Memoirs of Modern Day Buccaneer Jack Reed
Escobar earned the Mafia's respect. "Italian-American Mafiosi, Sicilians and Neapolitans, we always thought that the Cartels were really nothing more than organized groups of nobodies. Excluding Pablo Escobar, no Latin kingpin was considered equal to a Mafioso." -- Charles DeLucca "I’m no goddamn rat! I’m a player. I’m a pirate. I’m a hedonist; and one hell of a good smuggler, but I’m no rat!" --Jack Carlton Reed The man who brought the cocaine from Colombia to the U.S. Jack Carlton Reed , (September 30, 1930 – October 12, 2009) was a drug smuggler and co-defendant of Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, Colombian drug baron and co-founder, with Pablo Escobar, of the MedellÃn Cartel. Reed was a pilot for Lehder’s cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay, an out island 210 miles away from the Florida coast, in the Bahamas. Reed flew the drugs for Lehder, who handled transport while Escobar handled production and supply.