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In Minnesota, a gruesome murder left few clues and he became a suspect, but he was well insulated from the police. FBI agents and local detectives had to infiltrate a dangerous essential cartel to reach a pair of gangsters who

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lessly killed a burning body in a dark alley. shed light on a cold-blooded killer his partners in crime would tell the story if they live in the underworld of drug trafficking even a childhood friend can quickly become an enemy I'm Jim Kallstrom former head of the FBI's New York office a trail of drugs and money, but FBI agents - a killer who underestimated the power of forensic science on June 24, 1990, around 3 a.m.

The Paul Minnesota resident was enjoying the quiet of a summer afternoon when he noticed a car pulling into the alley behind his house. Moments later he heard the distinct sound of a fire and then the car sped away checking the alley and discovered a large object engulfed in flames. He feared the fire would burn down his property and called 911. Paul's emergency units responded when firefighters extinguished the flames and realized it was more than an act of vandalism, the object was a charred human body wrapped in a tarp. of melted plastic. Homicide detectives arrived at the scene and questioned the resident, but he had not seen the car. who was in it police found no identification on or near the body investigators hoped an autopsy would provide more information if they could identify the victim it could help them find those responsible a medical examiner determined the victim was a black man about 20 years old and who was dead before the fire started cause of death multiple gunshot wounds to the head the examiner removed three small caliber bullets that would be sent to the ballistics laboratory for examination despite the fire damage the examiner found gunpowder burns on the victim's head, indicating he had been shot at point-blank range if enough fingerprints remained they could help identify him the prints were entered into the automatic fingerprint identification system a fascism database that contained the fingerprints of 23 million people the body had probably been burned to make identification difficult.

With APHIS technology it might be possible, but analyzing the fingerprints would take some time. Police believed such a gruesome murder was likely drug-related on Minneapolis St. The Paul area had recently become a popular narcotics importation location, with drugs came an increase in violent crime. Special Agent John Tyndall of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigated drug trafficking in the area, the main way people moved cocaine into the state at that time would have been through public transportation which, whether by bus or by plane, police created drug interdiction teams assigned to Minneapolis st. Paul Airport to try to stop the influx, monitored agents traveled to and from cities like Miami and Los Angeles, where the drugs originated, their job was to detect drug dealers among legitimate passengers.

On June 25, 1990, the day after the body was recovered in the alley, the agents were looking at the counters where tickets were issued on the same day, these two guys approached the ticket agent and stood there for quite a while. time doing what we felt was negotiating the sale of some tickets, they pulled out a wad of bills, paid cash for the tickets, and then left. At the ticket counter, agents checked the counter and learned that the men were flying under the names Jeffery English and Harry Babs. Officers caught up with the men at their gate as they waited to board their flight and asked them if they would answer some questions. he explained to them that they had no obligation to talk to us if they didn't want to they were not under arrest they were free to leave both men gave their consent to be interviewed once they said they were simply returning to their home in Los Angeles he said they had to come to st.

Paul went to visit a friend named Ken Jones, the officers asked permission to search the bags they had searched at the counter. They both agreed, so a search warrant was not necessary. The suitcases had not yet been loaded onto the plane that belonged to Geoffrey. English was a plastic bag containing rolls of cash totaling $13,000 stuffed into a shoe. A .22 caliber derringer pistol that would have been easy to miss. It was a small revolver with a capacity of five bullets and a barrel only an inch long. About four inches long, a gun that could be concealed by simply placing it in your hand, in the other bag was another gun that had not been declared.

That violation plus the suspicious amount of cash provided enough probable cause for an arrest outside the mall, the officer radioed. his partner had to stop Babs in English before they took off the plane was still determined the agent boarded the plane and found the men already seated in a later interview English would claim that the money came from the sale of a car, he said he bought on the 22nd Darren are on the street in Minneapolis and added that he has no idea where the gun had been. I thought it was a strange response for a person to walk away from the history of guns and that was the first inclination either of us had that the gun could have been used in some type of crime simply because of the way he phrased his response to the question.

