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The Rise and Fall of Harlems Deadliest Drug Gangs · FBI Files

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  Speaker 1: In New York in the 1980s, the emergence of crack
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  Speaker 1: cocaine triggered a new wave of violence. Drug dealers robbed
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  Speaker 1: and killed in their pursuit of power. Normal citizens became victims.
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  Speaker 1: Even children were not in the middle. The FBI joined
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  Speaker 1: forces with the New York police to take back the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Their best weapon against deadly drug gangs. C-11 Squad. The
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  Speaker 1: gang violence in New York City is not unusual. But
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  Speaker 1: when a 12-year-old kid was kidnapped, the gangs had crossed
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  Speaker 1: a border. The police worked hard to find the missing
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  Speaker 1: boy before it was too late. I am Jim Kaltstrom,
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  Speaker 1: former head of the New York FBI office. The agents
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  Speaker 1: had to infiltrate the secret world of a brother in
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  Speaker 1: a gang to stop the murderous deeds of a drug baron.
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  Speaker 1: In the 1980s, Craig Okaing conquered the New York city
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  Speaker 1: of Dalhallen. How many other ballroom areas in America? With time,
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  Speaker 1: the cheap and strongly dependent drug lured the communities like
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  Speaker 1: no other drug before. With Craig came reckless, violent gangs
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  Speaker 1: that dominated the streets. Nobody was really sure. On December 5, 1980,
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  Speaker 1: the 12-year-old Daniel Porter went to elementary school alone. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't make it to the... When he didn't come home
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  Speaker 1: from school, his family worried. Sie hatten ihn in der
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  Speaker 1: Nachbarschaft nicht finden können. Um 21.00 Uhr erhielt Danels Schwester
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  Speaker 1: einen Anruf. Der Mann am anderen Ende sagte, Danel sei
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  Speaker 1: entführt worden. Er wolle 500.000 Dollar, sonst würde der Junge getötet. Nein.
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  Speaker 1: In der Herrentoilette. Die Schwester sagte, die Familie habe nicht
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  Speaker 1: so viel Geld. Dem Anrufer war das egal. He warned
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  Speaker 1: the police not to contact him and then asked them
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  Speaker 1: to go to a restaurant at 125th and Broadway. What
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  Speaker 1: are you looking at? Are you crazy? Behind the trash
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  Speaker 1: can in the bathroom they would find something that would
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  Speaker 1: prove that he was serious. A friend of the family
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  Speaker 1: went to the restaurant so that the porters could stay
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. He didn't know if it was a trap.
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  Speaker 1: On the instructions of the kidnapper, he searched behind the
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  Speaker 1: garbage container and found a coffee can. There were two rings,
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  Speaker 1: an audio cassette and the separated finger of a child.
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  Speaker 1: Danelle was injured and could have bled. Despite the warning
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  Speaker 1: that this was not to be done, the family called
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  Speaker 1: the New York police. The family told the investigators what
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  Speaker 1: they knew. The criminal officers examined the evidence. The sister
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  Speaker 1: said that the rings belonged to Danelle. They had been
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  Speaker 1: given to her older brother, Palden. On the bandwagon, a
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  Speaker 1: signed help call, definitely Donald's voice. The family told the
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  Speaker 1: investigators of a second call, in which the kidnapper had
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  Speaker 1: lowered his ransom to $ 350, 000. It was still far above
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  Speaker 1: their conditions. They said they didn't know why they were
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  Speaker 1: taken into custody for ransom. The investigators knew, however, what
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  Speaker 1: the family would not say. The older brother of the victim,
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  Speaker 1: Richard Porter, was a big crack dealer in the area.
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  Speaker 1: The police assumed that the kidnapping had something to do
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  Speaker 1: with his drug empire. The NYPD turned to the reactive
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  Speaker 1: squad of the New York FBI and asked for support.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're with me. Special Agent David Higgins, our
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  Speaker 1: drug expert, was asked to deliver further information about Richard Porter.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Porter, about 25 years old at the time, was
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  Speaker 1: a well-known crack dealer, who practiced his activities in Central Harlem.
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  Speaker 1: He belonged to the people who had already entered the
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  Speaker 1: crack trade in New York, and he had built a
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  Speaker 1: significant drug empire in Central Harlem. Richard Porter earned millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars by selling crack on New York streets. The
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  Speaker 1: investigators knew where his area.
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  Speaker 2: Was.
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  Speaker 3: What was going on there?
