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Special brand of outlaw in the 1960s a homegrown crime cartel rose to power and ruled this swampy underworld for decades the Fbi Files dixie mafia this group of organized criminals were not just good old boys there were cold-blooded murderers would do anything that it took to further their economic Kingdom anything that might have done the Property Tax jackson county dixie mafia was in this deadly mafia Network dominated until the FBI was called in to hunt them down but the crime here never left it just has a new face the Royals have taken a place to the New Orleans dixie mafia on the coach Royals Gang simon city just for a righteous cause I’ve got work all the way hours in a box this time get on ground the law in Mississippi was fighting back you know me two generations of crime in Dixie fueled by a hunger for Wall Street money power and respect it’s a price line is always gonna follow the Mississippi Town Center gulf coast it’s a.

Territory of bayous bays and swamps that’s been a haven for an ongoing cycle from bootleggers to bank robbers to.

Gangbangers this is outlaw territory in the 1970s and 80s the Medical Center gulf coast was slammed by a fierce crime wave a loosely knit organization that specialized in drugs burglaries and cold-blooded murders most of the individuals who involved were charming where you could talk to them just like they were gonna xtour neighbor you would have they would appear to be completely innocuous until they put two bullets in your head that ruthless spirit still lives on in the south embodied by a brazen street gang that’s getting bigger and more violent by the day assignment World Series city royals they’re very violent and it can change in just a second that could be fine and then you just look at them wrong you say something to them and they’re gonna beat you down the scr is a predominantly white gang with origins in Chicago law enforcement began to detect them on the sometime after Hurricane Katrina today their numbers are rapidly expanding in the three counties that comprised the Hancock Harrison and Jackson drugs and guns are their stock in trade but unlike the Discovery Channel dixie mafia before them the SCR.

Commands an intense code of loyalty if most of y’all don’t know what the colors are they will be royal blue authorities here are still in the early stages of decoding this dark underworld they typically liked a six point Star I like three-point Crown you normally see them that type thing tattooed on their bodies if they can’t curb the gang activity now the criminals could gain the upper hand just like they did 50 years ago it was in the wake of Hurricane Camille in 1969 category 5 storm that a brotherhood of hitmen and thieves began to unit the heart of their underworld the Loxy it was very much like a small Vegas maybe 20 to 25 strip clubs operation in West Biloxi along the beach highway you had pretty much open prostitution gambling illegal liquor in this free-for-all atmosphere corruption and violence thrived eventually pulling politicians and police into their web yet it would remain a loosely knit group their own brand of crime family a James Finch dixie mafia they’re not a mafia in the sense that they had any formalized guidelines or longtime traditions they were just a loosely organized band of southern guys.

Who felt it was better for them economically to work together than against each other unlike their Italian namesake up north the South Carolina dixie mafia had no single leader no family ties just a common bond of greed and ruthlessness if it could be a scam if it could be a burglary if it could be a contract killing anything that made a dime the Spring Training city royals dixie mafia was in it early on small-time crooks with big ambitions could rise up in the ranks all they had to do was prove their worth among their cutthroat peers ex-military and a state senator son Kirksey Nix was one of those local loose cannons buying for American Dream money power and respect Kirksey McCord Nix enjoyed his criminal life no matter how violent no matter how ugly he enjoyed it he wanted to become a real leader in the Mississippi Mud dixie mafia and as such took on certain assignments that perhaps others would not on Easter night 1971 Nixon his gang headed out on what was meant to be a routine robbery but it turned out to be something that would change mrs. status forever he and several cohorts decided to do a home invasion the home was owned by a very wealthy New Orleans.

