Jamiel "Jimmy" Alexander Chagra (December 7, 1944 – July 25, 2008) was an American drug trafficker, carpet salesman and professional gambler.[1][2][3] He was implicated in the May 1979 assassination of United States District Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio, Texas.[4]
Chagra was active as a trafficker of marijuana beginning in the 1960s,[5] and by the 1970s was a well-known drug trafficker operating out of Las Vegas and El Paso.[6] In fact, he is described as having been "no less than the biggest marijuana smuggler in the country" during that time.[7] According to George Knapp writing for Las Vegas CityLife, he was "the undisputed marijuana kingpin of the Western world. He imported more high-grade ganja than anyone, tons at a time, planeload after planeload."[8]
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^Knapp, George (March 29, 2007). "The pot king of the Western world". Las Vegas CityLife. Archived from the original on May 26, 2009.
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Retrieved November 30, 2020. McKinley, James C. Jr. (July 29, 2008). "Jamiel A. Chagra, 63, Drug Kingpin, Dies (Published 2008)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
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