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  Speaker 1: It didn't take long to find Porter. The investigators recognized
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  Speaker 1: the person with whom he was on the road as
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  Speaker 1: his drug smuggler partner Alpo Martinez. At this visit it
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  Speaker 1: was not about drugs. It was about finding Donnell. The
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  Speaker 1: police knew that Porter Donne was very close, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything about who was behind the kidnapping.
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  Speaker 3: Of his brother.
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  Speaker 1: Such cases are usually solved on the street without the police.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know anyone. Although Porter was most likely looking
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  Speaker 1: for the key to Donald, he wasn't in a position
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  Speaker 1: to talk to the authorities. Richard Porter was, due to
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  Speaker 1: his situation, a drug dealer in.
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  Speaker 2: A delicate legal situation.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been difficult for him to work directly
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  Speaker 1: with the criminal investigation authorities. I think he tried to
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  Speaker 1: regulate the situation to a certain extent to his own advantage.
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  Speaker 1: The police had nothing to hold him back. The authorities
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  Speaker 1: had to find someone who could help them. They combed
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  Speaker 1: the area to gather information about the kidnapping. In such
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  Speaker 1: a narrow neighborhood, someone had to have heard something about Donnell.
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  Speaker 1: But the residents were too afraid to talk. Harlem's violent
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  Speaker 1: gangs had the community firmly in their grasp The investigators
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  Speaker 1: were in charge. With every passing day, the police officer
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  Speaker 1: in the 32nd district of the NYPD bus, Donald's chance
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  Speaker 1: of survival, fell. The investigators stayed in touch with the
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  Speaker 1: boy's family, who desperately waited for further information from the kidnappers.
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  Speaker 1: A week after the kidnapping, the family received a message.
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  Speaker 1: The kidnappers indicated that Donald was still alive. Sie forderten
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  Speaker 1: ihr Geld. Doch es kamen keine weiteren Lösegeldforderungen. Ohne Hinweise
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  Speaker 1: auf den Aufenthaltsort des Jungen und ohne dass jemand redete,
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  Speaker 1: befand sich die Polizei in einer Sackgasse. Sie mussten Richard
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  Speaker 1: Porter irgendwie zur Kooperation drängen. Oder hoffen, dass er das
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  Speaker 1: Lösegeld zahlen würde, um Donald zurückzubekommen. Then, on January 4, 1990,
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  Speaker 1: a month later, Daniel's kidnapping became the corpse of his brother,
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  Speaker 1: the drug baron Richard Porter, in a park in the Bronx. Found? Aye.
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  Speaker 1: He was shot twice in the head. Now there would
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  Speaker 1: be no one left who would pay the ransom. It
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  Speaker 1: was generally assumed that Richard's death was related to the
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping and was probably the result of a failed ransom.
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  Speaker 1: Allerdings wurde schon früh festgestellt, dass sich in seiner Brieftasche,
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  Speaker 1: als seine Leiche entdeckt wurde, über 2000 US-Dollar befanden. Sein
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  Speaker 1: Schmuck war auch dabei. Offenbar stand auch sein Auto in
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  Speaker 1: der Nähe. Es gab With Richard Porter's death, the investigators
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  Speaker 1: lost their close connection to the 12-year-old. To find another source,
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  Speaker 1: they increased pressure on the smaller dealers in Porter's organization,
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  Speaker 1: Da sie wegen Drogendelikten angeklagt waren, wurde ihnen im Austausch
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  Speaker 1: gegen Informatik angeboten. Einige sagten, Porter's Partner Eppo Martinez könnte
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  Speaker 1: darin verwickelt sein. Andere behaupteten, eine berüchtigte Gang aus Haarlem
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  Speaker 1: namens Preacher Crew könnte es sein. Doch keiner lieferte direkte
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  Speaker 1: Hinweise auf das Verbrechen. Three weeks later, the body of
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  Speaker 1: a boy was found in the same park in the Bronx,
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  Speaker 1: where Richard Porter was found. His family identified the body
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  Speaker 1: as Donald Porter.
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  Speaker 2: The cause.
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  Speaker 1: Of death was a blunt violence on the head. The
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  Speaker 1: death of a child is always a shocking event. It's
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  Speaker 1: about a 12-year-old boy who was on his way to
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  Speaker 1: public school. He was abducted. Kein tortured. And you could
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  Speaker 1: hear him on a cassette tape screaming for help from
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  Speaker 1: his family. Donald's murder shook the entire community in Harlem,
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  Speaker 1: even though violence was the norm there. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant James Marr worked in the notorious 32nd district of
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  Speaker 1: the NYPD, where Donald lived. In the late 80s and
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  Speaker 1: early 90s, the 32nd district, which is only one square
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  Speaker 1: mile large, was one of the most violent.
