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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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán short in stature become one of the largest and most powerful drug lords in the world being feared by many. He rose from poverty to become leader of one of the most violent crime syndicates the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. Due to massive corruption in Mexico, Guzman was able to escape from Mexican prison several times alluding authorities for years until his capture and later extradition to the United States where he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. This is the rise and fall of El Chapo a violent and ruthless drug kingpin that ruled...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Viktor Bout an international Russian arms dealer known by many as the Merchant of Death used his air transport companies to smuggle weapons around the world during the 1990s and 2000s. The movie Lord of War is based on his life being an international weapons trafficker. In March 2008, Bout was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand for allegedly conspiring with United States undercover sources to provide surface to air missiles and other high-power weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Colombia to be used against U.S. military forces. Bout was later extradited, convicted ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

International firearms trafficking from the United States to Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean see American made firearms in huge demand in these countries. There are many reasons why including strict gun laws in these countries, violent criminal gangs use guns, drug traffickers looking to protect their territories with high-power weapons, and gun trafficking itself is lucrative. It is very easy in the United States to purchase firearms at gun dealers (FFL), private sales, gun shows, flea markets and online. Many criminal organizations have individuals in the United States purchase ...

Joe Biden’s time in office has been tumultuous at best with his approval rating in the thirties appearing that the mid-term elections in November will be a red wave with Republicans most likely retaking the House and Senate and leaving Biden in his final two years as a lame duck president. The GOP has strong contenders for 2024 Presidential election that can easily beat Biden if he even makes it past the democratic primaries. Biden has also become unpopular with his base for not having many democratic bills passed while controlling both chambers. The disastrous exit from Afghanistan after...

Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) is currently the crown prince, deputy prime minister and minister of defense of Saudi Arabia. His regime rules the Saudi Kingdom without democratic institutions to balance his power and uses brutal tactics against dissidents, activists, journalists and others including torture, kidnappings, killings and false imprisonment. MBS is also known to use death squads that kill when commanded in Saudi Arabia or in foreign countries. Many around the world believe the Crown Prince ordered the murder of a Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, Turkey inside ...

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...

Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor union president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from the fifties to the early seventies. His mysterious disappearance on July 30th, 1975 has been investigated and speculated for years with witnesses claiming to know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. Hoffa was a controversial figure allegedly involved with organized crime and convicted on federal charges in the mid-sixties resulting with him later resigning as president of the Teamsters Union. Hoffa would later be declared legally dead in 1982. This is the rise and fall of union leader Jimmy ...

RFK Jr. announced on April 19th, 2023 that he would challenge the incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s nomination. This announcement sent shockwaves with Democrats who fear this will only help Donald Trump become president once again. RFK Jr. is the son of Bobby Kennedy and the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy who were both assassinated by crazed gunmen. RFK Jr. was present when his father died from the bullet of the assassin after winning the California democratic primary on June 5th, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. RFK Jr. is the 4th ...

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...

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 ...