The Black Mafia

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. Gary tells stories about the Black Mafia in Kansas City, from their early days when they dominated the Heroin market to the murder of a prominent Black politician, Leon Jordon, to the epic war between Sam Haley and Aaron Gant. Finally, he ends with a disturbing story about a drug house robbery. The primary connection between the La Cosa Nostra Mafia and the Black Mafia appeared to be between a fence named Jimmy Ciarelli and a black liquor store owner called Baby Face Norris and one of the suspects in the Leon Jordan murder named Jimmy Willis. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Remember to click on www.BetterHelp.com/gangland for 10% off Subscribe to the Podcast for a new gangster story every week. Support the Podcast. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup 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. Donate to the podcast. Click here! Transcript GARY JENKINS 00:00 Hey, all you Wiretappers out there. Good to be back here in the studio Gangland Wire. I’ve got a story of the Black Mafia in Kansas City. Now, I’ve often been asked what connections did the Italian Mafia have with professional black criminals or African American criminals. And there was some. And it all revolves around drugs and politics. So let’s go back to some of the early days in the late 60s and early 70s. What we had in Kansas City there, the heroin racket, back in the day, blacks had heroin, and the Italians got the heroin and sold it to the blacks go all the way back to the French Connection days and Carmine Galante in New York. Now, by the late 60s, early 70s. Our local African American guys got a connection in Los Angeles to get heroin now it was seemed like it ...

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1:01.1	Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there, good to be back here in the studio, Gangland
1:04.4	Wire.
1:04.8	I've got the story of the black mafia in Kansas City.
1:08.4	Now, I've often been asked what connections did Italian
1:12.0	mafia have with professional black criminals or African American criminals? And there was some.
1:18.4	And it all revolves around drugs and politics. So let's go back to some of the early days in the
1:25.5	late 60s and early 70s, what we had in Kansas City,
1:29.4	the heroin racket.
1:31.3	Back in the day, blacks had heroin and Italians got the heroin in and sold it to the blacks.
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