Jesus Ruiz Henao aka Mr. Big

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jesus Ruiz Henao Gary interviews the well-known true crime author Ron Chepesiuk and Jesus Ruiz Henao (aka Mr. Big). Gary gets the inside story of the largest single cocaine supplier to Great Britain during the 1990s. The famous English law enforcement organization known as MI-5 reported to British newspapers that when they took down the Henao organization, the price of cocaine increased by 50%. Henao tells the story of a young immigrant who works hard to establish himself in the cocaine business in Columbia. He gets an opportunity to help expand his bosses operation to Europe Jesus Ruiz Henao and the Sicilians Ron Chepesiuk and Jesus tell how his Columbian boss sent him to meet with the Sicilian mafia in Sicily. They liked what he had to say so much that they directed him to meet with a member of the mafia in London England. He learned that the British Isles are considered an open market with lax law enforcement to cocaine smuggling and drug use in general. He takes this information back to Columbia and over the next few years, they set up a supply line of cocaine from Columba to ports in Spain and Portugal where the cocaine is transported overland to England. Along the way, he bribes border guards, customs officials, and various law enforcement officers to keep out of trouble. During this time Jesus Ruiz Henao maintained a very low profile while living in England. He even went so far as to keep a regular job as a delivery driver to maintain his cover. Show notes by Gary Jenkins To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Stephen St. John, and I want you to listen to my new podcast, Hot Mike with SSJ.
0:06.9	You can watch Hot Mike with SSJ on YouTube or download the podcast wherever you download your favorite podcasts.
0:19.4	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:32.7	Welcome all your wiretappers out there, back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.
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0:43.4	ron chepset where are you from ron i'm originally from thunder bay ontario canada and i've been
0:50.3	living in rock hill for the last 30 35 40 years. That's what I thought. And we have
0:55.9	Jesus Riz Haneo. Welcome, Jesus. Thank you very much. Hesuzeus is originally from Columbia.
1:02.8	Now, Ron has done a book called The Real Mr. Big. Ron is a pretty prolific true crime author.
1:08.9	You need to only check him out on Facebook. A lot of the different
1:13.1	Facebook places. I don't know. Do you have an actual Facebook page? Yeah, I have a Facebook page. I have a
1:18.0	website, Ronchepstick.com, and Facebook would be the best place to check with me. Check my show notes,
1:24.3	folks. And I'll have links to all this up there. So if you want to buy the book
1:28.2	or check out Ron's other work, we had him on on a in-depth, deep dive into the Colombian-American
1:36.6	drug connection, the cocaine connection called, was it the drug lords? I believe, Ron.
1:41.6	Yeah, it was drug lords. It's called Narcos now. Okay. And Ron has done a deep
1:46.7	dive into this world and we've all lived it. I was a soldier in the Ronnie Reagan war on cocaine
1:53.0	coming out of Columbia at one time in my life. And now we're going to look at the British connection,
1:58.0	which I've heard about, but I always wondered when I was doing drugs,
2:01.3	how do they get that stuff from Colombia over to Europe?
2:04.1	It's pretty easy to get it up to the United States, but how they get it over Europe?
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