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American former drug trafficker

This article is about the American former drug trafficker. For the book about him, see Freeway Rick Ross (book).

Ricky Donnell "Freeway Ricky" Ross (born January 26, 1960)^[1] is an American author and former drug lord best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s.^[2] He was sentenced to life in prison, though the sentence was shortened on appeal and Ross was released in 2009.^[3]

Biography

Ross attended school at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles.

He played for the tennis team but was unable to get the college tennis scholarship he aspired to because he was illiterate.^[4]

Ross has said that when he first saw crack cocaine as a teenager in 1979, he did not immediately believe it was a drug because it looked different from other drugs he had seen.

The nickname Freeway came from Ross owning properties along Los Ang