Agents became more suspicious when English admitted that he was flying under a false name. His real name was Jeffrey Barnes. There was no evidence against him. Barnes or his partner for anything other than misdemeanor weapons offenses, both men paid fines and were released. Their weapons were withheld until officers could check police records to see if they had been used in previous crimes, two weeks later, st. Paul police received a fingerprint match from the man found burned in the alley. There was a coincidence from Southern California. The victim's name was Duan Walker. The 26-year-old Los Angeles area resident had a prior conviction for attempting to sell narcotics.

Walker's death made the documents in his hometown his uncle read the article and called st. Authorities of Pablo St. Paul, police officer, please, told the detectives that his nephew had gone there to meet a man named Ken Jones. Yes sir, thank you very much for his information. We appreciate that yes, officer, my name is when Walker did not return from St. Paul, the uncle, he had contacted Jones, who told him that Walker had already left st. Paul narcotics detectives were familiar with Jones, having been investigating him for years. He was reputed to be the largest supplier of cocaine in the region.

Jones was careful with his drug business and was well protected from investigation by publicly donating to urban charities. Ken Jones also portrayed himself. As a community benefactor, police knew he was undercover as his legitimate businesses believed he used to launder drug money. His reputation was different on the street among dealers and addicts. Jones was known to rule his interests with an iron fist if he didn't get paid people were injured for years detectives had been looking for a way to stop the drug dealer detectives knew murder victim Duan Walker was with Jones before his death if they could prove that the dealer was involved they could finally get him off the street but they needed more evidence investigators went to interview the employees at his business they hoped someone would know that Jones met Duan Walker he never saw this person at all but none of the employees were willing to talk drug boss Ken Jones continued his narcotics trafficking that appeared to be beyond the reach of the law on June 24, 1990.

Paul authorities had found the body of Duan Walk, 26, burning in an alley just before his death. He had met with drug dealer Ken Jones. Police believe Jones was involved in the murder, but witnesses did not speak and there was no physical evidence implicating him. an unexpected breakup three months later, when st. Paul police stopped a man for a routine traffic violation. A computer check revealed that there was a warrant for Charles Shuck's arrest. Police took him into custody and contacted the investigator who had issued the warrant, Special Agent John Tyndall of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

The arrest warrant was issued against Charles Chuck for importing 2 kilos of cocaine. We tried to find him at the address he had given us and he was not there and we had no way of knowing where he was at the time. Several months before, a drug. interdiction team in minneapolis st. Paul's airport had seen the courier they saw pay cash for a last-minute,

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-fare ticket to Los Angeles that would be round-trip, round-trip. Chuck did not check a suitcase and was only right on a boarding pass for the plane here on The next day, agents saw him return with two bags.

New couriers often had extra bags when they returned from a drug pickup. I told Chuck that they couldn't arrest him but that they could store his luggage so that the inspection authorities couldn't open his bags without his consent. He didn't give it Chuck's response wasn't that of innocent travelers telling them that you're usually going to stop their suitcases if they have nothing to hide they want to stay on their backs they don't want to leave those suitcases behind Chuck didn't have any of that he didn't have any questions he didn't have any. concerns is that his main concern was to get out of there as fast as he could shortly after the shucks left a k-9 unit examined the bags one was clean but in the other the dog smelled of narcotics Can't get a search warrant based strictly on the dog's actions.

The dog was an integral part of the search warrant application, but it was not the only part. We also had to detail the fact that we had seen. Chuck the night before came and bought a high priced round trip ticket to Los Angeles with the return flight the next morning. These things are unusual. The fact that he carried one small bag on the plane and took two with him is also unusual. Agents obtained a search warrant for When opening the bags inside, they recovered two kilos of cocaine. Investigators suspected Chuck was carrying the drugs for someone else at the time, we couldn't make a connection as to who he might be working with or for, but my hunch was that he was a courier for someone higher up now that Chuck had been arrested. learned of the evidence against him he had his lawyer propose a deal in exchange for sentencing consideration he would give information about the man he was trafficking drugs for, more importantly he also provides details about the unsolved murder of Duan Walker.

