Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Streets and Scholars podcast with Alex Alonso & F.G. Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Whitey Bulger’s killers charged and Young Thug denied bail for a third time (EP28) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 28

Whitey Bulger’s killers charged and Young Thug denied bail for a third time (EP28)

In this episode 28 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss Whitey Bulger's murder at Hazelton, West Virginia that occurred in 2018 and how the Feds four years later charged three men in his death. Inmate Sean McKinnon used a prison phone to tell his mother that he got intel that Bulger was arriving to his prison. The next morning, McKinnon was the lookout as, Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 55, a mafia hitman who was sharing a cell with McKinnon, and Paul DeCologero, 48, who was a member of an organized crime gang led by his uncle was seen on camera entering Bulger's cell. Prison staff later found Bulger bludgeoned to death. Bulger acted as an FBI informant while he led the largely Irish mob in Boston from the 1970s to the early 1990s. 

Fulton County Judge Ural Glanville, denied Young Thug bail for a third time. The prosecutors continued to use his rap lyrics against him, even though defense attorneys for Young Thug have shown that he is not the sole writer of the lyrics. Defense attorneys have even offered to allow Young Thug's home to be monitored and full access to his property if there is any concern that he is a danger to the community or a flight risk, but the judge still denied him. 

 

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Alex Alonso is the owner and curator of LAnd Media, a podcasting network that brings dope content directly from the raw streets to your ears, facilitated through amazing conversations and interviews on street politics, gang culture, prison life, music and hip-hop, criminal justice issues and whatever else our dope hosts want to spit.