The Takedown of Ace Capone [life +55]

so they have some cut that looks like fishscale that i guess makes the coke look shiny or something? i dont know why they would add that if its not true, its curios tho because i wonder if it is something basic like crystalized lactose or just has the texture.
 
yea for the stereotype he did all right but he also lived up to the projected ending(prison or death)

i know black guys from hoods waaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy smarter than this dude and they arent even big IMO
 
haha I'd go a step further and say that they're not smarter since they're *not* bigger. It's easy to play armchair 20/20 on someone's situation y'know?
 
dude he got caught like three times with "quantities of small bags of crack cocaine"

hes obviously not that smart.
 
Guilty: Verdict in rap mogul drug trial
George Anastasia
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
3.4.08


In a resounding victory for the prosecution, Alton "Ace Capone" Coles was convicted this afternoon of using a Southwest Philadelphia-based record company he founded as a front for a multi-million crack and cocaine distribution network.

Coles, 34, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and with heading a continuing criminal enterprise that engaged in drug trafficking, conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and weapons offenses.

He faces a possible life sentence.

Co-defendant Timothy "Tim Gotti" Baukman, 32, who was described as Coles' chief lieutenant in the drug network, was found guilty of the same charges and also faces a life sentence.

James Morris, 33, described as one of the main drug suppliers for the Coles' network, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

Three other defendants, Monique Pullins, 24, Aysa Richardson, 27, and Thais Thompson, 32, were also found guilty of various related charges in the case.

Of the 137 counts filed against the six defendants, jurors returned guilty verdicts on 123 charges.

The jury, which deliberated over seven days after a six-week trial, began reading its verdict shortly after 2 p.m.

The case was based on a two-year investigation by a task force set up under the federally funded Philadelphia-Camden High Intensity Trafficking Area program. The probe was spearheaded by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and included narcotics investigators with the Philadelphia Police Department.

Evidence included more than 300 secretly recorded wiretapped conversations and drugs, guns and cash seized during a series of raids in August 2005. In all, the raids netted more than $800,000 in cash and 30 weapons, including an assault rifle and a machine gun.

Coles, who founded Take Down Records with Baukman in 2002, testified in his own defense, denying allegations that he was involved in the drug trade.

He freely admitted that he neither reported nor paid taxes on the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash that investigators tracked through bank accounts he controlled. But he said the money came from concerts and weekly parties that he promoted and from record and video sales, not cocaine trafficking.

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Ouch, that CCE charge is a brutal one at sentencing time. I'm trying to think of some sort of positive spin but coming up blank. It is undoubtedly a very difficult and lonely place he finds himself in tonight after the verdict was read.

A sad and unfortunate story, from beginning to end.

Peace,

Fausty
 
Ace Capone sentenced to life plus 55 years
George Anastasia
Philadelphia Inquirer
4.16.09


Alton "Ace Capone" Coles, the convicted drug kingpin who used his rap record company label as a front for a multi-million dollar cocaine distribution network, was sentenced this morning to life plus 55 years by US District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick.

In imposing the sentence, Surrick said "the amount of drugs was staggering and the money involved was even more staggering... this crime was just horrendous."

Coles, his voice cracking, told the judge prior to sentencing, "I never thought it would come to this. I don't think life is deserved for selling drugs."

Coles went on to say that he was a "product of his environent," and that he was "raised by the streets."

Coles, 35, was convicted last year on a series of drug dealing, weapons and related criminal offenses. Among other things, he was found guilty of heading a continuing criminal enterprise that authorities alleged brought a ton of cocaine and a half-ton of crack to the streets of Philadelphia between 1998 and 2005.

Five co-defendants, including his alleged top associate Timothy "Tim Gotti" Baukman, also were convicted and are awaiting sentencing.

Targeted in a federal-city narcotics investigation headed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Coles and Baukman were charged with using Takedown Records, a label they founded, as a front of their drug dealing.

Authorities confiscated over $800,000 in cash and 30 weapons during a series of raids in August 2005 in which Coles, Baukman and several others were arrested.

While targets of the investigation, Coles and Baukman produced and starred in a 31-minute rap video called New Jack City, The Next Generation. In it, they portrayed drug kingpins who used violence and intimidation to take over crack distribution in Southwest Philadelphia.

Authorities alleged that at the time they were filming the video, Coles and Baukman were taking control of cocaine distribution on those same streets.

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Alot of people use mica dust to mimic the appearance of fishscale.

Also I hate seein em go down like this. RIP outside life of ace capone.
 
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