Career
He is a former Manhattan triad leader and drug dealer. Engineer was arrested at least five times in the 1970s. In 1983, Engineer became the leader of the Flying Dragons.
By 1988 he had moved into the heroin trade in Manhattan"s Chinatown.
A confidential report issued by the Justice Department called Engineer "one of the five major heroin dealers in New York City." A native of Hong Kong, Engineer was 31 years old in 1989, when he fled to that city to avoid arrest and prosecution. He was arrested there in 1989.
Engineer fought extradition for nearly three years, but was brought to the United States in 1991. In December 1992, Engineer was convicted of 14 counts of heroin smuggling and conspiracy.
In March 1993, Engineer was sentenced to 24 years in prison and fined $3,500,000 by Federal District Court judge Reena Raggi.
He was released several years early on 8 November 2010. On July 13, 2011, Engineer"s wife Lori Engineer (Chinese: 伍羅美玲) was fatally shot by another Flying Dragons member, David Chea (Chinese: 謝錦徵), at her apartment in Flushing, Queens, New New York Chea then committed suicide.
