According to Philly.com, young bad boy rapper Bobby Shmurda was involved in some kind of gangland style brawl while incarcerated in Rikers Island prison last month.
Mr. “Hot Boy” has been locked up on New York’s Rikers Island prison since last December on a list of charges including murder, gun and drug possessions, drug dealing and conspiracy.
According to TMZ, prison guards had to break the gang fight up by using a strong “chemical agent” similar to pepper spray.
Crime lovers (and gangsters) near and far, it’s almost time! One of THE PEN HUSTLER’s most beloved crime writers is taking his show on the road to promote the highly anticipated book release of THE CARTEL.
The 2015 publication is a follow-up sequel to the novel, The Power of the Dog, a 2005 crime thriller penned by NY Times bestselling author Don Winslow, which centers around the DEA’s involvement with Mexico’s War on Drugs.
THE CARTEL will pick right up where The Power of the Dog left off and chronicle an epic bloody drug war between to mortal enemies which spans over a 45 year time period.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping, true-to-life, ripped-from-the-headlines epic story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars.
It’s 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world’s most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller’s partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly—the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead.
Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice—or is it revenge?—becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington’s corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona.
Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico’s drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera—and himself—that he always knew must happen.
The Cartel is a story of revenge, honor, and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men—and women—who wage it. –Amazon.com
Both novels are in the pre-production phases and are anticipated to be adapted into Hollywood films. Movie production is tentatively set to begin in 2016.
Until then, grab a copy of both books and stop by and meet Don Winslow at one of his meet and greets.
MEET THE AUTHOR:
The book is set to be released on June 23 and will be available for purchase at all online retailers and anywhere books are sold. You can be the first line to get yours by pre-order on Amazon.
As the official publication date approaches, more book tour dates will be added.
If you are in any of these cities, make sure to stop by and “meet the author”. If (and when) the tour ever reaches ATL, we will most certainly be there with bells and whistles on.
Inmates took control of at least part of the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution Sunday during an incident when two staff members and two inmates were injured, according to the state Department of Correctional Services.
Two inmates were found dead Monday at a maximum security prison in southeast Nebraska after a wild uprising.
Inmates took control of at least part of the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution Sunday during an incident when two staff members and two inmates were injured, according to the state Department of Correctional Services.
Staff members were attempting to break up a large gathering of inmates in front of a housing unit when the disturbance began, James Foster, a department spokesman, said in a statement.
Foster said officers regained control of the facility that houses 11 death row inmates on Monday. The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the deaths.
There were no reports of any escapes.
Smoke rose from two housing units on Sunday and driveways to the prison were blocked, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. But prison officials said the exterior of the facility was secured by Sunday evening and all staffers were accounted for.
Early Monday, no more smoke could be seen and employees were being allowed into the facility.
The Journal Star reported it received a call from inmate Jeffry Frank just before 11 p.m. Sunday via a case manager’s office phone.
“We’ve pretty much taken the whole prison,” Frank told the newspaper.
He said that no prison employees were inside the housing unit and described the scene, saying: “The ceilings are fallen. There’s drywall on fire. There’s cameras torn down,” according to the Journal Star.
Foster told the Omaha World-Herald that inmates had gained access to an office with a phone.
The 960-bed Tecumseh State Correctional Institution opened in 2001 in Johnson County, about 60 miles southwest of Lincoln.
The Pen Hustle With Brandy Cavalli 
You must be logged in to post a comment.