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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bo Asks...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Why Ask Why | 1/25/1991 | See Source »

Slickest Packaging Once stashed in the backs of men's wallets, condoms entered the fashion market. Manufacturers affixed prophylactics to earrings, pins and bolo ties. Meanwhile, some pioneering secondary-school-bo ard members debated whether to distribute condoms to students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most of Living | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...Bo never did escape. By 1987 Los Angeles detectives had heard reports that a big black kid (Bennett is 5 ft. 11 in., 260 lbs.) was arriving at drug night spots in a Rolls-Royce driven by a young Hispanic. This was a mistake Bennett repeated: he made himself too visible. He even drove up to a South Central car wash in his Mercedes-Benz to boast to bystanders, "I got more keys ((kilos of cocaine)) in my trunk than you all got clothes on your back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fling of a High Roller | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

With his sudden affluence, Bo paid off the mortgage on his mother's house on Florence Avenue and moved her to a rented home in middle-class Northridge. He bought his sister Carmen a manicure salon and a condominium in Tarzana. He set his brother Darron up in a high-rise on Wilshire Avenue in Westwood, paying the $3,000 monthly rent. Moving frequently to avoid being ripped off by other drug dealers, Bo placed his common-law wife Linda Payton and their son Brian Jr. in a San Fernando Valley apartment. As a hideaway, he bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fling of a High Roller | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...charging Villabona about $10,000 for a kilo. Out of that, Oscar paid Colombian growers and refiners about $3,000 and Mexican smugglers $2,000. He kept $5,000 for himself. In the U.S., Villabona and Bennett charged $12,000 for a kilo and split the profits. Some weeks Bo pocketed $1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fling of a High Roller | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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