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Home Of Former Detroit Kingpin Raided; Accused Of Selling Heroin
A one-time convicted murderer and Detroit drug kingpin Frank Usher is back in handcuffs.
Frank Lee Usher got a life sentence for murdering and beheading three people back in the 1980s, but he was a free man ever since a successful appeal in 1994 – until now.
On Thursday morning, Usher’s Southfield home was raided, accused of selling heroin to undercover federal agents.
Police once believed he may have been involved in 15 murders but he was convicted of three. He was also previously convicted of aggravated assault and a felon in possession of a firearm.
Usher was sent to Jackson Prison, sentenced to life for a triple murder in 1979 that shocked the city. Two men and a woman were shot multiple times, beheaded with their hands cut off at the Federated Democratic Club on the east side.
Usher was one of five charged with the murders. After serving 15 years he had his sentence overturned on appeal by a technicality.
Investigators say Usher sells heroin with another suspect at a second house on St. Aubin and E. McNichols.
FOX 2 had the only cameras rolling as ATF agents and Wayne County deputies take Usher into custody.
Usher told a judge that he is retired from a restaurant position since 2002. Prosecutors say he is able to pay for a large residence on Webster near Southfield and 12 Mile.
Agents seized Usher’s black Ford F-150 truck while at the same time the house was being raided on St. Aubin and three other suspects taken into custody.
Some who live near the drug house say that it has been a source of danger and fear.
“Yeah, I wish they could get rid of all of them,” said a neighbor. “We’ve got kids around here.”
No bond was given for Usher, 71, whose past convictions are being reviewed.
He will be held in Wayne County Jail until a possible arraignment Friday in court.
See more, including the video at MY Fox Detroit
Catch the real story of Detroit kingpin Frank Usher featured alongside Detroit hit man, Chester Wheeler, in Diary of a Motor City Hit Man, written by True Crime author Christian Cipollini!
Mexican Drug Lord Hid Out In A Bat Filled Cave Before Being Caught After Girlfriend Brings A Birthday Cake
“I killed them because they were assholes who snitched on me, when I didn’t do anything to them, and only helped everybody,” Gomez said in an audio file released in November.
“But I know I’ll eventually pay for it.”
Three months later, the leader of the Knights Templar cartel fell.
A former primary school teacher, Gomez, known widely as “La Tuta,” was apprehended in Morelia, Michoacan state. It was the Mexican government’s most significant arrest since the capture of notorious Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, which occurred almost exactly a year before.
The arrest came at around 3 am at a hot dog stand in downtown Morelia, after what the Mexican president referred to as “months of investigation.” The detention, authorities said, unfolded without incident.
In a video released to Mexican news outlets taken in the hours after Gomez’s arrest, the drug lord appears at ease but recalcitrant, saying he was arrested “because I’m a criminal.”
“Because I led a gang of pendejos,” or idiots, he said.
Birthday cake mistake
The Gomez capture was marked by a series of events reminiscent of the days Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein spent in hiding before he was captured.
Gomez, increasingly isolated by the pursuing authorities and pressured by his cartel and autodefensa rivals, evaded police for months by hiding out in a bat-filled cave, Mexico’s federal police commissioner told the news agency EFE in an interview.
The cave had previously served as a holding cell for detainees. Gomez, 49, spent his final free months in “misery,” commissioner Enrique Galindo told EFE.
By early February, authorities had narrowed the search down to one of ten properties. A messenger whose phone was tapped finally led authorities to his location.
On February 6, a girlfriend of Gomez named Maria Antonieta Luna Ávalos visited him along with others who brought food and drinks, including a chocolate birthday cake, which was found in the refrigerator at his home at time of his arrest.
Hours after Gomez’s capture, his brother Flavio Gomez Martinez was detained in the city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula, in possession of firearms and narcotics, authorities said. Six other people linked to Gomez have also detained.
“We now have 90 of the 122 most dangerous [people] detained,” Mexican interior minister Osorio Chong said.
Read the FULL STORY on Vice News.
See more pictures, including the now infamous chocolate birthday cake that led to his capture.
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