Dealing Weed: The Allen Ahee Story

It’s a Mediterranean thing. In Detroit the Sicilians and Lebanese go together like food and family. Allen Ahee was born into the third generation of a bond as thick as blood. Lebanese born and mob raised, he would become one of the country’s biggest weed dealers. His family’s move to Tucson introduced him to the lucrative ‘sideline’ that propelled him from pounds to tons, suitcases to semis and small time local sources to El Chapo’s fearsome Sinaloa cartel. I was his biggest distributor in the United States. Nobody else was doing what we were doing, nobody could. They didn’t have the cities, the connections and the places to off it. They say we moved 180,000 tons worth - over $4.9 billion from ‘84 to 2004. We did more than that even. Who can you trust when there’s this much money involved? Nobody. This is the story of his phenomenal rise and disturbing downfall.