FRANK LUCAS Ep. 3 | “The Golden Triangle”
Infamous America
Black Barrel Media
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Isn't life grande? |
| 0:01.9 | And making it better just got easier with Starbucks new protein cold foam. |
| 0:06.7 | A little something, something to take your favorite drinks up a notch with 15 grams of extra protein. |
| 0:13.2 | Turn your usual iced caramel latte into a smooth iced caramel protein latte. |
| 0:18.5 | Add a delicious swirl on top of your drink. |
| 0:20.8 | Just like that. |
| 0:23.3 | Protein never tasted so good |
| 0:24.9 | with Starbucks new protein cold foam. |
| 0:27.7 | Subject to availability |
| 0:28.7 | while stocks last. On January 18, 1962, while Bumpy Johnson was finishing his final year of prison at Alcatraz, |
| 0:49.0 | and Frank Lucas was surviving as a petty thief and a part-time heroin dealer in Harlem, |
| 0:55.7 | NYPD Detective Eddie Egan was in Brooklyn, tearing apart wet plaster, which had been recently applied to a hole |
| 1:00.9 | in the ceiling of Joe Fuka's basement. Joe was an elderly Italian man with mob connections, |
| 1:07.3 | who was upstairs in his kitchen, ranting and cursing the lawman who had barged into his house with a search warrant. |
| 1:14.1 | In Joe's basement, weeks of exhausting surveillance were finally paying off. |
| 1:19.7 | Detective Egan and his partner, Sonny Grasso, thought they might be onto something big, |
| 1:24.2 | and their early hunch had grown into a task force of NYPD detectives and |
| 1:29.1 | agents from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Now in Joe Fuka's basement, Egan pulled bags of |
| 1:35.6 | white powder and guns out of a hole that had been cut into the ceiling and recently repaired |
| 1:41.0 | with plaster. When Egan was done, the hall totaled 24 pounds of powder. |
| 1:47.1 | The federal agent in the basement with Egan pulled out a marquee reagent testing kit. He took |
| 1:52.7 | out a small glass vial that contained a liquid mixture of sulfuric acid and formaldehyde. |
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