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A twenty-four-hour stretch in early September 1990 marks an important but largely unknown juncture in the history of America’s complex history with drugs. On September 5, “Freeway” Ricky Ross pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy count in a Cincinnati courtroom. The notorious crack kingpin had shifted his multi-million-dollar drug operation to the Midwest to stake claim on a higher profit margin. He was later sentenced to 121 months.
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