Businessman named Frank Corson he believed Corso to have a significant amount of cash at his home mrs. Corso heard them scream for help mr. Corso got his pistol went out into the hall Derry confronted Nick’s who had a heavy caliber weapon and the two had a gun battle corsa was successful in wounding Nick shot him in stomach however mr. Corso was killed Nick and his confederates they dragged Nick’s out into the street trying to flee the scene mrs. Corso no shrinking violet chased after them picked up a gun and actually discharged it at him and cursed is Nixon and his henchmen drove away Nick survived but would get life in prison at Louisiana’s Angola penitentiary for the murder of Frank Corso from prison Nick’s would play a leading role as the gang rose to power controlling the region and owning the he had proven that murder in the pursuit of profit earned status and respect for decades later it’s no different for the new gangs that operate on a Fort Myers gulf coast commit an act of violence take a step up in the hierarchy I got to.

Altercation with gangsters some vicelords Bloods and Cripps after being jumped by six owners went for three different people I walk two of them after that I became a different level in San Ysidro acts like these earn San Andreas gang members clout and as their criminality expands on the street so does their presence Rookie Year behind bars but unlike the Panama City dixie mafia the Simon Minor League city royals are a gang bound together by a powerful code of loyalty secret symbols and solemn oaths being a samisen road to me mean angle I it fits for righteous cause I’ll die for scr’s carry this undying allegiance back out with them when they leave jail making it a challenge for officers like sergeant heck to control them on the street there’s so many more new Royals coming into Circuit Court jackson county every single day more the prison system lets them out the more we have what’s a suspect driving red Ford f-150 keeping up with who these Royals are that’s our biggest problem we’re on our way over there at the start of their three-day sweet HEC and his team go after warrants big or small hit it’s the way they keep tabs on the gang.

Stepping back here son back here son the strikes my man this right I’m going to church and y’all go and do this whatever darling you have warrants for your the arrest warrant is not a gang-related charge the suspect Derrick Meadows claims he’s no longer a Lush & simon city royal so you’re not a royal anymore no I’m not so yes which I’ll all look at it like the mop maybe you don’t like that gaining intel on the Royals and how they’re organized on the street is what this sweep is all about every Simon C role that we come in contact with we want to learn from them we want to know what they’re about did you get those in jail yes sir and that’s when you become an ser you weren’t a CR before Jail that’s right so you went to prison how long ago that means likes to hurt and y’all gonna send me right back to it whether Louis Theroux behind bars or on the street suspected Gta San gang members know one thing for certain once you join the Royals it’s nearly impossible to get out it’s a just like this.

Is always gonna follow you clearing this warrant is a solid start to sweet the message is out gang activity won’t you tolerate it wasn’t always this way in Dixie not long ago the line between police and criminal was blurred with deadly results Southern Mississippi has proved fertile.

Territory outlaws for decades bootleggers could hide in remote Bay’s drugs and guns could be trafficked through the swamps let people be no one bothered you in Dixie this reputation gave rise to gangs like the Dixie Mafia who dominated the region for thirty years through crime violence and corruption today West Virginia hancock county commander jeremy skinner is confronting the region’s latest organized crime threat so when I come you now come legit you know I got you serving what for sale as leader of the Narcotics Division his goal is to disrupt the rampant drug trade that often feeds the violence c mon Opening Day city royals are known for Skinner and his team rely on specialized tactics confidential informants or CIS are the most effective way to get them close to a target I’ve pulled up some more people here off the Facebook you.

Can tell me if you know anything about them and if they’re scr’s money is one thing that motivates CIS to partner with police and ID Los Angeles gang members they can make around a hundred dollars a job I have a picture and downloaded on my phone it’s a dangerous game to be on both sides at once but today’s sting could be the only chance to get indictable evidence of drug dealing the confidential informant has potential to buy some meth off of a couple sinus enter Royals so he’s whitening ready to go right let’s go get you ready to go like a normal everyday purse all right wherever you point that button we’re gonna be able to see okay we equip our conformance with a covert audio and video recorder it captures what took place and who it took place with so when it comes time to go trial we have a better opportunity to indict that person for the crime where’s the word wait here tan pool a storage unit nearby provides the setting all recorded by hidden camera to make money Greta always leave it the investigators have.

