I Was a Trinitario Gang Leader — This Is How I Survived Prison | Elvis Deschamps

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Elvis Deschamps shares how he climbed the ranks in the Trinitarios gang, the violence he witnessed, and the harsh reality of life behind bars. #GangLeader #StreetLife #PrisonSurvival #TrueCrime #CrimeAndConsequences #LawAndJustice #GangWars #exconvict Thank you to DRAFT KINGS for sponsoring today’s episode: New players can get FIVE HUNDRED CASINO SPINS ON A FEATURED GAME! Just sign up with code IANBICK and wager a minimum of five dollars to receive FIVE HUNDRED CASINO SPINS ON A FEATURED GAME. Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://convictclothing.net/collections/convict-clothing-x-ian-bick Timestamps: 00:00:00 Elvis Deschamps: A Journey from the Dominican Republic to Queens 00:05:53 Heartbreak at Father-Son Day 00:11:29 Growing Up in Poverty and Street Life 00:17:42 Teenage Gang Involvement and Leadership 00:23:59 Emotional Discovery and Betrayal 00:30:00 Prison Experience: Navigating Maximum Security 00:35:36 A Close Call with the Bloods 00:41:48 Gang Initiation and Member Verification 00:47:30 Manipulating Leadership Dynamics in Prison 00:53:29 Formation of Latino Gang Alliances 00:59:25 Taking Over Long Island and Becoming a Leader 01:05:37 Battling Dark Voices and Seeking Help 01:11:31 Encounter with Shadows and a Life-Changing Light 01:18:00 Renouncing Gang Life and Finding Faith 01:23:53 Transforming Gang Life Through Faith 01:29:45 Spiritual Warfare and the End Times Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Elvis, welcome to Locked-in, man. I love your name, man.
0:33.2	Yeah, thank you, thank you. Where does that come from?
0:35.6	Well, I'm Dominican. I was born here, but my mother and father from Dominican Republic, and it's like a common name in Spanish country. Is it really? Everybody's Elvis. Wow. I think I might have met a couple Elvis's in prison. It's weird, I only met like three my whole life, though. Well, it's an iconic name. And your last name is cool, too. Yeah, Deschamps. Deschamps. Like French. But it's spelled like Dechamps, kind of like it has the word champ in it. Yeah, it's like the champ. Yeah, exactly. That's so awesome. But you lived here your whole life. Yeah, I grew up in Long Island. When I was little, I lived in Dominican Republic, but it was at a very young age, like five, six, something like that.
1:14.9	Came out here and moved to Queens. And that's when all the craziness started, very young.
1:24.6	Yeah, I lived in Corona or Flushing something like that. I was so young, I don't really remember those years too much, but...
1:30.3	Who'd you grow up with, like any siblings, mom and dad were born here?
1:33.3	Yeah, I got two sisters, mom and dad.
1:35.3	Dad disappeared around the age of 10.
1:38.3	He actually tried to kill my mom, so it was pretty crazy.
1:41.3	And how old were you were 10 when that happened? Yeah, he, uh, I always remembered.
1:46.5	He came through and, uh, he took us out.
1:51.0	Me and my little sister took us.
1:53.9	We went, I forgot where we went.
1:55.2	I think we went to a family member's house or something like that or a carnival.
1:59.4	And, uh, let's sit up a little bit and then uh hmm it was crazy he was
2:06.0	like jealous because uh my mom didn't even have anybody but in his mind because he used to do drugs
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