Which criminal from La Grange, North Carolina boasted that he smuggled heroin into the United States by using coffins of dead servicemen?
American Gangster (film) American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian. The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by detective Richie Roberts. The film stars Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in their first lead acting roles together since 1995's "Virtuosity". The film also co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Herbert Allen Farmer Herbert Allen "Deafy" Farmer (March 9, 1891 – January 12, 1948) was an American criminal who, with his wife Esther, operated a safe house for underworld fugitives from the mid-1920s to 1933.