Streets and Scholars

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  • LA Sheriff’s Deputies cause permanent eye damage and Miko Worldwide was really robbed | Streets & Scholars (EP37)

    In this episode 37 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss: 

    1. Female Correctional Officer at FCI Dublin, Tess Korth, blew the whistle on the sex scandal at the prison that got several male employees indicted for having sex with female prisoners. Ross Klinger recently plead guilty, the Chaplain James Highhouse received 84 months (7 years) in prison. The Warden, Ray J. Garcia was charged along with Enriquez Chavez and John Russell Bellhouse. 

    2. Former prisoner at FCI Dublin, Andrea Reyes has come forward with what she experienced doing time at Dublin. 

    3. Two Los Angeles council members, Kevin Deleon and Gil Cedillo refuse to resign after leaked audios that have been characterized as racist went viral on the internet. 

    4. Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies brutaly assault security guard Blake Anderson in Inglewood. Was it excessive force or was Blake resisting? Tap in to episode 37 to hear the Streets and Scholars perspective. 

    5. Miko Worldwide was really robbed. A video posted by Slatt Zy where he admitted to robbing Miko for a chain and his gun (blick) last September. A video where people thought was fake turned out to be real. Slatt Zy was picked out of a lineup by Miko Worldwide. Wait til you hear what FG had to say about Miko on this situation.   

    * Watch Cinemills interview of Alex Alonso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301zkTi7GDs

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    1 hr 28 min
  • Racist Council members won’t go, rapper Gunna denied bail 3rd time, and COs having sex with inmates (EP36)

    In this episode 36 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss: 

    1. The clean Chevy Impala low-riders from the video "How to Rob a Rapper". Was it a 1958, a 1959 and a 1962 Chevy Impala? 

     

    2. Gil Cedillo and Kevin DeLeon refuse to step down as Los Angeles City Council members, even after the third offender, Nury Martinez vacated her seat last week. Gil Cedillo lost his seat during the June election so he has to leave regardless in December but Kevin Deleon appears to be holding out and community activist are camping out in front of his house until he resigns. Will he leave his $207K per year job? 

     

    3. Rapper Gunna (Sergio Kitchens) – was denied bail a third time by Judge Ural Glanville even though he is basing his denial on unsubstantiated claims made by informants. Gunna's attorney Steven Sadow said “We now know for certain that the State’s last-minute assertion at the third bond hearing on October 13 that there was a text message (not disclosed to Kitchens in discovery as the Court had expressly ordered) between two individuals (neither of whom was Kitchens), where one person ‘offered to murder’ another person on Kitchens’ behalf, was undeniably false.” Gunna's attorney filed a motion for a fourth bail hearing. Will Gunna eventually get a bail? 

     

    4. The man accused in the murder of rapper PnB Rock was extradited to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, Nevada. Freddie Lee Trone, 40 is in LA custody, in the LA County Jail, but does not have a court date, but he just got there this week and has a $3 million bail .

     

    5. Is this Instagram account @goodverbal considered racist? A whistleblower from inside FCI Victorville federal prison, claims that a correctional officer is behind the instagram account, posting taunts and criticisms. Rolland Martin from his show Unfiltered, claims that some of the posts are racist and misogynistic. Tap in and let us know what you think of this Instagram page before it gets removed. 

     

    6. Last year the feds indicted 4 employees at Dublin federal prison for women for having unlawful sex with the prisoners. Two COs, the warden and the chaplain are all accused of having sex with multiple female prisoners. James Theodore Highhouse, the chaplain and Ray J Garcia, 55, the warden, have been indicted. CO Ross Klinger has already plead guilty to the charges and is awaiting sentence. This all occurred in 2021, but just last week, a former female inmate, only known as M.L. has filed a lawsuit against the men. Tap in to get the details.   

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    * FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

    * Alex Alonso: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexAlonso101

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    1 hr 23 min
  • Murder convictions overturned because the use of rap lyrics & LA Council members exposed as racist (EP35)

    In this episode 35 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss:

    1. Rapper D3, who was featured on YG's latest single, "How to Rob a Rapper" with Mozzy, calls into Streets and Scholars and explains that this song was in the works, way before Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock was robbed and killed in Los Angeles. 

    2. Bishop Lamor Whitehead who was wearing over $1 million in jewelry when he was broadcasting his sermon live on Facebook was robbed from his church in Brooklyn, New York in July. The robbery was captured on video and looked unusual, but two men were recently arrested by the NYPD and ATF. 

    3. The murder convictions of two Black men in northern California were vacated after a judge ruled that the introduction of rap lyrics and racialized rhetoric violated the new Racial Justice Act a law designed to limit racism within the criminal justice system.

    Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed the new law that limits the use of rap lyrics in criminal court cases and amateur rappers Gary Bryant Jr. and Diallo Jackson were the first to benefit from the new law, but prosecutors still have the option to retry the two. 

