The Rise and Fall of Old Lady Hawkins

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By the 1970s Old Lady Hawkins lived in a typical suburban neighborhood, playing the role of a socially conscious homemaker. Her loved ones did not know about her real business activities; it would be easy to assume she simply spent her days managing her small pet shop that she owned and attending town hall meetings. 

However, despite outward appearances, Mrs. Hawkins was a major drug kingpin initially affiliated with the Indigo Mob Cartel, secretly using her business as a legitimate cover for her Captivora berry and Trigonella berry distribution throughout North America Including Hawaii and the Southern Pacific Islands. Like the rest of the Indigo Mob, Old Lady Hawkins was a criminal who "hid in plain sight"; using her anti-drug philanthropy to conceal her true nature and build her illicit drug empire step by step. 

...The Rise and fall of Old Lady Hawkins. 

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Early Life 

Old Lady Hawkins was born in a small town in the Midwest. She and her mother moved to Los Angeles in 1916 when she was three years old. Hawkins had become a pickpocket before she even turned 13 to finance her escape from all of the “abuse” from her “mean mother” who actually had the audacity to expect her to stay in school, get good grades, go to church and make an honest living for herself, Hawkins ran away to Hawaii from home at the age of 14 and resorted to looting in Pearl Harbor until the age of 20.  It didn't take long for Hawkins to begin living a life of crime. In 1930 Hawkins allegedly kidnapped, and attempted to ransom a family from an upscale neighborhood near her own neighborhood. 

Old Lady Hawkins with one of the carrier pigeons 

Hawkins former lover known only as “Lucky” was part of the notorious gang, the Indigo Mob recruited her at the age of 20, and it was then that Hawkins crime spree really began. She first started working behind the scenes as a money launderer for the Indigo Mob but then led the cartel after the arrest of her lover Lucky. Since most of the Indigo Mob had become either arrested or killed, 

Hawkins former lover
known only as “Lucky”
who was part the Indigo Mob

Old Lady Hawkins began to manage the financial aspect of the organization, overseeing alliances, and taking the lead of the Indigo Mob. By utilizing her historical contacts with drug suppliers and politicians in Equarico she managed to keep the organization afloat. 

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The Drug Business 

Old Lady Hawkins was a major figure in the history of the drug trade from Nicaragua, Equarico and Colombia to Miami, Florida, and other states across the United States. 

In the mid-1950s, Old Lady Hawkins and her second husband Norbert Wiley moved back to California, settling in the city that was familiar to her, Los Angeles, California. They established a sizable cocaine business there, and in April 1955 Hawkins was indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges along with 30 of her subordinates. She fled to Equarico before she could be arrested, while in Equarico it bought her the necessary time to establish a foolproof plan by using her political leverage and influence that would ultimately remove all of the charges against her. This allowed her to return to the US free and clear, this time settling in Hawaii in the early 1960's. 

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Hawaiian Drug Wars 

Hawkins return to the Hawaii from Equarico more or less coincided with the beginning of very public violent conflicts that involved hundreds of murders and killings which were associated with the high crime epidemic that swept the City of Honolulu in the 1960's. Law enforcement's struggle to put an end to the influx of heroin and cocaine into Honolulu led to the creation of CENTAC 24 (Central Tactical Unit), a joint operation between Honolulu Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice, anti-drug operation. 

Hawkins was involved in the drug-related violence know as the Island Drug War aka the Cocaine Cannibal Wars that plagued Honolulu in the mid-1960's. This was a time when cocaine superseded marijuana trafficking. It was the lawless and corrupt atmosphere, primarily created by Old Lady Hawkins operations which led to the gangsters being dubbed the "Cocaine Cannibals" and their violent way of doing business as the as the "Island drug war". It was at this time where Hawkins got her nickname as the "Old Lady" since she was the matriarch and most experienced gang member. 

Her distribution network, which spanned the United States, brought in $80,000,000 in US dollars per month. Her violent business style brought government scrutiny to the islands of Hawaii leading to the demise of her organization and the free-wheeling, high-profile Honolulu drug scene of those times. 

