ATF Undercover in South Florida

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews US Customs Agent turned ATF Agent Ignacio Esteban about his career. Esteban started with US Customs and was assigned to the Miami International Airpot where he interdicted millions in smuggled cocaine. He explains the uncomfortable options they give drug mules who swallow condoms filled with drugs. He later transferred to the ATF because they did so much undercover work. Agent Esteban was ideally suited to infiltrate south of the border drug operations because his family was from Cuba and he speaks Spanish like a native. He explains the history of the mob and Castro among other important historical details from that area. Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Well, welcome all you wiretappers back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.
0:03.5	I have a special show for you today.
0:05.7	An interesting guy, you know, I'm a retired law enforcement and I like having other retired law enforcement guys on here.
0:12.9	And we're in the middle of a month with the retired ATF.
0:17.2	So I found another ATF agent to interview. Ignacio Esteban. Welcome, Ignacio.
0:25.0	Oh, thank you, Gary. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. All right. Well, I can't remember how I got
0:28.7	onto you. I'm always scanning the internet and looking for books, mob books, and mainly mob because we
0:34.6	primarily deal with the mafia, but other organized crime things like cartels and drug gangs,
0:40.3	you know,
0:40.7	narcotics lends itself to organization.
0:43.5	And so it's always organized crime, isn't it?
0:47.4	So I found your book, I guess, I think, or retired ATF agent,
0:53.0	I don't know, but I saw that and I started investigating.
0:55.9	And man, I tell you what, Ignacio, you are a prolific writer. I will say that.
1:01.7	Thank you. Thank you, Gary.
1:03.2	Folks, just get out there and I'm going to put some images up, but go to my,
1:08.1	or go to my show notes if you're on the audio podcast. And I'll put links to,
1:13.7	I put a link to his Amazon page and he's got all of his books on there. He's got a ton of them.
1:19.8	And they're all more like as we talked and I was reading about them, they're short reads.
1:25.0	And we've got politics. We've got organized crime, we've got children's
1:30.2	books, we've got novels, we've got travel books, travel books from the view of an ATF agent. How about
1:36.2	that? I like it. I like it. Those are those are my pictures. I took all those pictures myself.
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