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WE'RE STILL LEARNING THE
EXTENT OF THIS FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION.
>> CATHERINE: ONE OF THE
TARGETS OF TODAY'S RAID HAS
A LONG RAP SHEET IN SAN
FRANCISCO.BUT A SHORT
STATURE.
RAYMOND CHOW IS JUST FIVE
FOOT FIVE -- AND WAS CALLED
"SHRIMP BOY" WHEN HE WAS
GROWING UP IN HONG KONG.
THE NAME STUCK WHEN HE
MOVED HERE AS A TEENAGER.
RETURN
>>*** *** ***
>> CATHERINE: THE GOLDEN
DRAGON MASSACRE OF 1977, THE
WORST MASS *** IN SAN
FRANCISCO HISTORY:
FIVE KILLED, 11 WOUNDED WHEN
CHINESE GANG MEMBERS OPENED
FIRE IN A CHINATOWN
RESTAURANT.
>> CATHERINE: TEENAGED
RAYMOND CHOW WAS THERE BUT
WAS NEITHER HURT NOR
ARRESTED.
CHOW'S FIRST BRUSH WITH THE
LAW CAME THE NEXT YEAR,
WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED FOR
STRONGARM ROBBERY.
AT AGE 18, HE WENT TO
PRISON FOR THE FIRST TIME.
CLANG
>> CATHERINE: HE GOT OUT IN
1985, ONLY TO BE ARRESTED
AGAIN ON FIREARMS CHARGES
THE NEXT YEAR.
1989: BACK ON THE STREETS.
>>"PIMPING SELLING DRUGS
EXTORTION."
>> CATHERINE: CHOW WAS
SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE WO
HOP TO TRIAD. AND READY TO
BOAST ABOUT IT ON THE
HISTORY CHANNEL.
>>"I RUN THIS CITY. WHO CAN
TELL ME WHAT TO DO? NO ONE"
>> CATHERINE: FEDERAL AGENTS
THOUGHT OTHERWISE.
IN 1991 HE WAS INDICTED FOR
A THIRD TIME. AND NUMBER
THREE BROUGHT HARD TIME: 25
YEARS.
>> CATHERINE: CHOW THEN
BEGAN COOPERATING WITH
AUTHORITIES, TESTIFYING
AGAINST HIS FORMER BOSS,
PETER CHONG.
>> CATHERINE: A FOURTH
INDICTMENT IN 1996 DIDN'T
STICK AND CHOW BEGAN
PRESENTING HIMSELF AS
REFORMED.
>> CATHERINE: IN 2006, KRON
FOUR'S HAAZIQ MADYUN CAUGHT
UP WITH HIM AT A YOUTH GROUP
MEETING.
>>"YOU WERE AT ONE TIME THE
LEADER OF THE CHINESE TRIAD
OR MAFIA?
>>"YES!"