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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]
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.
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?
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.”
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 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.
Jul 20, 2019 · As his two daughters tell it in their first extensive interview, the Harlem drug lord once proclaimed “Mr Untouchable” on the cover of the New York Times Magazine spent his later years as ...
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.
