Information Wanted: Drug King Jimmy Chagra

Las Vegas author Jack Sheehan has wanted to tell the story of Jimmy Madrid, who died of cancer at the age of 63 on July 25,2008, while living under-cover in a trailer park here in Mesa with a new identity in the Federal Witness Program.
The notorious  mobster drug-dealer, Jamiel H. Chagra, probably attracted little attention from neighbors while living under a false assumed-identity given to him by the FBI. As you can see in the opening image he looks much like your average retiree who move to Mesa. But there's a difference. Jimmy Chagra was so many things — a mob-connected drug runner, a smart man with a dark side, a high roller and convicted felon. Rich and powerful and criminal, Chagra wound up living anonymously in Arizona.

All these attributes make Chagra a dream subject for a documentary. Las Vegas author Jack Sheehan has seized the opportunity to chronicle Chagra’s live and is developing a full-scale documentary film about a man at the center of one of the great crime stories of the last half-century.

Sheehan has partnered with Eric Thiermann  of Impact Creative on this project, which has been in development over the past two months.

Las Vegas author developing documentary on drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra

By John Katsilometes / Las Vegas Review-Journal | March 9, 2019 - 1:57 pm

. . . It’s the great American tragedy,” Sheehan says. “It’s the breakdown of an immigrant family. You see how Chagra changed the way money was laundered in Las Vegas. You see Jimmy’s face and hear his voice, talking about all of it, how he was able to run a functioning marijuana empire until 1978. He had $100 million dollars — which today is about a half-billion —in various bank accounts, and was a blue-chip celebrity on the Strip who wound up in Mesa, Arizona.”

Sheehan is still seeking some individuals who knew Chagra and can contribute to this project — and if you fit the bill, opportunity knocks . . .

Reference > Las Vegas Review Journal
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Jamiel Chagra

Updated on Mar 23, 2018

". . . Jimmy Chagra was released from prison for health reasons in Atlanta, Georgia on December 9, 2003. He was reportedly placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The story surrounding the assassination of Judge Wood was profiled in an episode of City Confidential. A fictitious name reference to the Judge John Wood assassination also appeared in an "FBI Files" episode Dangerous Company as the show regularly changed names of real-life people to protect privacy.
He was also used in FBI: The Untold Stories.

Jamiel Chagra married his third wife, Lynda Ray, while living under the name James Madrid on November 22, 2005. They were married in Las Vegas.
Chagra died of cancer at 10:30 am on July 25, 2008.
He had been living in Mesa, Arizona with his wife.
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