Carlos Lehder Cartel Kingpin

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. Gary interviews true crime author Ron Chepesiuk about an upcoming series on VIX TV he helped write. Ron is a well-known and prolific author and expert on the South American cocaine cartels. In this episode, we discuss Carlos Lehder. We learn that Lehder began his criminal career stealing cars and making small sales of marijuana. He met the famous cocaine smuggler (see Blow with Johnny Depp) George Jung in prison. In the film Blow, Carlos connected Jung with Pablo Escobar, and together these two men brought thousands and thousands of cocaine kilos into the United States. They were the first to use airplanes that flew directly from the Colombian jungles to Norman Key in the Bahamas. These men sent planes or boats to Florida from their own private island. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Remember to click on www.BetterHelp.com/gangland for 10% off Subscribe to the Podcast for a new gangster story every week. Support the Podcast. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @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. Donate to the podcast. Click here!

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0:00.0	Well, welcome all your wiretappers back here in the studio of Gangland Wire. We have Ron Chepasik here.
0:06.2	Ron has been on the show a few times before. The last time Ron was on, it was about his book,
0:12.1	Bad Henry, which was not really about the mob or any narcotics cartels, but it was about a really bad dude.
0:20.3	I had several comments on that show
0:22.3	about what a bad guy that was. So anyhow, welcome, Ron. I appreciate you coming back on the show.
0:30.2	Thank you. Thank you, Gary. I appreciate being here. Okay. So, Ron, we talked before, and and you are participating, you were the screenwriter for a
0:41.6	series on VIX, VIX channel.
0:45.8	Yeah, it's a Mexican streaming service channel.
0:50.2	Okay.
0:50.7	It's the biggest Spanish language streaming service channel on the world.
0:57.0	Oh, really?
0:57.6	See, I don't know.
0:58.6	I tried to look.
0:59.3	It's available in the United States as well.
1:01.8	I get it on my, I get it on my cable.
1:05.2	Okay.
1:05.7	So it's on my cable.
1:08.0	It's on cable.
1:09.3	You don't know if it's on like an app.
1:11.4	They don't have their own app that you can get.
1:14.4	You have to have cable.
1:15.2	Yeah, they have their own app.
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