After a Deputy Sheriff is murdered in 2005 by a Latino gang (Varrio Hawaiian Gardens), the FBI leads a task force made up of over 40 federal, state, and local enforcement agencies in Operation Knockout, the biggest anti-gang operation in U.S. history. The street gang was known for drug dealing, extortion, and hate-motivated attacks against African Americans, and by the early 2000s they had been terrorizing the California city of Hawaiian Gardens for decades. Michael S. Lowe (prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s offices in Eastern Pennsylvania and Central District of California in Los Angeles for 25 years), Gary Sloan (homicide investigator with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 11 years and worked as a gang detective) and former Special Agent Maureen O’Connell (25-year veteran who worked white color crimes, violent street gangs and major narcotics) sit down with Kristy Kottis to recall their work as part of the biggest anti-gang operation in U.S. history.
On May 1, 2010, a T-shirt vendor in Times Square notices a man lighting a truck on fire, and it soon becomes clear the vehicle contains a massive bomb. Panic sets in as tourists flee the area and the NYPD bomb squad gets called in. When the bomb is rendered inert the manhunt begins. The FBI soon determines that the elusive bomber has ties to the Pakistani Taliban, and embarks on a high-speed, high-stakes hunt to catch the bomber before he can flee the country or strike again. Peter Licata (one of the FBI’s top bomb experts who dealt with more than 300 Improvised Explosive Devices on missions to Iraq and led the Weapons of Mass Destruction Squad for New York City in 2010), former Supervisory Special Agent for the New York Domestic Terrorism Squad Greg Ehrie (recruited from the U.S. Air Force to join the FBI working organized crime and intelligence cases) and Richard Frankel (got his start in the FBI investigating the infamous Gambino crime family, moved into national security after the 9/11 attacks, and by 2009 was responsible for domestic terrorist threats for the Bureau’s New York field office) dive deep with Kristy Kottis into the hunt to find the terrorist behind this attack.
Air Date: Nov 7, 2023
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