Chuck said that the man who hired him as a courier was the same man who had ordered the murder. The man's name was Ken Jones. For each kilo of cocaine delivered, Ken Jones would pay $1,000. worked for the drug lord since high school it was precisely because their relationship was so strong that Jones did not retaliate for the loss of cocaine, but Chuck or not is the only girlfriend of Courier Jones who also played an important role in the organization of traffic. Charles Chuck told me that she was intimately familiar with his drug trafficking operation; in fact, she had been an airline stewardess for many years and had acted as a courier for him bringing in kilos when she worked as a stewardess.

Investigators asked Chuck if the girlfriend knew about the murder, she said that at the time Walker was killed, she had been very upset. Eirene told him that Jones had ordered him to clean the bathroom in her condo. What's going on? There was a large amount of blood next to the bathtub. Chuck had heard. Walker had been shot there, he said the killer's name was Jeffrey Barnes and Jones' enforcer and the same man whose suitcase contained $13,000 in cash and a .22 Derringer pistol, felt that Barnes had shot the victim in the head at Walker and that he left town.

The next day, after Ken Jones paid him for that hit, Shock alleged that the $13,000 in cash found in the suitcase was at least part of the money Jones paid Barnes for doing the hit and that the caliber revolver 22 What was found was the murder weapon. Chuck knew the caliber of the murder weapon and other details of the crime that had not been made public, so we felt there was some credibility on Chuck's part that Barnes and Jones could be considered legitimate suspects in the case. The agents in the Walker murder realized that they might already have the murder weapon in custody if they could prove thatIt was the weapon that killed Duan Walker.

They could move forward as a murder case of drug kingpin Ken Jones and his enforcer Jeffrey Barnes. Let's assume they recovered the .22 caliber derringer from the evidence. Locker investigators sent the derringer to St. Paul's ballistics lab, for testing, compared the grooved serrations inside its barrel to the grooves on bullets removed from the victim, but their report is disappointing, the results were not inconclusive, partly due to the fact that it only had a one-inch barrel and the opportunity to pick up. The grooves and grooves within this canyon were limited; the longer the barrel, the better the opportunity to detect the grooves.

A short barrel like this offers very limited opportunity without a forensic examination comparing Barnes' gun to the bullets that killed Walker. The authorities only had the word of a drug trafficker to bring him to trial. The agents sent the weapon to the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms laboratory in Washington DC. The feeling was that their laboratory was somewhat more sophisticated, they were used to doing things like that in a way routinely and with their sophisticated equipment they could come to a determination that was more specific after the ATF examined them and concluded that it was, in fact, the gun that was used to murder Walker.

Investigators now knew that enforcer Jeffery Barnes was in the agents' possession, and detectives searched for witnesses who could connect the two men to the homicide, either out of loyalty or fear. The authorities were met with silence one after another, the people we tried to talk to wouldn't talk to us and wouldn't give up anything, so we were back to the point of only having the statement that Charles Shuck gave us and there is no palpable way to corroborate the information he gave us through other witnesses. Investigators requested a warrant to search Jones' condominium, but the judge refused to grant it because they could not corroborate the blood story.

On the ground after almost a year, investigators realized the case would not be solved without additional resources, they contacted Paul Sink, the FBI's drug task force for help, having worked in narcotics for 20 year old Sergeant Tom Doneski was well aware of Ken Jones and Jeffrey's reputation. Barnes, they are both very intimidating and imposing individuals, they had violent backgrounds and when we would do an interview, people would practically try to avoid the sky in contact with us or they would not tell us the straight story that the task force believed was the only one. The way to get to the drug lord and his executioner would be through a cooperating witness.

They needed to find someone who could give them first-hand information and perhaps request a recorded confession. The researcher approached a confidential informant who he had developed in previous cases that the informant could not. He did not place Barnes with the victim, but he did know that the executioner had a nephew who had recently been released from prison. His name was Russell Barnes, known on the street as Ice. After being released from prison, he had come to St. Paul and began trafficking cocaine with contacts provided by his uncle Jeffrey Barnes. The nephew was eager to earn money.

