A bullet riddled pickup truck crashed into another vehicle harlem. But he knew it would be 55 year old, Alpo Martinez, Alpo Marintez, was Killed in Harlem in an apparent drive-by shooting this morning. He was engulfed in a hail of bullets, which was fired from a passing vehicle. According to the New York Daily News, Alpo was struck multiple times in the chest by a hail of bullets fired from a passing vehicle on west 147th st. Shortly after 3:30am. After the incident, The EMS attempted to rush him to the Harlem Hospital. He was pronounced dead. Many media outlets sought after Alpo, in hopes of him revealing the details of the real story. Soon, survelience will be revealed by nypd, which will give insight to how things took place. It was unclear whether shots were fired before the crash or after. Alberto Geddis Martinez, better known as Alpo Martinez, or simply Alpo, is an American drug dealer of Puerto Rican ancestry from Harlem, New York City. He rose to prominence in the mid–1980s. In addition to New York, Martinez expanded his drug trade to other cities, notably Washington, DC. Martinez was released in 2015 while serving a 35-year sentence for 14 counts of murder at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison located in Fremont County, Colorado. He was released after testifying against former associates and had since been living under a United States witness protection program. Born in East Harlem, (also known as Spanish Harlem), in Upper Manhattan of New York City, Martinez was one of two children raised by his single mother. He attended a Roman Catholic school, Automotive Mechanical High School and Julia Richmond High School before dropping out during his sophomore year. Martinez started selling drugs at 13 years old in East Harlem. When he met West Side Harlem drug dealer Azie Faison, Martinez started to move up the chain of drug dealers in Harlem and eventually became one of the biggest and well known drug dealers in the city. Martinez later moved to Washington, D.C. to expand operations where he quickly became involved in the city's underworld and elevated his drug activities. He met Wayne 'Silk' Perry, a notorious gangster and D.C. enforcer, who would later become his bodyguard and hitman. Martinez was indicted on federal drug charges in July 1990 with two other men, but the indictment against Martinez was dismissed when he remained a fugitive at the time their trial began November 1991. According to the affidavit, Nathaniel Watkins, (Rich Porter's Cousin), Martinez's co-defendant in the Alexandria, Virginia case, he told the FBI in 1989 he was present when Martinez gave $300,000 to a fellow drug dealer in a Crystal City, Virginia hotel room and instructed the man to take the money to New York. Watkins told the FBI that the drug dealer rode to New York in a limousine, which he and his girlfriend followed, and they went to a Harlem apartment where they met Martinez, who had flown to New York. Sherrille Gilbert, Nathaniel Watkins and several witnesses testified that Martinez was a supplier of crack and that members of the drug ring were involved in several killings. On November 7, 1991, Martinez was arrested in Washington, D.C. for selling drugs. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, various drug charges, and 14 counts of murder, including the murder of D.C drug dealer Michael Anthony Salters aka Fray and Brooklyn drug dealer Demencio Benson. Facing the possibility of either the death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, Martinez turned informant and testified against members of his organization. For his testimony against Perry (who received five consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole), Martinez was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Alpo also admitted to killing rich porter. In a documentary he was working on he stated. I was meeting Rich that night, he got into a van. Once he got in the van, I locked the doors. As I was pulling off, I was asking him 'yo, Rich where did you get that coke from. that sht good was good', because I wanted to make him comfortable. He's like 'I got it from my connect.' From there I knew he was lying. So I turned to my little man [Big Head Gary], I gave him the nod, because he was short, so he could stand up in the van. Next thing you heard was two gunshots, bang bang. Richard slumped over, and it happened, I was very mad, I just killed a dude that I loved, a dude that I was making money with. A dude I called my brother," Alpo said. Alpo went onto explain that they drove to a secluded spot on the highway to dump the body. But his Gary wasn't strong enough to pull Rich out of the van by himself. When Alpo went to help, he realized Rich was still alive. So he took the gun from Gary and put a final shot in Porter's head. In popular culture, Martinez was portrayed by rapper and actor Cam'ron in the 2002 film Paid In Full which was based on the criminal exploits of Martinez, Azie Faison and Rich Porter.
