On the morning of July 16, 2025, hundreds of federal, state, and local agents descended on two buildings at 61st and Market Streets in West Philadelphia, tearing open the doors of a clubhouse that read "Wheels of Soul".

The building belonged to the Wheels of Soul, and the raid was the result of a shooting three months earlier: a man beaten in the parking lot of a Virginia hookah lounge, a friend who came to help him, and more than eighty shots fired in the gunfight.

By the time it was over, nineteen people connected to the club were in custody or being hunted across multiple states. But, to anyone who'd followed the Wheels of Soul over the previous decade and a half, none of it was surprising. This was a club that had already put the Justice Department through a thirty-five day federal trial, sixty witnesses, and at least five murders once before, more than a decade earlier, in a case that started not in Philadelphia at all, but all the way out in Saint Louis, with an informant who ended up co-founding the very chapter he was informing on...
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