"Don't buy anything. Don't get anything. Nothing big. Didn't you hear what I said?...you're going to get us all f'in' pinched, that's why. What are you, stupid?"
Posted on 02/01/2014 1:24:22 AM PST by dennisw
Garnett Gilbert Smith shipped a ton of cocaine from California to Maryland between 2010 and 2011 and 'trafficked heroin' He earned $10 million which he spent on vacations, properties and parties Authorities seized $1.7 million in jewellery, 19 vehicles, $740,000 cash, properties and $258,000 worth of designer clothes
One of Baltimore's biggest ever drug dealers has been jailed for 25 years for shipping a ton of cocaine - and enjoying a life of fast cars, designer clothes and luxury properties with the earnings.
Garnett Gilbert Smith's lavish life was revealed in court in Baltimore, where he was found guilty. Garnett Gilbert Smith's lavish life was revealed in court in Baltimore, where he was found guilty of shipping the drugs from California to Maryland between 2010 and 2011.
The 44-year-old cleared $10,000 profit on each kilogram, raking in more than $10 million in total, according to court documents. Prosecutors say he also trafficked heroin.
He splashed the cash on stays at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills - where rooms can reach $1,000 a night - and owned or rented numerous properties in Baltimore, Georgia, Virginia and California.
He had an impressive fleet of 19 luxury vehicles, including a $162,300 Lamborghini Murcielago, a $219,000 2009 Maybach, a $165,000 Aston Martin and motorcycles worth up to $65,000.
His designer wardrobe included items from Gucci, Cartier and Louis Vuitton.
Authorities also seized $258,000 worth of shoes, belts, pants, glasses, belts, hats and bags from his Atlanta storage unit, the Baltimore Sun reported.
They also took £1.1 million in jewelery from his condo in Studio City, California, and $741,000 in cash - some hidden in speakers and tool boxes - from his Maryland home.
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Yesterday I drove by a shiny new Mercedes CL500 (base price ($116,600) sporting oversize alloy wheels with ultra low profile tires. Not the usual “look” for a high end Mercedes.
As I passed, I noticed that the driver was a young man of Mr. Garnett Gilbert Smith’s ethnicity. Immediately the enormous bigotry of my WASP-Tea Party mind kicked in and I thought,
“I wonder what sport & team he plays for?”
or
“I wonder what he is dealing?”
Perhaps he had just sold a used car dealership and used some of the profits to purchase a “cream-puff used car” for himself?
/s
(pepsionice - Thanks for the Business Plan!)
I don’t understand the problem. Wasn’t he contributing that most-important segment to the US GDP, ‘Consumer-spending’? /s
I’m not going to go into a WOD/legalization rant, but the fact remains the US expends significant resources to investigate, prosecute & incarcerate such people. Why? Because the government created a black market. Nothing’s changed.
I hear there’s a black market for cupcakes now...
keep a low profile until you had enough and quit. Move to a small island far away from US laws and spend the rest of your life in ease.
But Drug dealers are all about flash. Old Mobsters knew enough to stay under the radar.
You have a very good mind for this sort of thing!
Which once prompted the question: How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
The rest of the money he wasted.
The Mafia learned from Al Capone. Too much unexplained income raises red flags. So you buy up businesses that do a lot of cash business (like bars, night clubs, strip clubs, etc), and your businesses just happen to be very profitable.
You use the "legitimate" profits to buy up real estate, hire illegals to fix them up, pay them cash, then sell the places at a profit. That sort of stuff. If the guy was smart, he would had had the money plausibly laundered, and his assets out of the country within a couple of years.
Car washes are a good place to launder cash. But a person has to use common sense. One mobster had a car wash and when they looked into his records found out he washed a 1000 cars in the worse Jan in history.
“Car washes are a good place to launder cash. But a person has to use common sense. One mobster had a car wash and when they looked into his records found out he washed a 1000 cars in the worse Jan in history.”
Actually, in the Northeast, it’s very common to use the car wash throughout the winter months. Instead of using sand, the Department of Transportation dumps huge loads of salt on the roads, which is a huge factor in rusting out the bodies of vehicles up here. So when there’s that break in the middle of the snowstorm, everyone seems to jam up the car washes in the area to get the corroding salt off their vehicles.
Unless of course you are referring to something down south, in which case, yes that’s kind of a red flag lol.
"Mo' Money...Mo' Problems."
"Don't buy anything. Don't get anything. Nothing big. Didn't you hear what I said?...you're going to get us all f'in' pinched, that's why. What are you, stupid?"
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