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Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In 1954, the Chicago Outfit found it lucrative to hijack trucks filled with cartons of cigarettes. They had dozens of corner stores who did not question the history of a case of Lucky Strikes if the price was right. In 1954, an alert tobacco distributor named Alfred Koenecke noticed a truck was following his delivery trucks. He called the Chicago PD and they assigned Det. Bernard Kennedy and Det. Geroge Hanennecke. Mr. Koenecke called the detectives and told them the suspicious truck was marked Unity Refrigeration was parked nearby his distribution warehouse. The detectives responded and Mr. Koenecke dispatched a delivery truck. The detectives started following the Unity Refrigeration truck who was following the Koenecke Distribution truck. they noticed another car was also following the Unity Refrigeration truck. they stopped that car and found a Koenecke salesman and a Chicago foot patrolman who had just been picked up by the salesman. The identified them and resumed their chase. they caught up with the Koenecke trucj=k and the Unity Refrigeration truck. The detectives stopped the uNity Refrigeration truck and found career criminals Frank Schweihs, age 22, Stanely Bajic and Sam Ciancino. Inside the glove compartment, they found a .38 pistol and a police scanner set to the Chicago PD frequencies. Don’t forget to listen to Aaron on the Big Dumb Fun Show. To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:14.2	Hey guys, all you wiretabbers out there, this is a bonus episode of Gangland Wire.
0:20.6	One more episode in the long string of free episodes dating back almost four years.
0:26.3	I have to check out when that four-year anniversary is.
0:29.7	It's coming up sometime this spring, March or April.
0:33.0	I can't remember exactly.
0:34.7	I do ask your forgiveness during this particular episode. I'm going to start
0:38.3	off with a little ask for money. I know we start off with a lot of the podcasts with the
0:43.7	usual intro promo. I'm changing that to not have a big ask every time. But every once in a while,
0:51.9	I'm going to have a bonus episode. and I want to remind you that I now have
0:55.9	a Venmo account. I have come into the 21st century, an old codger like me, and with that Venmo account,
1:03.5	if you happen to have one, you can buy me a cup of Starbucks coffee once in a great while.
1:09.6	Kind of reminds me the story of an old girlfriend. I mentioned to her
1:13.8	one time that McDonald's coffee tastes just as good as Starbucks coffee, according to a blind taste
1:18.6	test I read about. She replied, I'm not a McDonald's type of girl. I'm a Starbucks kind of girl.
1:25.9	So we always went to Starbucks. I think you get the gist there.
1:28.9	So if you will support me in this work by buying me a Starbucks coffee once in a while on your
1:33.9	Venmo account, my code name on that or whatever you send the money to, I've only done it with my
1:40.0	granddaughter so far, is all one word gangland wire wire or you can always go to my website
1:46.0	www.ganglandwire.com click on the shop button and make a donation or buy my movie or buy my book
1:52.8	so i appreciate it thank you very much and now on with my bonus episode so wiretappers we're going to go to the little town, our little community of Blue Island in southwest Chicago.
2:10.7	It's down by, it's north of Chicago Heights, a little bit west and north of Calumet City, south and west of downtown, like I said,
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