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  Speaker 2: Districts in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: The number of murder cases was on average between 60
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  Speaker 1: and 70 percent per year. In addition, there were several
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  Speaker 1: hundred shootings in which people did not die.
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  Speaker 2: As a reaction.
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  Speaker 1: To the increasing violence in the city, the New Yorker
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  Speaker 1: FBI Foreign Office became a task force named C-11. The
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  Speaker 1: troops were assigned detectives of the 32nd district and FBI agents.
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  Speaker 1: C-11 was founded to prevent these deep-rooted criminal conspiracies in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. The locals brought their knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: streets and the involved people with them. The federal agents
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  Speaker 1: brought access to the federal courts with them, including access
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  Speaker 1: to the U.S. State Attorney's guidelines for the punishment. After
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  Speaker 1: the murder of Daniel Porter, they knew that they had
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  Speaker 1: to take back the streets. C-11 would first take Alpo Martinez,
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  Speaker 1: the partner of Richard Porter. The problem is here, we
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  Speaker 1: have nothing. If their partnership had been broken, he would
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  Speaker 1: have benefited the most from oppressing and killing Richard Porter.
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  Speaker 1: We are still working on surveillance. A year before, a
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  Speaker 1: arrest warrant was issued against him for drug crimes. But
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  Speaker 1: when Martinez could be found, the federal prosecutor had to
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  Speaker 1: drop the arrest warrant. In the police computer, the C-11
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  Speaker 1: unit marked the names of well-known accomplices of Alpo Martinez.
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  Speaker 1: If one of them was arrested, he would be notified.
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  Speaker 1: Months later, the police found a car in Washington D.C.
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  Speaker 1: after observing how the driver closed a drug deal. The
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  Speaker 1: driver was a well-known courier for Alpo Martinez. The police
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  Speaker 1: found a large amount of crack and thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 1: in his car. The authorities of DC noticed the note
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  Speaker 1: in his file from New York and contacted the C-11 unit.
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  Speaker 1: After the courier was sentenced to life imprisonment for drug
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  Speaker 1: crimes for 20 years, the C-11 agents had him brought
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  Speaker 1: to an interrogation in New York. I want information about him,
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  Speaker 1: because we want... An agent explained that his verdict could
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  Speaker 1: be checked by the federal court if he cooperates with
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  Speaker 1: the authorities. You only make it very difficult to cooperate.
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  Speaker 1: He told what he knew about Martinez and Porter's drug
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  Speaker 1: business on the east coast. The drugs were both in
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  Speaker 1: New York City, from Richard Porter, as well as in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: In Washington, D.C., Ingus in Washington, D.C., Martin Smith Pell's son,
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  Speaker 1: who he considered strong on the street, to protect his
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  Speaker 1: drug business in Washington, D.C. And it wasn't unusual. that
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  Speaker 1: literally seashells full of U.S. currency from North Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: in the quarter of Porter on 132nd and 7th Avenue
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  Speaker 1: in New York City were shipped. That was enough for
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  Speaker 1: a new arrest warrant against Alpo Martinez. The agents combed
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  Speaker 1: the quarter and spoke to people who knew Martinez. Most
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  Speaker 1: of them were afraid to talk. Finally, the investigators found
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  Speaker 1: out that the fugitive wanted to pick up the car
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  Speaker 1: of his wife at a dealer in the north of
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Evelyn. Undercover agents observed the dealer. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if Martinez would show up, but they knew that
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  Speaker 1: he liked fast cars. At this afternoon, a sports car stopped.
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  Speaker 1: They looked like a passenger exit, but it wasn't Martinez.
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  Speaker 1: The investigators couldn't see if the fugitive was sitting at
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  Speaker 1: the wheel. They had to make a more thorough investigation.
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  Speaker 1: If they could catch Martinez, it might help to clarify
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  Speaker 1: the murder of Richard Porter and his 12-year-old brother Donnell.
