Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Exposing Hustles Inside Miami’s Most Dangerous Hood | OG Gigaveli
09 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What events shaped OG Gigaveli's early life in Miami?
Robbing tourists daily. Hit for $30,000. Hit for $107,000. Every time I go in and come out, the game is changing. When you're from Miami, this is the progression of criminal activity. My first time going to juvenile, I was eight years old, and it's been a pattern. throughout my life. If I give you a timeline of how long I've been down, this is as long as I've ever been out right now, man.
Literally, I've been from boys' school programs, 11 years in the state of Florida, Okeechobee Boys' School, 16 years in the feds. Everybody know Miami was a sore city and what Miami was built off, you know what I mean? The Zello Bronco them time, you know what I mean? The big kingpins out of Miami. So I came up in that environment.
And one of the memories that I have that stuck with me and still stick with me to this day is the McDuffie riots. Okay. Which took place in 1980. You know what I mean? I was seven years old at that time. And they sent us to school. during the riot, but they, it was like, they didn't know if the riot was going to actually happen or not. They still waiting on the verdict.
So it's like normal operation. Everything's still going the way it's doing, but they sent to the school. And all I can remember was they stopping school mid day, right before lunch and saying that we are being sent home early. I remember it turning like pitch dark in the middle of the day. But it wasn't because of eclipses. It was black clouds of smoke. The city was on fire.
And this is because there was a verdict for... What was the verdict? What was the case? The case was the police had killed the unarmed insurance man named Maduffy. You can look it up. This particular ride, I'm telling you about, I'm seven years old. Picture me being a kid this age, and you walking through smokes, buildings being burnt down. It's like some shit out of the Middle East.
You know what I mean? Like, when they show you the clips of Pakistan or wherever, you know what I mean? Or Afghanistan or wherever, we're just... And we walking through this and I'm seeing the neighborhood junkie, I'm seeing my homeboy, uncle and all of them running out the stores, looting. And me and my friends, we kids unsupervised, we join in, you know what I mean?
So I got a shopping cart now. I got all kind of loot in there. And all I could think about, how am I going to get away with getting this back into the house with my mom not asking me where this, you know what I mean? But come to find out, my mom works on the other side of the town. and they done cut off access.
She's in the rich part of the city, and she can't get back, so I'm unsupervised for a big time during a riot. So that was kind of like what shaped...
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Chapter 2: How did the McDuffie riots impact OG Gigaveli's perspective?
The violence, the drug dealing, all that type of stuff was kind of shaped what led me into the life of what I end up, what we're here talking about today. How long until that kind of develops into actual crime? I spoke about the riot for a reason to show you. After this riot took place in my lifetime, Miami was nothing. It was like nobody had money at this time.
Only people who had money was hustlers. drug dealers, dope boys, robbers. So you asked me when it broke into a serious crime, it broke into serious crime with me, I had a choice. Either I could sell drugs or I could rob. But in Miami, selling drugs was organized. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It ain't like you see today where guys could just go answer their phone and make a play.
You had to be selected to be part of a crew to sell drugs in Miami. You know what I mean? So at this particular time, that was a slow process for me. So I came out the house robbing. You know what I mean?
I started as soon as I got out of elementary, from between elementary school, from the time I'm telling you about this riot and the time I'm telling you about me stealing out the store, the truck, I went into selling cans. My normal hustle would be get out of school, collect my cans for the weekends. I'm trying to go hang out on the weekend. Sell bottles, pump gas at the gas station, bag grocery.
No breaking the law type of things. But it's just the property that growing up in Miami, and I wasn't the only kid doing this, you know what I mean? But when I got to junior high school... I became what I consider into girls, into being a player. You know what I'm saying? And being that my mom wasn't going to afford that type of lifestyle, I got to get some money.
So collecting cans isn't doing it anymore. Cans and cans and bagging groceries, that was pocket change. I need some real money now. At this time, Louis Vuitton is out. Gucci is out. This is like 86 now, 80. You know what I'm saying? I'm in junior high now. I'm in sixth grade, seventh grade. You know what I mean? I want the gold teats. I want the jewelry, the rope chains.