    4. Mexican American Los Angeles City Council members, Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillio and Kevin DeLeon were all heard on a secretly leaked audio making disparaging remarks about Mike Bonin another council member. They also made several anti-black comments and community members have called for all three LA council member to resign.  

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    * FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

    * FG on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fgeneral1/

    * StreetGangs website: http://www.streetgangs.com

    1 hr 29 min
  • Governor signs new rap bill, and is YG’s song, ”How to Rob a Rapper” insensitive? (EP34)

    In this episode 34 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss:

    1. Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez is still in jail without bail, but now his attorney's Mark Geragos is under investigation by the State Bar of California. They alleged that Los Angeles attorney Brian Kabateck and Geragos spent part of a multimillion-dollar insurance settlement related to the Armenian Genocide. What should Velasquez do now? 

    2. Does the media and the general public owe PnB Rock's girlfriend an apology? According to the LAPD, the robbery and murder of PnB Rock was part of a conspiracy that was formed when he arrived at the Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. 

    3. Freddie Trone, 40, was arrested in Las Vegas in connection to the murder of PnB Rock. His wife, Shauntel Trone was arrested days earlier for accessory to murder and their son, a minor that is reported to be 17-years old was charged with murder and identified as the shooter. 

    4. Rapper YG just released a new song, “How to Rob a Rapper” off his brand new album. The song feature Mozzy and D3 from the Nickerson Gardens. The song is considered controversial because of the recent tragic death of PnB Rock. Was the song being released insensitive to the recent events? 

    5. California governor Gavin Newsom signs rap lyric bill AB2799, that prevents California prosecutors from using rappers lyrics or any part of their creative art as evidence against a defendant unless it is directly related to a crime. In the past, using art, videos, music, lyrics was common practice in the criminal courts in California to use against mostly Black and Latino defendants.   

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    * Alex on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/alexalonso101 

    * FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

    * FG on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fgeneral1/

    * StreetGangs website: http://www.streetgangs.com

    1 hr 18 min
  • Ime Udoka’s mistress identified, PnB Rock investigation ramps up and Gunna being linked to two homicides (EP33)

    In episode 33 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso. 

    In this episode:

    1. Who is worth more money between comedians Dave Chappelle and Kevin Hart? 

    2. Nicole Linton who drove her car into the intersection of Slauson & LaBrea has a web site published by her sister Camille Linton that documents her bi-polar from 2018 to the time of the 2022 car collision. Was this murder or manslaughter? 

    3. One of Pop Smoke's alleged perpetrators, Corey Walker will be in court on September 29. 

    4. PnB Rock investigation is supposed to be looking at Philadelphia and Atlanta for a suspect in the killing at Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles

    5. Atlanta Rapper Gunna, who was already named in a Georgia RICO case with Young Thug, is being accused of being involved in two murders with the Shady Park Crips in Georgia. 

    6. A mother of three, Breanna Baily, 30, was shot and killed while driving west on Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles. Violent crime is on the rise in Los Angeles and she was gunned down while driving her car, which eventually crashed into a fire hydrant. 

    7. The woman that Boston Celtics coach, Ime Udoka, allegedly had an affair with was identified as Kathleen Nimmo Lynch. She is the wife of Senior Vice President of the Boston Celtics Patrick Lynch. 

    8. A police officer who stood and did nothing while Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on the neck of George FLoyd was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Former officer Thomas Lane was sentenced for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.  

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    * StreetGangs website: http://www.streetgangs.com

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    1 hr 17 min
  • YNW Melly denied medical, Tiffany Haddish case dismissed & woman in car was doing 130 mph (EP32)

    In episode 32 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso , we have guests host Spider Loc sitting in for FG. 

    In this episode:

    1. Spider Loc and Alex Alonso discuss that some petty topics are not off the table. Reggie Wright Jr. spoke on FG last week, but quickly apologized for it. Tap into episode 31 to get the details of what happened, Spider and Alex argue that some of these petty issues are worth talking about. 
  • Florida rapper YNW Melly, was denied outside medical treatment for an infection caused by his gold diamond teeth jewelry. He claims that he has been experiencing pain in his jaw and needs outside treatment, but a judge disagreed. 
  • A Georgia man was sentenced to 10-years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after defending himself against a group of white supremacists at a Taco Bell in 2020. While Marc Wilson, who is black was seen with his white girl friend, Emma Rigdon, he was threatened by a group of white who yelled racial slurs at him. When Wilson shot at the group, his bullet his a 17-year old girl that was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle. 
  • Nicole Linton, who drove her car nearly 130 miles into a Los Angeles intersection, killing five people, has a sister that created a website to highlight her mental illness. Camille Linton believes that the Los Angeles DA’s office has over charged her sister Nicole. 
  • As soon as the civil law suit was filed against comedians Tiffany Haddish and Arie Spears, it was dismissed after the two minors that appeared in a skit entitled, “The Mind of a Pedophile” received an undisclosed settlement. The case is closed. 