What they need evidence cause for an arrest and more insight into this gang.

And how it operates in Findlay Ohio hancock county over to the east along the Alabama border Election Results jackson county officers continue to face the Simon Live Stream city royals threat head-on six pointed star three teardrops serving warrants tracking Saints Row gang members down and sending a message that gang activity is not tolerated here sergeant heck and agent Lewis are on the hunt for an elusive gang member they know well president’s clear the suspect is nowhere to be found but they’ve got a tip it just might pay off all right now we’re going after David Malan who has warrants for a commercial burglary his ass honestly royal and he will run navigate you a little girl whatever heck and Lewis have to quickly decide how to take their target down without endangering the innocent people nearby good go ahead sir come here no don’t run get on the ground put your hands on your back there’s nothing so nice he’s gonna peddle that mic fast as he could he’s gonna shoot needles and when he took that first hard pump I had to take him off the bike then uh I don’t that’s how we do it now you’re gonna run.

Well won’t make you pay right there at the pump in this bust both sides know each other well part of what makes fighting crime unique in Dixie man you didn’t stop you know me I didn’t know who you was jumping out the car who’s gonna jump out with Sheriff’s Department inside the pole and I know this turns your I saw the look in your eyes Peck recently had a run-in with suspect the day he fled the scene of a crime where he allegedly had stolen copper it’s the same offenders constantly doing the same crime we arrest them they go to prison they get back out and they commit more crimes that’s how we get to know him so well have I ever Jam you up yeah you have they try to be our friends so we keep the heat off of them and we try to be their friends to get information off of them I’m really want to but if you commit crime there’s no friendship you still going to jail close ties between police and criminals have always existed in the deep south today the authorities are out to stop gang crime dead in its tracks but decades earlier in 1970s the line separating them was all but erased and.

No one got cozier with the bad guys on the Mississippi Community College gulf coast and the sheriff of West Virginia harrison county Sheriff Lee Roy Hobbs charming good-looking playboy hey he was a party sheriff he had a way with women that mean know you wouldn’t he just intrigued Hobbs was first elected sheriff of School District harrison county in 1971 on a pledge of rooting out corruption I have contributed a lot to law enforcement not only in Gulfport Ms harrison county but the whole state of Mississippi within months of his election motivated by money and power he started down a more crooked path accepting kickbacks and bribes from Dixie Mafia run strip clubs and illegal gambling dens Lera Hobbs had ideals in the beginning I think he wanted to do what Rai but then he tasted the dark side and he liked it tied closely to sheriff Hobbs was local club owner and dixie mafia kingpin DJ Venus the third DJ Venus was a powerful man and Hobbs was DJ Venus’s boy to the extent that you needed the most powerful law enforcement agent in South Mississippi on your side DJ Venus had that in Leroy Hobbs the two were often seen mingling in one of.

Biloxi’s many watering holes a closeness that raised eyebrows what’s wrong with this picture you’ve got the highest law enforcement official in the county and you’ve got the guy who street talk tells you is the biggest thug on the Mississippi Vacation Rentals gulf coast what have they got to talk about in a bar at six o’clock in the evening spring of 1982 after a cocaine deal went south between Venus and club owner Dewey D’Angelo Venus ordered a man to be killed mr. Venus contacted a hitman and with the help of an associate at gunpoint they took mr. D’Angelo to a wooded area in the middle of the night and put him in the trunk of his arm like a continental they cut off one of mr. D’Angelo’s ears had mr. D’Angela bite down on it and then cut mr. diangelo throat once the hit was taken care of it was up to sheriff Hobbs to handle his part of the arrangement at that point Hobbs said make sure you have the body dumped outside the city limits so I can control the investigation it was in the parking lot of this D’Iberville shopping center that the car containing the body of 54 year old Dewey.

