Eng was arrested at least five times in the 1970s on various criminal charges. By 1988, he had moved into the
heroin trade in
Manhattan's Chinatown. A confidential report issued by the
Justice Department called Eng "one of the five major heroin dealers in New York City." fled back there in 1989 to avoid prosecution. In December 1992, Eng was convicted of 14 counts of heroin smuggling and conspiracy. The government also confiscated Eng's 200-acre estate in
Newfoundland,
Pennsylvania, which was reported to have been used for
machine-gun practice by members of the Flying Dragons. He was released several years early on 8 November 2010. ==Murder of wife==