Honor Among Thieves | True Crime & Crime Stories

Former correctional officer Gio Martini returns to Honor Among Thieves Podcast for Part 2 of his story, giving a raw inside look at life inside Victorville Federal Penitentiary. Gio spent 8 years working at USP Victorville, one of the most dangerous high-security federal prisons in the country. In this episode, he breaks down what it was like walking into a prison filled with gang members, killers...

Former BOP Gang Intel Officer Niko joins Honor Among Thieves Podcast to break down how prison gangs, street gangs, and transnational gangs really operate behind the wall. Niko worked as a Correctional Officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and later became a Gang Intelligence Specialist. During his time in the system, he received extensive training on California gang structure, prison politics...

In this episode of Honor Among Thieves Podcast, Angela shares her powerful story of crime, prison, survival, and redemption after being sentenced to 15 years in Florida State Prison. Angela was born in Brooklyn, New York, later moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and eventually found herself caught up in a robbery case that changed the rest of her life. What started as a plan to rob someone quickly tu...

Favio joins Honor Among Thieves Podcast to tell the story of how one decision at 16 years old changed the rest of his life. Born and raised in Cleveland, Favio opens up about growing up around street violence, getting pulled into the life at a young age, and the night that led to a murder case that would send him to prison for 18 years. In this episode, Favio talks about what it was like being cha...

OG Brick joins Honor Among Thieves Podcast for one of the most intense Miami street stories we’ve ever had on the show. Born and raised in Miami, OG Brick opens up about growing up between Overtown and Liberty City, being surrounded by street violence at a young age, and the traumatic moment that changed his life forever — watching his mother get murdered in front of him. From there, he says somet...

Brian Suder sits down with Honor Among Thieves Podcast to tell his story of growing up in Baltimore, getting pulled into the city’s underground scene, and eventually becoming connected to Gambino Family associates, the ecstasy game, and the Irish mob. In this episode, Brian breaks down how a meeting with Gambino-connected figures led to him being handed 2,000 ecstasy pills, how the pills moved fas...

Mike Mazursky returns to Honor Among Thieves Podcast to reveal what prison is really like inside Israel’s prison system after serving just over 4 years for a string of heists in Israel. In this episode, Mike breaks down the hidden power structure behind Israeli prisons — where Israelis, Arabs, and Russians each operate under different rules, politics, loyalties, and prison codes. As a Russian inma...

Ryan Root joins Honor Among Thieves Podcast to tell the story of how he went from studying biochemistry and testosterone to running one of the largest underground steroid operations in the world. In this true crime podcast episode, Ryan breaks down how the black market steroid world worked in the early 2000s, how underground labs exploded online, and how his operation grew into a massive illegal s...

Marina Lacerda joins Honor Among Thieves Podcast to tell her story as a documented survivor connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case and identified in court records as Minor Victim #1. In this powerful true crime podcast episode, Marina opens up about her childhood in Brazil, moving to New York as a young girl, surviving abuse before ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein, and how the trauma of her early life...

Alex Montanez joins Honor Among Thieves Podcast to tell the real story behind one of the most powerful cartel bloodlines connected to the Medellín Cartel, Griselda Blanco, the Ochoa family, and the 1980s Colombia-to-Miami cocaine pipeline. Alex is the nephew of Rafa Salazar, a key figure in the Miami cocaine era and a close business associate connected to Griselda Blanco’s inner circle. He is also...

Christian Carmona joins Honor Among Thieves Podcast to tell the story of growing up as the son of a Colombian drug trafficker whose family was taken down in a major federal RICO case connected to a criminal narcotics enterprise. In this true crime podcast episode, Christian opens up about his father’s federal case out of Portland, Oregon, the FBI raid that changed his family forever, the money fou...

In this episode of Honor Among Thieves Podcast, we sit down with Katarina Szulc, one of the leading independent reporters covering Mexican cartels, cartel violence, CJNG, Sinaloa Cartel, El Mencho, El Chapo’s family, fentanyl trafficking, and the criminal underworld along the U.S.–Mexico border. Katarina breaks down her reporting on El Mencho, the powerful CJNG cartel leader, and explains what she...

In this Honor Among Thieves Podcast episode, Chloe Sunderland, also known as Roma, shares her shocking journey through Canada’s criminal underworld — a world filled with violence, survival, and life-altering decisions. This is a raw and unfiltered true crime story of how one woman navigated one of the darkest environments imaginable… and lived to tell the story. Roma opens up about her life inside...

