SMUGGLER IS SENTENCED; Associate of Lepke Gets 7 Years for Bring'ing in Narcotics

Jan. 29, 1938

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January 29, 1938, Page 33
Jake Lvovsky, named with Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, fugitive racketeer, and Samuel Gross as organizers of a ring of smugglers who imported $10,000,000 worth of morphine and heroin from China in six shipments, received a prison sentence of seven years yesterday after pleading guilty to ten indictments charging violation of the narcotic law.

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