The thought of life behind bars must have “wigged” him out.
A violent Jamaican drug lord who got busted while disguised under an Afro wig and fake Gucci cap pleaded guilty yesterday to racketeering charges that could send him to prison for 23 years.
Christopher Coke, 42, struck the plea bargain with Manhattan federal prosecutors just weeks before the scheduled start of a trial at which he would have faced life in prison without parole.
The turnabout came after the judge refused to toss phone wiretaps and prosecutors moved to introduce evidence that Coke committed at least five murders in his home country while heading a drug ring known as the “Shower Posse” and the “Presidential Click.”
Coke admitted conspiring to ship at least 6,500 pounds of marijuana to the United States between 1999 and 2010.