In this Honor Among Thieves true crime podcast episode, Elisabeth Carson shares the full story of how her life spiraled from early drug use into high-level criminal activity — including becoming a major ecstasy distributor in the Midwest and eventually making up to $10,000 a day through credit card fraud. Elisabeth opens up about starting drugs at just 11 years old, selling in middle school, and e...

In this Honor Among Thieves Podcast episode, Vivian shares the unbelievable true story of growing up as the daughter of Manuel Noriega’s gun runner during one of the most dangerous eras in Miami, Panama, and the 80s underworld. Vivian breaks down how her father first moved large amounts of marijuana before transitioning into the cocaine trade during Miami’s explosive drug era. As his world expande...

In this true crime story, we sit down with Jessica, a Colombian-born Miami native who built an 8-figure drug operation in South Florida before becoming an international fugitive. This is one of the most intense crime stories you’ll hear on the Honor Among Thieves Podcast. Jessica breaks down how she scaled a massive molly operation out of Miami, generating millions of dollars while operating under...

In this powerful episode of Honor Among Thieves, Nelson Rodriguez Jr. sits down with Craig Dean, a man who was sentenced to life without parole at just 17 years old after a tragic incident left an innocent 11-year-old girl paralyzed. Growing up in the streets of Miami during the height of the crack epidemic, Craig was pulled into a life of crime at an early age—surrounded by drugs, violence, and s...

This week on the Honor Among Thieves Podcast, we bring you the final installment of the Miami Kingpins series featuring James “Boss Man” Sawyer, the real life Manny Ray — the right-hand man and enforcer for Big Ike (Isaac Hicks) during the height of Miami’s cocaine era. In this episode, Boss Man takes us deep inside the streets of 1980s Miami, where drug empires were built overnight and millions o...

In this episode of the Honor Among Thieves Podcast, host Nelson Rodriguez Jr. sits down with legendary Miami drug kingpin Bo Dilley, one of the most infamous figures from the 1980s cocaine era when Miami became the center of the global drug trade. Bo Dilley shares his unbelievable story of growing up in the streets of Miami during the 1970s and witnessing the transition from heroin to cocaine, whe...

In this explosive episode of Honor Among Thieves, Nelson Rodriguez Jr. sits down with Convertible Burt, one of the most infamous figures from Miami’s street history. Known as a Miami kingpin from Liberty City, Burt built a powerful drug empire during one of the most dangerous eras in the city’s history. Growing up on 15th Avenue in Liberty City, a street once considered one of the most active drug...

In Part 2 of Honor Among Thieves, Miami’s “Lone Wolf” Ulysses breaks down what it was really like surviving West Coast federal prison politics, navigating California gangland yards, and doing time inside Lompoc federal Prison after running multi-state drug operations between Miami and Los Angeles. From buying cartel-connected product at “border price” in California to witnessing the racial politic...

In this explosive episode of Honor Among Thieves, Ulysses Guevara-Ocana breaks down his journey from a teenage cocaine dealer in Miami’s Sweetwater and Little Havana to becoming a wholesale cartel plug operating between Florida, California, Chicago, and beyond. Born to a Cuban father from the Mariel boatlift and a Mexican mother from Michoacán, Ulysses grew up inside the cocaine era that shaped 80...

In this explosive true crime exclusive, Blake Rossi sits down on Honor Among Thieves just days before entering federal prison. Known as an American cartel queenpin, Blake reveals how she rose from a troubled childhood to becoming a high-level cocaine distributor with direct access to a Mexican cartel boss — just two degrees away from the top of a powerful organization. From moving 10 kilos of coca...

In this episode of Honor Among Thieves, we sit down with Mike Mazursky — a pen name used to protect the identity of a retired professional armed robber whose real-life story reads like a true crime thriller. Mike was indicted in Israel for five major heists, including bank robberies, jewelry store hits, and cash exchange operations, but his criminal career stretches far beyond what the courts ever...

In this unforgettable episode of Honor Among Thieves, host Nelson Rodriguez Jr. sits down with Scott Anthony, a man whose real-life story reads like a crime thriller—but every word is true. Scott Anthony reveals how he ran a Chicago street gang at just 14 years old, rising fast in a world of violence, money, and power. What started on the streets escalated into major drug trafficking, eventually l...