D’Angelo was discovered investigators say he apparently died from multiple stab wounds to the throat they also say one of his ears had been Bob’s made sure that no active investigation was conducted of the sheriff Hobbs was delving and deeper into corruption aligning himself closely with the Dixie Mafia and further blurring the lines between criminal and the law but the past and present in Dixie both show how criminal partnerships can be a one-way street easy to get in it’s in blood out but deadly to get out when you ever try to leave the family you will believe your final blood loyalty to gang a family or a badge is.

As southern as the swamps that Dixie Mafia once ruled but then as now loyalty can be bought in High School hancock county tucked along the southwesternmost corner of Mississippi commander Skinner and his Narcotics Division are prepping a bust on an alleged drug dealer in known SCR Anthony Loiselle front doors right here.

Opens Edward we’re going to go in and make entry towards this door right here my cell has been under surveillance for weeks and they’ve targeted his girlfriend’s rural Shack where he often sleeps for a pre-dawn raid make sure we all come home take care of each other any questions before we leave none all right everybody knows their order so let’s go ahead load up roll out a lot of our dealer sellers users usually right here at the early morning a lot of are sleeping which gives us the element of in less than 30 seconds the house is.

Cleared its occupants led onto porch the suspect is not one of them now what started as a house raid has turned into a game of strategy with Royce sells girlfriend at the center hey Skinner has surveillance video of the suspect selling drugs from the woman’s home and he’ll use it become Olga an adult as leverage I have a rest warning branding for sale control 7 I have you on camera right there selling with him alright so you can do what right there in your kitchen okay so we can either give me the cooperate and help us.

Or you can go along with the rest of right now I’m giving you that option so you can think real quick all right before you come up with a lie or Phoebe bunch of excuses you think this is your one opportunity so now you know why I’m here right can’t even get enough for a lot of people I don’t bring it here he know where’s he gonna do with that Mountain Golf Lord he’s selling mething golf for ya how know you said I’m not over there cuz he’s told me ms even come up here and stand up for what he did is he can make you go down with him the girlfriend plays along now Skinner must convince Lloyd cell to give himself up I didn’t Anthony hi this is commander Skinner from Property Tax hancock county Sheriff’s Department how are you this morning okay yeah I’m not gonna talk about it over the phone you you’ve been in this game long enough you been to prison you know how this works so and you know what what’s riding on you Lloyd cell is sure Skinner that he’ll turn himself in you all right 30 minutes i’ma call you I call you from my phone all.

Right whether he keeps his word is another story thank you for Lloyd cell like his girlfriend it’s a question of allegiance to his real family or his gang family deep in rural Humane Society hancock county no one knows more about the power of family in Dixie than shorty family’s everything and it’s the same thing when you go into the roll nation that’s when they began that’s what they feel family just you have to decide which family’s more at one time shorty risked his life proving himself to the gang and paid the price I was arrested for grand theft auto possession of drugs fleeing across state lines failure to yield 36 cops salt and battery on four police officers with a motor vehicle and it was all family business and prison I was a compound enforcer which means I would make sure anybody involved in my family oh bein followed our rules after serving an eight-year prison term get down shorty was released to the streets and would soon get sucked back into crime with other Royals but this time around he would look out for I think my kid was born and come down to.

A situation that I was involved with some Rawls again to make money when he went south everybody said it was me acid truth to avoid prison and stay with his wife and children shorty had to make a choice which side was on he chose to testify against his brothers and turn on the SCR from then I was marked by the nation you know as it is a traitor not only now that no longer am I a part of an organization I’m a target to our organization kose kill on sight it’s an order and that’s what I have at first yeah I was scared now I’m used to it I may do it the main job I work our kick costume.

Batman Superman Robin Hello Kitty wait you have people maybe dance song it’s not a day that goes by that I haven’t been told die you mother your snitch it’s worth it though going straight is worth it it’s different a whole lot of different it’s like having a drug addict who’s hooked on dope know you take him away from he’s gonna miss it I missed the life I missed money the power all that but I don’t miss the trouble while shorty struggles to stay out of trouble.

