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Shout Out: Gringo by Dan “Tito” Davis w/ Peter Conti

Story Summary Dan “Tito” Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that’s so small everyone knows their neighbor’s cat’s name. But once he got out, he made some noise. While at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, he started manufacturing White Crosses, aka speed, and soon had the Banditos Motorcycle Club distributing ten million pills a week. After serving a nickel, he got into the weed game, but just when he got going, he was set up by a [...]

Shout Out: Gringo by Dan “Tito” Davis w/ Peter Conti2018-05-27T22:18:41+00:00

South Dakotan recalls life as international fugitive in memoir

If he could do it over, Dan “Tito” Davis would stick to white crosses. Those were the speed pills he started selling as a student at Black Hills State College in 1972, eventually transferring to Las Vegas and pulling down as much as $200,000 a week working through the illicit drug network established by the Bandidos motorcycle gang. The best part: Davis’ white crosses were made of ephedrine rather than amphetamine. They were technically legal. The mistake he made was [...]

South Dakotan recalls life as international fugitive in memoir2018-05-27T22:18:51+00:00

Tulsa Book Review – My Life as an International Fugitive

By Glenn Dallas Dan “Tito” Davis has seen more of the world than most people, and certainly under different circumstances. He visited more than 50 countries while on the run from U.S. and international law enforcement. Convicted for five years in the ’80s for tax evasion, he found relatively safer work smuggling pot. Until an associate who was dealing in much harder drugs — meth in particular — used him as a bargaining chip and threw him under the bus. [...]

Tulsa Book Review – My Life as an International Fugitive2018-05-27T22:24:21+00:00

The Go-Bag or Bug Out Bag. What do you put in yours?

Go-bag. Bug out bag. Disaster kit. Emergency preparedness kit. There are a lot of names for it, but the basic idea is: the perfect emergency bag that you pack today and hope you’ll never need. We live in a world with terrorist threats, environmental calamity, and other dangers. It never hurts to be prepared, especially if you’re politically active now. The US Justice Department tried to get the names and identities of people who liked an anti-Donald Trump page and [...]

The Go-Bag or Bug Out Bag. What do you put in yours?2018-05-27T22:19:09+00:00

Dan “Tito” Davis — TBR Article

By Glenn Dallas Dan “Tito” Davis has seen more of the world than most people, and certainly under different circumstances. He visited more than 50 countries while on the run from U.S. and international law enforcement. Convicted for five years in the ’80s for tax evasion, he found relatively safer work smuggling pot. Until an associate who was dealing in much harder drugs — meth in particular — used him as a bargaining chip and threw him under the bus. [...]

Dan “Tito” Davis — TBR Article2018-05-27T22:19:29+00:00

The People of Distinction Humanitarian Awards

Our Florida PDHA Event will be on Friday, October 13, 2017 at The First Unity Spiritual Campus, St. Petersberg, Fla. (5pm to 9pm). Our event is in partnership with Rev. Temple Hayes of Unity Churches Global. OUR HISTORY On New Year’s Day 2013, Al Cole, from CBS Radio, made a New Year’s resolution. His resolve was to help raise our societal standards professionally, creatively, spiritually, through the honoring of those who are silently serving: dedicated and inspiring "Unsung Heroes". Their [...]

The People of Distinction Humanitarian Awards2018-05-27T22:20:12+00:00

National Gringo Book Reviews

Kirkus Review Dan “Tito” Davis grew up in a family of seven in South Dakota. After years of dealing drugs; time spent in prison; two marriages and a whole lot of living in between Tito was set up on false drug charges by a long time friend. Faced with 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit Davis went on the run for 13 years avoiding federal law enforcement across multiple countries and continents. Black-bagged in [...]

National Gringo Book Reviews2018-05-27T22:24:30+00:00

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