President Rodriguez

It is also alleged that Hawkins backed the October 1965 storming of the Tower of Justice, the building that houses the Supreme Court of Equarico (a tiny unstable Latin American country located near the coast of Chile) by left-wing guerrillas from the terrorist organization, ‘Brown November Group’, also known as B-11 Group. The siege, which was done in retaliation for the Supreme Court studying the constitutionality of Equarico’s extradition treaty with the U.S., that resulted in the

exile of President Pancho Hernando Gonzalez Enriques Rodriguez of the Republic of Equarico. The B-11 Group demanded that President Rodriguez be returned from exile. B-11 were paid by Hawkins to break into the Tower of Justice and burn all papers and files on President Rodriguez — and his “special cabinet” which was a group of trigonella berry smugglers who were under threat of being extradited to the U.S. by the Equaricoian government. Old lady Hawkins was listed as a part of The Brown November Group. 

Hostages were also taken for negotiation of their release, thus helping to prevent extradition of Rodriguez’s special cabinet to the U.S. for their crimes. In addition they demanded the safe return to power of President Rodriguez who only two weeks earlier on September 30, 1965 had been exiled on a small island in the Bagumba Island Chain. However several days after Rodriguez’s return to power in Equarico, the Equaricoian Senate initiated a vote of no confidence which set in motion a ‘counter-counter’ revolution because it was determined that Rodriguez was delusional due to his claims about being the dictator of the little island where he was exiled. Therefore Rodriguez was permanently exiled to the Andes Mountains and of course Old Lady Hawkins wasted no time signing on with Equarico’s new corrupt, unscrupulous regime.

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The Drug Wars Continue As Birdy Enters The Picture

It is a known fact that Old Lady Hawkins and Birdy met in Hawaii in early 1960. Several accounts describe Hawkins and Birdy's first meeting, but the most credible tells that Old Lady Hawkins met Birdy on March 5, 1960, at the home of Birdy's friend Boris Knuckley, a two bit conman from Boston. Boris had a rundown house at 409 Caldwell Ave, in Lanai City Hawaii. Hawkins was out of work and staying with Knuckley to assist him with several ‘Lottery fraud by proxy scams’ in town. 

There was an instant connection between Birdy and Mrs. Hawkins. At the time Old Lady Hawkins was 47 and still married to Norbert Wiley; but Wiley was in Leavenworth at the time finishing a three year stint for armed robbery. Birdy was 49 and unmarried. When they met, both were immediately enamored with each other; some said that Hawkins joined Birdy because she was in love. But the truth was that the only thing that Hawkins was in love with was money. In reality the only reason Old Lady Hawkins involved herself with Birdy in the first place was she realized how intelligent and poised he was and she desperately needed someone in her organization who used their brain and wasn't so incompetent like most of the thugs that she was used to. The fact of the mater was Birdy was self disciplined, efficient and extremely meticulous. In addition to being a good business man, he was skilled and well-organized  scientist, with an estimated IQ of 170. 

Birdy didn't exactly spark images of genius, but it should have because Birdy was a resourceful and calculating criminal. Some believe that Birdy was the actual mastermind behind the couple's reign of terror, but the truth was it was Old Lady Hawkins that called the shots since the beginning. Hawkins remained Birdy's loyal companion as they carried out their crime spree. Some speculated that their relationship was more that just business, but there was never any proof to back up that alleged theory.

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But Who Exactly Was Birdy?

Prisoner 4115-SS was an inmate at the Song Song State Penitentiary in Hawaii, Through his entire life nobody knew his real name,

There was no record of Birdy's existence

he was never legally identified and there was absolutely no record of his existence. He was known only as “Birdy,” a name he acquired because he collected and raised homing pigeons on the roof of the prison. During the time he was at Song Song Birdy was the behind the scenes leader of the Indigo Mob in Hawaii, which controlled the drug trade for the entire West coast of the United States and all of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean .

Birdy began serving a 7 year sentence in solitary confinement at Song Song Prison Hawaii,  where in 1950, after discovering a nest with three injured pigeons in the prison yard, he began raising them, and within a few years had acquired a collection of some 300 pigeons. He began extensive research into them after being granted equipment by a radical prison-reforming warden, publishing ‘Homing Pigeons' and Their Navigation Abilities, in 1953, which was smuggled out of Song Song and sold en masse, as well as a later edition (1955). 

