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Former Kingpin Rick Ross Arrested In Cali Holding Over $100K

Freeway Ricky Ross, 55, the former Los Angeles kingpin that ruled the country at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, was arrested last week on suspicion of possessing drug money, the New York Daily News reports.

According to the News, Ross was in possession of over $100,000 at the time of his arrest in the Emerald Triangle, “a region in northwestern California famous for legal and underground marijuana production.”

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office cited an ongoing investigation but offered no further details.

According to the New York Daily News:

Ross — not to be confused with the gangsta rapper who took his real name as a stage name (and then got sued in a dismissed case) — was one of the most notorious drug runners of the 20th century, setting up a nationwide empire based in Los Angeles at the height of the nation’s crack epidemic in the ‘80s.

He controlled thousands of employees and earned more than $600 million before getting convicted in 1996 for selling cocaine to a police informant.

After his release in 2009, he went on speaking tours detailing his drug dealing days, and told his story in the 2014 memoir “Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography” and the 2015 documentary “Freeway: Crack in the System.”

Ross is also heavy on the social media scene. It remains to be seen whether this arrest has any merit or if he’s being targeted for his past life.

Source | Atlanta Daily World

Mexican Man Denied U.S. Visa Because Of Tattoos

Via Bossip– Ruben Zamora, a Mexican man who lived in the U.S. since he was 8 years-old, left the country last summer and has yet to return because of a tattoo he got in his teens.

The American Consulate said he has gang tattoos — and, therefore, was part of a criminal enterprise according to The NY Daily News.

Zamora, who has an American wife and 2 children thought he was doing the right thing by going to Mexico and applying for a visa but his plan backfired.
Here is what Zamora’s wife, Vanessa Ruiz had to say to The NY Daily News:

Ruiz said her husband was being condemned because of a youthful mistake.

Zamora got the tattoos when he was a teen living in Queens — and the symbols weren’t gang-related back then.

“He and his friends . . . thought that tattoo looked cool and they got it,” said Carr.

The group later got involved in gang activity, but Zamora was no longer hanging with them, the lawyer said.

“The fact is there’s no flexibility to actually look at his record and say, ‘Look, there’s been no arrests in the United States for him being in gangs,” she said. “There’s no flexibility in the law.”

For Ruiz, the thought of life without her husband is devastating — financially and emotionally.

“He was very responsible. He used to pay all the bills . . . I (am) so frustrated because I had to pay all these bills. I was going to lose my apartment. I had to go to welfare to see if they could help in some way,” said Ruiz, who works part-time in the call center at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.

Disgraced Subway Guy Jared Fogle Is Paying His Victims

Jared Fogle, ex-Subway pitchman. Photograph by David Lodge—FilmMagic/Getty Images

Here’s how much he’s paying out.

Jared Fogle, the former Subway pitchman who plead guilty to sex acts with minors and distributing child pornography, has paid 10 of his 14 victims $1 million total in restitution.

The New York Times reported Friday that Fogle will pay the last four victims $100,000 each ahead of his sentencing, which is scheduled for Nov. 19, according to federal prosecutor Steven DeBrota in an interview with the Times.

DeBrota told the publication that the money to victims could be used for them to receive counseling. He also said one is homeless.

Fogle is known for losing 200 pounds through a diet involving eating Subway sandwiches. The fast food chain stopped working with Fogle in August after suspending its relationship with him in July.

Russell Taylor, who formerly was director of The Jared Foundation, Fogle’s organization aimed at cutting down childhood obesity, was arrested in May for producing child pornography.

Fogle is facing up to 12 years in federal prison.