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The Mexican Mafia, also known as La Eme (meaning M in Spanish) was founded in California as a Mexican-American prison gang in the 1950s that become one of the most powerful and deadliest prison gangs in the United States. Their membership is in the hundreds while having tens of thousands of foot soldiers on the street ready and willing to carry out their orders in Southern California. La Eme is involved in a variety of criminal activities including drug trafficking, extortion, illegal gambling, assaults, kidnappings and murders. Once a member of the Mexican Mafia there is no leaving the ...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols planned and executed the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in United States history at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These two anti-government extremists used close to 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) in their domestic attack using a Ryder truck that was parked by McVeigh in front of the federal building. He would use a fuse to detonate the bomb inside the truck killing 168 people, injuring over 600, destroying the building and damaging others in a 16-block radius causing over 600 ...

In this book, I detail my life as a Special Agent, working undercover, meeting and buying guns and drugs from violent career offenders, gang members, international firearms traffickers, and armed drug traffickers.

On June 29, 2022, Sonny Barger died at age 83 after battling liver cancer for years. After serving in the Army, Barger founded the Oakland, California Chapter of the Hells Angels (HA) in 1957 and would be a HA for life as the face of this infamous one percenter outlaw motorcycle gang (OMG). Barger and other members of the Hells Angels would be convicted of serious felonies including drug trafficking, weapons violations, use of explosives with intent to commit murder and other egregious charges. Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels became synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s...

Ruben “Doc” Cavazos grew up in a Hispanic street gang in Los Angeles and would later rise to national president of the Mongols motorcycle gang. He quickly transformed the Mongols with L.A. street gang members to boost membership even though many had never owned or ridden a motorcycle. This was the beginning of the end for Cavazos and other Mongols that were involved in criminal activities including drug trafficking, killings, and other violent offenses leading to his arrest by federal authorities in 2008 on racketeering charges and later sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison. ...

Las Vegas has many names such as Sin City, the City of Lights and Mob City just to name a few. There is no city like Las Vegas with world class casinos, hotels, shows, sports and sightseeing is second to none. Vegas does have a dark side with a history tied to organized crime that includes some of the most infamous mobsters in U.S. history like Bugsy Seigel, Myer Lansky, Johnny Roselli, Gus Greenbaum, Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro just to name a few. The saying goes, Built it and they will come and Las Vegas is a perfect example of this manufactured oasis in the desert. The Mafia made ...

Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) is considered by Mexican and U.S. authorities as one of the most dangerous crime syndicates in the world at par with the Sinaloa Cartel one of their fierce rivals in Mexico. CJNG is an extremely violent group based in the Mexican state of Jalisco headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka “El Mencho” one of the world’s most wanted drug lords. This organization is involved in drug trafficking, firearms smuggling, kidnappings, extortion, murders, petroleum theft, human trafficking, racketeering, money laundering and many other criminal offenses. They ...

On the night of September 07th, 1996, Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight were riding in a black BMW 750iL sedan and were headed to Knight’s Death Row Record nightclub, Club 662 (MOB) in Las Vegas. Earlier that evening, Shakur, Knight and their entourage attended the Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand. After the fight, members of the entourage spotted Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, a Southside Compton Crip who allegedly had robbed a Death Row Record chain medallion from one of them earlier that year. Immediately, the group assaulted Anderson for stealing the medallion in the lobby of the MGM ...

These are a series of books detailing the history of violence and armed drug trafficking within the one percenters to include the Hells Angels, Outlaws, Pagans, Mongols, Bandidos, Vagos and others. This a fascinating look at the different biker groups and how they developed into an international ruthless crime syndicates including my perspective as a retired ATF Special Agent that has written over 60 books including my autobiography ATF Undercover detailing my dangerous undercover work with gangs, repeat violent offenders, armed drug dealers, international firearms traffickers and other ...

This book addresses the situation in Mexico with the drug cartels and the how the United States government is dealing with the current Mexican administration's soft approach with cartel leadership. The United States' future depends how Mexico deals with these cartels, and what the United States can do to stop the illegal immigration and drugs pouring into the country. I also write about the aftermath of the ATF Operation Fast and Furious which let over 2,000 firearms “walk” from the United States to the Mexican cartels. There is a compelling case to strengthen firearm laws in the U.S. ...

