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Published: May 28, 2023, 10 p.m.

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Today we are chatting with the author of Riding With Evil: Taking Down The Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang and ATF Special Agent, Ken Croke.\\xa0

Over 25 years, he took part in more than a thousand undercover operations, including gang, drug, and firearms trafficking cases. Married with three young daughters, he was a supervisor who seemed to cruise to a quiet suburban retirement.

But, when a tip about criminal motorcycle gangs came into the Boston ATF field office in 2008, the experienced Croke was brought in to check out sources and information. Then came a chance encounter with an associate of the Pagans. \\u201cOne thing led to another,\\u201d and he was on the case.

Ken spent the next two years of his life in deep undercover where he became the first member of law enforcement to become a fully patched member of one of the most violent Outlaw Motorcycle gangs, the Pagans.\\xa0

In today\\u2019s episode we discuss:

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 Ken\\u2019s path to becoming an ATF Special Agent.

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 How long it usually takes an ATF agent to work undercover.

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 The different types of undercover cases.\\xa0

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 Through a series of unusual circumstances, he was pulled into the Pagans.

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 Outlaw motorcycle gang vocabulary.

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 The popular television show, Sons of Anarchy.\\xa0

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 The heavy toll his undercover work took on him and his family.

All of this and more on today\\u2019s episode of the Cops and Writers podcast.

Check out, Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

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