for the Sinaloa Cartel. Ramos cracked. He offered to tell the D.E.A. everything he knew if they’d give him protection and soon he was...
On October 21, 2011, the police pretended they were pulling Sharp over for a routine traffic stop. Sharp immediately got out of his car, staggering toward the officer and demanding, “What’s going on, officer? At age 87, I want to know why I’m being stopped.” He seemed legitimately confused. He had to cup his ear to hear what the officer was saying....
Now, the story of Leo Sharp will reach a wider audience than ever before thanks to Clint Eastwood’s film The Mule. Eastwood treats Sharp as a sort of antihero, a regret-stricken man struggling to get out of the business, caught while making one last run. The real Leo Sharp, however, didn’t show quite so much regret. When the judge handed down his s...
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Dec 12, 2018 · Yes. A fact-check of The Mule movie reveals that Bradley Cooper's character was inspired by D.E.A. Special Agent Jeff Moore, who captured 87-year-old Leo Sharp in 2011. Moore was interviewed by The New York Times about the investigation and Sharp's capture, which was turned into the article "The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule" by Sam ...
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Jun 18, 2014 · The I-Team has the exclusive video of the traffic stop which led to the arrest and conviction 90-year-old drug mule Leo Sharp, who worked for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel.
