Wearing a Wire on Steve St. John Bonus episode

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Our Venmo subscribers are responsible for this special bonus episode that I call “Wearing a Wire on Steve St. John.” If you don’t who Steve is, I once helped a new FBI agent on a drug case by doing surveillance on Steve in 1991. The FBI was working on Steve because they had an informant tell them that Steve had a connection to get Dilaudid and was supplying several street dealers. We worked Steve because he was known to be connected to several mob members in Kansas City. Mainly, we wanted to turn him and he never turned even after being charged as a drug kingpin. He would get 10 years and served his time in a variety of Federal institutions. After Steve’s release, he turned his life around and became successful in the used car business and has recently retired. We meet up periodically for donuts and coffee at the Donut King or waffles at a Waffle House. He is always telling me stories about his time in prison or other stories of the streets back in the days when I was a young cop and he was a young bail bondsman, fence and drug dealer. We were talking recently and I decided to record a story and release it as a bonus episode. I will do more in the future. 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 subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:18.7	Welcome all you wire cappers out there. This is a special bonus episode I call Waring a Wire on Steve St. John. You may or may not know that I've reconnected with a guy named Steve St. John, Kansas City here when I was making the movie, he helped me out immensely. He got me a stripper, a real-deal stripper for the stripper reenactment scene.
0:41.4	He got me a guy that had a really good, high-quality 79 Lincoln that we could use in the reenactment scenes.
0:50.2	He acted in it.
0:51.8	He got his son to help act in it.
0:53.3	His son is kind of a local personality.
0:56.1	Stephen St. John, a local talk show radio host.
1:03.1	Put me on the talk show radio the night before we showed the movie.
1:07.4	Got a little extra publicity.
1:09.3	Anyhow, and so Steve and I meet quite often at either the
1:13.0	Donut King or Waffle House for breakfast. So I had this idea, well, maybe I'd start getting
1:20.4	Steve to tell me a little stories and I'd just flip out my cell phone and record them. So this
1:25.2	whole thing is going to be done on cell phone audio. So it might
1:29.3	sound a little different. I'll throw the video up on the little bit of video of him up on my YouTube
1:35.4	channel. Now this is going to be brought to you by our Venmo supporters. And you guys out there
1:41.3	in Venmo, you have really responded to my request for help to keep this podcast going and pay for a few things.
1:49.1	Maybe one of these days I'll get enough money.
1:50.9	I'll even hire somebody to edit it.
1:52.8	I'm having trouble editing right now because I've got a shoulder impingement from all that time spent on the computer editing my movie.
2:00.1	But anyhow, so I want to thank all the individual Venmo supporters.
2:04.1	Some of you guys, you know who you are, or repeat supporters.
2:08.3	Let's start off with my friend Casey Walsh.
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