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  • Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
  • Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. Gary tells stories from 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.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 71

  • @Therealrellsfa1
    @Therealrellsfa1 2 місяці тому +4

    I'm from Kansas city mo 12th st which is the projects...I most definitely know the Gants & Demmons they're family members..Leon Jordan have a park named after him now...Wow this brings back history

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for your comment. I bet you have some stories yourself.

    • @Therealrellsfa1
      @Therealrellsfa1 2 місяці тому +1

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective Oh hell yes I do lol

    • @Therealrellsfa1
      @Therealrellsfa1 2 місяці тому

      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective By the way I just seen Allan Hawkins 2 weeks ago lol wow!!He's in his 70s I believe

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  2 місяці тому +1

      @@Therealrellsfa1 Wow, he made it through. There is a guy with stories.

  • @jasonp357
    @jasonp357 3 місяці тому +1

    I love hearing a detectives version of the events that happened. Another good episode for the great Gary Jenkins

  • @gantworld4able
    @gantworld4able 10 місяців тому +7

    Appreciate Ya Perspective And Ya Insight. Aaron Gant Was/Is My Uncle, One Of My Moms Oldest Brothers Hearing The Story From Another Perspective Was Enjoyable….💪🏾

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  10 місяців тому +2

      Thanks looks like the whole Gant family watched my story. It was a crazy time back then. I understand how the drug business was a way out.

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  10 місяців тому +2

      Would you email me at ganglandwire@gmail.com please. I have a question

  • @jimmygunn9775
    @jimmygunn9775 Рік тому +7

    I knew Eddie Cox quite well did a bid with him in Leavenworth in the 80's and 90's...Great jailhouse lawyer...

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  3 місяці тому

      I hear he is still doing well on the outside and still helps guys with legal problems.

  • @thescientist8031
    @thescientist8031 8 місяців тому +4

    Great work G. We Need a part 2

    • @rathert3
      @rathert3 5 місяців тому

      Yes. Wonderful information. Part 2 would be most welcome.

  • @ebtyler
    @ebtyler Рік тому +3

    Thanks Gary. This was great!

  • @kingdukesmalls1051
    @kingdukesmalls1051 7 місяців тому +4

    We need more black Mafia stories by you

  • @richdill6703
    @richdill6703 17 днів тому +1

    I am familiar with Jerry and Terry. I grew up in the early 80’s on 33rd & Montgall. Jerry and Terry were legends in my neighborhood

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  17 днів тому

      @@richdill6703 I bet they were. Did the dad work for the post office? I’m always curious how someone ends up being a big time gangster.

  • @JuniorB.KC41
    @JuniorB.KC41 Рік тому +1

    Great show Gary. The news article your talking about is called “Sins of a Father” writing by Mike McGraw. They interviewed my Poppy about that. Joe and Danny were our cousins, and Jimmy Willis was ALWAYS around when I was a kid. When he came home he use to make the BEST BBQ sauce and Brisket. Lol!!

  • @Chicago2714
    @Chicago2714 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the history lesson.

  • @mobuppodcast582
    @mobuppodcast582 Рік тому +1

    Nice Thanks Gary

  • @TracyCooper-Glover-bc8tu
    @TracyCooper-Glover-bc8tu 4 місяці тому +1

    My name is Tracy Cooper, the daughter of Maynard Cooper
    I remember all these people you are talking about.

  • @jimmygunn9775
    @jimmygunn9775 Рік тому +2

    I also knew Geatonor Bladamenta well.. Walk the track everyday....When I got out he tride to get me a job with a construction company...

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому

      What are you doing now? Got any stories for the podcast? email me at ganglandwire@gmail.com

    • @jimmygunn9775
      @jimmygunn9775 Рік тому +2

      ​@@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetectiveThanks for the offer but. I am going to pass.

  • @cheeto7568
    @cheeto7568 Рік тому +4

    Doc Dearborn and Aaron gant. The 2 biggest black gangsters in KC history.

  • @gregscavuzzo5457
    @gregscavuzzo5457 Рік тому +4

    Thank you ,Gary this was the story I have been waiting for and you did a great job, I think that they finally found out that Monk and Doc killed Leon Jordan, thanks for mentioning Red Strong, Brother Red was a good guy, he would always help a guy out , anyway thanks again and great job, we would take stolen cigarettes with Missouri tax stamps to Babyface, $5.00 per carton , he was a good guy, man Kansas City is so different now, I am glad that I went straight, I am enjoying retirement now, I feel very lucky, man those twins were evil, dangerous men, who do you think killed June Gant

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому +1

      I don't know who killed June Gant. But Sam Haley was still around, I think. HIs release was threatening to somebody's business. All the old guys were gone except Jimmy Willis.

  • @jasonp357
    @jasonp357 3 місяці тому +1

    Gary what’s it like talking to people that were in the life back then, today?

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  3 місяці тому

      Well good question. Seems like the people who were really in the life back when I was a young detective like to talk about the good old days with someone who understands the life and knew the people. The ones who are wanna be in the life or are still in the life not so much. They take it too seriously.

  • @husseinbato996
    @husseinbato996 Рік тому +4

    Aaron gant was the real deal. That brother was superfly personified! I remember hearing stories about him. He had a shit ton of bodies to his name. Wild way to go out 2. In the middle of the club. The streets are a cursed game. Any books that talk about gant?

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому +1

      I haver never seen one. It would be quite a story. He was like Marlo on the Wire.

    • @husseinbato996
      @husseinbato996 Рік тому +2

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective facts lol. There was a gant in Philly. He was a gangster/boxer. Wonder if there kin.

