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The Story of a Legendary Drug Kingpin

By AAN Staff
july 19, 2002  12:20 pm
The Story of a Legendary Drug Kingpin
Friends and associates described him as a vampire: nocturnal, with a passing resemblance to Nosferatu, and a thirst for the party drug GHB, which he drank like blood. But "English Shaun" also was a keen businessman, a British stockbroker who now stands accused of masterminding the ecstasy-based drug ring that fueled the Phoenix rave scene of the 1990s. Before it fell apart in a haze of addiction, paranoia and competition from mobster Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Shaun's empire reportedly grew to include scores of rave kids, some of them kept in company-funded apartments, where they rested up between sales runs. Phoenix New Times reporters Susy Buchanan and Brendan Joel Kelley chronicle the tale of drugs, sex, and money.
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