Who Knows the Shadowy History of the 10th Precinct?

[Gannon]

I remember, as a young salesperson at the old Seaway Motors in Dearborn [[VW, Mazda, Saab) in the mid-80s, being tasked to transport a few Mazdas which had been used at the auto show from an ancient 8-story parking garage not far from the current Park/Cliff Bells corner back to the dealership [[to be sold to the executives who were JUST coming over to convert the Flatrock Ford plant to Mazda production).

On a few of the floors, there were NOTHING but supercars. Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and the like.

I had to ask, and was told [[very quietly and in confidence, which I don't mind breaking 25 years later) that those floors were all DEA confiscations from the Young Boys, Inc. gang and the like.

I am still floored by this, and in one quick peek at the Wikipedia article on them understand a bit of why they had so much cash. It is estimated at their peak, they were turning three-quarters of a million dollars PER DAY in heroin alone.


That is a staggering figure, and I'd like some substantiation of it. In my estimation, crack cocaine had come along by the mid-80s...actually, cutting it with baking soda happened a few years after Richard Pryor famously lit himself on fire free-basing with ether. I guess the CIAs chemists needed a bit of time to develop the new way to mainline this drug.