George Jung

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George Jacob Jung (born August 6, 1942 in Boston , Massachusetts , † May 5, 2021 in Weymouth , Massachusetts) was an American drug smuggler . He was considered the largest cocaine smuggler in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s .

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Jung grew up in the small town of Weymouth in Norfolk County , Massachusetts. His family was broken. The father Christian Frederick "Fred" Jung - a German-American - ran a small heating company and was George's idol, but the company went bankrupt. When the mother Ermine Jung kept leaving her husband, George decided to leave the quarreling family behind and emigrate to California with his friend Tuna .

Life

Jung stayed in California for a long time with his friends Robin D. and Philipp H. It was there that he met Annette, who would later become his girlfriend. Since Jung was in financial straits, he began marijuana to deal drugs . Through his girlfriend Annette, he met Richard Barile , from whom he obtained marijuana for the first time. At that time George Jung was known under the name "Boston George" in California. It was through an old school friend that they came up with the idea of ​​smuggling marijuana to the east coast of the United States . His girlfriend Annette, a stewardess by trade , smuggled the marijuana. Business was booming, but Jung was caught in Chicago in 1972 with 300 kg of marijuana because he had been betrayed by a customer who was trying to get out of the affair with it. George signed an acknowledgment of guilt and was released on bail until he should have appeared in court. However, he resisted and did not appear to deliver the verdict.

He went back to Los Angeles and continued smuggling marijuana from Mexico to the United States. In 1974 he visited his parents, George assumed that his mother betrayed him to the FBI and that he was arrested at his parents' house. According to the local police, however, the caller's voice was said to have been a male, not his mother's. He was then sentenced to four years' imprisonment in Danbury , Connecticut .

During his first stay in prison he met Carlos Lehder , who later introduced him to Pablo Escobar . This acquaintance expanded and he obtained the cocaine from Escobar, which he brought into the United States with his "import company", thus triggering the first great wave of cocaine use.

In 1994 he was caught with 250 kg of cocaine . George Jung was imprisoned in Fort Dix prison after being transferred a few times . After some time he was transferred again to a detention center in Texas, the FCI La Tuna . This prison is considered a low security prison .

Jung was released on June 2, 2014, and after his release he went to the west coast of the United States to undertake rehabilitation. On December 6, 2016, Jung was arrested at his Sacramento home after leaving town without the consent of his probation officer, violating his parole terms. He started his detention in a Nevada prison in January and subsequently spent four weeks in a rehabilitation program . On July 3, 2017, the then 74-year-old George Jung was finally released from prison.

George Jung became known to a wider public through the drama Blow , the film adaptation of his life. In the film he was played by Johnny Depp . In the spring of 2002, around a year after Blow was published , his daughter visited him in prison for the first time.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renee Graham: Weymouth's Wayward Son. In: The Boston Globe . July 7, 1993, p. 49.
  2. ↑ George Jung real-life 'Blow' smuggler dead at 78. In: TMZ. May 5, 2021, accessed May 5, 2021 . Jake Massey: Blow Inspiration George Jung Dies Aged 78. In: LADbible.com. May 5, 2021, accessed May 5, 2021 .
  3. ↑ George J Jung Register Number: 19225-004. In: Federal Bureau of Prisons . Retrieved May 5, 2021 .
  4. ↑ FCI La Tuna. In: bop.gov . Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Johnny Depp's 'Blow' Inspiration: George Jung - Released From Prison - After Almost 20 Years Behind Bars. In: TMZ. June 2, 2014, accessed January 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ George Jung Is Back in the Can After 2 Years of Freedom. In: TMZ. December 8, 2016, accessed January 13, 2020 . George Jung Heading Back to Prison But Not For Long. In: TMZ. January 25, 2017, accessed January 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Young, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, George Jacob (full name); Boston George (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drug dealer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Weymouth , Massachusetts