Prosecutors in Sangamon County just unsealed RICO indictments against 23 alleged members of rival Springfield crews SQAD and Boss Playas, tying them to six homicides across two years—including the October 2025 home-invasion killing of 9-year-old Cash...
this episode, we examine the landmark results of Operation Sweet Silence, a multi-year federal and local law enforcement effort that has effectively dismantled the Zohannon Gang and disrupted associated criminal networks in Columbus, Georgia. From...
The Vice Lords once ran job programs, health clinics, and small businesses with federal backing, all while remaining a criminal organization. This piece uses that history to ask a harder question about how we judge groups that offer real care...
In August 2023, members of Las Vegas’s Block Boy Gang robbed a 7-Eleven cash drop for more than $26,000 and left other members out of the cut. The insult turned inward: teenagers and young men from the same set pistol-whipped and shot fellow member...
true crime and organized crime podcast breaking down the federal takedown of the “007 Bonton Bloods” drug trafficking network in Dallas, analyzing how law enforcement dismantles meth distribution rings, gang structures, and firearm-linked criminal...