NY’s Chinatown Wars: Ghost Shadows, Hong Kong Triads, Tongs, and the China White Heroin Connection

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Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When Nicky Louie stalked the streets in the 1970's, he was the first gangster to scare Chinatown in decades. At only 22-years-old, he led his gang of gun-toting teen hitmen known as the Ghost Shadows in countless shootouts against the Flying Dragons. Both street gangs were linked up with the established and secretive community groups known as Tongs that had been operating and controlling Chinatown since the 1890's. Together, the gangs and tongs ran the protection and gambling rackets, getting a piece of every single business in the neighborhood. But when the tongs linked up with Hong Kong Triads, who themselves had linked up with Burmese opium growers churning out the 95% pure heroin known as China White, things really got interesting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Monsters is a true crime podcast and YouTube channel where I tell the stories of the worst people on the planet.
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0:26.3	their own child. In season two, we covered cases of people killing for love. We recently finished up season 3 where we covered cases of parasite, which is the act of someone
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0:56.4	monsters.
0:59.4	They say Nicki Louie is the first gangster to scare New York's Chinatown in decades.
1:06.0	He's the leader of this Attic Control street gang called the Ghost Shadows, and he's a wild one.
1:11.0	He runs his mouth and he runs his gun. He's small though, maybe 125
1:15.8	pounds soaking wet and actually soft-spoken charming he's oppressed darling too.
1:20.8	Tonight it's August 1978, and he's playing Mahjong with his friends in the back of a barber shop.
1:27.0	There's a war going on in the streets, but he's safely on his turf.
1:31.0	Him and his crew took it four years ago from the White Eagles, chased him off with guns blazing, and then they got backed by the powerful on the young tongue.
1:38.0	He's dodged plenty of metaphorical and actual bullets and attempted assassinations.
1:43.0	It's safe to say the guy only 24 years old at this point had a rep.
1:49.0	But he makes a mistake.
1:51.0	He sits with his back to the door and a 17 year old kid from his own gang and part of a rebel faction gets the drop on him.
1:58.0	He puts a 38 to Nicky Louis face and pulls the trigger.
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