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title: Andy Furillo
aliases:
- Andy Furillo
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Authors & Journalists"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Journalist
- Journalist
- 1980s
- Los_Angeles
- Crack_Cocaine
summary: Andy Furillo was a Los Angeles Times police beat reporter who wrote the first national press story about crack cocaine in November 1984, documenting the explosion of rock houses in South Central Los Angeles.
- LosAngeles
- CrackCocaine
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Los Angeles Times police beat reporter who wrote the first national press story about crack cocaine in November 1984, documenting the explosion of rock houses in South Central Los Angeles."
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Andy Furillo, a freckle-faced police beat reporter hired away from the smaller Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, wrote the first story about [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] to appear in the national press. Published on November 25, 1984 - one day before the [[DEA]] arrested Jairo Meneses and [[Renato Pena|Renato Peña]] Cabrera in San Francisco. The story ran in the Los Angeles Times under the headline "South Central Cocaine Sales Explode into $25 Rocks."[^1]