S2 E05: YBI to the Day I Die

Crimetown

Gimlet

Government, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It’s the early eighties, and a new organization is revolutionizing the heroin trade: Young Boys Inc. Unlike other drug operations, YBI recruits juveniles, brands smack as if it were designer clothing, and moves the industry out of the dope houses and onto the corners. As YBI’s relentless expansion causes more and more bloodshed, its foot soldiers must reckon with their impact on Detroit. For bonus content from this episode, visit crimetownshow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You don't like cloud wrap?
0:02.5	No.
0:03.1	Skinny jeans?
0:04.0	Never again.
0:04.7	Eist coffee.
0:05.4	Starbucks always.
0:06.8	Your perfect summer.
0:08.2	Easy.
0:08.6	Something like...
0:13.4	What about...
0:17.2	Sounds exhausting.
0:18.7	Hi, what can I get you?
0:19.9	Solskar and Mark Green call for you, please.
0:23.6	Well, we can agree on one thing.
0:25.3	Summer hits different with Starbucks.
0:28.0	Subject to availability, while stocks last.
0:30.6	We have 50 people just from the junior high school
0:35.2	in our elementary.
0:36.9	Something dope.
0:38.6	That's remarkable.
0:40.0	This is James Pap Cooper.
0:42.2	In the late 70s, he got into selling heroin
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