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    1 hr 29 min
  • PnB Rock shot and killed in Los Angeles; saving your own life, taking accountability, and making better decisions (EP31)

    In this episode 31 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss:

    1. The topic of Snoopy Bad Azz's cooperation in a 2005 case that took place in Moreno Valley was revisited. Go back and listen to Episode 30 of Streets & Scholars for part one of this conversation about rapper Snoopy Bad Azz who recently signed with Snopp Dogg and Death Row.  

    2. Did Reggie Wright Jr. call Frank "FG" Thornton a "bitch" on his live show on Bomb 1st after someone asked him about the Mob James snitchuation? Listen to the clip and make your own conclusion.  

    3. PnB Rock was recently shot and killed in Los Angeles while attempting to enjoy a meal at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles in a community with one of the highest crime rates in the city. Additionally he was wearing several thousands of dollar worth of jewelry. PnB's girlfriend posted on Instagram their location and shortly thereafter he was shot, killed and robbed.  

    Press Conference at Roscoe's address the PnB murder: https://youtu.be/5rrKZ7Ji4-8

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Did Arie Spears & Tiffany Haddish go too far on a skit & Snoopy Bad Azz tries to prove he never snitched (EP30)

    In this episode 30 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss:

    1. Fulton County District attorney Fani Willis believes that members of the Drug Rich gang admitted to their crimes in the lyrics to their songs. 

    2. Did comedian Arie Spear and Tiffany Haddish go to far on a comedy skit on pedophilia? In 2013 they did a skit with a seven and 14 year old siblings that are are now suing the two comedians in civil court.  

    3. Snoopy Bad Azz tried to defend himself in a case where it appears that he provided information to the police and actually testified in court. In 2005, defendant Doster shot and killed Snoopy's friend "Worm" Mabins at an In-N-Out in Moreno Valley. According to paperwork on the case, Snoopy gave up information, but in a recent video he claims that the defendant who killed his friend wanted him to testify to help him. 

    Read appeal by defendant Damiem Doster: https://casetext.com/case/people-v-doster-11

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    * FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Whitey Bulger’s alleged killed refused to tell, Nick Cannon having more kids, and new RICO in Atlanta (EP29)

    In this episode 29 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss:

    1. Whitey Bulger's alleged killer in prison, Fotios "Freddy" Geas refused to take a deal and testify against his boss Anthony and now serving LIFE in federal prison.

    2. Philadelphia new anchor Jason Martinez calls a black man defending himself during an armed robbery a "suspect." In a robbery caught on tape, a currently unknown black man, defended himself in a store during the course of an armed robbery.

    3. Does Nick Canon have too many kids to take care of ? He is working on his 10th kid with 7 different women. His 8th child was born in July 2022 with model Bre Tiesi who recently divorced from former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel. Is having money enough to raise all these kids?

    4. Former heavey weight champion boxer George Foreman is being accused in civil court for sexually assaulting two women, but the allegations go back over 40 years. Foreman is 73 years old and should there be a statue of limitations on cases where the allegations go back almost half a century? 

    5. Finally Fulton County DA Fani Willis announces a new RICO indictment against a gang that was founded in 2016, Drug Rich Gang, she alleges that 26 members were involved in several flocking cases, home invasions and theft. Is Willis getting overzealous with these Georgia style RICOs?  

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Whitey Bulger’s killers charged and Young Thug denied bail for a third time (EP28)

    In this episode 28 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss Whitey Bulger's murder at Hazelton, West Virginia that occurred in 2018 and how the Feds four years later charged three men in his death. Inmate Sean McKinnon used a prison phone to tell his mother that he got intel that Bulger was arriving to his prison. The next morning, McKinnon was the lookout as, Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 55, a mafia hitman who was sharing a cell with McKinnon, and Paul DeCologero, 48, who was a member of an organized crime gang led by his uncle was seen on camera entering Bulger's cell. Prison staff later found Bulger bludgeoned to death. Bulger acted as an FBI informant while he led the largely Irish mob in Boston from the 1970s to the early 1990s. 

    Fulton County Judge Ural Glanville, denied Young Thug bail for a third time. The prosecutors continued to use his rap lyrics against him, even though defense attorneys for Young Thug have shown that he is not the sole writer of the lyrics. Defense attorneys have even offered to allow Young Thug's home to be monitored and full access to his property if there is any concern that he is a danger to the community or a flight risk, but the judge still denied him. 

     

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    * FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

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    46 min

About Streets and Scholars

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Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by Alex A. Alonso who grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid all the ghetto trappings of crime and punishment, and went…

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