Sergeant Smack was elusive, but the discovery of his palm print on a kilo of heroin finally took him down. He was never known to carry a gun, and today many retired law enforcement officials who had put him in jail refer to him as a “gentleman.” Sergeant Smack’s criminal activities sparked the creation of a special DEA unit code named CENTAC 9, which conducted an intensive three-year investigation across three continents. Army Master Sergeant, career drug smuggler, scam artist, card shark and doting family man whom law enforcement nick-named Sergeant Smack. That amount translates to about $400 million worth of illegal drug sales during that period.īorn in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Ike Atkinson is a charismatic former U.S. during its period of operation from 1968 to 1975.
Ike’s organization moved heroin from Thailand to North Carolina and beyond.Īccording to law enforcement sources, 1,000 pounds is a conservative estimate of the amount of heroin the ring transported annually from Bangkok, Thailand, through U.S. military infrastructure, Atkinson masterminded an enterprising group of family members and former African American GIs that the DEA identified as one of history’s ten top drug trafficking rings.
Under the cover of the Vietnam War and through the use of the U.S.
Sergeant Smack chronicles the story of North Carolina’s Leslie “Ike” Atkinson, an adventurer, gambler and one of U.S.
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