World on Drugs with Steve Furey

* ep starts at 14 mins

Today I talk about the Blackstone Rangers AKA the Black P Stone Nation AKA EL Rukns and current members of the People’s Nation Gang alliance. Formed by two Chicago kids in the Woodlawn neighborhood, they became minor enforcers for older gangsters then took what they learned and pushed them out. Eugene “Bull” Hairston and Jeff “Prince” Fort ran the Woodlawn neighborhood. However, multiple jail stints brought the Stones to the attention of the world when Fort converted to Islam and began discussing a plan to destabilize the US government through domestic terrorism with Libyan dictator Gaddafi. Even with their leaders incarcerated, the gang continued to create factions, make alliances, and still distributes drugs and kill gang members in LA and Chicago.

Guest Dave Helem @davehelem

Moore, N. Y., & Williams, L. (2011). The Almighty Black P Stone Nation : The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang. Lawrence Hill Book (Most of the information comes from this book.)

L.A.'s most violent gangs: Black P-stones. (2007, Feb 09). Los Angeles Times (1996-) Retrieved from https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fhistorical-newspapers%2Fl-s-most-violent-gangs%2Fdocview%2F2211205366%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150

Seventy-five members and associates of the black P-stones street gang charged with narcotics violations in task force investigation and community-focused initiative known as 'operation red dawn'. (2011, May 19). Targeted News Service Retrieved from https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fwire-feeds%2Fseventy-five-members-associates-black-p-stones%2Fdocview%2F867872757%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150

United states: Black P-stones gang member sentenced to over 20 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy and firearm charges. (2014, Dec 08). Asia News Monitor Retrieved from https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fnewspapers%2Funited-states-black-p-stones-gang-member%2Fdocview%2F1630933404%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150

EP STARTS AT 35 Mins

Today I talk about the Blackstone Rangers AKA the Black P Stone Nation AKA EL Rukns and current members of the People’s Nation Gang alliance. Formed by two Chicago kids in the Woodlawn neighborhood, they became minor enforcers for older gangsters then took what they learned and pushed them out. Eugene “Bull” Hairston and Jeff “Prince” Fort ran the Woodlawn neighborhood. However, multiple jail stints brought the Stones to the attention of the world when Fort converted to Islam and began discussing a plan to destabilize the US government through domestic terrorism with Libyan dictator Gaddafi. Even with their leaders incarcerated, the gang continued to create factions, make alliances, and still distributes drugs and kill gang members in LA and Chicago.

Guest Dave Helem @davehelem

Moore, N. Y., & Williams, L. (2011). The Almighty Black P Stone Nation : The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang. Lawrence Hill Book (Most of the information comes from this book.)

L.A.'s most violent gangs: Black P-stones. (2007, Feb 09). Los Angeles Times (1996-) Retrieved from https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fhistorical-newspapers%2Fl-s-most-violent-gangs%2Fdocview%2F2211205366%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150

Seventy-five members and associates of the black P-stones street gang charged with narcotics violations in task force investigation and community-focused initiative known as 'operation red dawn'. (2011, May 19). Targeted News Service Retrieved from https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fwire-feeds%2Fseventy-five-members-associates-black-p-stones%2Fdocview%2F867872757%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150

United states: Black P-stones gang member sentenced to over 20 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy and firearm charges. (2014, Dec 08). Asia News Monitor Retrieved from https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fnewspapers%2Funited-states-black-p-stones-gang-member%2Fdocview%2F1630933404%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150

EP STARTS AROUND 17 mins

Contract Killing, Cocaine, and Quinceaneras. This is the story of Jose Manuel Martinez, aka “El Mano Negra,” a Mexican-American cartel hitman and debt collector who claims to have killed over 30 people in 12 different states between 1977 and 2013. He is currently serving the first of his ten consecutive life sentences, and if there’s anything Jose’s story shows, it's that if you kill the right people you can get away with it for a long time.

https://abc7news.com/serial-killer-tulare-county-jose-manuel-martinez-asenneth-moreno/1066930/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/jose-martinez-the-hitman-who-confessed-to-killing-three

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/martinez-hitman-cartel-black-hand-mano-negra-contract-killer

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jose-manuel-martinez-hitman-charged-with-nine-murders-claims-he-killed-30-more-people-9252317.html

https://www.ocala.com/story/news/courts/2019/06/27/life-in-prison-for-drug-hitman/4808124007/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTy_EAahP_8 (song)

“I killed 36 people”

EPISODE STARTS AT AROUND 10 mins

We’re covering another hitman who had a decent hit list, but you probably did not know was lurking around. Today I’ll be talking about Wayne “Silk” Perry, one of the most dangerous gangsters and hit men to walk the streets of Washington, D.C. He’s been called the Michael Jordan of the murder game and was the primary hit man for Alberto “Alpo” Martinez. This episode is an absolute BANGER!

GUEST

Known in Colombia as "Yamel Yohnson," Jamel Johnson is a stand-up comedian from Woodbridge, Virginia. He is best known for his recurring role as Rowdy Boudy on the hit MTV series "Undressed." He burst onto the scene while creating the television show "Roc." Years later he successfully won a lawsuit against Jay Z for the name "Roc Nation." He took his earnings and started the Lugz Racing Team and the Lugz Racing Foundation which helps in the fight against Wade Boggs' Disease. One of these sentences is true.

Jamel made a name for himself on the D.C. comedy scene through a hard-to-hate mixture of non-threatening yelling, weird stories and impressively specific but not alienating sports and music references. His comedy smoothly walks audiences through everything from casual racism to Law & Order: SVU, including the consequences of gentrification and if you can eat a pastry given to you by a maybe-maybe-not drug addict who happened to witness a murder last night. Jamel lives for the laugh from the one dude in the back of the room who also watches too much SportsCenter.

