The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) began investigating Ross in 1985 but wasunable to make any arrests or drug seizures. In January 1987, the LASD and Los AngelesPolice Department teamed up and formed a task force to target Ross and others in SouthCentral Los Angeles. The task force became known as the Southwest Crew and consisted ofnine members. The task force began to focus so intently on catching the elusive Ross thatit became known as the Freeway Ricky Task Force. According to later indictments, themembers of the Southwest Crew also stole drug money and possessions from drug traffickers.According to the later federal indictment, in April 1987, the officers chased Ross andshot at him when he fled. According to subsequent trial testimony, they then planted akilo of cocaine in the path of his flight and claimed that Ross had dropped it. They alsoclaimed that the shot fired by police had been fired after Ross had fired at them. Rosswas later arrested on these charges. The charges were later dismissed for policemisconduct based on Ross' assertion that the police had disparaged Ross' attorney, AlanFenster, during their questioning of Ross and therefore interfered with theattorney/client relationship. A tape of the interview was produced by police and found tohave a substantial portion of it edited out. The court then dismissed the charges.

State authorities came to Los Angeles Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Walsh and asked ifthe federal authorities could prosecute Ross for the offense that was dismissed. The localofficials showed Walsh the transcripts of the remarks that had been directed to Fensterand that had caused the court to throw the case out. As an accommodation to the stateofficials, Walsh said that he would try to prosecute Ross and put a LASD deputy sheriffbefore a grand jury. The deputy testified that he had pursued Ross and that Ross had shotat the deputy and dropped a bag of cocaine as Ross was going over a fence. Sometime afterthe grand jury appearance, the deputy became implicated in the corruption scandals (knownas the "the Big Spender" cases). Once it became clear that the deputy wasimplicated in corruption, Walsh realized that the case against Ross was not going anywhereand could not be prosecuted. Ross eventually became a witness for the government in aprosecution of this deputy and others. This was discussed in Chapter IV.

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Ross told the OIG that, in 1987, under pressure from the corrupt LASD Task Force, hedecided to retire from the drug trade and move to Cincinnati. But he said he shelved theseplans when Blandon called him soon after his move in 1987 and asked him to meet him inDetroit. There, Blandon said he needed someone to help him unload 13 kilograms of cocaine,and he offered them to Ross for $10,000 a kilogram. Ross accepted, and he used hisconnections in Cincinnati to sell them. Ross later explained that he had done this as afavor to Blandon, because he himself had not needed the money.

Ross told the OIG that working in Ohio was very different from Los Angeles, becausealthough Blandon was still supplying cocaine at low prices, retail prices were muchhigher. Ross therefore made a huge profit on every sale. After Blandon moved to Miami,Ross dealt primarily with Blandon's partner in Los Angeles, "Jose," but Rosssaid he would involve Blandon in negotiations from time to time, and Ross went to Miami afew times to get drugs from Blandon. According to Ross, Blandon also introduced Ross to asupplier in New York and met with Ross and the supplier there on Ross' first trip to NewYork to pick up drugs. Ross stated that, on this occasion, he picked up the drugs in NewYork and either gave the money to the supplier in New York, or sent the money to Blandonin Miami. Ross also stated that Blandon continued to supply Ross' friends in Los Angeles.

Blandon denied to OIG investigators that he continued to deal drugs after he moved toMiami. He stated that he turned his customers over to Roger Sandino and Jose Gonzales, andthat Ross had worked with Gonzales. Blandon said that Ross had involved him innegotiations with Gonzales a couple times because of problems they were having, but thathe had merely called Gonzales to work things out, and had not made any money for thiseffort. Blandon denied having dealt with any supplier in New York on Ross' behalf.

Ross was never prosecuted for the huge drug empire that he presided over in Los Angelesin the early and mid-1980s. As noted above, a 1987 case pursued by the Freeway Ricky TaskForce was dismissed by a local court for police misconduct, and the federal case againstRoss was closed when deputies involved were accused of corruption.

Between 1986 and 1990, a number of other jurisdictions investigated Ross' activities,but none with any success. In October 1986, Ross was arrested on federal charges in LosAngeles for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in St. Louis, Missouri. The case was laterdismissed for lack of evidence. The case stemmed from the arrest of Michael Wingo in St.Louis, who possessed cocaine and a significant amount of cash when he was arrested. Inpost-arrest statements, Wingo told DEA agents that Ross had supplied him with twokilograms of cocaine a week.