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  Speaker 1: An investigator visually identified Martinez as a driver. He sent
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  Speaker 1: a release signal. But before the police could react to him,
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  Speaker 1: Martinez turned away. The investigators followed up, but the fugitive
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  Speaker 1: disappeared in the dense traffic. Since Alpo Martinez was still
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  Speaker 1: on the run, the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Donald
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  Speaker 1: Porter remained unsolved. The kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Donald
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  Speaker 1: Porter showed that the drugs were out of control everywhere
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  Speaker 1: in Harlem. The FBI unit C-11 knew that the murder
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  Speaker 1: of the young man's brother, crack dealer Richard Porter, was
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  Speaker 1: in connection. But Porter himself was killed.
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  Speaker 2: The C.F.
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  Speaker 1: Unit believed that the search for Porter's partner Alpo Martinez
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  Speaker 1: would provide answers. But in 1991, Martinez was saved from
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  Speaker 1: a hidden FBI operation. Due to the incident, the FBI
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  Speaker 1: found out his number plate and alarmed the New York
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  Speaker 1: police to keep an eye on the vehicle. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: the police discovered the vehicle parked on a street in Harlem.
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  Speaker 1: They took it in the hope of finding Martinez. They
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  Speaker 1: believed the refugee would not bring the vehicle back himself,
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  Speaker 1: but FBI Special Agent David Higgins was waiting to see
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  Speaker 1: if he would send someone. A young woman showed up,
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  Speaker 1: claiming to be the legitimate owner. She was the registered owner. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: a quick investigation was carried out that she was a plumber.
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  Speaker 1: So someone who had reported to buy and allow the
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  Speaker 1: car under the order of Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Martinez.
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  Speaker 1: Martinez was nowhere to be found in New York. On
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  Speaker 1: the pretext that he had traveled to Washington, D.C., the
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  Speaker 1: agents set up an surveillance of the house of the
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  Speaker 1: ex-wife of the refugee in D.C. In the early morning
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  Speaker 1: hours of November 7, 1991, they observed how Martinez got
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  Speaker 1: into the car of his ex-wife. This time he was
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  Speaker 1: not sitting.
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  Speaker 2: At the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: When they drove off, the FBI intervened. The ex-fraud of
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  Speaker 1: the fugitives stopped.
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  Speaker 3: The cocaine in his possession helped to fix the case
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  Speaker 3: against one of the largest drug dealers on the east coast.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Martinez became famous.
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  Speaker 1: In the eastern district of Virginia, which he was accused.
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  Speaker 2: Of trading over 1,000 kilograms of cocaine.
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  Speaker 1: The total value of this would be The investigators also
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  Speaker 1: had evidence against Martinez for several gang murders. They told
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  Speaker 1: him they knew he was Richard Porter's partner, so that
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  Speaker 1: he would benefit from Donnells and Richard's death. hoping to
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  Speaker 1: escape the death penalty. Alpo Martinez ready to cooperate.
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  Speaker 2: He cheated, I chose him.
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  Speaker 1: He agreed to have his partner Richard Porter killed. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll do it on the weekend or something. Martinez didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to... That his partner cheated on him for hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars. Yes. He said that he and
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  Speaker 1: his accomplice Richard Porter, more than a year before, on
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  Speaker 1: the 4th of January 1990, over the organ and over the...
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  Speaker 1: Almost immediately shot. Martinez and the accomplice shot him. They
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  Speaker 1: threw his body in the park in the Bronx, where
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  Speaker 1: she was found the next day. Martinez swore it was
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  Speaker 1: only about disappeared drug money. It had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with Donald Porter's kidnapping and murder. There was no evidence
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  Speaker 1: or testimonies that connected Martinez with this crime. He was
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to life imprisonment. Although they had arrested a large
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  Speaker 1: drug dealer, the local and federal investigators of the C-11
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  Speaker 1: team of the investigation into the murder of Donald Porter
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  Speaker 1: were no longer there. They already evaluated information collected by
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  Speaker 1: the FBI about other gangsters from Harlem that could have
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  Speaker 1: possibly benefited from the rape and murder of Richard Porter.
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  Speaker 1: A gang emerged as a probable suspect. They were known
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  Speaker 1: as Preacher Crew. The leader of the gang was Clarence
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  Speaker 1: Preacher Heatley. FBI Special Agent Joe Walsh, formerly on the
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  Speaker 1: C-11 team, knew that Preacher and his crew were well-guarded
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  Speaker 1: and very dangerous, which... Preacher crew was for a long
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  Speaker 1: time the established gang in the neighborhood. Preacher drove around
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  Speaker 1: the streets of Harlem since the early 70s and everyone
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  Speaker 1: could see him under his nickname, the Black Hand of Death,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone was definitely afraid of him. NYPD Sergeant James
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  Speaker 1: Marr from C-10 team found out that Preacher was known
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  Speaker 1: for his violence. But in Haarlem, the gangster was a
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  Speaker 1: difficult to grasp figure. In the 230th district, everyone could
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  Speaker 1: be addressed. No matter how much he went into the church.
