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Andy Polo grew up surrounded by organized crime, cocaine trafficking, fraud, violence, and the influence of an Argentine gangster family. Years later, he survived an attack so severe that doctors initially questioned whether he would live.

In this episode of the Honor Among Thieves Podcast, Andy opens up about growing up in South Florida around relatives connected to criminal activity and the impact that environment had on his childhood, relationships, and understanding of loyalty.

But the most shocking chapter of Andy’s life came inside his own home.

Andy describes how an argument with his former girlfriend escalated into a brutal boiling-water attack that burned approximately 37% of his body. He recounts the immediate pain, the desperate attempt to get help, the hospital treatment that followed, and the long physical and emotional recovery he endured.

His former girlfriend was eventually convicted and sent to Florida State Prison for the attack.

Andy also discusses domestic violence against men, the stigma male victims often face, the warning signs he missed, and what it took to rebuild his life after nearly losing everything.

This is a raw true-crime story about family crime, domestic violence, survival, prison, accountability, and the lasting consequences of one violent decision.

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Chapters

00:00 Raised by an Argentine Gangster Family in South Florida

05:16 Fitness, Steroids and the Lifestyle That Changed Everything

10:00 Marriage Problems and Reconnecting With a Woman From His Past

15:12 His Father Was a Gangster: Cocaine Trafficking and Federal Racketeering Case

20:31 The Affair Begins and a Hidden Family Secret Is Exposed

25:03 Tracking Devices, Jealousy and an Obsessive Relationship

30:41 When His Girlfriend Attacked His Wife

35:02 Steroids, Bodybuilding and the Early Warning Signs

41:18 Family Conflict and the Final Red Flags Before the Attack

45:36 Boiling Water Attack Burns 37% of His Body

50:01 The 911 Call, Trauma Response and Fight to Survive

55:03 His Ex’s Arrest, False Story and Domestic Violence Case

01:00:46 Three-Year Court Battle and Delayed Justice

01:05:21 Rejecting $500,000 and Demanding Prison Time

01:10:03 Florida State Prison, Early Release and Double Standards

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Heat went from secretly selling weed while working at IHOP to making thousands of dollars a day and becoming one of the biggest marijuana traffickers in his part of North Florida.

In this episode of the Honor Among Thieves Podcast, Heat reveals how a teenage hustle grew into a sophisticated drug trafficking operation involving multiple suppliers, stash houses packed with marijuana, interstate transportation routes, and enormous amounts of cash. While many dealers around him focused on crack cocaine, Heat recognized the opportunity in marijuana and built a reputation that stretched from Lake City to Jacksonville, Gainesville, Orlando, Tallahassee, Atlanta, and beyond.

Heat explains how his organization became increasingly disciplined as the money grew. They studied law enforcement tactics, tracked police activity, created strict rules for transporting drugs, and used rural North Florida to operate differently from dealers in Miami and other major cities. At the height of the operation, nearly every cabinet inside the stash house was filled with weed, the refrigerator held the strongest product, and cash was hidden inside the stove.

But success in the drug game brought paranoia, betrayal, police surveillance, controlled buys, informants, robberies, and violence. Heat recalls being arrested while already fighting another criminal case, realizing someone close to the operation was cooperating, and believing he was finally headed to prison. He also describes being kidnapped, driven into rural Georgia, and listening as his captors argued over whether they should shoot him.

This is the true story of how ambition, money, loyalty, and street politics transformed a North Florida teenager into a marijuana kingpin—and how quickly the life he built began to collapse.

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Chapters
00:00 From High School Hustler to North Florida Pot Kingpin
09:54 Growing Up With a Law Enforcement Father and Learning Gang Politics
19:52 Selling Weed in High School and Finding His First Drug Plug
31:30 Dropping Out, Chasing Money and Entering the Drug Business
40:01 Buying 10 Pounds and Becoming a Wholesaler
50:01 Tracking Down the Orlando Drug Plug and Cutting Out the Middleman
01:00:08 Building a Multi-City Network
01:10:02 50-Pound Shipments and a Stash House Filled With Weed
01:20:00 The OxyContin Supplier Who Had More Pills Than He Had Money
01:30:03 Studying Police Tactics and Getting Caught With Drugs
01:40:07 Selling Pills While Fighting a Criminal Case
01:50:00 Police Informants, Being Kidnapped in Georgia, Redemption

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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, knives, drugs, shot callers, racial politics, and inmates serving serious time.

Before corrections, Gio served in the Army during the Iraq War era. He talks about how the military shaped the way he handled chaos, danger, and survival — and why that mindset followed him into the federal prison system.

Gio explains how correctional officers respond when violence breaks out, how inmates test officers, how prison politics really work, and why the farther west you go in the federal system, the more gang-controlled the yards can become.

This conversation also gets into the realities most people never hear about: officer-inmate violence, inmates attacking staff, stabbings, inmates being stomped out, protective custody, sex offenders in prison, female officers getting involved with inmates, cartel members inside federal custody, and how high-profile prisoners like El Chapo or El Mayo would be handled in the system.

Gio also opens up about life after the military, substance abuse, getting discharged, finding corrections, working immigration detention, and eventually landing in the Bureau of Prisons.

This episode is not about glorifying prison violence.

It is about showing the reality of what happens inside a maximum-security federal penitentiary from someone who lived it every day as a correctional officer.

