CHASED: THE STORY OF BILLY CHASE

CHASED: THE STORY OF BILLY CHASE

Billy Chase could be killed at any moment. He was arguably the finest Undercover Cop inside the War on Drugs in Connecticut. He produced big numbers and put away big-time dealers. To them, Billy Chase is not just any undercover cop. He grew up in their neighborhood, went to school with them, and has had the audacity to infiltrate their drug world. Billy Chase was also an outcast in his own racist police department. Many times undercover he has been mistaken for the very criminal element he seeks. The already perilous job of maneuvering in plain clothes takes on one more intense layer when the officer is black or Latino. The story of Billy Chase undercover in the War on Drugs in the 1980s also is a defining tale about a City under siege, and how that time defined the future of politics, policing, and mass incarceration. Executive produced by acclaimed journalist Lennie Grimaldi, Chased: The Story of Billy Chase is a limited series that delves deep into the crack-era and the slow mental decline of an officer who just went too deep. Based on rare micro-cassette audio interviews of Billy Chase, Chased will be a franchise that delves into deeply personal narratives inside the guts of American Cities.

Episodes

May 17, 2023 31 mins
Criminal Minded Media's Don Sikorski, sits down with Chased: Alone, Black and Undercover author, Lennie Grimaldi. Part Three of Three. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Criminal Minded Media's Don Sikorski, sits down with Chased: Alone, Black and Undercover author, Lennie Grimaldi. Part Two of Three. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Criminal Minded Media's Don Sikorski, sits down with Chased: Alone, Black and Undercover author, Lennie Grimaldi. Part One of Three. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 17, 2023 49 mins
Vito Collucci was an undercover drug investigator who like Billy Chase was undercover inside drug organizations and the Mafia in Connecticut, he rubbed elbows with the same corrupt cops, politicians and gangsters that Billy Chase was bringing down. Vito decided to go after the systemic corruption inside Connecticut Police Departments who had been infiltrated by the Gambino Crime Family. His investigations uncovered wrongdoing in 8 ...
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May 17, 2023 35 mins
With the story we are telling, the elements that resonate as it pertains to Billy Chase, was that the deeper he got undercover, the more he started to unravel mentally. In a City like Bridgeport, Billy had targets, he had prey that he wanted to get at all costs. One of those targets was Mariano Sanchez, the leader of the powerful Number 1 Family. In order to understand the Number 1 Family and in order to understand the streets I we...
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In his newly assigned position in the Special Services Division of the Bridgeport Police Department, Billy Chase interfaced on a number of cases with federal law enforcement officials, Billy was a cop in Bridgeport where advanced training was as common as a crime-less day. How does an undercover with no formalized training get started? In Billy’s case it was go where you know best – the streets. Billy reconnected with the comings a...
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May 17, 2023 30 mins
In Episode 1, journalist Lennie Grimaldi  started to lay the foundation as to the story of police officer Billy Chase, and also to explain  the mechanics of a time and place which is Bridgeport, Connecticut, an American industrial city in the 1980s. I think almost everyone in America has heard the terminology “crack cocaine” but I would be curious to know how many people truly understand how it completely shifted the criminal under...
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May 17, 2023 22 mins
PROLOGUE BY LENNIE GRIMALDI Late one calm autumn afternoon in 1989, Billy Chase had a feeling that something wasn't quite right.  It was the intuitive feeling he had often in his maddeningly bizarre life, a life of aliases, paranoia, and danger, the life of an unusual undercover cop.  In his short, dizzying career, Chase made a habit of collecting enemies, plenty of them-and he hadn't even reached his thirty-first birthday.  When y...
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