(Once, in Richmond, Virginia, he was about to be robbed in an alley when one of the assailants recognized him from an old "Yo! MTV Raps" episode, and brought him to the local kingpin, who promptly became a customer).
The epic case of Paul Le Roux, an international drug and arms smuggler turned DEA informant, took another surprising turn Monday when one of his former employees was acquitted in Minnesota federal court, further calling into question the U.S. government's unusual arrangement with the shadowy kingpin.
All that changed one morning in 2005, when Spanish kingpin Elías Piñeiro Fernandez made his way through the shipyard.
To put it another way, one amputated finger on "Dragnet" is three times as memorable as an entire human leg fed to a hungry tiger on "Kingpin".
8Ball & Devius Last fall, when no one was looking, the Memphis hip-hop kingpin 8Ball teamed up with Devius, a relative unknown, to release an album called "The Vet & the Rookie" (8 Ways/Koch).
Rosenthal, a one-time kingpin fallen on hard times, threatened to tell everything he knew about Becker and about gambling operations in the district.
One alleged kingpin, Sakhi Dost Muhammad Notezai, has been wanted by American authorities since the late 1980s.
It really got going when the cocaine kingpin stepped out of a convoy of six light aircraft that flew in for the event.
Be selfless even when no one notices.
His promotion, he is told, will come through as soon as he closes the book on one last major bust, targeting a drug kingpin (Wesley Snipes).