Let's hope to use his enthusiasm to his advantage. Investigators developed a new strategy in the fall of 1992. The nephew of the executioners would become their new target. FBI special agent. Grant BC, the specialist and wire interceptions were called in as part of the plan we went after Russell number one because he was a pretty good sized drug dealer. Number two, he dealt with his uncle Jeffrey and we felt like we could make a case. against Russell who would help us make a case against Jeffrey to get it, agents would have to somehow infiltrate the toy-r-us from a dangerous drug underworld in 1992, investigators believed a st.

Drug dealer Paul and his enforcer had killed Duan Walker, they had already recovered the murder weapon, but Sergeant Tom Doneski assigned to an FBI drug task force needed corroborating evidence to arrest drug dealer Ken Jones and his enforcer Jeffery Barnes. , just having the gun was not enough to get him prosecuted for it, we feel like we're going to have to identify some people or bring some people to court who can testify that Jeff Barnes and Ken Jones were involved in, you know, the murder. of the FBI Special. Constable Grant BC believed that if they arrested drug dealer nephew Russell Barnes first, he could provide them with the information they needed.

We had sources close to Russell who gave us the indication that he knew that his uncle had committed the murder. I didn't know how much Russell knew. Well, to build a narcotics case against Russell Barnes, the FBI recruited a reliable, street-credible informant. I can hear what I'm saying. Agents sent a cable to the informant that he would engage in controlled activities. drug purchases with law enforcement nephews task force members would record every purchase it was a risky operation if the informants wire was discovered they would probably kill him the agents wanted to build trust and avoid any chance that russell barnes might become suspicious which was a Sena at first The informant bought small quantities over time, the transactions increased in size and frequency and each one was recorded, everything, everything, but Russell Barnes refused to talk about the knowledge of the murder.

The agents were no closer to solving the crime. The FBI needed to place someone closer to the executor. In May 1993 they discovered their path and worked for st. Paul from the FBI in another case mentioned that he and Jeffrey Barnes had spent time together, he stated that they were very close and that Barnes trusted him, he said he was sure he could get Barnes to sell cocaine and talk about the murder of Duan Walker. The agents tested the credibility of the informant by having him call the enforcer. In a few moments it was clear that Jeffrey Barnes was comfortable talking to the informant.

It was the break that investigators were looking for now that they needed to find a place for drug purchases, but in my controlled environment that could be properly connected at the time the informant was living with a relative and couldn't really do things in his house, we got a house from HUD and moved the informant into the house and the informant agreed to record certain conversations he might have with Jeffrey Barnes researchers. the informant in a government-owned home on the west side of st. Paul, he had to contact the FBI every time the enforcer planned to visit the house for a drug deal.

FBI technicians wired the house with electronic listening devices on three borders. The agents knew that Barnes liked to brag about being a hitman by referring to himself as murder incorporated with it. information, we tried to encourage the informant to try to get him to a point where he would talk to him about acts of violence, that he was involved in things like that and this is something that Jeff Barnes' reputation was about and something that he liked to brag about that the agents taught their informant how to get Duan Walker's murder out of Barnes. He was to guide the executioner to talk about the hits he carried out in the past in a recorded conversation.

He got the informant to pretend that he wanted Barnes to help him rob. a drug dealer Jeffrey Barnes suggested they simply kill him Barnes told the informant that hitting someone is no problem and described how he could do it: he would walk behind the individual and hit him in the head with a gun. fall to the ground wrap him in plastic and drag his body outside and put him in an alley and this was exactly the same way they had murdered Duan Walker, let's cut to the chase, it was good circumstantial evidence, but on its own it wasn't enough.