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  Speaker 1: Whether business people or local drug dealers. They all had
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  Speaker 1: a Breacher story to tell. They all knew Preacher. If
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  Speaker 1: one of them was asked to describe a Preacher, most
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  Speaker 1: would not be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Because this guy was a famous legend in Haarlem.
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  Speaker 1: The actors in Haarlem's drug underworld had divided the area
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  Speaker 1: into zones. Every block, every street was the territory of
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  Speaker 1: a single dealer. Most dealers held their ground. But Preacher
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  Speaker 1: didn't do that. He considered Haarlem as his territory. He
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  Speaker 1: earned his money not with drug dealers, but with the
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  Speaker 1: control of other dealers.
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  Speaker 2: Drug dealers.
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  Speaker 1: These are guys who drive in their own way. He
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  Speaker 1: went there and took his car with him. If a
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  Speaker 1: drug dealer looked like he was being paid, so a
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  Speaker 1: brand new Mercedes-Benz drove and Preacher liked this car, then
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  Speaker 1: it belonged to him. Whoever started Preacher paid a high price.
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  Speaker 1: It was a system that made him a rich man.
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  Speaker 1: If you have every other drug on the street, like
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  Speaker 1: 2000 here, 3000 here, 5000 there, then that's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. That sums up. Believe me, they all paid him.
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  Speaker 1: If they didn't pay him, Preacher would take him away
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  Speaker 1: or he would tell his people to visit him. And
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  Speaker 1: they ended up visiting and they ended up... Preacher's prehistory
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  Speaker 1: of oppression and violence made him a probable suspect in
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  Speaker 1: the kidnapping and murder of Donald Porter. John Cobb. C-11
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  Speaker 1: had sketched the basic structure of the Preacher crew. Including
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  Speaker 1: some of.
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  Speaker 2: His other important people in his crew.
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  Speaker 1: The most important lieutenant of the Preacher was a man
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  Speaker 1: named John Cuff. According to Vinnie Flynn, the detective of C-11,
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  Speaker 1: he was a particularly dangerous criminal. John Cuff. As a
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  Speaker 1: police officer, he was a preacher, protector, and leader of
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  Speaker 1: services and disorders. When they drove through the neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: were arrested, John Cuff had a shoulder shield through which
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  Speaker 1: he probably ran and was not invited or insulted. John
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  Speaker 1: Cuff had the call to be feared. A very violent person. However,
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  Speaker 1: there was no evidence that one of the two men
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  Speaker 1: was in contact with Donald Porter, because... Although C-11 Preacher
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  Speaker 1: suspected that he had been involved in the deadly kidnapping,
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  Speaker 1: he probably didn't commit it himself. He distanced himself from
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  Speaker 1: most crimes and had his most important lieutenant and other
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  Speaker 1: guards carry out his orders. On Preacher's order, they brought
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  Speaker 1: him in with brutal repression tactics, money and shy witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: so that they no longer spoke, which effectively protected the
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  Speaker 1: gun from investigations. We went to a boutique somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: Harlem and said, we know that he came in here.
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  Speaker 1: And the guy had a cast on his hand.
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  Speaker 2: And the shop.
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  Speaker 1: Owner said, I don't know what you're talking about. And
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  Speaker 1: he said that this shop owner would pay Preacher for
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  Speaker 1: the rent. People were too scared to talk, the crimes
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  Speaker 1: were increasing, the crimes were increasing. On New Year's Eve 1992,
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  Speaker 1: rescue units called a call in the Preachers area. A
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  Speaker 1: man was dead in his car, victim of a drive-by shooting.