Five miles away in another part of Election Results hancock county SCR Anthony Loiselle is just stepping into it alright just keep my side the call will be there to second just hours after turning Lascelles girlfriend against him commander Skinner gets the call he’s been waiting for these ATVs is for Lauda suspect turns himself in right and is booked into School District hancock county Jail it’s a significant bust for Skinner and a reminder that the best way to get at a gang of organized criminals from the Simon Blue Jays city royals of today to the Dixie Mafia decades prior is to work it from the inside when the government descends on you it’s an awesome thing on the Panama City gulf coast of Mississippi in.

North Carolina jackson county sergeant heck and his team have reached the final day of their 72-hour sweep of the deadly gang known as the Simon New York city royals they’re still short on acquiring concrete information about the scr getting real intel has proven a struggle in every role right down to figuring out who’s an active gang member so you don’t hang out with any Royals I got away from all that crap who’s it to you nobody every single one that we have stopped lately stick all.

The Royal in jail and soon as I get out I’m not a roll anymore see retired retire man I’m too old for it we don’t believe it we know they’re still having meetings we still know they’re wearing their gang colors they’re still committing their burglaries they’re still beating down people in the parking lots uh the rolls are live and well set out you still got the blue shoes all the way still favorite color huh blue yeah y’all got blue all y’all guys ain’t no roll blue but the persistence of heck’s unit is beginning to pay off the warrant on Zack Thomas may just be for old fines look we got a warrant for you but because of his past criminal the threat of jail might be enough to put a scare into him what we’re trying to figure out is what are Oh what is a royal what are they so sustained for it’s not all white organization okay but what do y’all stand for what are you trying to get across to everybody God let y’all has no luck from the mo man you know the answer I’m gonna be on video and all types of stuff we need to know okay I guess the.

Better yourself that’s what they say but it really ain’t bout to better yourself what’s it about Park Avenue money power and respect hex hoping the suspect will open up about the gang in exchange for a little leniency before he’s taken into custody so how do you get right you do your business who gives you the right you get your ambassador are you chief enforcer do you know who the chief is around here come on now I’m not asking for a name I’m just asking do you know who the chief is around yeah hey the chief forever y’all every county in Mississippi it’s a look inside the structure of this gang network and how it organized and spread throughout the state just as the Dixie Mafia had done years before by the early 1980s the Dixie Mafia was deeply embedded along the Credit Union gulf coast and beyond the local authorities were often Willet collaborators none more so than Sheriff Lee Roy Hobbs whose corrupt reign over the region was getting out of hand I think the sheriff had gotten to a point in his life or his moral fabric decay to such an extent that anything.

Went with him the sheriff was uh what was involved with DJ Venus I think that was clear obviously they were Confederates in the drug game both of those men were not retrievable unredeemable at that point the corruption had rendered local law enforcement helpless against this all-powerful southern mob that’s when the feds stepped in Keith Bell was one of the agents assigned the mammoth mission of cleaning up the lawless corrupt mess created by Hobbs and Venus their job was to break inside the Dixie Mafia inner circle and bring it to its knees we decided the way to take down Hobbs and Venus was through a sting operation we introduced an informant into DJ Venus who had known mr. Venus previously mr. Venus guaranteed the informant that there would be no problem from law enforcement that he had control of the sheriff of Phone Number harrison county Sheriff Hobbs was paid $15,000 to make sure the deal went off without any interference from the authorities he had no way of knowing but the FBI was monitoring his every move the sting operation took place right at dawn a farm out in North Property Tax harrison county the.

