You've heard the stories and you've seen the DVD, chronicling the lives of Max Mermelstein, Rirverlto the assasin and the infamous "Godmother" Griselda Blanco , now comes the story of the lone black "cocaine cowboy" Mr. Charles Crosby , who made fortunes under the guidance of the "Godmother"
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taking from AS IS magazine issue # 3
*What made you decide to talk?
CROSBY: The reason i decided to talk now is because any drug crimes i commited, the statue of limitations has run out, so I can speak freely.
*Tell us, how this whole thing came into play...
CROSBY: I gotta go back a little ways, im from East Oakland, from a community called brookfield village. When Crack exploded on the scene in 83, the next year i started getting it on the street, i went from selling 10$ and 20$ rocks to selling ounces..at the same time i didn't have a big connection, everybody was going thru the same people, same circle of people, so we were limited to the amount of dope we could purchase.
I hustled like that for years, i made a 100,000 to 150,000 hustling hand to hand, i heard about Griselda Blanco getting arrested in 85, i was watching the news one evening, and it stuck in my mind about this woman who was a billionaire cocaine trafficker from Colombia.
She was selling 4,000 pounds of cocaine per month and had allegedly participated in 200 murders around the globe. That piqued my intrest about 3 years later, i went to visit Los Angeles for recreation , im looking at houses and this realtor named Manuella was from Panama and at one time she had a direct connection to Griselda Blanco, she happened to be one of her workers in the late 70's and 80's, At that point she was happy to share stories about Griselda, she gave me a hookup as to what Penitentiary she stayed in and gave Griselda the word about me , how this guy named Charles said he looks up to you and he wants to get at you and express his true feelings, he think you're a queen and whatnot, i got at Griselda by writing her.
*What did you put inside the letter? What did you say?
CROSBY: I said that i think mighty highly of you and your the greatest queen to sit on a throne and it's my dream to rub elbows with a true lady.
*Was that game or did you really meant that?
CROSBY: To be honest with you it was 50/50, i meant it, but at the same time it was game because I had aspirations as far as getting the hookup. The first phone call she asked me what's with the sudden intrest and i just let her know alot of people think fondly of her and i just wanted to rub shoulders with her. We talked for three months back and forth, she calling me five , six, times a day, just really getting a feel of where im coming from because all i was spitting all the game I had at her. I saw where this was going and it would be benificial for me. So after three months she invites me to a federeal prison which wasn't to far from where i resided in east oakland.
Unfortunatly i couldn't go see her cause i was on probation, federal rules prevented me from patronizing with her. But we eventually got to meet 8 months later.
*How was the visit?
CROSBY: It was surreal , could you imagine the biggest cocaine dealer on the planet walking to you. the visitors in that room were star struck, we embraced, we kissed, and she let me know she appreicated everything i said, and she would offer myself anything that i needed, over the phone she always said she would hook me up, but i never really showed any excitement because I didn't want her to think that as the only reason i was intrested, was just for this cocaine pipeline she was sitting on. Although i did mention it, she said basically anything i wanted would be mine including money, i said "I don't want your money i would rather make my own.", i asked her did the offer of extending the cocaine pipeline still stand?..she said "yes of course it does, how much cocaine would it take to make sure you and your family will live comfortably? I said to start out with 50 kilos and then maybe another 100 kilos in one or two months, the following week i had 50 kilos delivered to my house by a spanish lady that spoke broken English.
*Break that down, tell us what that experience was like, go to that day and tell me what exactly happened.
CROSBY: I was home and she told me to expect somebody at tabout three in the afternoon but she didn't go into detail over the phone . Im sitting on pins and needles witing for this person to come knock on the door, the knock comes at the door about three o clock and on the other side of the lady on the porch was just boxes and it was 25 kilograms in each box, i couldn't get boxes in the house quick enough, she delivered them like it was a FED EX parcel, i cut the boxes open and there was 25 kilos in each box and im excited like a muthaphuka, because i had never seen so much dope in my life.
*You mean this lady just delivered 50 keys to your house no questions asked??
CROSBY that's it, knocked on the door and poof there's 50 keys from Griselda, it took me three weeks to sell the coke, I made two million dollars and i got 10% off of that , 200,000 in two weeks, over the months and years i distibuted 10,000 kilos for Griselda, and this was in addition to my own operation.
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*Go back into your relationship with Griselda. You got your first package, you got 50 keys, you maker her money, what's the relationship now?
