Anyone ever hear of an East Texas Mafia ?

Yep. Know them all to well from
Kilgore/Tyler area

I know theres organized crime: aryan brotherhood of texas, black and hispanic street gangs, biker gangs. Are you talking about godfather italian type stuff though?

Organized crime with hierarchy of rank.

Keep talking PG.

And be sure and start you car tomorrow.

I'm long gone from ET. Went to high school with some of the family. Crazy stuff

High illegal trade transiting US 59 corridor.

E. Tx cities mob questionable ?

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I've never heard of it. Fill me in on what's known/presumed?

http://prisonoffenders.com/texas_mafia.html

These guys?

Bebop is right. Big time drugs from east Texas to Houston and everything in between

As moonshine was once a big item in East Texas, it's now meth and weed.
Question is, how well is it all organized or are there just a bunch of independent gun totin' yahoo entrepreneures?

Bop, without a doubt, there's organized activity in the area.

Jacksonville is a hot spot right now.

My hometown of san augustine was heavily involved including the sheriff. They had a huge drug sweep by the feds in 1989 i believe called operation white tornado. My brother in California seen it on the national news at the time. The new yorker even did an article on it that i will try to link later. SA was an extremely corrupt town with an interesting history.

Operation White Tornado
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1994/08/22/1994_08_22_072_TNY_CARDS_000368325

Is this about JB Smith and Green Acres?

Oil Palace owners.

Probably all small towns have some amount of organized crime. i know we do here in Mt Pleasant.

stive - you and i went to high school with a guy that just got put away for a while. he was mixed up in all that.

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stive - you and i went to high school with a guy that just got put away for a while. he was mixed up in all that.

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Ha...yeah. But I give organized crime guys a lot more credit for being smarter that JG was. If he is considered organized crime, he must have been the guy that they had do the deal because they knew he'd get arrested (due to stupidity) and take the heat while they all laugh and high five behind the curtain.

I know there has been/will be organized crime in most communities/regions always. But a "big" syndicate that covers all of East Texas and actually has a name (i.e. Dixie Mafia)? I wasn't aware of that.

Rock On has some knowledge.

Stive - JG has been working for/with JS for a while.... He was muscle.

Why are y'all scared to name names?

Rumor has it witness protection folks (from far away places) are all over E.Tx..

Just hope they don't take up old bad habits.

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I don't think it's a scared factor. At least it's not on my part. I'd rather not name the JS that gigemhilo referrenced because he's never been arrested/convicted for anything. The rumors have been there for years, but in a lot of other ways he's a really good guy and does some good things for people. But there's enough smoke there to conclude that some fires have existed throughout the years. So I'm not big on throwing his name out there and desparaging him without there being more to it.

The JG we were referring to was a guy named Justin Glenn who went away late last year on federal charges of insurance fraud. He was a "go to guy" that people contacted if they wanted something burned down to then file insurance claims and collect. He was never very smart going WAY back. He got caught doing this once over in Terrell/Canton...somewhere down there but got off on a technicality. The next time around he hired some guys to burn down some laundramats in Mt. Pleasant and he got caught.

He'll be in jail for a while.

im not scared to name names either, but when the guy has threatened your family - REPEATEDLY - among other things, you are cautious...

my view of JS is not as rosy as Stive's.... haha

My mother is not a justice of the peace either. Think that might have something to do with it gigemhilo?

Or are the threats from something else?

I know ATF guys litter Marshall all the time because of the 59-80 crossing so there's plenty of organized activity here. They say it's truly mindblowing how many drugs pass through that intersection daily

stive - might have something to do with it.

Found an interesting blog outlining Palin and others' interactions with people in East texas....

Post it.

Anyone ever hear of the East Texas Regulators vs Moderators Turf War ?

Yep

Violence from Doss spilling over into East Texas!

A certain QB on our team is from a "well-connected" family in Tyler.

Johnny football

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