Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and His Band of Brothers
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Sergeant Smack chronicles the story of North Carolina's Leslie Ike
Atkinson, an adventurer, gambler and one of U.S. history's most
original gangsters. Under the cover of the Vietnam War and through
the use of the U.S. military infrastructure, Atkinson masterminded
an enterprising group of family members and former African American
GIs that the DEA identified as one of history's ten top drug
trafficking rings. Ike's organization moved heroin from Thailand to
North Carolina and beyond. According to law enforcement sources,
1,000 pounds is a conservative estimate of the amount of heroin the
ring transported annually from Bangkok, Thailand, through U.S.
military bases, into the U.S. during its period of operation from
1968 to 1975. That amount translates to about $400 million worth of
illegal drug sales during that period. Born in Goldsboro, North
Carolina, Ike Atkinson is a charismatic former U.S. Army Master
Sergeant, career drug smuggler, scam artist, card shark and doting
family man whom law enforcement nick-named Sergeant Smack. He was
never known to carry a gun, and today many retired law enforcement
officials who had put him in jail refer to him as a gentleman.
Sergeant Smack's criminal activities sparked the creation of a
special DEA unit code named CENTAC 9, which conducted an intensive
three-year investigation across three continents. Sergeant Smack
was elusive, but the discovery of his palm print on a kilo of
heroin finally took him down. In 1987, Ike tried to revive his drug
ring from Otisville Federal Penitentiary, but the Feds discovered
the plot and set up a sting. The events that follow seem like the
narrative for a Robert Ludlum novel. Atkinson was convicted again
and nine years added to his sentence. Ike was released from prison
in 2006 after serving a 31-year jail sentence. Atkinson's story is
controversial because his ring has been accused of smuggling heroin
to the U.S. in the coffins and/or cadavers of dead American GIs. As
this book shows, the accusation is completely false. The recent
movie, American Gangster, which depicted the criminal career of
Frank Lucas, distorted Atkinson's historical role in the
international drug trade. Sergeant Smack exposes the lies about the
Ike Atkinson-Frank Lucas relationship and documents how Ike, not
Lucas, pioneered the Asian heroin connection. Drug kingpin Ike
Atkinson, is the real deal, and not the stuff of Hollywood legend.
The author delivers an eminently readable book about a genuine Mr
Big who knows that no fictional makeover is required for his
compelling story - the truth is more than enough. -Steve Morris,
Publisher, New Criminologist Sergeant Smack is meticulously
researched and its prodding for the truth by author Ron Chepesiuk
makes it an excellent non-fiction crime story. Along with a
compelling history of Ike Atkinson's life and criminal career in
drug smuggling, the author has managed to put the truth to numerous
falsehoods contained in the major movie, American Gangster, about
the life of Frank Lucas. -Jack Toal, retired DEA agent who worked
the investigation of Frank Lucas Finally, the real story. I've
waited 40 years for this book. -Marc Levin, Director of the
documentary, Mr. Untouchable Ron Chepesiuk has gone from publishing
the Black gangster classics, Gangsters of Harlem and Black
Gangsters of Chicago, to crafting Sergeant Smack, an astonishing
masterpiece. -David Pop Whetstone, Owner, Black Star Music and
Video Sergeant Smack forcefully debunks the urban legend of Black
family groups smuggling heroin from Southeast Asia in the bodies of
dead GI soldiers while recounting the colorful saga of the
authentic American gangster. Highly recommended. -Gary Taylor,
journalist and author of the award-winning true crime memoir,
Luggage by Kroger.
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