I want what I see the local guys and the players got. So I changed my name to Lil' Gigolo. You know what I'm saying? I gave myself, at this particular time, everybody knew me from the hood as being Lil' Pig, which is my dad's name, Pig. And I'm like, that ain't flying. That ain't cool enough. So I come up with the name Gigolo, right? And that's a whole story in itself.
But I come up with the name Gigolo, and I got to live up to this Gigolo lifestyle. So now, either sell drugs or rob. And you don't really have a network to sell drugs yet. I'm not chosen yet. All right. I'm not chosen yet. The guys that are selling drugs, they got to chose you. You know what I'm saying? They got to put you down. So what's... What are you robbing?
Are these stores or drug dealers or is it just across the board, anything? Burglaries? I was never brave enough for burglaries. Okay. Let's get that understood. The confidence that you need, the level of thought, just imagine somebody breaking your house, what you going to do to them? Right. You know what I mean? I'd rather know what I'm going to go into, guns out first.
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Chapter 3: What led OG Gigaveli to a life of crime in Miami?
You know what I mean? Grab the pocketbook. In some cases, when I first started, though, Matt, to be honest with you, the spa plug wasn't a part. I got to tell you, that wasn't a part of the game. That's how we broke the window with the spa plug. That came later on in like the 90s. I was arm robbing in the 80s. I was like literally 12, 13 years old robbing with a pistol, robbing with a gun.
You know what I mean? Me and my co-defendant, his name K.K. Schott. K.K., he ended up doing 17 years. He was younger than me. I'm going to tell you about this one particular robbery that we did. We was going, I was 15. I know I was 15 at the time because K.K. was 14. We was coming out to Omni Mall, which is located where the Miami Heat played, the Miami on Biscayne Boulevard.
So it's a lot of money around this neighborhood. But right next to it, The Omni Mall is a hood called Overtown. So you got Money right here, Brickle right here, downtown Miami right here, and you got Overtown. I was hanging with one of my homeboys from Overtown. He had a summer job, him and his cousin. Shout out to my homeboy Dooney and Pat. They had worked all summer. Right?
So they was going, hey man, y'all come to go to the mall with us, man. We finna go buy some clothes. It's like the year like 88, 89. I remember because NWA was out and they had done came out. One of the songs EZ was saying, I got my white t-shirt, Levi's was my only disguise. And everybody in Miami wanted to be like NWA at the time. So I wanted me some Levi jeans.
So we go to the mall, Dooney and Pat, they buying their Levi jeans. Me and KK, We got guns. I think KK had like a .38, and I had a revolver because it was heavy. I remember going in the mall and trying on clothes, and even though I ain't had no money, I'm still trying to try on the Levi's because I know I'm finna get me some money. You know what I mean? I got my gun. I'm finna get me some money.
So I'm trying Levi's on, but I remember taking the gun out in the dressing room, and I remember saying, damn, sometime they got the reverse mirrors. Yeah. And I wonder if they could see me. So I kept saying, fuck this shit. I'm ready to go, KK, because I'm getting paranoid inside the mall. Make a long story short, Donnie and Pat come out with their shopping bags. Me and KK, we ain't got nothing.
But as we turn, it's a Burger King right there. As we're heading towards Overtown walking, I see the funk. which is what I, you know, some white people look like a guy. We call them muppet heads, too. They gray-haired. They funk. I see the Rolex. It's horrible, by the way. This is horrible. Listen, listen. It is. It's a true story. I mean, I can laugh about it now. I regret it.
It cost a lot of time out of my life. My co-defendant caught 17 years. But you ask me my story, I'm giving it to you, you know what I mean? Uncut, unchaste, right? Right. Don't stop. I'm just fucking around. So I spot, I had an eye for, like, certain detail. The man throwed his arm up, and I could peep it. It was a Rolex. All right. It was a Rolex. I could know the band.