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  Speaker 1: His family survived the terrible torture. They signaled how the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: murderers stopped them on the street, opened the fire and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: opened the fire. They claimed they didn't know who did
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: it or why. And just like with Danel's kidnapping, there
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: was no one in the neighborhood to have seen anything.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: It was another tragic murder in Harlem that would possibly
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: remain undisclosed. The C11 unit had to break through the violent,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: forced silence of the area and finally bring insiders to talk.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: A shocking drive-by shooting was added to the list of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: unsolved murders in Haarlem. Since the witnesses were too scared
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to cooperate with the police, the case remained open for
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: two years. Then in the year 1904, Feinheit and a
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: witness who told him that the shooter was a member
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of the preacher crew named Malik. Detective Vinnie Flynn found
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: out that Malik had a call as violent. He became
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a so-called security director of the preacher organization. He was
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: responsible for a group of members who were known as housemasters.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: The housemasters were the ones who had the problems. or
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the chaos of the family. And you couldn't be a
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: housemaster if you didn't kill someone.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: To find.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Out more about Malek and the Preacher crew, the CIA
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: tried to send undercover investigators who... People were in the police.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: According to FBI Special Agent Joe Walsh, this was once
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: again a dead end. We couldn't really get in and
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: get a undercover investigator to buy drugs from Preacher. Preacher
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: was very, very careful. He was, you know, a very
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: smart man. And we couldn't get the hidden investigators into
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: his way. Preacher had closed the lines and had told
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the people he had oppressed not to sell their new
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: buyers and to stay on the street. The investigators needed
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a witness with close connections to the crew. They distributed
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: business cards in the hall that one of them would
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: find her way to an insider who was willing to talk.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Their stubbornness paid off. In April 1994, a member of
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the crew contacted the CF team and recognized that his
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: life was in danger. Er sagte, Preacher habe angefangen, seine
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: eigenen Crewmitglieder zu verfolgen. Preacher hatte zwei Komplizen des Informanten getötet.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Aus Angst, der Nächste zu sein, bat er Sergeant James
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Moore um Schutz. War selbst ein eiskalter Killer und wurde
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: zum Informanten, der solche Angst vor Preacher und davor hatte,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: wie seine Komplizen getötet zu werden, dass er zu mir
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: und zu uns kam. He gave us information about certain crimes,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: about crimes that have been unresolved for years. The investigators
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: were frustrated that the informant didn't know anything about the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Donald Porter. But he gave
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the investigators their first concrete insider information about Preacher Hadley's organization.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: He mentioned a cell where murder cases took place, which
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the gang used as a meeting point and execution chamber.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: At some meetings, Preacher demanded a vote on the fate
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: of gang members who had fallen into disgrace. If the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: majority voted against it, Preacher ordered the murder. In March 1994,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Preacher called for a vote on Malik, the housemaster who
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: had practiced drive-by shooting. He was of the opinion that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Malik could no longer be.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Trusted.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: The vote fell in the middle. Preacher ordered Malik to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the main square. Malik thought he was here to take
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: part in a crew member's fight with whom he had
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: problems in the past. He didn't know that he was
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the actual target. Malik was excited when others invited him
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: into the basement. When you went down there and were chased,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you knew that someone was after you and you didn't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: come out alive. Preacher, Maliki said, had to stop. He
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: gained too much influence within the organization. Preacher wouldn't do that.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Malik pleaded for his life. But the order was given.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Grab the saw. Clean it up.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: On Preacher's order, the other master of the house, Malik,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was crushed with a circular saw. The informant said Preacher
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: had ordered him and another crew member to remove the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: body parts. Sie haben Malik's Armen mit Säure übergossen, um
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Gang-Tattoos zu entfernen, die ihn mit der Crew in Verbindung
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: bringen könnten. Dann haben sie die Leichenteile in mehreren verlassenen
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Gebäuden zurückgelassen, zurückgelassen. Malik's Kopf haben sie ein paar Wochen
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: lang in einem Kühlschrank aufbewahrt und an einem Stock herumgetragen, auch.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: So hat Preacher die Heimleitstück. in seinen Angstunschränken versetzt.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Jock.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: The fear was too great for the informant, although he
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: knew that it was a death sentence to leave the crew.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: He hoped that the C-11 team could protect him. It
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: didn't take long before Preacher found out that the informant
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: had cooperated. One day, the informant left a New York
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: court building when Preacher discovered in handcuffs He was sure
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: that they wanted to kidnap and kill him. He went
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: to his car and called his C.L. leaders. The informant
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: told me that he feared being killed and kidnapped by
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the organization.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: In the middle of the afternoon, the agents of CRF
