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The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Exploring Haitian Gang Culture In Miami's WORST Hoods

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3563 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Johnny visits the Haitian communities of Overtown and Allapattah, interviewing local rappers and documenting the history of the Zo Pound and their influence on the Miami Drug Trade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:02.0

It's an unusual name.

0:03.0

Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.

0:07.0

What game are we playing today?

0:09.0

Discover the origins.

0:10.0

It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me.

0:12.0

Of crime's most iconic mind.

0:14.0

There has been a break-in.

0:17.0

Astoned. You should be a detective.

0:19.0

Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. Young Sherlock, new original series, watch now only on Prime Video. So I'm on a highway, I'm just cutting. You feel me? I'm cutting, I'm cutting, I'm cutting. I'm cutting. When my brother called me, I eased up off the gas, and I picked up the phone. When I picked up the phone, I just heard shot. Nonstop. I know I was hit when the cop told me to get out the car. I was like, I'm trying to, bro. He was like, get out. And when he put the flashlight, it was blood all on the door, blood on the dad. Bussing back, going to get you killed. That's when lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think, I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, hopped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank, like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. ever't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive.

1:13.6

What's up, everybody?

1:16.6

Welcome back to the Connect.

1:18.6

My name is Johnny Mitchell.

1:19.6

This is the final episode of our Miami series.

1:22.6

So by now you know all about the history of the trade in Miami.

1:26.6

You know, the Colombians were at the very top,

1:28.9

bringing the bricks in straight from Medellin, giving it to the Cuban middlemen, who would then

1:34.1

turn around and give it to the Puerto Ricans and the Dominicans, who would then supply the street

1:39.7

dealers. And these street dealers are the Haitians or the Haitian Americans. In Miami, they're known as the Zos.

1:46.9

Our first stop in our exploration of the Haitian community in Miami was to the neighborhood of

1:52.1

Alapata. An up-and-coming rapper named Zoe Dollars, a Haitian American who is really blowing up in

1:58.1

the South, brought us to the Miami River that runs straight through Alapata.

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