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Archive Home > 2010 > June > 24 > Jamaican kingpin’s reign comes to a quiet end

Jamaican kingpin’s reign comes to a quiet end

Coke is arrested without incident after monthlong manhunt, week of violence

By Howard Campbell and Mike Melia / The Bulletin
June 24, 2010

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Christopher “Dudus” Coke was born into gang royalty, running a smuggling operation that supplied drugs up and down the U.S. East Coast. He used the proceeds to cast himself as a Jamaican Robin Hood, and his power grew to rival that of the prime minister.

That reign was at an....

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