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Ruben “Doc” Cavazos grew up in a Hispanic street gang in Los Angeles and would later rise to national president of the Mongols motorcycle gang. He quickly transformed the Mongols with L.A. street gang members to boost membership even though many had never owned or ridden a motorcycle. This was the beginning of the end for Cavazos and other Mongols that were involved in criminal activities including drug trafficking, killings, and other violent offenses leading to his arrest by federal authorities in 2008 on racketeering charges and later sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison. ...

The Mexican Mafia, also known as La Eme (meaning M in Spanish) was founded in California as a Mexican-American prison gang in the 1950s that become one of the most powerful and deadliest prison gangs in the United States. Their membership is in the hundreds while having tens of thousands of foot soldiers on the street ready and willing to carry out their orders in Southern California. La Eme is involved in a variety of criminal activities including drug trafficking, extortion, illegal gambling, assaults, kidnappings and murders. Once a member of the Mexican Mafia there is no leaving the ...

Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) is considered by Mexican and U.S. authorities as one of the most dangerous crime syndicates in the world at par with the Sinaloa Cartel one of their fierce rivals in Mexico. CJNG is an extremely violent group based in the Mexican state of Jalisco headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka “El Mencho” one of the world’s most wanted drug lords. This organization is involved in drug trafficking, firearms smuggling, kidnappings, extortion, murders, petroleum theft, human trafficking, racketeering, money laundering and many other criminal offenses. They ...

These are a series of books detailing the history of violence and armed drug trafficking within the one percenters to include the Hells Angels, Outlaws, Pagans, Mongols, Bandidos, Vagos and others. This a fascinating look at the different biker groups and how they developed into an international ruthless crime syndicates including my perspective as a retired ATF Special Agent that has written over 60 books including my autobiography ATF Undercover detailing my dangerous undercover work with gangs, repeat violent offenders, armed drug dealers, international firearms traffickers and other ...

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán short in stature become one of the largest and most powerful drug lords in the world being feared by many. He rose from poverty to become leader of one of the most violent crime syndicates the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. Due to massive corruption in Mexico, Guzman was able to escape from Mexican prison several times alluding authorities for years until his capture and later extradition to the United States where he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. This is the rise and fall of El Chapo a violent and ruthless drug kingpin that ruled...

For many Libyans, Muammar Gaddafi was a brutal dictator killing and torturing anyone who opposed his views for over four decades in Libya. His authoritarian regime systematically violated human rights and supported global terrorism around the world. The Arab Spring in 2011 led to the end Gaddafi and his corrupt government. President Barack Obama at the time stated, “the shadow of tyranny over Libya has been lifted” while communist dictators around the world praised Gaddafi’s legacy as a martyr. The fall of Gaddafi led to a change in government with a constitution, freedom of religion,...

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with Lagos being one of the largest overcrowded cities in the world. The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a failed state with massive corruption from the top of the government including military and police. Terrorist groups and organized crime cause havoc all through the country with heroin drug trafficking a major source of income for these crime syndicates. Billions have been stolen by corrupt government officials leaving Nigeria in financial shambles. The lower class suffers while the corrupt elites take advantage of the nation for themselves....

In this book, I detail my life as a Special Agent, working undercover, meeting and buying guns and drugs from violent career offenders, gang members, international firearms traffickers, and armed drug traffickers.

Throughout the history of the Outfit, the crime bosses of Chicago have been some of the most notorious in American mafia history including the likes of Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Paul Ricca, Tony Accardo, Sam Giancana and others. They have been associated with some of the worst murders in U.S. history including the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre, bombings at businesses, assassinations and many other acts of violence. The Chicago Mafia has always been ruthless and violent showing no mercy to rivals or anyone inside the syndicate that becomes a problem. This is history of the gangster bosses ...

