357: Mark Horton – Chicago New Breed Black Gangsters, Operation Impunity

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Retired agent Mark Horton reviews Operation Impunity, an undercover investigation that targeted the New Breed Black Gangsters. The street gang was based in the Square, a Chicago housing complex plagued with gang violence and an open-air drug market. The faction of the Breeds operated with impunity, committing murders and selling drugs with no fear of law enforcement.

In 2004, the CPD) area 4 Gang Squad and the FBI Joint Task Force on Gangs (JTFG) began developing a strategy to dismantle the gang. The CPD would conduct street corner conspiracy and the FBI JTFG would begin working towards a Title III and a Group I UCO. Mark Horton, initially the case agent, took on the undercover role infiltrating the New Breed Black Gangsters as a business associate purchasing drugs from the gang. Mark Horton served in the FBI for over 28 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 357 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.0	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:23.9	Today we get to speak to retired agent Mark Horton, who served in the FBI for over 28 years.
0:32.7	In this episode, he reviews Operation Impunity, an undercover investigation that targeted the new breed
0:41.7	black gangers. The street gang was based in the square, a Chicago housing complex plagued with
0:49.4	gang violence and an open-air drug market. The faction of the breeds operated with impunity, committing
0:57.2	murders and selling drugs without fear of law enforcement. In 2004, the Chicago Police Department,
1:05.4	CPD, Area 4 Gang Squad, and the FBI Joint Task Force on gangs began developing a strategy to dismantle the gang.
1:15.9	The CPD would conduct street corner conspiracy arrest and the FBI Joint Task Force on gangs
1:22.4	would begin working towards a Title III and a Group 1 undercover operation. Mark Horton, initially the case agent,
1:31.8	took over the undercover role infiltrating the new breed black gangsters as a business
1:38.4	associate purchasing drugs from the gang. Mark Horton's first assignment after graduating from the FBI Academy was to
1:47.6	the Chicago field office where he investigated gangs, drug trafficking, and organized crime.
1:54.7	Mark became a certified undercover employee, a firearms instructor, and a member of the FBI SWAT team.
2:03.2	Later in his career, he worked at FBI headquarters as the program manager of the FBI's
2:09.1	undercover and sensitive operations unit, overseeing cases in North and Midwest field offices.
2:17.1	Mark also served as a Legatatat and assistant legal attache in
2:22.1	Nairobi, Kenya, where he played key roles in high-profile events. Mark also worked in the
2:28.3	Counterterrorism Division and the undercover safeguard unit offering counseling to undercover agents.
2:35.0	Additionally, he was a field supervisor in the Miami Field Office, overseeing transnational
2:41.4	organized crime. After retiring from the FBI, Mark became a senior police advisor for Universal
2:48.9	Strategy Group, Incorporated, working to improve the operational capacity
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