The Yakuza Boss Caught Selling Burmese Nuclear Material to Iranian Generals (Sort Of)
You may have seen the news last week, about a Yakuza boss caught in Bangkok trying to sell nuclear material to a fake Iranian general. Takeshi Ebisawa and a group of co-conspirators are behind bars, a...
27 Feb 202444min
She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter
When members of the fearsome and brutal Zetas cartel kidnapped her daughter, Miriam Rodriguez did what they asked and paid the ransom. But it wasn't enough, and she never saw her daughter again. Fed u...
20 Feb 202445min
From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes
On the face of it, Toni Musulin and Redoine Faïd couldn’t be more different: one a quiet, skinflint armored vehicle driver, the other a flamboyant gang leader who went on the lam in Tel Aviv disguised...
13 Feb 202441min
The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn
The Wa tribe, an indigenous tribe residing in the mountainous Burma China borderlands, has long had a reputation as a people not to be trifled with. And yes, they were actually headhunters, well into ...
6 Feb 20241h 3min
Behind Ecuador's Gang TV Takeover: Prison Kings, Megabusts and Daytime Executions
This month armed men stormed an Ecuadorean TV station, shocking the world and plunging the nation into gang hell. Prosecutors have been assassinated and gangs are looting offices, universities and eve...
30 Jan 202445min
Griselda Blanco and Miami's Drug Wars: Netflix's New Narcos
Dubbed the Cocaine Godmother and the Black Widow, Griselda Blanco rose to power when the cocaine boom was taking off and Colombian cartels started pumping product into the US, mainly through Miami. As...
23 Jan 202448min
A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: What the Hell is Going on in Tijuana
When a team of cops drove a truck laden with Sinaloa Cartel product out of a Tijuana warehouse in November, experts predicted violence even worse than the city had suffered in recent years, as roiling...
16 Jan 202451min
The Kingpin Behind Asia's Triad Super-Syndicate Cartel : Tse Chi Lop, with Josh Berlinger
The mysterious Chinese-born criminal mastermind Tse Chi Lop didn't raise too many eyebrows when he was arrested in Canada in the 1990's for running heroin with the Hong Kong Triads known as the Big Ci...
9 Jan 202444min
