PATREON TEASER: A Former Gangster on his Life in Belize City's Crips - and how Cartels are Changing Everything
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Hey, Underworld Podcast fans. This is Danny here with a teaser to the kind of stuff we are putting on the Patreon these days. Sean is actually in Belize right now. He's hanging with gangsters late night in bars, working on a print story for a big magazine piece that's based off our Belize episode. You know, that I did, but I wasn't able to go. But what's more fun, getting drunk with Belizean crips or working on Excel spreadsheets?

Yeah. Anyway, this is just a taste of what we put on the Patreon. You know, it's interviews with journalists who work on big crime stories, criminals sometimes, some on the ground, verite stuff, mini episodes. It's all for just $5 a month. And, you know, you get to support us so we can keep doing this. You can just give $3 a month if you want to, you know, just give support.

10, 15 for more stuff like scripts and source lists. That's patreon.com slash the underworld podcast. Patreon is P-A-T-R-E-O-N. And yeah, hope you guys enjoy this taste. The cartel is everywhere. They're a mob. They're everywhere, you know? Did you see them on the streets? Man, I mean, man, they're always active. They're always active.

Always. Is this new here? It isn't new. It has become a trend. Because remember, we were transitioning from stages to stages. The wire used to be a machete and a knife and a bat. And then it escalated to the gun. And then the gun come with the jugs. The jugs come with the gun. I mean, yo, you know? So, yeah, it incorporated and evolved.

Were you wound up in that when it was like... Yeah. Like, many years ago? Yeah, man, I was wound up in it. I mean, yo, I'm a part of it. I was a member. Come on. And I wasn't a member because, like, I wanted to be a member, but I became a member because, yo...

I need backup and I'm in the neighborhood and we're defending the community. Yeah. You know, defending the community and they were coming at us. So, I mean, yo, if you be walking home from school and two guys popped up suddenly with firearms chasing you, I mean, yo, you need to go and get some backup to defend yourself, I mean. And how did you kind of get initiated then?

Nah, well, you know... You're just in it. Yeah. Man, you know, this nation is showing your power. I mean... I mean, you know? And what kind of stuff are you getting up to? Or is it just like a turf war? Is there more to it than that? Like, is it battling over control of...? It's... It's both. It's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. You know, it's like turf war and it's...

You violated me, and now we're at war. You did something wrong. You don't want to apologize. I mean, you know, it's a act of war. You did a act of war to us, and it's war, you know? Because it's not...

What kind of stuff did you see back then?

Man, what kind of stuff? Man, it's a whole heap of gruesome shit. We used to be sitting here. There would have been two guys there with straps.

Look it out, because the shit was, man, any time a car could have passed by and it was drive-by, I saw, man, multiple homicides. I mean, yo, we're sitting right here and right over there. Man, one of my homeboys got gunned down. Multiple gunshots to the head. You know, with a 4.5, they still have the mark in the gravel over there. The mark is still there, you know? And, man, this, on the whole man, I mean, yo...

Man, bodies be left in all over the place. Was this like one of the worst affected neighborhoods? Yeah, this was one of the worst affected neighborhoods. I mean, you know, we were, at the time, we were warring against a bigger gang, a more sophisticated gang. They were more advanced than us, so... So, what was the other... I mean, men, they got connections. I mean, they got connections before us.

With who? I mean, with the outsider, with the cartel, with other mafia people, you know? Other people that are running racket and controlling, drug peddling, etc., etc. Because this has become a big shipment point, right, for all this stuff going north? Man, I mean, Belize is a transition point. We don't expect to see everybody. But if you see one or two...

But he wants no mediation. But he's saying that he can save people without mediation. They were taken away in the back of a police mobile, and that is because they were allegedly involved in a shooting incident that resulted in the death of one man and two others being injured.

It resembled the scene from the Wild West as several people were socializing on the veranda last night just after 8 o'clock in Locke's Alley just off Manack Street in Ville City. The group came on the fire when four young men came from the direction of Lockwood Street, jumped the fence and began firing at them.

A crossfire of bullets ensued, leaving 23-year-old Carol Sanchez of Flamboyan Street dead. This is the last night. While two others were injured, namely 25-year-old Devon Tillett of Fresh Bond Bravo and 18-year-old Deandra Williams of Lux Alley. Police were in the area at the time of the shooting and began a hot pursuit of the gunmen.

resulting in one of them being detained last night while the other two were picked up today. The incident has left one resident of the area shaken as she witnessed the men jumping over the fence before they opened fire.