Gone in 60 Seconds with Vic Ferrari

Retired Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins interviewed retired NYPD auto theft detective Vic Ferrari about his experiences with the mob and the horrible auto theft problem in New York City. Vic Ferrari has written extensively about the NYPD culture, the mob, and his time in the Auto Theft Unit. Vic Ferrari’s colorful and unique storytelling style entertains and enlightens simultaneously. He grew up on these “mean streets” and knows the Borough neighborhoods like a New York native who spent his career as a cop.  Click here to link to Vic’s books. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup  click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes, click here. Please give me a review and help others find the podcast. Transcript SUMMARY KEYWORDS nypd, car, stolen, shipping, thieves, chinese, stolen cars, worked, run, case, brooklyn, winds, stolen vehicles, bronx, drive, cops, stories, year, precinct, books SPEAKERS GARY JENKINS, Vic Ferrari 00:00 He’s parked and this is on a midnight so my lieutenant gets on the radio goes Hey Vic, go up there recover that car and try not to be seen like not to be seen. So I I walk up there the cars running it’s on a midnight I’m in this car. I’m like in a tomb the whole interior has been stripped. So there’s no door handles no nothing. I don’t even know how to get back out of the car. The dashboard is stripped and the interior of the car had been sprayed with WD 40. So so it’s so you can’t recover fingerprints. So now I’m sliding around in this car. I can’t get out of it. And a four seven police car drives by and I said oh shit. If they run my plate, it’s got to come back stolen. I can’t even roll down the windows. 01:35 Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there back here in studio gangland wire. And I have an interesting guy to say the least another retired copper just like me. And like I used to say out of the mouths of the men that did it. Well, this is a guy that did it. And now he writes stories about it while he writes fiction, but he uses his real life experiences, of course to tell these fictional stories. Vic Ferrari Welcome Vic. 02:01 Gary, thank you so much for having me on your show. I’m a big fan. Great. Well, you 02:05 know, when you got hold on me, you said you’d been listen to the podcast for a while and I appreciate that. And we take all the listeners we can and I like to entertain people and I can tell you do too. I looked at some of the clips of you and other shows that are that he likes to entertain people So anyhow vic, I get you were with NYPD and where do you spend most of your career like I spent most of mine with the intelligence un...