Khun Sa worked out of the Golden Triangle, a major opium-producing region spanning Laos, Thailand, and Burma.Ī warlord who originally served in the military, Khun Sa later formed his own militia in 1963 to help support Gin Ne Win’s Burmese government. Khun Sa (Febru– October 26, 2007)īorn as Zhang Qifu, Khun Sa was nicknamed the “Opium King” during his reign as the biggest heroin drug lord in the world.
Lucas lessened his sentence by becoming a government informant, and though he lost all of his billions, he ultimately walked away free. Though he had an intricate network that distributed the heroin throughout Harlem, the police finally caught up with him. He traveled to Thailand to create a distribution network that flew heroin to the U.S. After his death, Lucas decided to move into the drug trade. After moving from North Carolina to New York, notorious kingpin Frank Lucas got his start by taking up with a local gangster named “Bumpy” Johnson.
