 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast I'm your host Scott Bernstein another quick hitter edition coming right at you breaking news out of the New York, New Jersey area Keith Conan the barbarian Richter the president of the pagans motorcycle club the most consequential biker boss of this era and definitely public enemy number one for the federal government. It looked like he was coming out of prison after two years on a gun case. He was supposed to be released last last week but I'm being told that the day that he was supposed to come out which was August 10th that he was brought into custody by state authorities in New York. He was serving his time down in out in New Jersey at Fort Dix and that Suffolk County wants him for another two years related to another gun case. Both of these gun seizures happen in the winter early spring of 2021. One of the one that he just served time for came from a traffic stop in New Jersey and Mercer County where they were tipped off that there was a gun in a secret compartment in the car that he was traveling in. Conan had just attended an annual pagans party where they celebrate the life of a fallen brother a guy they called mailman who was killed in a brawl in the early 2000s I believe maybe late 90s and they celebrate him and in Lancaster Pennsylvania which was where he was from. Conan was with a lot of pagan shot callers at this event in February of 21 and someone at that event tipped the police off that he was on his way back to New York Conan is based out of Long Island Suffolk County and he was pulled over and they found a gun in a secret compartment underneath the center console. That was very very high profile that arrest that bust a lot of headlines that's what he went to prison for two years for in the feds. What seemed to slip under the radar that we're just learning about now was if there was another state case stemming from that same time period in a raid of his home on Long Island where state officials found a gun on the nightstand next to Conan's bed Conan being a convicted felon he's not allowed to have firearms or be anywhere near firearms and under normal any you know under every other possible circumstance these two cases would have run concurrent he would have done the two years for both the fed at the same time but because he is such a valued target by in terms of you know in the government's viewpoint they seem to want to jam him here not let him back on this on the street people that are watching this that that follow this pagans Conan the barbarian saga over the last five years know that Conan the barbarian is the architect of the blue wave which is this massive pagans expansion effort that is the brainchild of Conan the barbarian Keith Richter when he took power in the pagans in late 2017 and a bloodless coup forced his way into the presidency and wanted to spread the brand of the pagans plant flags in parts of the country that the pagans had never been in before he launched this in 2018 in the last five years you know two dozen or so new chapters around the country another dozen two dozen if not more chapter absorptions or patch overs pagans have always been a southeast east coast club and and now they have a presence pushing west there's been pagan activity in washington state montana or again oklahoma texas a lot of areas where you never saw pagans before new jersey is an is an area that they had a presence in but they've really ramped it up with conan's vice president hugo uh zoro new yet nevis uh who has also led this uh very calculated recruiting of latino members they made a deal or have re established a deal with the mongols uh to help them with that push west and it's just it's causing a lot of waves and right now conan the barbarian keith rickter is at the same level as taco bowman was in the 90s sonny barger uh george christy guys like that these biker boss icons and you know the government comes brings the full core press and uh what looked like conan coming back to the street uh in the late summer of 2023 now appears that conan's going to have to go do two more years um we'll know more next week and check the gangsta report for uh you know real time breaking news but right now i'm told he is in custody at suffolk county and probably will be in front of a judge at some point next week and they'll figure out if he actually has to do these two years um i'm being told that he probably will and uh question of what happens when conan comes home will now be we'll be kicking the can down the road and we won't be asking that now until at least i'm guessing late 24 maybe uh you know mid 25 so uh this is you know it doesn't get any bigger than this conan the conan the barbarian keith rickter uh he is on the bulletin board of every dea atf fbi agent uh every one of those units and they are coming after him with a full arsenal check back at the gangsta report og pod for all your breaking news related to lakosa nostra and the bikers as well as you know all time types of organized crime that we're gonna be feeding you we love giving you the the the hottest content and we're gonna keep doing that for og pod i'm scott burnstein out