Because the bhai had been organized by telephone, investigators obtained a court order to tap the suspects' telephone lines. Although the wire intercepts did not capture information about Walker's murder, they did produce details of the drug operation in January 1994, the task force decided it was time to arrest Russell. Barnes and hoped she would turn on his uncle. On Jan. 29, they set up another controlled drug with an informant that would happen at a facility in St. Paul Hotel investigators wired the room for sound. The reliability of the listening devices was essential. Exhibits 1 2 1 2. The recordings would be used in court and officers would be monitoring from an adjacent room.

If Russell Barnes discovered the setup, they could protect the informant from him. ok, go ahead, give me food tests 1 2 3 when everyone was ready, they would have the informant call the enforcers nephew and order several ounces of cocaine. mary had a little lamb testing 1 mary had a little lamb mary researchers at st. The Paul Police Special Investigations Unit was conducting surveillance at Russell Barns' residence and after phone calls were made with very little delay, Russell went to the hotel that Russell Barnes had given to the informant before bringing cocaine and the equipment he needed to measure it, he suspected. nothing to him, it was just another deal, he set up shop and began the transaction not knowing that every word was being recorded, it was important to get a drug dealer off the streets, but what the agents really wanted was for Russell Barnes to give a statement about the drug boss.

Ken Jones and enforcer Jeffrey Barnes committed murder when details of the drug deal were recorded. The researchers moved with their hands behind their heads. Okay, we're clear, they had indisputable evidence that Russell Barnes was selling approximately two ounces of cocaine. The researchers explained to him that that is three. Russell, a narcotics offender at the time, was facing a minimum of fifteen years in prison, they wanted a statement about his uncle, you know, they sat him down and we talked a little bit about Jeffrey Barnes and his involvement in the homicide of Dewan Walker, being somewhat Reluctant because this was His uncle it took a little persuasion and after a while we gained his trust and he finally told us what he knew about the Dwight Walker homicide.

Jeffrey Barnes had told him that Walker tried to steal cocaine from Ken Jones, so he was killed. The enforcer said Walker was then thrown. The body in an alley was doused with gasoline and set on fire. Nobody, at best, was a second-hand confessional. Barnes was arrested. Agents also arrested his informant so no one would know he cooperated. Chief jugg Ken Jones was still on the street as was his enforcer. Jeffrey Barnes, but the FBI task force was getting close in 1994 as it tried to dismantle a Minnesota drug ring and solve a four-year-old murder. Paul police had arrested dealer Russell Barnes, who agreed to cooperate.

He offered details about crimes committed by his uncle Jeffrey Barnes, including nationwide drug trafficking and the 1990 murder of Duan Walker, according to Sergeant Tom Doneski. Investigators had a lot of evidence against Jeffrey Barnes, an acquaintance and for a certain drug lord, Ken Jones, we have a gun that has been recovered at the airport, we have Jeff Barnes making a comment to one of our informants that this is how someone is murdered, which is a drug scam type situation and the actual procedural situation that he went through when he killed Duan Walker and now we have his nephew telling us that he was at his house, a blood relative who was going to testify before the court who actually told him about the murder in August 1994, when investigators staked out the apartment. where Jeffrey Barnes was staying they knew the executioner was often armed and ready to kill he had no time to react big witch hands up in the car come on move prosecutors still haven't charged him with murder they moved forward with a drug conspiracy case Instead of dealing drugs for his former cellmate to earn Barnes 30 years in prison, they would keep the murder case until they had more evidence against him and Ken Jones, Special Agent Grant BC believed that having Barnes in prison would make witnesses more willing to talk.

Jeff Barnes had a reputation as an enforcer, he scared people, we felt that getting him off the street would eliminate the intimidation factor against some of these other people and it would be better for us to be able to talk to these other people while he was locked up. The plan worked. After investigators in Barnes' arrest met with an associate of Ken Jones who was facing a lengthy prison sentence on drug charges, he offered to be a government witness and said he had extensive knowledge of the Barnes drug cartel. Jones and that he had met Duan Walker just before his murder in mid-In June 1990, Jones had ordered the cooperating witness to drive a van to st.

