Buck Jeff - Takedown: A Small-Town Cops Battle Against the Hells Angels and the Nations Biggest Drug Gang: A Small-Town Cop’s Battle Against the Hells Angels and the Nation’s Biggest Drug Gang

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For my mother, father, and sister, who were always there

All drug cases and books are true team efforts. For help along the way of both this case and this book, Id like to thank and acknowledge: Sheriff Drew Alexander, Mayor Sam Alonso, Phyllis Azar, assistant editor Elayne Becker, Sergeant Rick Beverly, Sergeant Jeff Breznak, Kathi Buck, law director Paul Carpenter, the Honorable Derek Champagne, dispatchers of the City of Twinsburg, publisher Tom Doherty, Detective Jim Gilchrist, editor Bob Gleason, attorney Gary Himmel, Congressman David Joyce, Captain John Korinek, Jon Land, Special Agent Bill Leppla, publicist Emily Mullen, attorney Ken Myers, Narcotics Border Task Force, Franklin County, New York, officers of the City of Beachwood, officers of the Village of Reminderville, Lindsay Preston, associate publisher Linda Quinton, Detective Rod Smith, Lieutenant Kirk Snodgrass, Detective Larry Weppler, and Chief Keith Winebrenner.

Yulia Abramovich: The Russian woman I arrested on a domestic assault beef in October 2008 who provided the first clue to drug dealing in my Ohio backyard by elements of the Russian mob.

Ralph Sonny Barger: Founder of the Hells Angels and kingpin who turned the biker gang into a criminal force coast to coast and, ultimately, north of the border.

Robert Robbie Barnes and Frank Courtland Teek: The two sources that provided product to Richard Heckman.

Al Beauchamp: Fairlawn, Ohio, police detective who helped me score a reverse drug deal after we arrested Kevin Sorin.

Maurice Mom Boucher: Joined the Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels in 1987 after completing a forty-month sentence for sexually assaulting a teenager. He led the Hells Angels in their war against the Rock Machine.

Rudolph Brancel: Subject of another of my biggest drug investigations, resulting in him being imprisoned.

Kathi Buck: My wife, mother of my daughter, and the woman whos been by my side through almost all of my career.

Salvatore Cazzetta: Successor to Sonny Barger as head of the Hells Angels, a position he held when the Angels solidified their hold on the Quebec drug trade and their arrangement with the Akwesasne Nation.

Derek Champagne: Ambitious, driven Franklin County, New York, district attorney cross-designated as an Assistant U.S. Attorney who wanted to put an end to the drug trade originating with the Hells Angels and members of the Akwesasne Mohawks as much as I did. Hes currently a family court judge.

Matt Cody: Low-level target of the Geauga, Ohio, drug task force investigation that could have destroyed my case.

Kim Cook: Danny Simondss fiance, who introduced Danny to Alan Jacobs and then helped pick up the slack after Danny was murdered.

Derek Cooke: Alan Jacobss boyhood friend who helped him sell drugs and one of the thugs who attacked Danny Simonds. No relationship to Kim.

Daniel Desrochers: An eleven-year-old boy killed in a Hells Angels bomb blast in Montreal, the incident attributed with igniting the Quebec biker wars.

Chad Edwards: One of the thugs that attacked Danny Simonds.

Sam Fields: The Native who introduced Alan Jacobs to the world of drug running on the reservation when Alan was just a boy.

Harold and Sabrina Fraser: Franklin County farmers who replaced Danny Simonds as Kevin Sorins suppliers.

Frenchie: Undercover drug officer from the Ontario Provincial Police who was working Operation SharQc north of the border while my task force was working our investigation south of the border.

Leo Fritz: A lower-level drug dealer who became a confidential informant and helped me break one of my biggest drug cases ever involving a kingpin named Brancel.

Phil Garillo: DEA agent who assisted me on the Heckman case.

Richard Heckman: Kingpin of a national, and international, drug network another of my investigations brought down.

Bryan Wildcat Herne: Alan Jacobss chief enforcer and leader of the thugs who attacked Danny Simonds.

Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau and Frdric Landry-Htu: Full-patch members of the Hells Angels of Quebec involved in the drug trade north of the border.

Mike Hughes: A Reminderville, Ohio, uniformed policeman I enlisted as part of the multi-jurisdictional task force that extended from Ohio to Franklin County, New York.

Ivan Ivashov: Computer salesman friend of Kevin Sorins and boyfriend of Yulia Abramovich whose tip was the beginning of my entrance to the case and Kevins ultimate undoing.

Alan Jacobs: A drug runner from boyhood who rose to become de facto head of the drug trade on the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation reservation and spearhead of moving drugs through the reservation supplied by the Hells Angels out of Montreal.

Rosalie Jacobs: Alans mom and currently CEO of Jacobs Tobacco Company.

Curtis Jones: A high-level drug dealer who tried to evade my arresting officers by jumping out a fifth-story window in my last case undercover.

Dave Joyce: Chief prosecutor from the Geauga County Prosecutors Office and now an Ohio congressman.

Terry Kincade: A drug dealer targeted by me in 1995 in one of my last cases as an undercover drug officer, using my alias of Jimmy Morgan.

Noah King: Alan Jacobss right-hand man who replaced him as head of the drug trade on the Akwesasne reservation after Alan was arrested and jailed.

John Korinek: Beachwood, Ohio, detective who was already looking at Kevin Sorin when I got involved. Korinek remained involved the whole way.

Brad Kottler: Low-level dealer of Kevin Sorins I nailed in a rare reverse that added more funds to my forfeiture coffers.

Brian LaTulipe: One of the thugs that attacked Danny Simonds.

Robert McDivitt and Joe Thatcher: Major players in the Heckman case.

Randy McGuire: New York state trooper who introduced me to Derek Champagne and the Franklin County wire room that was instrumental in the ultimate success of my task force in bringing down the network.

Brandon Meyers: Korineks detective partner with the Beachwood, Ohio, police department I pegged right away as someone I didnt want sticking on the case.

Detective Joe Miles: One of my top detectives with the Reminderville, Ohio, police who was with me from the very beginning of the case depicted in Takedown .

Mitchell: A drug runner for Terry Kincade I turned into a confidential informant.

Jimmy Morgan: My undercover alias as the Dope Ghost.

Ashley Schmid: Kevin Sorins young, feisty, and drug-addicted girlfriend.

Danny Simonds: Ex-marine and doomed drug runner who lost his life after trying to cut Alan Jacobs out of the process.

Rick Sinnigan: DEA agent assigned to St. Lawrence County, New York, who I felt never grasped the enormity of the problem he was facing.

Boris and Loudmilla Sorin: Parents of Kevin Sorin.

Kevin Sorin: The young Beachwood, Ohio, drug dealer who was getting his product from Danny Simonds, prime courier of Alan Jacobs, titular head of the drug trade on the Akwesasne Indian reservation.