After making his television debut in 2016 on Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City, Jamel now performs regularly at several elite coastal and inland comedy establishments all across America. He also thanks you for reading this whole bio. It was very sweet of you to do so.

EPISODE STARTS AT 48 mins

We’re covering another hitman who had a decent hit list, but you probably did not know was lurking around. Today I’ll be talking about Wayne “Silk” Perry, one of the most dangerous gangsters and hit men to walk the streets of Washington, D.C. He’s been called the Michael Jordan of the murder game and was the primary hit man for Alberto “Alpo” Martinez. This episode is an absolute BANGER!

GUEST

Known in Colombia as "Yamel Yohnson," Jamel Johnson is a stand-up comedian from Woodbridge, Virginia. He is best known for his recurring role as Rowdy Boudy on the hit MTV series "Undressed." He burst onto the scene while creating the television show "Roc." Years later he successfully won a lawsuit against Jay Z for the name "Roc Nation." He took his earnings and started the Lugz Racing Team and the Lugz Racing Foundation which helps in the fight against Wade Boggs' Disease. One of these sentences is true.

Jamel made a name for himself on the D.C. comedy scene through a hard-to-hate mixture of non-threatening yelling, weird stories and impressively specific but not alienating sports and music references. His comedy smoothly walks audiences through everything from casual racism to Law & Order: SVU, including the consequences of gentrification and if you can eat a pastry given to you by a maybe-maybe-not drug addict who happened to witness a murder last night. Jamel lives for the laugh from the one dude in the back of the room who also watches too much SportsCenter.

After making his television debut in 2016 on Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City, Jamel now performs regularly at several elite coastal and inland comedy establishments all across America. He also thanks you for reading this whole bio. It was very sweet of you to do so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/nyregion/alpo-martinez-dead-harlem.html

https://www.amazon.com/Street-Legends-Vol-Seth-Ferranti/dp/0980068703

https://myspace.com/wayneperrydc/mixes/classic-nkosi-shaka-zulu-el-1-557346

https://christopherzoukis.com/blog/wayne-silk-perry-part-2-html

https://dondivamag.com/wayne-silk-perry-death-before-dishonor/

https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/who-brought-down-d-c-s-most-heinous-murderer/80395/

EP STARTS AT 40 mins*

Want to know how to run heroin without any problems? Become a government hitman and take out political enemies across the globe! The Zindashti Cartel has been trafficking heroin across the Middle East and Europe with few consequences since the mid-1990s. Over the last 26 years Naji Sahrifi Zindashti has been heavily involved with the Middle Eastern heroin trade based on of Istanbul, Turkey. There have been 3 times where he has nearly been arrested for drug trafficking and murder charges, and each time he has gotten away by cutting a deal with Iranian authorities or bribing people in positions of power to look the other way .

GUEST comedian Hormoz Rashidi @nothormones on IG

*ep starts at 24 mins

It seems like every day a new skeleton falls out of the closets of Hollywood, but rarely does news break of something as high profile as that of Charles Voyde Harrelson, father of Woody and Brett Harrelson. Charles Harrelson was a hitman, a card shark, a womanizer, and maybe just maybe associated with the murder of JFK. He was convicted of two murders, Texas Rangers believe he killed dozens more, but one of those happened to be Federal Judge Joe Wood. The investigation that followed ranks second all time in total expenditure, only behind the JFK assassination, but in retrospect the case had more holes than swiss cheese. This is the story of a Texas outlaw, of the rise of gambling, of the mob, hypnosis, the Cubans, and one of the biggest stories never told. This is the story of Charles Voyde Harrelson. Guest Liza was seen most recently in the Judd Apatow movie The King Of Staten Island and is currently the host of That’s Messed Up: An SVU Podcast on Exactly Right Media. She has a half hour Special and album Glittercheese with Comedy Central and a half hour special on Netflix as past of The Degenerates. Liza is super proud of being featured on the prestigious Variety’s 2017 TOP 10 COMICS TO WATCH list. She’s also appeared Late Night with Seth Meyers, Chelsea Lately, This Is Not Happening, Horace and Pete, Lights out with David Spade, Adam Devine’s House Party, and lots of panel and game shows!

*ep starts at 19 min

It seems like every day a new skeleton falls out of the closets of Hollywood, but rarely does news break of something as high profile as that of Charles Voyde Harrelson, father of Woody and Brett Harrelson. Charles Harrelson was a hitman, a card shark, a womanizer, and maybe just maybe associated with the murder of JFK. He was convicted of two murders, Texas Rangers believe he killed dozens more, but one of those happened to be Federal Judge Joe Wood. The investigation that followed ranks second all time in total expenditure, only behind the JFK assassination, but in retrospect the case had more holes than swiss cheese. This is the story of a Texas outlaw, of the rise of gambling, of the mob, hypnosis, the Cubans, and one of the biggest stories never told. This is the story of Charles Voyde Harrelson. Guest Liza was seen most recently in the Judd Apatow movie The King Of Staten Island and is currently the host of That’s Messed Up: An SVU Podcast on Exactly Right Media. She has a half hour Special and album Glittercheese with Comedy Central and a half hour special on Netflix as past of The Degenerates. Liza is super proud of being featured on the prestigious Variety’s 2017 TOP 10 COMICS TO WATCH list. She’s also appeared Late Night with Seth Meyers, Chelsea Lately, This Is Not Happening, Horace and Pete, Lights out with David Spade, Adam Devine’s House Party, and lots of panel and game shows!