209: Part 1: Rob Hernandez - From Navy veteran to gang unit warrior 🇺🇲

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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From humble beginnings in Puerto Rico to intense gang enforcement in Florida, Rob Hernandez walks us through his inspiring journey—shaped by service, sacrifice, and survival. Rob shares how his time in the U.S. Navy forged the discipline and leadership that would later define his law enforcement career. But the real test came when he joined a high-risk gang unit, facing some of the most violent criminals and deadly street encounters.

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0:55.8	the projectile come out, but I could see the windshield, kind of like the fragments. And the first
1:00.2	round didn't do much. It just kind of like sprayed all over him. But the second round,
1:03.8	The Hey, everybody.
1:17.7	Welcome back to this week's episode of Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning.
1:21.7	I'm already tongue-tied.
1:22.9	This is Take 2 because he got an old man trying to run a podcast here that forgot to turn on the
1:28.0	video. But I'm learning. We were only two hours into it. And the guest today has been
1:34.6	gracious and they say, yeah, yeah, okay, I'll do it again for you. He just doesn't want me to
1:39.3	miss my bedtime because he knows like it. Thank you. Listen, appreciate you folks coming back every week. We're going to have a good show today. If you haven't checked us out on YouTube yet, do me a favor. Go over there. Type in Game of Crimes podcast in the search bar at the top. Hit the subscribe button, watch some of the videos, hit the like button, and send me your comments. I even read the bad ones. I know we're not supposed to read them, but I do anyway. But I guess today is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, spent four years in the U.S. Navy, has spent, he says 26 years, I say 27 years as a law enforcement officer because I'm using West Virginia math here. And those of you can Western, you know what I'm talking about, but he's still on the job.
2:17.7	He's still a law enforcement professional.
2:20.0	He's also an adjunct professor at a local college, and he's got his own podcast, Yamados
2:25.7	A Severe, and that's the common spelling, and that means called the service, just for you
2:31.5	redneck hillbillies like me.
2:33.7	So Rob Hernandez, welcome, brother, to the show. Welcome to the game of crimes. Okay. service just for you redneck hillbillies like me right so uh rob Hernandez welcome
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