How A Puerto Rican Gangster TERRORIZED The New York Prison System: South Bronx Legend Reveals ALL

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Dive deep into the incredible—and brutal—life of Peter "Pistol Pete" Rollock, the most feared Puerto Rican gangster in New York City history. Raised in the South Bronx during the 70s and 80s, Pete was running heroin shooting galleries by age 12, founding the notorious Sex Money Murder gang in his teens, and leading prison riots at Rikers Island before he turned 20. In this raw and unfiltered interview, Pistol Pete shares firsthand accounts of street wars, his rise in the criminal underworld, multi-million-dollar extortion operations, and his eventual federal takedown. Plus, hear how he went from solitary confinement to working with NYC officials to help clean up the same streets he once ran. Go Support Pistol Pete! YouTube: @DOGINTHEYARD IG: https://www.instagram.com/pistolpetekarts/ Company: https://www.instagram.com/yappbrand/ NYC Storefront: https://www.instagram.com/dynasty.commodities/ This Episode Is #Sponsored By The Following: HOF Bets! Get a 7-Day Free Trial + 50% Off your first month with code CONNECT. Just download the HOF app on iOS or Android, enter code CONNECT, and you’re all set. BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/connect and get on your way to being your best self. HIMS! Start your FREE online visit today at https://hims.com/connect for your personalized ED treatment options! Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
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0:09.8	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.5	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.3	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
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0:38.2	in Cinemas Everywhere, March 19th. It was dangerous to be in the street period. It was life and death. You got to be ready for whatever comes. I'm extorting people on my old building that I lived in. Somebody got stabbed, and then I got caught with the weapon. So when he went to search me, I pushed the police and ran. Defense came and got me. I became Bronx most wanted.
0:54.4	Pick me up in the Bronx. They came with helicopters and old.
0:57.0	This man who goes by Pistol Pete, is the most famous Puerto Rican gangster in the history of New York City. He grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s and 80s and significantly contributed to the already insane crime rates of the BX during that era. Pete is from a lost generation.
1:12.3	By the time he was 12 years old, he and his buddies were operating shooting galleries for heroin junkies
1:17.5	in abandoned buildings throughout the Bronx and got into more shootouts and robberies than he could
1:22.2	count.
1:22.8	By the time he started going to Rikers Island at 17 years old, he was a known menace.
1:28.6	He slashed and assaulted so many inmates that the jail had to set up a special high security visiting room just for him.
1:33.8	He was also uncontrollable upstate, where he instigated prison riots and ran every cell block
1:39.0	and jailhouse that they put him on. Pete began a movement throughout the New York prison system
1:43.3	called KARA-R,
1:44.7	or Kill All Rats, which is self-explanatory. Then in the early 2000s, fresh home from state
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