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4/16/2014

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I should say upfront that over the course of our years of talk, I’ve come to like Jerry LeQuire. That said, however, as a writer I have tried to be objective in my judgment of him as a person then, and today.  The best way to describe him is that the volume on his personality traits is different than that of most people I know. As I listen to the stories I am amazed that he was a man who just didn’t consider the consequences, whether it was fights, gun battles, shootouts with the DEA, prison---it didn’t seem to matter.

Now, prison has changed him, as you would suspect, but back then he considered it was him against the world, and he wasn’t going to yield an inch. It was this defiance that kept him alive in the worst prison hole in America at that time, Marion, where he spent 10 grueling years, and made him friends with men like John Gotti and Aldrich Ames. He has a code he lives by; perhaps changed from when he was a free man, but honor remains the one steadfast. He values loyalty and friendship. One of the enduring themes in our conversations is that a man needs to stick to his word and support his friends. And it still bothers him that some of those he considered friends betrayed him. But he is more hurt than angered---time does this to you.

So, what kind of person is he now?  He’s a man struggling to get on with his life, a good man just waiting for a chance to show it, but it takes a book to peel back the surface to show what I mean. The question can’t be answered in a few sentences because he’s different, but what I plan to say to the Parole Board one day is that he has paid for his crime and deserves another chance. And that he is my friend.

 

More later.

8 Comments
Jed
5/18/2014 12:58:02 am

I grew up in Blount Co. I had always heard stories of the LeQuires. I am certainly interested in the book. I remember a retired FBI agent who was a pilot was in on an arrest. I do not remember if it was Jerry. I remember he told me they put a beacon on a vehicle of a female. They flew above the car all the way to Florida. I know the pilots name if you wanted to find him. Not sure if he is still with us. Anyway I cannot wait to read your book. Good luck!

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melissa
11/11/2015 05:29:36 pm

I knew some of the lequire 's very nice laid back type of folks, lived in old farm house down from chilhowee Lake .I always liked talking to the brothers .I wish them well

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Jack
4/12/2020 04:35:49 pm

Jerry lived on Morganton rd I was a friend of his in high school but was really a friend of his brother Bobby

Antonio Abarca
12/18/2014 10:41:53 am

When is the book coming out.? He was a good dude. I got to know him in the Feds while doing time I just didn't know how big his story actually was, cause a man don't ask them kind of questions in there for suspicion that you might be working with the law.

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shawn
12/4/2015 07:36:16 pm

he was my uncle. i have a few photos. i work with his brother tommy.

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Rhonda
12/28/2015 06:09:55 pm

Interesting, im his daughter and i dont have a cousin named shawn

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Justin Hedrick
6/8/2020 07:09:59 am

Read the book, it was Good. Rhonda great cousins with my grandpaw, JR Hedrick.

Shawn rogers
6/11/2020 08:33:09 pm

I work with his cousin tommy and wayne at ultra marine product.

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    My name is Richard Biggs and I'm a writer. My latest book is about Jerry Allen LeQuire, a convicted drug kingpin, who rejected two offers from the CIA to work for them, and has been in a federal prison for over 30 years.

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