Lucas boasted he smuggled heroin utilizing the coffins of dead American servicemen, yet this claim is refused by his South East Asian associate, Leslie “Ike” Atkinson. Lucas only trusted relatives and close friends from North Carolina to manage his various diamorphine businesses. Lucas believed they were less prone to steal from him and be tempted by various vices in the large city. He said his diamorphine, “Blue Magic”, was 98-100% pure when sent from Thailand. Lucas continues to be quoted as saying that his value was “something like $52 million”, most of it in Cayman Islands banks. Included with this is “perhaps 1,000 keys (kilograms), (2,200 pounds), of dope on hand” with a potential gain of no less than $300,000 per kilo (per 2.2 pound). This enormous profit margin enabled him to purchase property around the united states, including office buildings in Detroit, and flats in La and Miami. Lucas rubbed shoulders with all the elite of the entertainment, politics, and offense worlds, saying afterwards that he’d met Howard Hughes at one of Harlem’s finest nightclubs in his day. Though he possessed several mink and chinchilla jackets and other accessories, Lucas substantially favored to dress casually and corporately so as to not bring attention to himself. When he was detained in the mid-1970s, all of Lucas’ assets were seized.