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: rushed to the court to prevent.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Another murder in the area of the preacher. A former
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: member of the preacher crew feared that the gang wanted
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: to kill him because he had cooperated with the authorities.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I'm getting out of the car. Agents and detectives of
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the FBI team C-11 came to his rescue just in time.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: They arrested chief of staff John Cuff and the leader
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of the crew, Clarence Preacher-Heatley. Sajin Sma and the other
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: arresting agents searched the vehicle. Tell me. Evidence, including information
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: about my informant. Mask, tape. At this point, it was
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: clear that the feeling of my informant was right. He
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: would be executed on this day.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Hurry up.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: But no one could prove that the men wanted to
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: kill the informant. It took 20 minutes. Preacher and Cuff
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: were released. I got it.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, a few more.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Questions. Did the investigation of the C-11 team against the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: crew come to light? It took 20 minutes. It became
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: clear that they had been investigated by the FBI. I mean,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: that's the detective you know from the 32nd movie, who,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: when he arrests someone, pretends to be an FBI agent.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Coffee and pizza.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: It became clear that the FBI was in his neck.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Preacher shot himself off. The FBI had to catch him
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: by following his organization. Rico was originally developed to fight
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: organized crime and requires, according to FBI Special Agent Joe Walsh,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the fulfillment of strict criteria. You have to have your organization.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: You need a leader. In this case it was Preacher
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and he must have at least five people among themselves
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: who support the conspiracy of the organization. But you also
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: need three precedents, three federal proceedings. The CL investigators monitored
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the Preacher crew and collected evidence of crimes to support
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the Rikow case. They noticed unrest within the course. It
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: seemed as if the pressure of the investigation would make
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: it possible to create the Preacher. The agents found out
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: from an informant that he had even assigned the murder
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: to his most important lieutenant, John Cuff. The agents were
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: obliged to warn Cuff before the murder. Here is my sign,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: he said. I know who you are. You have to
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: give me your sign, I said. John is the reason
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: why you know that he has a mission on your life.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I swear, if you look him in the eyes, it's
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: nothing but a lie. Then he says, everyone wants to
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: see me dead. K. didn't let the threat intimidate him.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Although the preacher always had his men in control, the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: investigators still had to collect evidence for the crimes that
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the crew had committed to support the criminal organization. As
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: more and more buyers and sellers were arrested, some agreed
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: to cooperate and helped to describe the group in detail,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: so Detective Winnie Flynn. We came to the informants through
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: drug investigation, arresting through the 32nd and the 32nd criminal
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: unit through information that they collected and through informants that
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: they were arrested due to, information was collected. Unfortunately, no
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: one had information. about the murder of Donald Porter. But
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: a convicted crew member gave details about another murder charge
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: that was taken by the crew, in the hope of mild.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: He said they had decided not to pay for a
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: drug delivery. Did you say it? You told the delivery
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: man that a young woman stole the drugs and that
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: you would take care of her. She was a single
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: mother who sometimes worked as a courier for the crew.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: You brought her to an apartment in Haarlem and told
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: her that you should play a record that you had produced.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Come in.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: She didn't take any drugs. The crew didn't care. The
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: informant explained how she cleaned up the crime scene and
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: then took the body in a abandoned building. He couldn't
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: remember exactly which building it was. Im August 1996, nach
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: mehr als fünf Jahren sorgfältiger Ermittlungen, entschied die US-Staatsanwaltschaft des
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: südlichen Bezirks von New York, dass sie genug für Anklagen
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: und Verhaftungen aufgrund von RICO-Vergehen des Bundes hatte. Die erste
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Anklage richtete sich gegen Clarence Preacher-Heatley und John Cuff. If
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Preacher found out about it, he could disappear forever. The
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: investigators observed Preacher's headquarters in Harlem. They hoped that the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: complaint letter was not leaked and that they could arrest him,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: if they found him, without a fight. They knew that
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Preacher was surrounded by armed men who were ready to
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: kill at his command. At the end of 1996, the
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: C-11 was ready to capture Clarence Preacher-Heatley. For days, no
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: one had seen him again. On August 12, he left
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: his headquarters. The criminal officers made sure that he was
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: alone and pressed on. Even with his capture, the hard-to-get
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: leader remained relaxed and confident. As soon as he was safe,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: other teams arrested his most important lieutenant John Kraft. Two
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: hundred days later, 15 more members of the Pre-Jaguar were arrested.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: The capture teams also prepared for simultaneous capture. They quickly