CROSBY: She looked at me in a different light, although she knew that i as a person that could be trusted, that as loyal , that was faithful, she saw that not only could i be trusted but i was dedicated to the work, i really got that dope moving in the street. Because of that we became close, we became lovers, we often had sex, the guards were on Griselda's payroll, there was time when we would go in the recreation room and go the to the back of the hall where the stage is and have sex, the guards would lock the door and let us do our thing, she basically ran the prison, she had everything she wanted at that prison.
*So you would go to prison and fukk Griselda??...What the guards were thinking did they say anything?
CROSBY: They didn't say anything they turned thier heads as if they didn't see anything, they were getting 1,500$ everytime i banged her.
*Back to the dope...how were u getting her back her money, while she was locked up?
CROSBY: she had cells, that were in charged of storing the dope, shipping the dope and getting the money , mostly from Panama and the Cayman Islands leading to Colombia it was maybe a total of 400 people in these cells and i was her right hand man.
*How was that being a black man and ****in with the colombians? Colombians usually like other nationalities close rank and close doors on niccas , they don't let niccas in, how did you get in, what was the reception for you?
CROSBY: Everybody inside of her family other than her son except Oswaldo who was later killed by Escobar and her youngest Micheal accepted me. But as far as the whole organization they didn't like me. They didn't like her being with a n*gga. They would talk shyt behind our backs and when thier grumblings reached Griselda she would go ballistic. She called Miami, New York and Colombia on a confrence call and told them this was her life and she did what she wanted to do. Also thier was jealosy in the ranks from the cats that was with her in Queens New York who had been there longer with her but i had more rank than them, i understand why they were mad, this nicca comes in directing people who known this byatch for 20 years.
*Did you ever let it intimidate you to the point of just quitting?
CROSBY: Im the type of person that has never really feared anything even death, i've seen so much of it i'm immune to it. But i have had thoughts of them doing something to me, me disappearing. In the meantime i did what i had to do. At that point, I had a 1 million dollar home in Oakland Hills, i also had a "home" on my first class flights aboard American Airlines cause i stayed on the plane. Harlem, NY, Miami, FL, the carolinas, i remember in a two day time span i was having lunch in my las vegas penthouse, then i was on Miami Beach negotiating a million dollar deal for the godmother. Non stop flights.
*You dealt with her business wise and everything seems civil, but there is another side of the GODMOTHER that everybody knows, she as mad, murderous type of invidual, what do you know about that?
CROSBY: Griselda Blanco is a very caring lady, the most caring lady i ever met, but her personality is very strong with a temper out this world, i have NEVER SEEN A PERSON IN MY LIFETIME with such a temper. Griselda would kill for something as small as a dirty look or cussing her out. She is the wrong woman to cross and many people realized that when it was too late.
*When did things start to change for you and Griselda?
CROSBY: Well they say what don't kill you will only make you stronger, but when you locked up that shyt don't apply. Why you might think?..cause that shyt will drive you crazy!!!..by 1995 griselda had gone mad, she had concocted this crazy kidnapping plot, after learing that the Feds had uncovered more bodies, that would certainly lengthen her 35 year sentence to a life bid, she was losing it. Jorge Rivelta made a secret deal with the feds telling the Grand Jury everything he knew about the bodies and Griselda. He was already serving life and figured to do this deal to get out of prison. So griselda came to me cause she could confide in me and said...
"My life is over.."..i told her "No just let Jorge talk cause i felt with the lawyers Griselda got we could beat him in court...", but she said "No you don't understand im already guilty before being convicted, they will never let me walk.. i argued ..."who would believe this dude, he is just a hired hitman he just saying this to get out of jail. She still disagreed, saying the amount of murders he speaks of, is enough to sentence her to Death Row ten times over. Then she said she "had a plan"..i said "I don't wanna hear it" ..she said "No here's the plan...we're gonna move against a Kennedy...im like "what"..she said ..."get him and hold him for ransom"..i said "i want no parts of it"...
*What Kennedy??? Which one?
CROSBY: the president's son JFK JR. , she basically had 4 kidnappers and told me to go to New York with her cousin to meet them, she had a cousin that lived not to far from Manhattan, we picked them up from the airport it was three guys and a female, they flew into JFK airport from Colombia..... (to be CONTINUED)
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The story of the LONE BLACK "COCAINE COWBOY" Charles Crosby (GODMOTHER'S SIDEKICK)
