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A Cocaine War and the World’s Dumbest Bust
New Jan 06, 2026 56 min

A Cocaine War and the World’s Dumbest Bust

When the son of Suriname’s president offered to ship drugs and guns for a major terror group in 2013, it was the dimwitted denouement to decades of narco-fueled madness in the small, South American...

Crime! Drugs! Cartels! Gangs! Holidays!
Dec 30, 2025 47 min

Crime! Drugs! Cartels! Gangs! Holidays!

It's stash house time! We bring you all the news on organized crime, gangs, drugs, cartels and the holidays that you could ever want. And, at the end, Sean shows his feet in a special holiday new y...

Sweden's Brutal Gang Civil War: The Kurdish Fox vs Strawberry
Dec 23, 2025 1h 3m

Sweden's Brutal Gang Civil War: The Kurdish Fox vs Strawberry

In the last few years, Sweden’s gang wars have erupted into a brutal battlefield of shootings, bombings, and shifting allegiances even worse than the decade before. At the center is the Kurdish Fox...

The Super Cartel King: Daniel Kinahan
Dec 16, 2025 53 min

The Super Cartel King: Daniel Kinahan

In the wake of the EncroChat bust, swaths of the world’s biggest narco traffickers have been swept up by European cops — from Balkan tough guys to Camorra capos. Somehow, though, the man who conn...

Sweden's Gangland Child Soldiers
Dec 09, 2025 1h 1m

Sweden's Gangland Child Soldiers

Starting in the mid 2010's, Sweden’s gang wars transformed from neighborhood disputes into a national crisis, driven by splintered immigrant-area crews who now recruit teenage hitmen willing to kil...

War in Venezuela?!?! Narcoterrorism, Maduro and Trump
Dec 02, 2025 1h 17m

War in Venezuela?!?! Narcoterrorism, Maduro and Trump

With gunboats parked in the Caribbean, fast boats blown up, and the White House threatening to invade, we unpick some of the narratives surrounding Venezuela’s regime — and its gangs. Is the Tren ...

Cattle Rustlers to Cocaine Kings: Los Cachiros
Nov 18, 2025 1h 2m

Cattle Rustlers to Cocaine Kings: Los Cachiros

When feds convicted Honduran cocaine kingpin Juan Matta Ballesteros in 1990, authorities hoped it would spell an end to the Central American nation’s growing reputation as a narco state — a status ...

The Tijuana Cartel's Bloody Rise and Fall
Nov 11, 2025 1h 1m

The Tijuana Cartel's Bloody Rise and Fall

When the godfather Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo got busted in '89, he divvied up his empire from a prison cell and handed the coveted Tijuana plaza to the Arellano Felix Brothers, who transformed it...

The Cartel Puppetmaster: Juan Matta Ballestero
Nov 04, 2025 1h 1m

The Cartel Puppetmaster: Juan Matta Ballestero

Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros began life as a pickpocket in his hometown of Tegucigalpa, before heading out on the perilous border roads of Latin America as an emerald smuggler. Soon he was making f...

The State Line Mob: Redneck Mafia
Oct 28, 2025 58 min

The State Line Mob: Redneck Mafia

Along the blood-soaked border between Mississippi and Tennessee, a ruthless crime empire ruled the night where whiskey flowed, dice rolled, and anyone who crossed the wrong person disappeared into ...

The Cartel World's Donnie Brasco w/ Ian Frisch
Oct 21, 2025 1h 19m

The Cartel World's Donnie Brasco w/ Ian Frisch

Starting at the tail end of the wild cowboy days of 1980's Miami, undercover FBI agent Martin Suarez didn’t just infiltrate a cartel...he nearly rose to the top. As a smuggler, he helped move a bil...

Warlords, Narco-Pirates, & The Gangster King of Vietnam
Oct 14, 2025 42 min

Warlords, Narco-Pirates, & The Gangster King of Vietnam

Emerging from Saigon’s system of warlords and narco-pirates, Nam Cam built a criminal empire by making sure everyone — cops, politicians, media — was in his pocket. But that meant that when everyth...

The OG Mexican Narco: Pablo Acosta
Oct 07, 2025 1h 9m

The OG Mexican Narco: Pablo Acosta

Pablo Acosta ruled Mexico's drug trade from a dusty border town, turning Ojinaga into a narco-empire that funneled billions in cocaine, weed and heroin into America during the 1980s. Known as the F...

Cambodia’s Untouchable Gangster-in-Chief
Sep 30, 2025 1h 11m

Cambodia’s Untouchable Gangster-in-Chief

Hun To, the nephew of Cambodia’s former PM, is also the ruler of a criminal empire stretching from illegal logging and Triad-run casinos, to corrupt Chinese investment and — ALLEGEDLY — people and ...

World's Most Dangerous Mobster: The Russian Mafiya Godfather
Sep 16, 2025 1h 5m

World's Most Dangerous Mobster: The Russian Mafiya Godfather

They say Semion Mogilevich is the most powerful gangster on the planet, the mastermind who rewrote the playbook for organized crime worldwide. Boss of bosses in the Russian Mafiya, with a hand in e...

Burmese Warlords, Gangsters & A Scam Utopia
Sep 09, 2025 1h 10m

Burmese Warlords, Gangsters & A Scam Utopia

Buried on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, Shwe Kokko is a shimmering city of skyscrapers, casinos and fresh-laid highways. But peek a little closer and you’ll see why it has become one of the w...

Europe's Deadliest Biker War: Hells Angels vs the Bandidos
Sep 02, 2025 55 min

Europe's Deadliest Biker War: Hells Angels vs the Bandidos

In the 1980's and 1990's, America's biggest outlaw motorcycle gangs were looking to expand all over Europe. Unfortunately, they set their sites on the same countries, and they weren't keen on shari...

America's Nightmare Mafia Boss: Gaspipe Casso
Aug 26, 2025 48 min

America's Nightmare Mafia Boss: Gaspipe Casso

Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso was the Lucchese family’s brutal underboss, the brains behind boss Vic Amuso's reign, and architect of one of the Mafia’s bloodiest purges. Together they ruled the Lucchese...