I see the little gold going through the silver. I'm like, that's... I tell KK, like, we had done this, so many of these. It's like we operated out of one mind. KK went to the drivers. I mean, passed to the side. I went straight. I was tunnel vision on the Rolex. I pulled my gun on the driver. Give it up, motherfucker. You know what time it is. You know what I'm saying? Don't make it a homicide.
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Chapter 4: What strategies did OG Gigaveli use for robbing tourists?
That's the funny. I left that out. The funniest shit. He was married to a juvenile female judge. Okay. He was a lawyer. Oh, okay. He's a lawyer. His wife is a judge. So he's basically a law. He's a law. He's part of the law. He's part of the system. Okay. So he sees two people getting robbed. He stops and offers assistance. Right. All right. Well, so how long were you locked up then? I did.
I went to Okeechobee Boys School from 89 to like 91. Okay. I came home from 91. How was Okeechobee Boys School? Listen, I done been to penitentiaries in the feds. I done been to some of the roughest level state penitentiaries in Florida. Just imagine. Being locked up with juveniles. There's no guidance.
There's no, like, dude sticking their hand in your food just because they tired of waiting in line. You know what I mean? Just motherfuckers throwing hot water on a motherfucker because they bored. You know what I mean? It's one of the hardest places I ever done time at. Okeechobee Board School. But you get out. You get out of Okeechobee. You go back home. Your poor mom.
But do you go back home to mom? I mean, at this time, right? How old are you? At this time, I'm 17. I want to say 17. I'm still in high school. Okay. I came home in 91, so I'm like 17. Basically an adult. Like, I've been an adult my whole life. So I come home, the game doesn't change now. Like, when I went in the 80s, Back then, $200, $300, you could get fresh.
Get fresh, man, you could find some clothes. I come home now, it's like what I got on right now, polo. It's polo, it's designer, no, smaller designer now. At this time, Tommy's out, Nautica, Jordan is out. Tennis shoes are too high. Right, right, right. And then I come home, my homeboys, they're robbing tourists now, but everybody's not robbing with guns. They comes to smash and grab era.
Look it up. It's like smash and grab. I don't know who thought of this. I don't know how it happened, but a little piece of the spa plug, a little white piece of the spa plug would shadow a whole window in instance. So this smash and grab is going crazy. All my homeboys got 30s and lows. JT Money done made songs. He's a local rapper. He done made songs off of all this. Fuck that shit.
School ain't for me. It just stopped me from getting dollars. Drop that fuck being a scholar. So this is like in my head now. If nobody don't tell you the music affects the culture, they lying. You know what I'm saying? So I'm home. I want to change. I'm like, fuck. KK, my co-defendant, he's doing 17 years. They got me a little job being a dishwasher. You know what I mean?
I'm like, shit, this is not going to work. My home, well, I'm leaving school now. I'm not even staying in school. Lunchtime come, we hanging out just long enough to go to lunch, hanging out with the girls. We on robberies. We call them going on a route. We on a route now. We robbing tourists daily. And I did that for a while, and then I finally got kind of broke into the app.
One of my older cousins put me down with a spot called Peeping. They sold butter. We're just going to say butter for safety. You know what I mean? They know what cake, whatever you want to call it, right? White girl. And we were booming. I got on the line with my homeboys on the app. I'm making money selling dirt. What are you saying? On the app? On the app. On the app. 15th Avenue. Avenue. Okay.
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Chapter 5: What happens when the police arrive at the mall?
But it's got a security area. And they take us back there, but they're not the police. So now I'm like, what's going on? I'm looking for her to give me a signal like what the fuck this is about. You know what I mean? She's looking all the way, looking all scared and shit. So we get back there and the man say, we have a report of someone passing fake money, you know what I'm saying?
Counterfeit money. And we got a description of her. They had the cameras and shit where she passed the money.
Chapter 6: How does OG Gigaveli describe his experience with counterfeit money?
And I'm like, what they got to do with me? You know what I'm saying? He was like... They have reports from the other mall, and I hadn't been to malls with her from the other part of town. She's been hitting the Dillage. So they had me coming in the Dillage with her and another little shit. So it says it's a man and a woman. Still, I haven't passed any bills. Man, listen.
