Freeway Rick Ross: Caught by His Own Connection
In the nineteen eighties, South Central Los Angeles becomes the wholesale center of the crack cocaine epidemic, its streets moving weight faster than federal agents can map the supply. Ricky Donnell Ross, known publicly as Freeway Rick, builds the largest crack distribution network the city has ever seen, moving an estimated three tons of cocaine through routes that stretch from Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest. A DEA agent named John Oakley tracks the network for years without a path inside the operation. The question the hunt opens is whether anyone close enough to Ross can be turned…
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