In March 1988, an OCDETF investigation was initiated against the "Ricky Rossorganization" in Seattle, Washington. Investigators stated at the initiation of theinvestigation that Ross' organization was the single most important group distributingcrack cocaine in the Seattle-Tacoma area. In April 1988, Derrick Hargress had beenprosecuted in Oklahoma City for supplying gangs in Seattle with cocaine coming from LosAngeles and through Oklahoma City. Ross was identified as the source of the cocaine. TheSeattle OCDETF case was not successful, and Ross was not prosecuted there.

DEA records from 1988 also show informant information suggesting that Ross traveled toNew York City in August and September of 1988 to pick up 20 kilograms of cocaine. AnotherDEA informant reported that Ross had sold 7.3 kilograms of cocaine in Dayton, Ohio, onApril 26 and 27, 1989, and had asked whether the informant would be interested in runninga crack house for him. In May 1989, Ross was reported to have received five kilograms ofcocaine and 20 guns in Fairfield, Ohio, in December 1988. Ross was also reported to haveattended a meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, about the transportation of cocaine from Miami,Florida, on an unknown date.

According to DEA records, an Officer "Pulak" -- a police officer in a jointDEA task force -- opened a DEA file on September 3, 1989, with the objective of trying toseize assets owned by Ross that were believed to be the proceeds of drug sales. The casewas closed in May 1990, following Ross' arrest on the Ohio charges (see below). Task ForceOfficer "Pulak" is believed to be former LAPD officer Stephen Polak, who Rosseventually testified against in the "Big Spender" cases.

The FBI had two files on Ricky Ross in addition to the Cincinnati file discussed below.One indicated he was a suspect in a 1988 bank robbery in Indianapolis, Indiana. A bankteller identified Ross from a photographic spread as the bank robber. The U.S. Attorney'sOffice in Indiana declined prosecution in this case. The other file involved aninvestigation of Ross and others for the theft of $337,673 in jewelry from the ShaneCompany in Indianapolis on June 16, 1988. According to the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Officein Indianapolis referred prosecution of this matter to local authorities.

On September 28, 1988, after police in Carlsbad, New Mexico, had recovered ninekilograms of cocaine from luggage on a bus traveling from Los Angeles, they forwarded itto its addressees in Cincinnati for a "controlled" delivery. On September 30,1988, Alfonso Jeffries was arrested when he attempted to pick it up. This seizure led theFBI and DEA field offices in Cincinnati to investigate allegations that the"Crips," a Los Angeles based gang, were flooding the Cincinnati market withinexpensive, high quality cocaine. Early investigative reports found that, beginning in1987, Ricky Ross had recruited young blacks from Los Angeles to travel to Cincinnati tosell cocaine and crack on the streets. Most of these people were members of gangs, mostnotably the Crips. The recruits were given apartments, beepers, cocaine, and instructionson how to conduct street sales by using phone booths, pagers, and mopeds. The drugs werestored in the trunks of parked cars placed around the neighborhoods. Ross was known on thestreet as the "Six Million Dollar Man" in Cincinnati because of the perceptionthat he was making a fortune there.

On June 8, 1989, ten individuals, including Ross and Jeffries, were indicted on drugcharges in Cincinnati. The indictment charged that from about January 1, 1987 through thedate of the indictment, Ross and the nine others conspired to distribute cocaine inCincinnati. Ross was also charged with giving a false social security number to a lawenforcement officer on two occasions. Cincinnati Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hunt, whohandled the prosecution, told the OIG that witnesses were prepared to testify that,"on a good day," Ross' operation grossed over $30,000. After Ross was arrestedon state charges in Los Angeles in November 1989 for assault on a police officer, he wastransported back to Cincinnati, and held without bail, pending trial on this indictment.(62)

Ross was soon able to obtain a favorable resolution on these Cincinnati charges, atleast in part because of his cooperation in the corruption case in Los Angeles against themembers of the Freeway Ricky Task Force. On September 5, 1990, Ross pled guilty to thedrug conspiracy count in federal court in Cincinnati. In his plea, Ross stipulated thatthe appropriate offense level, given the amount of cocaine he handled and his acceptanceof responsibility, was 32 (121-151 months). The Cincinnati U.S. Attorney's Office agreedthat, "upon substantial assistance by [Ross] to the United States Government in aninvestigation conducted by the United States Attorney for the Central District ofCalifornia," it would file a motion for a downward departure in Ross' sentence underSection 5K1.1 of the Sentencing Guidelines "if [Ross] continues to providesatisfactory cooperation." The plea agreement also stated that, if Ross did providesubstantial assistance in the investigation in the Central District of California, thegovernment would recommend to the court that the court depart downward to a sentence setforth under level 24 (51-63 months) of the Sentencing Guidelines. 152ee80cbc

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