George Jung, the man who did it all, smuggled countless amounts of marijuana and cocaine. Made business with one of the biggest drug dealers alive, Pablo Escobar. George Jung A.K.A. “El Americano” was one of the most notorious drug dealers in the 1970’s. George Jung was born on August 6, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) and after raised by his parents in Weymouth, a small town close to the big city. His father, a German immigrant, was named Christian Frederick Jung while his mother’s name was Ermine. After graduating from from Weymouth High School in 1961, George went to the University of Southern Mississippi to study advertising. It’s at this time that he started using marijuana on a recreational basis. Coming from an average income family,
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It didn’t take long before George started making friends in California. Most people loved this charming guy from Boston with his funny East Coast accent. And soon his Californian friends gave him the nickname ”Boston George”. “In '68 I was transporting pot back to the Northeast in Amherst, the college areas. At that point I was buying it in Southern California and then conceived the idea of why not go down to Mexico and get our own pot and fly it across the border and then transport it back east in motorhomes, and triple our profit.” “Basically in the beginning it was some fear, but like anything else if you do it enough time you lose your fear, or if you don't, you get out of the business. I analyzed this over the years, I was a fear junkie. Jung began selling marijuana during the late 1960s, smuggling it on domestic flights from California to Massachusetts and making a healthy profit. Around that time, …show more content…
When he was arrested, the cops actually apologized to him, saying "… we really don't want to bust pot people, but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you." He was then arrested and taken to a jail in Danbury. During his time in jail he met Carlos Lehder, the man that would introduce him into cocaine. George and Carlos eventually made plans to deal cocaine in the United States. Carlos would introduce George to meet the man behind it all, Pablo Escobar. After meeting Colombian drug dealer Carlos Lehder in prison in Connecticut, Jung went into the cocaine business with his former bunkmate, taking trips to Colombia and convincing people to carry cocaine-filled suitcases from certain areas of the Caribbean. Jung knew how to import drugs by plane; Lehder had contacts in Colombia. On a quest for even more profit, George started smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States for Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel. George made millions off these operations being only the middle man. It was not uncommon that he made 15 million dollar a run. George, the former high school football star from Weymouth, Massachusetts, became the Medellin Cartel's U.S. contact. Almost 80% of the cocaine that was smuggled into the U.S. came from George. Escobar sat at the head of the one of the most expansive criminal empires the world has ever seen. At its peak in the 1980s, his cartel
It didn’t take long before George started making friends in California. Most people loved this charming guy from Boston with his funny East Coast accent. And soon his Californian friends gave him the nickname ”Boston George”. “In '68 I was transporting pot back to the Northeast in Amherst, the college areas. At that point I was buying it in Southern California and then conceived the idea of why not go down to Mexico and get our own pot and fly it across the border and then transport it back east in motorhomes, and triple our profit.” “Basically in the beginning it was some fear, but like anything else if you do it enough time you lose your fear, or if you don't, you get out of the business. I analyzed this over the years, I was a fear junkie. Jung began selling marijuana during the late 1960s, smuggling it on domestic flights from California to Massachusetts and making a healthy profit. Around that time, …show more content…
When he was arrested, the cops actually apologized to him, saying "… we really don't want to bust pot people, but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you." He was then arrested and taken to a jail in Danbury. During his time in jail he met Carlos Lehder, the man that would introduce him into cocaine. George and Carlos eventually made plans to deal cocaine in the United States. Carlos would introduce George to meet the man behind it all, Pablo Escobar. After meeting Colombian drug dealer Carlos Lehder in prison in Connecticut, Jung went into the cocaine business with his former bunkmate, taking trips to Colombia and convincing people to carry cocaine-filled suitcases from certain areas of the Caribbean. Jung knew how to import drugs by plane; Lehder had contacts in Colombia. On a quest for even more profit, George started smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States for Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel. George made millions off these operations being only the middle man. It was not uncommon that he made 15 million dollar a run. George, the former high school football star from Weymouth, Massachusetts, became the Medellin Cartel's U.S. contact. Almost 80% of the cocaine that was smuggled into the U.S. came from George. Escobar sat at the head of the one of the most expansive criminal empires the world has ever seen. At its peak in the 1980s, his cartel