    • @martylewis2480
      @martylewis2480 10 місяців тому +1

      That’s my uncle I been looking for a deeper detailed story on them my whole life !!

  • @hahafalseflag5090
    @hahafalseflag5090 2 місяці тому +1

    There's a lot of people from kc that have no idea about the black mafia..

  • @DudleyNevins-wf8qf
    @DudleyNevins-wf8qf 6 місяців тому +1

    Do you have any information on the Ulysses Long murder in the 70's? He was the owner of a bowling alley on 43rd and Long's Lounge on 63rd Project. The Streets said it was a mob related. Any thoughts 😕

  • @damonjohnson9656
    @damonjohnson9656 9 місяців тому +2

    Do you remember monk! Monk Johnson..in the 70s..12th Wayne minor?

  • @williebaker7739
    @williebaker7739 5 місяців тому +1

    Very well stated, Gary . I have a Mother that was a homocide in KC and found at St. Joseph hospital parking emergency lane, just wondering if you had any ideas on what happened to her.

  • @gregscavuzzo5457
    @gregscavuzzo5457 Рік тому +1

    Gary have you heard of a heroin and coke dealer called Give-a-Way , he had a nephew called Fast that got a big sentence for murder, I think their last name was Simms

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому +1

      The name Simms sounds familiar but I don’t remember anything else

    • @gregscavuzzo5457
      @gregscavuzzo5457 Рік тому +1

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective Did the Police ever investigate cocaine being sold out of Foster's Records and Tapes at 31st and Brooklyn, they were selling great coke, grams only, also there was a park down the street where you could get Dilaudid, just wondering, have a good night and thanks for the work you do, sometime you should do a show on famous places that are gone, The Wishbone Restaurant, Milton's Tap Room , Sanderson's, etc or places mob guys use to hang out at

  • @blksheep176
    @blksheep176 Рік тому +3

    Before cocaine you had to be connected in the drug game. So it was a lot more regulated. You can be anybody with money and these cartels will deal with you. And you don’t need too much of a gang because the weaponry is so advanced. So it’s a lotta Indians no chiefs.

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому +2

      I wondered about that. It seemed like after cocaine arrived, we had a lot of minor kingpins but not one or two who were well known.

    • @blksheep176
      @blksheep176 Рік тому +1

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective yeah Gary it’s harder to monopolize these new drugs. Imma big fan man keep up the great content !! 👍

  • @carolbrady658
    @carolbrady658 Рік тому +2

    Gary the war on drugs will never be won... Don't u think that it's about time we looked at the legalisation route!?

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому

      Really and put more into drug treatment. But that route has its problems. It just seems impossible sometimes

    • @carolbrady658
      @carolbrady658 Рік тому +2

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective I am a former heroin addict.. addicts use drugs to feel better . We were all basically self medicating . Depression, childhood abuse etc.. drugs are a medical issue.
      Look at Mexico.. if we legalised hard drugs and took them out of the hands of criminals it would be safer for everyone

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому +1

      @@carolbrady658 I’m curious how that worked in Portugal? I know a lot of people in recovery, including myself, and they all are an asset to society.

    • @carolbrady658
      @carolbrady658 Рік тому +1

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective i haven't looked into it but definitely it's a step in the right direction. I was a functional addict working long hours so I suppose I'm different to most . . People are never going stop wanting to "get high", and demand will be met with supply... I just think it will be better for EVERYONE if the cartels/criminals were taken out of the picture

  • @williebaker7739
    @williebaker7739 5 місяців тому

    Very well

  • @tailor-mademedia1406
    @tailor-mademedia1406 Рік тому +2

    "Peckerwoods". 😂

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому

      I have a 1930s photo of a country roadhouse that has a sign on it that says, “Peckerwood Club.” I can’t seem to find it.

    • @tailor-mademedia1406
      @tailor-mademedia1406 Рік тому

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective I used to hear the term growing up in Detroit, Gary. ✊

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому

      @@tailor-mademedia1406 interesting I didn’t think it was a Missouri term. In KC the Italian guys always use the term when talking among themselves

    • @tailor-mademedia1406
      @tailor-mademedia1406 Рік тому +1

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective Lot of Detroiters had Southern roots, Gary.
      Black AND White.
      In the early '70s, the block we moved to hadn't flipped just yet. So, we had Scot-Irish, Mexican, Polish, Native American, Vietnam Vets and everybody else living on the same block.
      The kids all went to school together and we played in each other's backyards. Even did the Boy Scouts and Little League together. Remember, bussing couldn't break that up until people began to move out of Detroit.
      But, it was nothing to hear an autoworker say something like "Yeah. So, I'm getting ready for my shift and this peckerwood comes up to me w/ HIS b*llsh*t...."
      The flip side of that is my Dad's UAW local was like a real brotherhood.

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому +1

      @@tailor-mademedia1406 “by day I make the cars and by night I make the bars” I worked at the Ford plant here as my first job.

  • @Hkhfhfds
    @Hkhfhfds Рік тому +2

    Was there a Jewish Mafia in Kansas City?

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  Рік тому +1

      Somewhat but they were so close to the La Cosa Nostra that I only remember a couple of names.

    • @tomdalton4293
      @tomdalton4293 11 місяців тому

      @@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective Max Jaben?

    • @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective
      @GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective  11 місяців тому +2

      @@tomdalton4293 yeah! Jaben, Morris “Snag” Klein, Eddie Spits Odeshay,