This book addresses the situation in Mexico with the drug cartels and the how the United States government is dealing with the current Mexican administration's soft approach with cartel leadership. The United States' future depends how Mexico deals with these cartels, and what the United States can do to stop the illegal immigration and drugs pouring into the country. I also write about the aftermath of the ATF Operation Fast and Furious which let over 2,000 firearms “walk” from the United States to the Mexican cartels. There is a compelling case to strengthen firearm laws in the U.S. ...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols planned and executed the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in United States history at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These two anti-government extremists used close to 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) in their domestic attack using a Ryder truck that was parked by McVeigh in front of the federal building. He would use a fuse to detonate the bomb inside the truck killing 168 people, injuring over 600, destroying the building and damaging others in a 16-block radius causing over 600 ...

Yakuza is a criminal enterprise in Japan that was founded in the 17th century and has ties to other countries around the world including the United States. Yakuza translated means gangster and have a strict code of conduct including the act of “yubitsume” meaning finger-shortening which is a ritual act of slicing off the little finger at the joint to atone for a mistake. In 2011, the Obama administration included the Yakuza on a list of transnational criminal organizations that “facilitate and aggravate violent civil conflicts”. This crime syndicate is extremely dangerous and is ...

Mara Salvatrucha, known by many as MS-13, an international violent street gang that originated In Los Angeles, California in the seventies to protect Salvadorian immigrants and later evolved to a brutal and vicious criminal enterprise. Unlike other traditional crime syndicates, MS-13 terrorizes and attacks innocent people to enhance their murderous reputation in local communities. MS-13 is involved in a variety of criminal activities including racketeering, murders, kidnappings, robberies, extortion, drug dealing, human trafficking, weapons offenses and many other violations. Membership in ...

Viktor Bout an international Russian arms dealer known by many as the Merchant of Death used his air transport companies to smuggle weapons around the world during the 1990s and 2000s. The movie Lord of War is based on his life being an international weapons trafficker. In March 2008, Bout was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand for allegedly conspiring with United States undercover sources to provide surface to air missiles and other high-power weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Colombia to be used against U.S. military forces. Bout was later extradited, convicted ...

Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor union president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from the fifties to the early seventies. His mysterious disappearance on July 30th, 1975 has been investigated and speculated for years with witnesses claiming to know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. Hoffa was a controversial figure allegedly involved with organized crime and convicted on federal charges in the mid-sixties resulting with him later resigning as president of the Teamsters Union. Hoffa would later be declared legally dead in 1982. This is the rise and fall of union leader Jimmy ...

These are a series of books about cults, vicious killers and mass murderers in the United States and around the world. These are true events that shocked the world and have been investigated for years. They are fascinating stories that are eye opening showing how vicious and cruel humans are.

On March 26, 2020, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a member of the United Socialist Party was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York with fourteen other current and former Venezuelan officials and charged with Narco-Terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, corruption and other federal charges. According to federal authorities, Maduro and other high-ranking officials for over twenty years conspired with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) to illegally traffic in tons of cocaine to the ...

On November 18th, 1978, over nine hundred cult followers of Jim Jones were killed or committed forced suicide at a remote settlement called “Jonestown” in the country of Guyana in South America. Almost all the victims died from cyanide poisoning and according to reports others were injected against their will. The term “Drinking the Kool-Aid” was coined after the mass-murder led by the fanatical Jim Jones who allegedly also ordered the murder of U.S. Congressmen Leo Ryan and other journalists who were there to investigate the alleged abuses at the settlement. This would be the worst...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have been rivals even before ATF entered the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2003. The FBI mindset has always been they are the tip of the spear and should be running all major investigations while perceiving ATF and other agencies as smaller and not at their caliber. The FBI has over 35,000 employees according to their website while ATF has slightly over 5,000 employees. ATF is a very specialized federal agency mainly dealing with federal firearms violations, explosives, and to a ...

Many around the world see Xi Jinping as brutal dictator controlling the masses in China with censorship of outside western information, using high tech surveillance to monitor its people, no respect for human rights for anyone who opposes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and genocide of the ethnic minority Muslims in the Xinjiang region in northwest China. In 2018, Xi abolished presidential term limits making him one of China’s most powerful communist dictators ever. In November 2021, the CCP declared Xi’s ideology the “essence of Chinese culture” giving him the same status Mao ...