Sometimes called Mr. Untouchable, Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes became one of the biggest drug dealers in New York City during the 1970s.
1933-
Infamous drug trafficker Griselda Blanco is suspected of committing more than 200 murders while transporting cocaine from Colombia to the U.S. She was murdered in Colombia in 2012.
1943-2012
During his reign as international president of the Mongols Motorcycle Club, Ruben Cavazos expanded the group's membership by recruiting local street thugs with affiliations to the Mexican Mafia.
1957-
Christopher "Dudus" Coke, also know as the "Kingston Kingpin," is the notorious longtime leader of the international Shower Posse gang.
1969-
Rayful Edmond III was a notorious drug dealer in the 1980s in Washington, D.C., who made millions supplying the city with crack cocaine.
1964-
Drug kingpin Guy Fisher was a member of Nicky Barnes' heroin enterprise, The Council, and helped renovate the Apollo Theater.
1947-
Jeff Fort is an American criminal best known as the founder and leader of the Black P. Stone Nation gang. Other crimes have included misuse of federal funds, drug trafficking and attempted terrorism.
1947-
Notorious gangster Clarence Heatley, with his "Preacher" crew, extorted, kidnapped and even killed to gain notoriety on the streets of the Bronx and Harlem.
Larry Hoover, also known as "King Larry," is the notorious former leader of the Gangster Disciple Nation, a Chicago street gang that spread nationwide.
1950-
Cornell Jones is was a drug kingpin in the Washington, D.C. area during the 1970s and 1980s.
"Pot Princess of Beverly Hills" Lisette Lee lived a mysterious life of privilege and luxury—all the while falsely claiming to be an heiress to the Samsung corporation—until her arrest for narcotics trafficking in 2010.
Carlos Lehder revolutionized the cocaine business by taking over an island in the Bahamas and using it as a way station between Colombia and the United States.
1949-
Kenneth McGriff was the leader of the Supreme Team gang, a main player in the Baisley Park crack-cocaine scene. In 2007, he was sentenced to life in prison.
1960-
Barry "The Baron" Mills is the longtime leader of the white-supremacist prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood Mills, and is reportedly responsible for at least 14 murders.
Felix Mitchell was a drug kingpin who assembled a backing crew of notorious criminals and dubbed them the "69 Mob."
1954-1986
1959-
Infamous gangster Bartolome Moya and his chief enforcer, Andre Paige, led a deadly narcotics and extortion racket in New York City until the law caught up with them, but later disappeared without a trace, spurring an international manhunt.
Lorenzo Nichols was one of the top drug lords in New York City in the 1980s. He is currently serving time in a New York State corrections facility.
1958-
1963-
"Queen Pin" Jemeker Thompson rose to the top of the cocaine trade during the peak of the 1980s crack epidemic in Los Angeles.
Melvin Williams is best known for becoming Baltimore's biggest drug dealer throughout the 1970's and 1980's.
1941-
Stanley Tookie Williams is best known for founding the Crips gang.
1953-2005
When her husband, Jackie Wright, a major player in the Philadelphia drug game, was murdered, Thelma Wright became a gangster queen of Philadelphia, transporting cocaine and heroin between Los Angeles and Philadelphia.