Sounds like that's a her problem. That's a her problem. It is. But I sit there like a damn fool. I'm locked in now. There's no way out. We're in the back part of this place. The police come. This is how I go for it. When the police come, they tell us that the dealers want to charge us for a pass. And I'm sitting there like trying to explain.
Chapter 7: What challenges does OG face upon being released from prison?
So at this point I asked to make a phone call. I said, can I make a phone call? All I'm thinking about is bonding out now. You know what I mean? So I called her mom. Her mom was living with us at the time. I called her mom and I say, Nana, I say, I instructed to where I had one of them little box safes that you get from Walmart, the kind that had the locker and the safe boxes.
I had one of them in the attic. And I think I had, I forgot, I had a couple of, And I had a piece of change. I'm going to re-up money and stuff from there. So I tell her, I said, if you go up there, me and Luke, we're getting ready to go to jail. I'm going to need us to bond us out. So they took that phone call, and we went to jail. Mind you, I told you a few days before Christmas.
We went to jail, right? And... They took that phone call and went to a magistrate and got a search warrant for the resident saying that I was instructing someone to move evidence pertaining to counterfeiting making machinery. And they went and bust the house. We had a bunch of stuff.
Chapter 8: What is the purpose of OG's podcast and how does he approach storytelling?
I had a couple, I had, man, I had so many guns there. Like I had, Bunch of guns there, drugs there, pills there. And you're a felon. You're not supposed to have those. Yes, that's a problem. And I went fed. Okay. But I bonded out on that case. I was out on bond on that case. And I told you I had an eight count. That's 04, 06 coming. I'm out fighting the case. You know what I mean?
Because it's state now. They ain't fed right away. And I catch another drug and dope gun, a drug and gun case. How does that happen? What's the second one? The second one is me serving my little young cats. My little young cats that bought a little work for me. I'm in a plaza near one of my trap houses. And...
Somebody reported me, a local, one of the neighbors, because it's a bunch of these young cats. I shouldn't have even pulled up there. They normally come to me. But I was buying dog food for my dogs. And I went up there and a couple of them rushed my truck. And one of the nosy neighbors that had been calling about the traffic up there called the police. The police came up there. I ran on them.
They got my truck, found a gun and drugs in my truck. And I was already out on bond. So when I went to state court, I never seen the daylight until 2021. So then the feds come in and pick up the counterfeiting or everything? Everything. I got an eight-count indictment. I got two 924Cs, which is... Possession of firearm by a felon.
Any commission of another, that's a 924, any commission of another felony. I got a 922G, which is possession of a gun by a felon. 922G. Yeah. A 924C. I got two of them for two different cases, from the 04 case and the 06 case. This is already bumping up from like 15 to 25 to 30. Are you at 30? Man, listen, if I didn't took a plea bargain, If you get two 924Cs, they stack them.
If you get two of them, you can get a mandatory 25 years on top of whatever you got for drugs or whatever case. That's not the gun charge. That's the enhancement. The gun charge is a 922G. Okay. A possession by, that's a 920. Do the math. That's five. Is that five? That's five to also being seven. If you brandished it, it could be seven. If you discharged it, it could be, you know what I mean?
If you fired it, it could be 10. It's complicated. So what's the total? Wouldn't they stack it all together? I ended up with 262 months, but I was facing life. Okay, but by a plea deal, you got that down. I got it down. They took a plea. They took the three-point separate responsibility off. You know how the sentencing guideline go. Separate responsibility.
You got one side of the guideline that says severity of the charge, and then you got the other is criminal history. And then you land somewhere in the middle. They go on the chart, and they pick out your time. Where's your whitefall? Oh, she got slapped on the wrist. 18 months. I took all the charges. Okay. I told them everything in the house was mine. This is my paperwork.
Everything in the house was mine. I don't think guys do that no more. Like, guys, like, really not taking the charges. When it comes to the female. The first time I got in trouble, I took the charge because my... Fucking lawyer. It's like at the time I thought it was a dick thing for him to say, but now I think he's just the greatest.
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