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Gangland Wire

Jack Tocco's Promotion Photo

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6647 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Retired KCPD detective Gary Jenkins interviews FBI Greg Stejskal about the day he and his surveillance squad followed Detroit Mobster Jack Tocco and took a photo of Tocco's promotion to Detroit Mafia boss.

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0:00.0

Welcome, all you wiretappers out there.

0:02.4

Good to be back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.

0:04.5

As you can tell, I hope the collar's turned up a little bit.

0:08.1

Maybe play a little golf later on.

0:10.0

I certainly have a golf shirt on and it's getting to me summertime.

0:13.2

I won't play more golf and more golf.

0:15.7

It's my last addiction.

0:17.4

My last bad habit, as they say.

0:19.9

Anyhow, today we have Greg Stelsinski. I tell you what,

0:25.0

Greg, you got to pronounce your name for you. I struggle with name sometimes. Greg, welcome.

0:30.0

It's pronounced nothing like it looks. It's stacal, like it was S-T-A-Y. Okay. And that's check.

0:38.5

So I learned about you through, I think maybe LinkedIn, but I'm not sure.

0:43.7

I just saw that you were a retired FBI agent and you were part of the team that took kind of

0:49.2

in mob history world, that famous picture of the day that I believe it was Jack Tocco was made boss

0:58.1

and the Detroit family. Is that correct? That is correct. That was quite a quite a picture you guys

1:04.9

got that day. Tell me and tell the guys out there a little bit about your career.

1:11.4

Were you in law enforcement before you went to the FBI or were you had an accountant

1:16.4

or a language guy or a lawyer or a policeman?

1:21.0

No, I had a little bit of exposure to law enforcement, but not really anything of any significance. But after undergrad,

1:30.4

I'd wanted to be an FBI agent since I was a kid. And after undergrad, I met with an agent in Lincoln,

1:37.5

Nebraska, where I was going to school. And he said, hey, if you can get into law school, that's the

1:42.7

best way to get into the bureau.

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