Post by Scumhunter on Dec 18, 2014 13:35:30 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: amw.com archives)
Fugitive Profile as of December 18th, 2014 (Based on 2011 AMW.COM archive, dea.gov):
Aliases: Victor Zackery Newman, Elrick Spencer Wynn, Eric Wynn, Big E, Peanut, EW, Edub, E-Wynn, David Wynn, Elrick Bernard
Sex: Male
Race: Black
Year of Birth: 1969
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 260 lbs.
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair):
-Black
-May have a receding hairline or shaved head
-Wynn may have a full beard or be clean-shaven
Eyes: Brown
Other Phys. Characteristics:
-Wynn has a cleft chin dimple
-Wynn may be disguising himself as a homeless man with a scruffy beard and dirty appearance or as a woman with a wig and wearing women's clothes.
Scars and Tattoos: Wynn has a tattoo that reads "The Wynn" on his left bicep.
Traits and Habits:
-Wynn is known to gamble at high stakes tables at casinos in Las Vegas, NV and Biloxi, Mississippi.
-Wynn plays poker.
-He likes to drive high-end SUV's.
-Wynn has family in St. Petersburg.
-He has boxed and worked out in the past.
-Last seen 2009 in Ocala, Florida.
-Wynn often wears a thick gold chain.
Location information: Elrick Wynn is known to gamble. Deputy Marshals say Wynn may be frequenting high stakes poker tables in Las Vegas, NV and Biloxi, MS.
Other Possible Locations: National
Who to call if you've seen him: U.S. Marshals Service 24-hour number 1-877-WANTED2 (1-877-926-8332), Tip line: usms.wanted@usdoj.gov, or the nearest DEA office with information.
Elrick Wynn has been aired on AMW since 1998, the same year he was indicted for his lleged involvement as a leader in a cocaine distrbution ring. The following is a news article from 2011 highlighting his airing once again on AMW that year:
Elrick Bernard Wynn once was one of St. Petersburg's most-feared drug kingpins.
Now he may be using a dress to skirt the law.
On the run since his violent crack empire was dismantled in the late 1990s, Wynn has stymied U.S. Marshals, who are turning to the public for help. His case is scheduled to be featured Saturday night on "America's Most Wanted."
When law enforcement was closing in, the last thing Wynn's right-hand man did before he was arrested was call Wynn and tell him to run, according to Deputy U.S. Marshal Lisa Alfonso.
Authorities arrested and prosecuted 14 co-defendants, who received prison terms ranging from five to 20 years. But they never got Wynn.
Wynn, 41, was spotted most recently in late 2009 in south St. Petersburg. He was dressed as a woman, Alfonso said. In 2008, he was seen in Ocala sporting a beard.
Alfonso said the search for Wynn has hit a wall, and she hopes to heat things up with the public appeal.
"He was a domestic kingpin," said Jeffrey Walsh, who worked the case as an agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Walsh said Wynn ran the largest cocaine network in Central Florida - the largest ever in St. Petersburg - from about 1994 through 1997.
"All of south St. Pete was scared to death of this guy," said Walsh, who is now the DEA's top agent in Orlando. Whenever investigators traced the source of cocaine in the St. Pete area, inevitably the trail led to Wynn. "He controlled the entire city."
Authorities estimate Wynn's organization imported 40 to 60 kilos of cocaine into the city every month between 1994 and 1996. The organization netted about $8 million a year and was linked to two homicides, Alfonso said.
Walsh estimated hundreds of people sold drugs for Wynn, who once exacted a painful price from a drug dealer who crossed him.
Walsh said one of Wynn's dealers was robbed and lost a kilo of cocaine the organization had fronted. When the dealer couldn't pay for the stolen cocaine, Wynn sought revenge. In front of witnesses, he had two lieutenants stand on either side of the dealer with gun muzzles pushed against his ears. Then Wynn took a baseball bat to the man's legs.
"In order to make a statement, that's what he did in front of everybody on a Saturday night," Walsh said.
Some residents are still terrified.
"To this day, people I interview in south St. Petersburg, no one wants to talk about Elrick Wynn," Alfonso said.
Wynn, who is 6-foot-2, liked to box and lift weights. He had heavy punching bags in his garage, and would leave the door open so people could see him hitting the bags, Walsh said.
"He was big and he was strong," Walsh said. "But he was quiet. He wasn't real flashy."
Wynn and his ilk share the blame for the deterioration of south St. Petersburg, Alfonso said: "All because of the greed, the money, the violence, everything associated with cocaine and drugs in general."
Walsh said Wynn "preyed on everybody's fears. He made a lot of money; he used that money to take advantage of people's unfortunate life circumstances and rather meager existence."
Wynn used his money "to further keep these people in a depressed state. ... He used it to buy loyalty and strength."
Even while surrounded by poverty, authorities say, Wynn would gamble huge sums playing pool, dominoes and a card game called tonk.
"He would gamble with paper bags full of money," Walsh said. "One time he lost $160,000 in an hour of tonk. He was extremely upset."
Often, when Wynn lost, the winners let him keep his cash, apparently frightened he would cut them out of his drug business or hurt them.
"All the old places he went to are all gone and burned down," Walsh said, including a pool hall where Wynn would drop tens of thousands of dollars in a night. The social club he frequented is "shuttered and hollowed out."
Nowadays, investigators say, Wynn frequents casinos in Biloxi, Miss., and Las Vegas. He was known to have contacts in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia.
Walsh said he always believed Wynn stashed millions somewhere to finance a life on the run. Witnesses reported seeing Wynn's coffee table stacked a foot high with cash.
"I used to say to the other investigators, 'If this guy ever goes on the lam someday, he's going to have enough money to live a lifetime,'" Walsh said.
The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Wynn's arrest. Anyone with information on Wynn's whereabouts should call 1-877-926-8332.
Thoughts? On the first AMW archive link below you can see photos of Wynn dressed as a woman. Also ironic they have an investigator named Walsh LOL. I find this a really interesting case. There's supposed sightings but then like a ghost they go away quickly. As mentioned above, where Wynn has the ability- any fugitive needs to be able to finance a run in order to stay on the run- and Wynn obviously has no problem with that from his distribution days. It gives him the ability to move around and gamble and do whatever he wants all over the country- or perhaps even the world.
web.archive.org/web/20110907064334/http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=76240#brief
web.archive.org/web/19991012070500/http://amw.com/
www.dea.gov/fugitives/mia/AC41AA85-91D5-4A8E-B8DD-935ABB59C219.shtml (UPDATE: As of July 24th, 2018, Wynn was still listed on the DEA website as a wanted fugitive)
tbo.com/news/ex-st-pete-drug-kingpin-still-on-the-lam-a-decade-later-13064
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