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: had to attack with full force to be able to
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: capture the gang members safely. Criminal officer Vinnie Flim and
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: other C-11 investigators found other cooperating witnesses among the crew members.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: After the people were arrested and prosecuted, they agreed to cooperate.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: They had the feeling that they were used by the
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Precheck crew and thought that they would have been killed
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: in some cases if they had not participated. This was
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: her way out of the Preacher crew and Clarence Heedle's control.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Investigators found out in which buildings in Haarlem the crew
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: had killed some of their victims. Finding evidence was crucial
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to be able to prosecute Enrico Fall. A building was
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: now a raw material building, which was partially collapsed on
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the inside, which made the mining even more difficult. After
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: days of excavations of tons of debris, a corpse was discovered.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Laboratory observers found that it was the corpse of the
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: young mother who was killed to steal drugs. She was
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: shot in an apartment in an adjacent building. Evidence security
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: teams checked the apartment. Malik and several others were killed
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: in the basement of the Prediger headquarters. Purely secure, they
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: examined the basement. Accused crew members said Preacher let them
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: scrub the place with boric acid after every murder. The
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: cellar was mostly clean. But the traces of blood could
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: be found on the windows and on the saw blade
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: with which Malik was crushed. The investigations were not yet closed.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: The kidnapping and murder of the young Denel Porter was
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: still undeclared. Good morning, gentlemen. Answers about his death came
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: from an unexpected source. A representative district attorney convinced the
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: uncle of the boy, John Appleport, a member of the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Preacher Crew, to come by and talk. Er war einer
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: der Hauptakteure der Crew, der auf der Straße zurückgeblieben war
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: und wurde als Spitzel bezeichnet. Es waren zwei Einschläge auf
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: sein Leben. D.I. schlug vor, dass Porter kooperieren sollte, um
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: sich im Gefängnis Schutz zu verschaffen. Er gestand mehrere Morde
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: und erzählte, was mit seinem Neffen Donnell geschehen war. Laut
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Sergeant James Maher wurde die Entführung durch Eifersucht und Gier ausgelöst.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Der eigentliche Grund für die Entführung von Johnny Porter, Johnny Apples,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: war das sein, der für Richie Porter, als er aus
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: dem Gefängnis nach Hause kam, ein großer Drogendealer aus Haarlem war.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Er wurde bezahlt.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Richie Porter trug früher viel Gold und mochte protzige Autos sehr.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Er verdiente viel Geld. Und er gab Johnny Porter nichts davon.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Johnny Porter hatte das Gefühl, dass ihm das zusteht, und
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: er beschloss es anzunehmen. Und er nahm es so an,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: dass er den Jungen entführte. Porter sagte, der Prediger habe
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: der Entführung zugestimmt. Er schickte einen seiner Hausmeister Malik, um
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: zu helfen. Sie glaubten, Richard Porter würde alles zahlen, um
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: seinen Bruder zurückzubekommen. Nein. Sie sperrten den Jungen in einen Keller,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: wo ihn niemand hören würde. Sie schnitten ihm den Finger
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: ab und nahmen die Hilferufe des Jungen auf, um seiner
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Familie zu beweisen, dass sie es ernst meinten. Apple and
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Preacher hoped for $ 500, 000, enough to force Apple into his
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: own drug trade and enough to alarm Richard Porter. When
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Richard could not raise this amount of money, they lowered
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: the amount to $ 350, 000. Then the unexpected happened. And Apple
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: found out that Richard Porter had been murdered. There will
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: be no solution until... Preacher Heatley later told Special Agent
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Joe Walsh about his decision. Our preacher sat down in
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the room and told me exactly what had happened, what
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: he said to me directly in the eyes and said,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't leave the boy alive after what had happened,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: after what had happened. John Porter assumed that Malek was
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the actual murderer, Malik was later killed and crushed on
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: the orders of the preacher. Two times John Porter was
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: sentenced to life imprisonment. Due to the evidence collected by
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: the C-11 team, every member of the Preacher crew went
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: to jail. Their leader, Clarence Preacher-Heatley, was accused of state-organized crime,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: including drug trafficking, bodily injury and murder. He was sentenced
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to life in prison without the possibility of trial. He
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: and his crew will never terrorize the streets of Haarlem again.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: It is estimated that they are responsible for about 45 murders,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: of which we know.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: a number of robberies. If you add the repression.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: These people were a decade-long or longer crime wave for themselves.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: They were just incredibly the devastation that they have caused
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: in these communities.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: This changed when he was helped by the Preacher crew
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: to crush him. Since the end of the case, Harlem
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: has experienced a rebirth in the A.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Today in Harlem, in the 32nd century.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Between 15 and 20 murder cases are committed per year.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: This is a return to the 70s. At the end
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: of the 80s, murder cases, at the end of the 80s, yes, yes, yes,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: during the crack, cocaine rush.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I think we have achieved a lot in this drug case.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: and the drug organization no longer exists.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you.