Idea was that the drugs were coming in they would be delivered to the farm for DJ and sheriff Hobbs was providing protection for the drop mr. Venus and his cohorts were convinced that there would be the delivery of 800 kilos of that was brief drop from an aircraft but instead six FBI SWAT teams emerge from the woods surrounding the farm took mr. Venus and all of his friends and customers ex Election Results harrison county sheriff’s deputy Tom Payne first heard the shocking news later that morning I got a phone call it was my brother George and he said Tom there really is a Santa he said Leroy Hobbs and the majority of the Dixie Mafia just got arrested both Hobbs and Venus were prosecuted and they both received extended prison terms that was the beginning of the end of the Vixen mafia while the Dixie Mafia appeared to be crumbling it was a leading figure from the Mafia’s past still Gordon Ramsay behind bars who would return to deal the final blow my name is Bernie Lewis I’m 75 years old.

as far as I know I’m the last of the.

Dixie Mafia Berni Lewis is perhaps the only one left who knows some of its most guarded secrets like a homemade vault buster that cuts straight through metal and kept the money flowing okay this is a fake police insurace would let me come in and bust a safe and I’d give him a percentage of it I’ve done 19 banks 18 years of my life in prison I did my time I paid for the I did I’ve had in fact yes I’ve had enough by the mid-1980s along the Coast Community mississippi gulf the FBI led cocaine sting had sent away sheriff Hobbs DJ Venus and most of the Dixie Mafia power base but prison did not stop this industrious cartel one of its most notorious forefathers worked his scams Baby Dolls behind bars Kirksey Nix had served time since 1972 for the murder of grocer Frank Corson by 1983 from inside Angola prison he had found a way to run a profitable and bizarre scam on the outside Nix operated out of Angola and basically what they were doing was running Lonelyhearts ads targeting homosexual men around the country prosecutors believe Nix.

Masterminded a scam to take money from homosexuals through personal as placed in magazines peddle officials say Nix wanted to use the money to buy his freedom but some he couldn’t control from Slick Rick behind bars hundreds thousands of scam earned dollars soon went missing Nyx’s hunt for who took it led to sitting Circuit Judge Vincent sherry Nix ordered a hit gangland-style Vincent and his wife Margaret were found shot to death in their home brutally executed at point-blank range a ten year investigation revealed a complex web of conspirators at the highest levels of community the four conspired to kill judge sherry and his wife businessmen lawyers crime bosses after a quarter of a million dollars came in missing and even the mayor of Biloxi himself were implicated and ultimately convicted the case shook the Oil Spill gulf coast to its core I think that the sherry murder laid bare this group of organized criminals were not just good old boys there were murderers cold-blooded criminals who would do anything that it took to further their economic Kingdom and the community.

Finally said that is it we cannot put up with it anymore by the mid to late 90s with the help of the feds and a strong spirit of civic vigilance the Mississippi Pet Friendly gulf coast was transformed clubs and backroom casinos were closed gambling was legalized the financial source for the dark underbelly of crime shut down the Dixie Mafia just lost its times have changed in Dixie and so that today the Simon Detroit Tigers city royals gang presents a new kind of threat one potentially even more violent to the general public than the Dixie Mafia ever but the police today are also not the police of the past in Animal Shelter jackson county sergeant Chad heck is wrapping up his 3-day scr sweep two dates we are probably up to around 22 Royals that we rested on felonies to misdemeanors old fines it was tremendous amount of Intel we got to learn a lot about them a lot of ways they think that helps us track them down a little bit harder investigate a little bit better and convicted it’s progress that can be measured both in the courthouse and the.

Back roads though they may have just scratched the surface a firm message has been sent the criminals are not in charge of Dixie right now they’re and fine that’s our paranoid then the problem not going commit any crimes because they’re too worried about where we’re at what we’re doing but like hurricanes crime is cyclical in nature here a half century ago the Dixie Mafia ruled this region poisoning politicians police and shattering the public trust it’s a past no one here wants return to Biloxi has poet corruption in its fabric in its tapestry and it’ll be interesting to see how it rears its head again or is it gone for him