Louis, where he would meet Walker, the truck had been equipped with asecond tank of fuel upon arrival at st. Louis, who was at Walker's, put several bags of cocaine into the fake tank, when it was

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, the tank contained around 30 kilos of drugs; That amount of cocaine would have been worth more than a million dollars. The cooperating witness drove the truck back to st. Paul, where he handed him over to the drug boss, Walker had arrived earlier and was staying with Jones at his condo. Jones had not paid Walker for the drugs, in fact he and his enforcer decided not to conspire to take the drug and eliminate the problem and simply execute Duan Walker the witness testimony would explain the motive for the murder he told the agents that Several days later he received a call from the drug boss and was ordered to go to the condominium immediately.

It was Sunday morning, June 24, 1990, the day after Duan Walker's murder, Ken Jones seemed very nervous and ordered the cooperating witness to got rid of the truck he had driven from st. Louis, the one with the fake gas tank, the drug lord demanded that no one know about the cocaine, the witness said that Jones' girlfriend had also talked to him about cleaning up the blood in the bathroom after the murder in the summer of 1995, prosecutors convened grand jury for secure sworn witness testimony Jones' girlfriend was subpoenaed to testify, but she denied telling anyone she cleaned up the blood and Jones Kenzo, if authorities couldn't prove she was lying, they might never be able to indict Ken Jones and Jeffrey Barnes for murder in June 1995.

Grand jury testimony from others showed that a witness committed perjury when she denied cleaning up blood in drug dealer Ken Jones' bathroom. I'm not sure what she's talking about, sir. On June 21, the grand jury indicted Jones and his top enforcer, Jeffrey. Barnes for the 1990 murder of Duan Burger Barnes, the alleged hitman, was already in prison on drug charges the day after prosecution investigators staked out the home of drug lord Ken Jones. Oh, he had isolated himself well from the investigation. Ken Jones was eventually arrested for murder. FBI Drug Task Force member Robert Tom Donski was determined to find physical evidence to support the testimony of the tribe's witnesses.

Throughout the investigation, everything focused on the fact that Donna Walker was murdered in a bathroom bet and there she was shot in the head. He was thinking we might still find a trail of blood and grout on the bathroom floor. Bureau of Criminal Apprehension technicians processed the bathroom after Jones was arrested. The new tenants had moved into the condo and consented to the search. Technicians tested for the presence of blood using luminol, a relatively new technique at the time in which luminol reacts with proteins in the blood, making small traces of blood invisible under ultraviolet light.

We were able to determine on the subfloor under the slab that there was a significant amount of blood. They couldn't get a DNA from that test, but they were able to get a test that showed that it was a significant amount of blood and that it was human blood that was still traceable even five years ago. Barnes, were the evidence investigators needed on October 31, 1995 Ken Jones and JeffreyBarnes went on trial in Saint Paul, but also for the murder prosecutors described what they believed happened and did in Walker's final hours. The gentlemen here are responsible for all this.

Walker had delivered approximately 30 kilos of cocaine to Jones, the drug kingpin decided against it. wanted to pay that night, he and his main enforcer, Jeffrey Barnes, partied with Walker, finally Walker headed to the bathroom. Jones and Barnes had planned for the hit to take place there. Walker was unarmed. Barnes shot three stars from his 2012 super derringer, as Jones always maintained. his distance Walker died immediately later that night they wrapped Walker's body in plastic sheets to contain the blood and loaded it into a car which they drove to an Allen landfill the body to make identification more difficult they doused the body with gasoline and set a fire that Jones used his girlfriend to cover her tracks after the murder the bathroom floor was covered in blood, particularly the area around the bathtub where Walker had fallen, she was able to clean its surface but the blood had seeped to the subfloor five years later, technicians would find her there Ken Jones and Jeffrey Barnes were convicted of murder and drug charges in March 1996.

Both were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Jeffrey Barnes, who had once boasted of being a built-in killer, was no longer a threat to those outside the prison system. Ken Jones had tried to create an image of himself as a community leader, but his race led to murder and he will never leave Perler alive.