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Drapsey 2023-08-30 20:37:51 


What Happened To Jamaican Drug Lord Lester Lloyd Coke?

The Jamaican drug cartel the Shower Posse has gone down in history as one of the most dangerous, violent, and — for several decades at least — successful criminal drug-trafficking gangs in living memory. Central to the Shower Posse's stranglehold on the American drug trade in the 1970s was their leader, Lester Lloyd Coke, who along with fellow gangster Vivian Blake founded the group in the Tivoli Gardens district of Kingston, Jamaica, following the deaths of several local gang leaders.

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Chrissy 2023-08-30 23:27:54 

In reply to Drapsey

That was financed and facilitated by the right wing movement much like Iran Contra and Nicaragua.
It was fully supported by vested interests in our hemisphere.

 
Brerzerk 2023-08-31 00:28:39 

80's we as the heyday of those vicious criminals not '70's. It really took off under blinds when ad "bodyguard" Jim Brown was flying to the states wid Blinds. Murdering a man in Fla. was what got him and the xtensive shower posse links FBI attention

 
JayMor 2023-08-31 02:04:03 

In reply to Drapsey

Did you ever read "Born fe Dead" by Laurie Gunst?

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