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Jamaican Drug Posses – Part 1
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:33:37
Publish Date: 2016-05-12 22:52:55
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Kansas City once was once the home of a powerful Mafia family before it became the stronghold of a Jamaican Drug Posse. The Strawman prosecutions for skimming from Las Vegas casinos sent all the bosses to jail and weakened the structure. Mobsters like Willie the Rat Cammisano and Cork Civella were known to be vicious brutal killers, but they were pikers when compared to the new Kansas City crime family. Like the Sicilians of old, these new gangsters spoke English with an accent, did not attempt to fit in with the existing gangsters, killed any competition and included the neighborhood people in their crimes. They, like the prohibition era crime syndicates, took advantage of a ban on an addictive substance. Instead of alcohol, they sold narcotics. Like the bootleggers, they found new creative methods of importing, packaging and marketing this substance. Like the bootleg alcohol business, the money they made helped launch a whole new underground economy in the poor neighborhoods of Kansas City.  They introduced crack cocaine to Kansas City. Although law enforcement officers invoke the memory of Al Capone to describe the viciousness and vaunting ambition of the new gangsters, by the 1980s Kansas City’s most fearsome crime family spoke with a Jamaican accent.

 

Special guest, retired KCPD Sergeant David Starbuck was once assigned to the Jamaican Drug Task Force. David tells this story from an insider’s view. The listener learns how the new drug dealers were discovered by local narcotics addicts. Undercover narcotics detective Starbuck found the Jamaicans were paying local folks to use their house as a sales point. They marketed the address of the new crack house by making small leaflets with the address and distributing them at party houses and bars. The drug house was staffed by Jamaicans fresh in from the island. If the house was taken down by the police, they had many more in operation and a constant supply of new illegal immigrant workers streaming in from one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, Jamaica. They were constantly opening new houses with new people. This is the first of 3 episodes telling the story of how Jamaican drug kingpins moved cocaine from Columbia though Jamaica into south Florida and north to Kansas City.

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