In this episode, we cover:

Gio Martini’s 8 years at USP Victorville

Working inside a maximum-security federal prison

Prison gangs, shot callers, and racial politics

How correctional officers respond to violence

Stabbings, lockdowns, weapons, and inmate attacks

Officer-inmate relationships and corruption

Protective custody and prison politics

Cartel members inside federal prison

Why street power does not always transfer behind the wall

Life after corrections

Chapters

0:00 — Gio Martini Returns: Victorville Federal Prison, Gangs & CO Survival

7:05 — From War Stories to the Infantry: Why Gio Joined the Army

14:42 — Iraq Deployment, Brotherhood & Surviving Combat

22:36 — Rules of Engagement, RKG Grenades & Combat Injuries in Iraq

31:06 — From Substance Abuse to Corrections: Rehab, Discharge & Finding GEO

38:31 — Becoming a Correctional Officer: Fights, Control & Inmate Respect

45:00 — Victorville Violence: Stabbings, Hospital Runs & Prison Chaos

52:18 — Female COs, Inmate Manipulation & Sex Offenders in Federal Prison

1:00:05 — Protective Custody, Bad Paperwork & Prison Housing Politics

1:06:03 — Cartel Inmates, El Chapo, El Mayo & Life After Corrections

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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, gang codes, and the way groups like the Bloods, Crips, MS-13, Mexican Mafia, Sureños, Norteños, and other organizations function inside federal prison.

In this episode, Niko explains what most people misunderstand about gang culture, how gang intelligence is gathered inside prison, how officers identify gang members, how prison politics work, and why reputation, paperwork, race, territory, and violence all play a role behind the wall.

We also get into narco culture, Santa Muerte, cartel influence, transnational gangs, Mexican Mafia structure, MS-13, California prison politics, and the way gangs evolve when street culture enters the prison system.

This is not a Hollywood version of prison gangs.

This is a breakdown from someone who worked inside the system, studied gang structure, and saw firsthand how organized prison politics can become.

In this episode, we cover:
Niko’s background as a BOP Correctional Officer
Becoming a Gang Intel Specialist
How prison gang intelligence works
Bloods, Crips, MS-13, Sureños, Norteños & Mexican Mafia
California gang structure and prison politics
Narco culture, Santa Muerte, and cartel influence
How officers identify gang members in prison
Race, paperwork, violence, and reputation behind the wall
Transnational gangs inside the federal prison system
What the public gets wrong about prison gangs

Chapters
0:00 — Niko Intro: Former BOP Gang Intel Officer Breaks Down Prison Gangs
7:35 — Growing Up Around Gang Culture in California
15:07 — High Desert Politics, Probation & Avoiding the System
22:04 — Becoming a Father & Starting as a Correctional Officer
29:18 — Inside GEO Prison: Immigration Holds, Detainees & Gang Identification
36:15 — BOP Gang Intelligence: MS-13, Transnational Gangs & Federal Prison Politics
43:11 — Working Gang Intel at Victorville & How Prison Investigations Really Work
50:43 — Secret Gang Codes, Bloods, Crips, Mexican Mafia & Santa Muerte Altars

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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 turned into a serious violent crime case, leading Angela to spend years fighting her case in county jail before being sentenced to prison.

Angela opens up about sitting in county jail for over three years, being told she could spend the rest of her life in prison, watching her family fall apart, losing her father while incarcerated, and eventually being sent to Lowell Correctional Institution, which she describes as the worst women’s prison in Florida.

In this episode, Angela breaks down what life is really like inside a women’s prison, the politics, the violence, the emotional toll, the mental survival, confinement, prison rules, bad officers, other inmates, and the reality of serving over a decade behind bars.

After serving 12 years, 9 months, and 13 days, Angela came home in 2022 and had to rebuild her life, reconnect with her children, adjust to society, and figure out who she was after prison.This is a raw conversation about bad decisions, consequences, motherhood, prison survival, personal accountability, and finding redemption after losing everything.

In this episode, we discuss:

Angela’s childhood in Brooklyn and Jacksonville

How she got involved in a robbery case

Being arrested and charged in a serious violent crime case

Spending over 3 years in county jail fighting her case

Being sentenced to 15 years in Florida State Prison

Life inside Lowell Correctional Institution

Why Lowell is known as one of Florida’s worst women’s prisons

The reality of women’s prison politics

Losing her father while incarcerated

Serving over 12 years behind bars

Coming home after prison

Rebuilding her relationship with her children

Life after incarceration

Redemption, growth, and second chances

If you’re interested in true crime stories, women’s prison stories, Florida prison, ex-con interviews, prison survival stories, criminal justice, redemption stories, and life after prison, this episode is for you.

🎙️ Honor Among Thieves Podcast brings you real stories from people who lived inside the criminal underworld, survived prison, and came out with a story to tell.

Chapters
0:00 Intro: Robbery Case, 15-Year Sentence & Florida Prison Story

2:05 Growing Up in Brooklyn, Moving to Jacksonville & Early Trouble

10:55 Teen Motherhood, Fast Money & Being Around Robberies

19:35 The Robbery Plan, Family Trauma & One Bad Decision

24:50 The Gas Station Robbery, Shooting & Arrest

33:20 Interrogation, Murder Charges & Realizing She Wasn’t Going Home

38:05 Duval County Jail, Fighting the Case for 3.5 Years & Losing Her Father

51:30 Sentenced to 15 Years in Florida State Prison

56:10 Inside Lowell: Florida’s Worst Women’s Prison

64:10 Prison Relationships, Violence, “Prison Families” & Surviving 12 Years

72:05 Coming Home, Rebuilding With Her Kids & Redemption

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