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Joe Avila

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Kenj Gallo, Profiled in OC Weekly, Subject of Upcoming Fox Gangster Series?

    Photograph by John Gilhooley​You may remember Kenji Gallo, co-author with Matthew Randazzo V of the 2009 book Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, from my Sept. 2009 cover story in OC Weekly,"Blown Away." That particular story dealt with a slew of mafia murders in Orange County du ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 1, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    Photograph by John Gilhooley​You may remember Kenji Gallo, co-author with Matthew Randazzo V of the 2009 book Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, from my Sept. 2009 cover story in OC Weekly,"Blown Away." That particular story dealt with a slew of mafia murders in Orange County du ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2009

    Breakshot Author Kenji Gallo Book Signing Tomorrow

    ​Yesterday, OC Weekly published a feature story, about ex-FBI informant and  Irvine-raised hoodlum Kenji Gallo and his quest to solve the 22-year-old murder of Joe Avila, the restaurateur of El Ranchito fame who allegedly was also one of OC's biggest coke dealers in the 1980s. You can read that s ... More >>

  • News

    September 24, 2009

    The Unsolved Murder of Joe Avila Is Only One of Many Loose Ends From OC's Coked-Out '80s

    ​Yesterday, OC Weekly published a feature story, about ex-FBI informant and  Irvine-raised hoodlum Kenji Gallo and his quest to solve the 22-year-old murder of Joe Avila, the restaurateur of El Ranchito fame who allegedly was also one of OC's biggest coke dealers in the 1980s. You can read that s ... More >>

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