Leo Sharp, the man whose story inspired the creation of the movie directed and starring Clint Eastwood, “The Mule“.
Who was Leo Sharp
Leo Sharp was born on May 7 of 1924 and died on December 12 of 2016, his is one history very particular.
Sharp was born in Michigan City, but spent much of his adolescence predominantly in Detroit. Of hers early life very little is known, but we know more or less twenty years old, on the occasion of the second World War, became a fighter of the United States of America in Italy and who was awarded for his work with a medal.
Back from the war, Sharp himself is married but her love story didn’t last long and it actually ended with one separation.
On his return from the war it seems he was the owner of one small airline then ended up in bankruptcy; his most lasting work activity was certainly that of floriculturist.
For many years Sharp lived in his house in Michigan, creating and cultivating flowers. Initially a rather profitable activity that of floriculturist, which allowed man to live in dignity for a long time, however, with the advent of the Internet, his business suffered a drastic decline cheap and it was probably for this reason that he started looking for alternatives.
Leo Sharp: war veteran and “courier”
It was one of his “colleague“Also floriculturist, but Mexican, to find the working alternative to Sharp and to offer him the opportunity to work for the Sinaloa cartel, which was driven from El Chapo Mexican criminal and drug trafficker.
There new work experience by Leo Sharp began as money courier, but then once the man knew how to earn the confidence of its owners, i money they came replaced by drugs. Sharp’s choice as “drug courierIt was most likely anything but casual, hers age in fact it made it perfect to be considered a real one unsuspected.
Most of the drug carried by Sharp ended in Detroit and the Police set out on his trail right after the start of ainvestigation into the sale of cocaine in that city. To carry out the investigation was theagent Jeff Moore, the same agent as the September 17, 2011 found that Sharp, then 87 years old it was a drug courier in the service of the Sinaloa cartel. After due diligence, Leo Sharp came arrested in 2011 while driving his Lincoln pickup on Interstate 94.
Sharp then faced a process and he declared himself guilty, in 2013 it underwent the three-year sentence of prison. Her defence he tried in every way to prove that the work done by his client was the result of one compulsion associated with a senile dementia, but he could not actually prove it, also due to the fact that there were numerous photographic testimonies that portrayed Sharp on vacation together with one of the bosses who managed the drug trafficking in Detroit.
Leo Sharp eventually only served a year in prison, due to a disease, which in 2016 at the age of 92 years old led him to the death.
Leo Sharp and the movie “The Mule”
It is inspired by the story of Leo Sharp the film directed and starring Clint Eastwood, or “The Mule“, translated “Il Corriere”. With this film the actor Eastwood returned to the scene at a distance of six years of absence from the big screen and gave the world of cinema and to the spectators amasterful interpretation an incredible story to say the least!