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Frank Matthews Built One of America’s Biggest Drug Empires — And Then He Disappeared Forever

Summary by statestories.com
In the late 1960s, Frank Larry Matthews rose from Durham, North Carolina to the top of the American drug trade. He built an independent heroin and cocaine network across more than 20 states, earned hundreds of millions of dollars, operated outside Mafia control, and became one of the most powerful traffickers federal agents had ever […]
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statestories.com broke the news in on Sunday, January 4, 2026.
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