Clarence "Preacher" Heatley built one of Harlem and the Bronx's most feared drug empires of the 1980s and '90s — and answered any threat to it with murder. This is the story of the Preacher Crew's rise, the federal task force built to bring it down, and the fall that put Heatley away for life plus 225 years.
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