Jon Roberts

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Jon Roberts , actually John Riccobono, (born June 21, 1948 in New York , † December 28, 2011 ) was a drug dealer. After his prison sentence, he appeared in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys , which focuses on drug trafficking in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s.

He ran a few Brooklyn nightclubs for the Italian Mafia in the early 1970s . After a friend of his was murdered, he moved to Miami , Florida and started the cocaine trade . Jon Roberts was in the cocaine business from 1978 until his arrest on September 20, 1986. He sold over $ 2 billion worth of cocaine for the Medellin cartel . In 2000 he was released from prison. He then lived in Miami, Florida. In 2006 he played himself in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben, which thematizes his life and that of some companions.

Roberts died of cancer on December 28, 2011.

Childhood and youth

The son of Edie and Nat Riccobono, Jon grew up in New York with his sister Judy, who was five years older than him. The father, a mafioso, was expelled to Sicily in 1959 after he was arrested in a raid and his stay in the USA was considered illegal. Jon then lived with his grandparents until his mother married a wealthy entrepreneur and from then on lived with her children. A short time later, Edie died in the hospital from complications after an abortion. Jon's constant argument with his stepfather and Jon's general anger at society escalated, and he lived in a home for boys from then on. From then on, Jon, along with older youths as an outcast clique, robbed a number of people who wanted to buy drugs by acting as salespeople even though they did not own any drugs. From 1963 Jon lived with his sister Judy and her husband, first in Texas for a few months, then in Maine. A year later, at the age of 16, Jon went to New York and collected money for his uncle Sam Riccobono. He also used a proven method to rob students interested in drug buying. In connection with these activities, the later drug dealer was initially convicted of kidnapping, usury , carrying a hidden weapon and attempted murder under adult criminal law. Although he was serving his sentence, the army was recruiting for the Vietnam War at the time and offered to erase the crimes in return for military service. Jon became a soldier and fought in Vietnam.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e book "American Desperado" by Jon Roberts and Evan Wright (2011) ISBN 9780307450425 pp. 9,10,20-21,44-47,55
  2. ↑ Chauncey Mabe: Desperado at twilight - Last testament of Fort Lauderdale's Jon Roberts; Sun Sentinel dated December 29, 2011
  3. ^ Rebecca Wakefield: Confessions of a trafficker; Article in Miami News on October 13, 2005
  4. ↑ Jon Roberts at IMDb
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riccobono, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drug dealer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2011