Freeway rick ross enterprise

Ricky Donnell " Freeway Ricky " Ross born January 26, [ 1 ] is an American author and former drug lord best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California , in the early to mid s.

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He played for the tennis team but was unable to get the college tennis scholarship he aspired to because he was illiterate. Ross has said that when he first saw crack cocaine as a teenager in , he did not immediately believe it was a drug because it looked different from other drugs he had seen. In , Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment under the three-strikes law after being convicted for purchasing more than kilograms of cocaine from a federal agent in a sting operation.

He eventually discovered a legal loophole that would lead to his release. Ross began his cocaine empire after his illiteracy prevented him from earning a tennis scholarship for college. He began spending time with an upholstery teacher at a Los Angeles community college who revealed he dealt cocaine and offered Ross a small amount to sell.

The teacher referred Ross to his supplier, Ivan Arguellas, who offered to keep Ross supplied. Arguellas was able to provide larger quantities at a better price, and Ross quickly went from dealing in grams of cocaine to dealing in ounces. His brother-in-law Henry Corrales took over the business, but was not enthusiastic about the trade and had failed to make any connections of his own to suppliers.

Ross initially invested most of his profits in houses and businesses, because he feared his mother would catch on to what he was doing if he started spending lavishly on himself.