We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line, The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, hosts David Contreras, Gonzalo "Chalo" Gerardo, and Benny Cruz discuss prison gangs with retired California Department of Corrections Correctional Officer Johnny Rey. Johnny Rey was assigned as an IGI Investigator (Institutional Gang Investigations unit). Rey's duties included investigating prison crimes, validating prison gang members, and processing and documenting crime scenes within the prison walls. Rey is also the author of "Yard Down." This book is about investigating prison gang crimes--the crimes gang members commit for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in association with the specific intent to promote, further, and assist their criminal street gang.

We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line, The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, Ash Wednesday hosts David Contreras, Sean Murphy, Bobby Arce, and Doug Collier, honor retired San Diego Police Detective Mike Gutierrez.

This is a podcast where you can enjoy a cigar and whisky with Bobby, Sean, Doug, and David, while watching and listening to true American Heroes and Legends share their stories!

In this episode, they honor San Diego Police Department Detective Mike Gutierrez. We will share his legendary career with SDPD and as a San Diego Violent Crimes Task Force member. Mike grew up in a gang-infested area in San Diego, where the majority of his friends and classmates ended up in prison or addicted to drugs. Mike started boxing at a young age and eventually became a professional fighter. He began his career with the San Diego Police Department at nineteen years of age, as a Community Service Officer. At twenty-one, he became a San Diego Patrol Officer assigned to Logan Heights. Mike subsequently became a SWAT Team member and worked in numerous specialized units.

Mike was one of the first team members of the San Diego Police Department Special Enforcement Unit, which was the uniformed gang enforcement component of the gang unit. Mike dedicated his life to investigating and arresting high-level Mexican Mafia and street gang members operating criminal cells throughout San Diego. Today, Mike fights another predator and assassin of men. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and is currently receiving medical treatment. We are honored to share the stories and investigations of Mike Gutierrez, a true legend in our law enforcement communities.

We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, retired San Diego Police Homicide Detective Ron Newquist discusses the Los Palillos gang. Los Palillos were an enforcement cell of the Tijuana Cartel (AFO). Have you ever wondered about the violent crimes in San Diego County between August 2004 and June 2007? Had cartel violence infiltrated America? During that period, an enforcement gang of the Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano-Félix Cartel, was operating in San Diego County. They were known as Los Palillos.

We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, Ash Wednesday hosts David Contreras and Benny Cruz, who interview U. S. Border Patrol Special Agent Task Force Commander Alex Pacheco. Alex Pacheco is a retired U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Special Agent with 24 years of U.S. federal law enforcement experience. Alex previously served as a Supervisor with U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Task Force Commander, International Liaison, CBP International Officer, and CBP country manager for Guatemala and Belize. Alex is a published author, experienced public speaker, and subject matter expert in cross-border investigations and cartels operating in the Baja California Region of Mexico. Alex tonight will take us on a journey through the streets and alleys of Tijuana, Los Angeles, and San Diego, chasing and arresting Mexican nationals wanted for murder in Mexico.

We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, Ash Wednesday hosts discuss this controversial TV series. The Last Narc is a docuseries about the 1985 death of U.S. DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. The series interviews DEA agents and witnesses to Camarena's death who state that he was murdered by Mexican drug lords, with the complicity of the CIA.

We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, Steve Duncan, a retired Special Agent of the California Department of Justice, and Jim Bird, a retired Special Agent of the FBI, discuss the violent crimes in San Diego County between August 2004 and June 2007. Had cartel violence infiltrated America? During that period, one of the Tijuana Cartel's enforcement cells/gangs operated in San Diego County. They were known as Los Palillos. The group was responsible for kidnappings, extortions, torture, murder, and dissolving the bodies of their victims in San Diego County.

We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line: The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, Retired Los Angeles Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Richard Valdemar discusses Orange County's Mexican Mafia Prison gang member Peter "Sana" Ojeda. Ojeda was known as the Godfather of Orange County to Southern California Sureno street gangs. This episode aired on April 15, 2025.

We want to remind you that our episodes are available on our YouTube Channel, The Gray Line The Story Behind The Blue Line. Each episode begins with an introductory video featuring our guests. In this episode, retired San Diego Sheriff's Detective Benny Cruz discusses working with the FBI to investigate and solve bank robberies and major violent robberies in San Diego County. In this episode, Cruz discusses a sexual assault investigation involving a father/daughter rape, and some of San Diego County's major bank robbery investigations are discussed, along with a series of robberies in North San Diego County, dubbed The Brown Hood Bandit series, in which the robber is involved in a gunfight with the store owner inside a market in San Marcos, California. This episode aired on March 19, 2025.