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Christopher Coke, cocaine trafficker

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Christopher Coke, cocaine trafficker

smeg@feddit.ukM to Nominative Determinism@feddit.ukEnglish · 28 days ago

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Christopher Coke and his father Lester Coke, also a drug lord

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If I were them I’d have called myself Lord Coke or something like that.
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  No no, Mister Coke is my father.

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