We saw a Skrull that shapeshifted into Ross get killed in the 1st episode of Secret Invasion. Did this Skrull just impersonate Ross this one time, or was the Ross we saw in previous movies (Civil War, Black Panther, Wakanda Forever) always a Skrull? Is the real Everett Ross still out there?
On June 8, 1989, ten individuals, including Ross and Jeffries, were indicted on drugcharges in Cincinnati. The indictment charged that from about January 1, 1987 through thedate of the indictment, Ross and the nine others conspired to distribute cocaine inCincinnati. Ross was also charged with giving a false social security number to a lawenforcement officer on two occasions. Cincinnati Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hunt, whohandled the prosecution, told the OIG that witnesses were prepared to testify that,"on a good day," Ross' operation grossed over $30,000. After Ross was arrestedon state charges in Los Angeles in November 1989 for assault on a police officer, he wastransported back to Cincinnati, and held without bail, pending trial on this indictment.(62)
Ross' trial testimony was quite long. He was on the stand for three to four days. He was cross-examined in excruciating detail about all imaginable subjects, including who his cocaine sources were, who was part of his narcotics organization, and what properties he purchased with narcotics proceeds and may still retain. Ross answered those questions without hesitation, and, in my opinion, did so honestly and candidly.
The notorious Los Angeles drug lord known as Freeway Rick, who once boasted that his coast-to-coast cocaine empire grossed more than $1 million a day, walked out of a Texas jail Wednesday and vowed to return home in search of redemption. Ricky Donnell Ross, 34, who in the 1980s probably rose faster and higher than any other drug trafficker from the streets of South Central Los Angeles, said he hoped to head back to his old neighborhood as soon as possible and devote his life to warning youngsters about the mistakes that kept him locked up for most of the last five years.
According to the article, Ross was "broke," having lost his drug profits to"attorney fees, shaky business deals and double-crossing rivals." In thearticle, Ross stated that he learned to read and write in jail and had plans to turn anold theater he had purchased with drug proceeds into a multicultural performance theaterand community educational facility.