Ross, however began to sell cocaine and after some success, met Henry Corrales, a Nicaraguan who supplied him larger amounts of the drug which he and his associates cooked into crack cocaine, a cocaine variant that is both more addictive than powder cocaine and can be sold in small, inexpensive units.
Ross did not use drugs himself but invested his profits in legitimate businesses such as the Freeway Motor Inn. Due to this rising profile in the drug business, the Freeway Rick Ross Taskforce was created in by local, state, and federal authorities to end his operation especially after U. In and , drug trafficking charges were brought against Ross in Texas, Ohio , and California.
In November of he was captured in Los Angeles by police. He pled guilty to drug trafficking and received a year sentence which was shorted to 4 years by his agreeing to cooperating with the U. Edit 'Freeway' Ricky Ross. Showing all 3 items. Jump to: Overview 2 Mini Bio 1. Whether it's a one-time acknowledgement of this article or an ongoing membership pledge, your support goes to local-based reporting from our small but mighty team.
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The Issue. Music to Watch. Attorney's Office in Indiana declined prosecution in this case. According to the FBI, the U. Attorney's Office in Indianapolis referred prosecution of this matter to local authorities. On September 28, , after police in Carlsbad, New Mexico, had recovered nine kilograms of cocaine from luggage on a bus traveling from Los Angeles, they forwarded it to its addressees in Cincinnati for a "controlled" delivery.
On September 30, , Alfonso Jeffries was arrested when he attempted to pick it up. This seizure led the FBI and DEA field offices in Cincinnati to investigate allegations that the "Crips," a Los Angeles based gang, were flooding the Cincinnati market with inexpensive, high quality cocaine. Early investigative reports found that, beginning in , Ricky Ross had recruited young blacks from Los Angeles to travel to Cincinnati to sell cocaine and crack on the streets.
Most of these people were members of gangs, most notably the Crips. The recruits were given apartments, beepers, cocaine, and instructions on how to conduct street sales by using phone booths, pagers, and mopeds.
The drugs were stored in the trunks of parked cars placed around the neighborhoods. Ross was known on the street as the "Six Million Dollar Man" in Cincinnati because of the perception that he was making a fortune there.
On June 8, , ten individuals, including Ross and Jeffries, were indicted on drug charges in Cincinnati. The indictment charged that from about January 1, through the date of the indictment, Ross and the nine others conspired to distribute cocaine in Cincinnati. Ross was also charged with giving a false social security number to a law enforcement officer on two occasions. Cincinnati Assistant U. After Ross was arrested on state charges in Los Angeles in November for assault on a police officer, he was transported back to Cincinnati, and held without bail, pending trial on this indictment.
Ross was soon able to obtain a favorable resolution on these Cincinnati charges, at least in part because of his cooperation in the corruption case in Los Angeles against the members of the Freeway Ricky Task Force. On September 5, , Ross pled guilty to the drug conspiracy count in federal court in Cincinnati. In his plea, Ross stipulated that the appropriate offense level, given the amount of cocaine he handled and his acceptance of responsibility, was 32 months.
The Cincinnati U. Attorney's Office agreed that, "upon substantial assistance by [Ross] to the United States Government in an investigation conducted by the United States Attorney for the Central District of California," it would file a motion for a downward departure in Ross' sentence under Section 5K1.
Ross was sentenced in Cincinnati on February 8, , but no motion for a downward departure was filed, because Ross' cooperation was not yet complete. Ross was therefore sentenced to months in prison and three years supervised release -- a sentence within the guideline range.
According to Los Angeles Assistant U. Attorney Michael Emmick, who handled some of the "Big Spender" cases against the Los Angeles deputies, these cases began with an undercover operation by the FBI to determine if deputies were skimming money from cash seized from drug dealers. Between and , 35 deputy sheriffs and 6 related persons were prosecuted by the Los Angeles U.
Attorney's Office, in 11 trials. One of these cases targeted the group of deputies known as the Freeway Ricky Task Force. The cases against the corrupt deputies gained steam when a member of that group, LASD Detective Sobel, agreed to cooperate. Ultimately, based on testimony from Sobel and a number of drug dealers, corroborated by evidence found in the houses of the deputies or their girlfriends, several deputies were charged with theft, civil rights violations, perjury, and tax counts.
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