Throughout the history of the Outfit, the crime bosses of Chicago have been some of the most notorious in American mafia history including the likes of Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Paul Ricca, Tony Accardo, Sam Giancana and others. They have been associated with some of the worst murders in U.S. history including the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre, bombings at businesses, assassinations and many other acts of violence. The Chicago Mafia has always been ruthless and violent showing no mercy to rivals or anyone inside the syndicate that becomes a problem. This is history of the gangster bosses ...

These are a series of books detailing the rise and fall of the Italian-American Mafia in the United States discussing different crime families from New York, Chicago, Tampa, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other cities. The once powerful mafia has been decimated by major federal racketeering cases leaving these mobsters in the ashes of history. This is a fascinating read on the American Mafia and what is left of these crime syndicates.

Los Angeles has witnessed some of the most infamous murders in the last eighty years resulting in the horrific deaths of famous actors, celebrities, gangsters, politicians and others. The City of Angels has had a long history of blood shed among the most rich and powerful. These are shocking and gruesome murders that captivated the country and the world. L.A’s image is one of glitz and glamor but it also has a darker, sinister side that has left authorities shaking their heads at these heinous murders. There are some of the worst killings in one of the most populated cities in the United ...

In the 1920s, during prohibition, the Italian-American Mafia started using Cuba as a base for rum and other alcohol smuggling to the United States. Until 1959, mobsters had control of famous casinos and gambling operations in Cuba. That all came to an end in January 01,1959 when Fidel Castro and his rebels defeated Batista’s army and took control of the country. Batista fled Cuba leaving Castro the island. This was the beginning of the end for the Mafia that ran Cuba’s hotels and casinos for years. Castro shut the casinos and nationalized the mob owned properties and became himself the ...

On November 18th, 1978, over nine hundred cult followers of Jim Jones were killed or committed forced suicide at a remote settlement called “Jonestown” in the country of Guyana in South America. Almost all the victims died from cyanide poisoning and according to reports others were injected against their will. The term “Drinking the Kool-Aid” was coined after the mass-murder led by the fanatical Jim Jones who allegedly also ordered the murder of U.S. Congressmen Leo Ryan and other journalists who were there to investigate the alleged abuses at the settlement. This would be the worst...

I never thought I would become such a prolific writer of so many books in one year. I retired from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in the summer of 2021 with twenty-six years of federal law enforcement. I began dabbling with my autobiography during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 detailing my dangerous undercover cases with repeat violent offenders, gang members, armed drug dealers, international firearms traffickers, domestic traffickers and so many other types of investigations. I would not complete and publish my autobiography titled ATF ...

Los Angeles, the City of Angels known for being the movie capital of the world also had a dark side with infamous gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, Mickey Cohen, Jack Dragna, Johnny Roselli, Frank DeSimone, Nick Licatta and many others. The Los Angeles crime family prospered during the middle of the 20th century and today are only a shadow of what they once were. The mobsters had a strong grip on L.A. extorting film production companies, infiltrating unions, gambling rackets, murders and other serious criminal offenses. This is the rise and fall of the Mafia in the City of Angeles.

Many around the world see Xi Jinping as brutal dictator controlling the masses in China with censorship of outside western information, using high tech surveillance to monitor its people, no respect for human rights for anyone who opposes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and genocide of the ethnic minority Muslims in the Xinjiang region in northwest China. In 2018, Xi abolished presidential term limits making him one of China’s most powerful communist dictators ever. In November 2021, the CCP declared Xi’s ideology the “essence of Chinese culture” giving him the same status Mao ...

Mara Salvatrucha, known by many as MS-13, an international violent street gang that originated In Los Angeles, California in the seventies to protect Salvadorian immigrants and later evolved to a brutal and vicious criminal enterprise. Unlike other traditional crime syndicates, MS-13 terrorizes and attacks innocent people to enhance their murderous reputation in local communities. MS-13 is involved in a variety of criminal activities including racketeering, murders, kidnappings, robberies, extortion, drug dealing, human trafficking, weapons offenses and many other violations. Membership in ...

Mexican crime syndicates have existed for decades and only became more powerful after the collapse of the Cali and Medellín cartels in Colombia in the 1990s. Now, Mexican cartels command the wholesale drug markets and about 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. Violence between the different syndicates has only increased with the arrests of key cartel leaders. These organizations are fighting to control more trafficking routes into the United States. It is estimated the Mexican cartels make over 50 billion dollars annually in drug proceeds. Violence in Mexico remains high with ...