Heroin and the Kansas City Mafia Part 2

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this second episode, retired FBI agent Bill Ouseley tells abut how the Kansas City Crime family set up a heroin pipeline from Cuba to Tampa to Kansas City and other Midwest metropolitan areas. Bill tells about an early heroin arrest in Kansas City that uncovered a large cache of heroin and cocaine. This arrest led to the arrest of a future KC mob boss in Kansas City. Bill tells how the first Federal Bureau of Narcotics were the first officers to work undercover and develop information on the American mafia.
Bill tells about one of the first cooperating witness, Carl Caramusa, from Kansas City led to the exposure of the Kansas City narcotics ring that was dealing about 12 million a year.
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0:00.0	Evening, folks, you are listening to Gangland Wire, and we love this podcast in Scotland.
0:10.8	Former Kansas City Police Department Intelligence Detective and now attorney Gary Jenkins
0:17.7	produced four documentary films, most recently Gangland Wire, creator of smartphone
0:24.7	app entitled Kansas City Mob Tours. Download it now. If you like what you hear, go to ganglandwire.com.
0:34.4	Navigate to the shop page. We need you to put a hit out on our donate button gangland
0:41.6	wire true crime stories is produced at the big dumb fun show studio four and now here's
0:50.1	gary jenkins well hello all you wiretappers out there in wiretapper land.
0:57.1	We're back here in the classic old ice house building in Midtown, Kansas City, with my good
1:02.4	friend and co-host, Aaron.
1:03.5	Say hello, Aaron.
1:04.6	Hello, Aaron.
1:05.7	Well, we're back again for episode two or part two of our show on kind of the the the drug man i believe is that there's a
1:15.1	movie that's going to be a documentary movie is going to be coming out called god is it the drug
1:20.5	man do you know something like that there's going to there's a documentary is going to be coming out by my
1:25.2	good friend uh setonte and Scott Bernstein
1:28.8	is also part of it.
1:30.9	We recently had an episode with or an interview of Scott Bernstein about its title.
1:38.3	It's titled the drug man.
1:40.4	And it's about the formation of the first narcotic syndicates in the United States, how that all came about.
1:46.8	And so, as you know in our last episode with our good friend Bill Owsley, he talked about really about how the laws, the legal system developed to create a framework to prohibit narcotics and the framework to then enforce those narcotics laws in an attempt,
2:06.7	probably a futile attempt if history tells us anything of controlling and maybe eliminating illegal narcotics traffic.
2:13.9	So welcome, Bill, and good to have you back here tonight.
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