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The John Kobylt Show

18th Street Gang Raid | Kristi Noem Fired As DHS Secretary (03/05)

The John Kobylt Show

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4.3799 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/05) - US Attorney Bill Essayli comes on the show to talk about a massive raid on the 18th Street gang in Los Angeles that took place today. More on how Ali Khamenei was killed. Don Mihalek comes on the show to talk about Kristi Noem being fired as DHS Secretary.  More on Kristi Noem being fired. 

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0:00.0

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0:02.6

Guaranteed Human. KFI AM-640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Hart Radio app. How are you? It's good that you're here. We have much to do, much to cover. We're not going to waste any time. We're on every day from 3 until 6. And then after six o'clock, if you do miss something,

0:21.8

John Cobalt show On Demand on the IHeart app. It seems the radio show. Well, it was a big,

0:28.6

big bust this morning. If federal agents, they arrested a number of gang members and associates

0:36.5

of the 18th Street gang.

0:39.2

This is a gang that had taken over that beautiful park, MacArthur Park.

0:46.6

And we keep telling you how infested it is, not just with homeless people and mental patients and drug addicts,

0:53.6

but there's a pretty large-scale

0:56.2

criminal operation involving Mexican gangs. And among the people arrested was a woman named

1:03.7

Keiko Gonzalez, and she was charged with ordering a murder.

1:17.3

And among other crimes, she was running the gang on behalf of her husband, Jorge Gonzalez,

1:20.3

who is in a California state prison.

1:28.9

It's a very, well, they're in a lot of, they commit a lot of criminal activity.

1:30.2

They're in a lot of different businesses.

1:33.2

And Bill O'Saley is going to explain this for us.

1:38.3

He's the U.S. attorney, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District here in Los Angeles.

1:39.6

Bill, how are you?

1:41.1

Hey, good John.

1:41.6

How are you doing?

1:43.3

I'm doing really well. Well, explain the, this gang, all their activities.

1:48.8

It's a tremendous amount of crime they were involved in and how you guys busted the whole operation because I know it isn't easy.

1:55.6

Yeah, no, this was a multi-year investigation. This involves what's called the 18th Street Gang, which actually

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