Heroin King of Baltimore: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Williams (2013)

Name: Heroin King of Baltimore: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Williams
Director: Derick Thomas
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2013-01-01
Duration: 58 min
Cast: DJ Fontane, DeAndre Wilton, Jacqueline Sanders, David Cooperman, Derick Thomas

Money… injustice… redemption

58m 2013

Documentary History

Baltimore City officials asked drug kingpin Melvin Williams to stop the riots happened following Martin Luther King's assassination. After helping the authorities out, Williams was then labeled a threat, framed and incarcerated by a hypocritical society.