Birdy's Transfer Orders from Song Song Prison to Alcatraz

Birdy made important contributions to avian pathology, most notably a cure for the Avian variety of Roomis-Igloomis family of diseases, gaining much respect and some level of sympathy among ornithologists and farmers. Birdy ran a successful business from inside prison, but his activities infuriated the prison staff, and he was eventually transferred to Alcatraz in 1955 after it was discovered that Birdy had been secretly making LSD using some of the equipment in his cell. 



From the late 1950s to early 60's, Birdy was reportedly making more than $1,000 a day in profits from drug sales. In 1963 while in Topeka Kansas he was arrested after being infiltrated by an opposing mobster named Jackson Farrell who was a professional criminal on the run from the police for bank robberies. Jackson  Farrell made a deal with the Topeka police department and U.S. Marshals to exonerate himself of all crimes if he could provide enough evidence that would lead to a conviction of Birdy. 

When the the deal with Jackson Farrell was cemented with the Topeka police and the Marshals, an All Points  Bulletin was issued nationwide to locate and arrest Birdy. Finding Birdy was much harder than expected and for months Birdy seemed to elude arrest. Finley a reward of 1 Zillion dollars in gold was issued for information leading to the apprehension of Birdy, dead or alive. 

The bait worked because on March 25th of 1963 Birdy was caught when a group of local surfers told officials that they saw a strange man on a makeshift bamboo surfboard/raft that fit Birdy's description. When interviewed by police one of the surfers, Duke Williams said that when they approached the man to see if he needed help the man kept yelling "you can't catch me", "you'll  never lock me up again". Mr. Williams said that it was obvious that the man didn't belong there, "the guy didn't even have the right type of surfboard for the massive waves that were in that area of beach!!"

Mr. Williams and a few of the other surfers took it upon themselves to tow the man (Birdy) back to shore because not only did he fit the description of the fugitive, but had he stayed out there much longer on his odd surfboard, it was only a matter of time before he would have drowned. When they got him to shore the local authorities were contacted and Birdy was taken into custody. 

The Honolulu police chief said in a statement that "The suspect (Birdy) was attempting to escape the closing dragnet that was all around him, so in a panic he decided to leave Hawaii in an attempt to row out to sea and find some deserted island that he knew about and meet up with his colleagues". the police chief went on to say, "There is no question that Mr. Birdy would have failed to make it to his island destination". "More that likely he would have drowned, died from from exposure, or have be eaten by sharks".

It's pretty much certain that had it not been for the group of surfers that were in the area where Mr. Birdy was, there would have been a very different outcome. Despite the fact that Birdy was a fugitive, the group of surfers should be considered heroes. When asked about that notion surfer Duke Williams replied, "Hey man we were just in the right place at the right time, ...I mean what was that guy thinking? Did he really think that he could make it?" "Did he just think that some magical backwards wave come by, swoop him up and give him a ride to his secret island?" "What a dope!"

Birdy Takes On A New Roll In The Organization After His Incarceration 

News of "Birdy's" untimely arrest made national headings in  May of 1963 

On March 30, 1963 only three years after meeting each other, Birdy was arrested on international drug  trafficking charges and ten days later was sentenced to 150 to 200 years in prison. While behind bars nothing much changed, it eventually came to light that Birdy was still running his crime syndicate.

Then on April 3, 1967 after only four years in prison the sentence was exonerated when facts came to light that a government informant was giving false information and lying under oath. He was discharged the very same day but right before he exited the prison Birdy decided to set loose his pigeon friends as well. The next day he rejoined Old Lady Hawkins, and resumed his life of crime.

 Birdy being transported to Song Song Prison by the DEA in 1963

On April 3, 1967 after only four years in prison Birdy's sentence was exonerated On the very
same day Birdy decided to set loose his pigeon friends right before he exited the prison. 

 

Prison life did not agree with Birdy but while there
his loyalty to Old Lady Hawkins never faltered.

In 1975, after a five-year undercover investigation by the federal government, Birdy was indicted on drug conspiracy charges. In 1977, he was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to six life sentences. Birdy is currently back at his old prison, Song Song serving out his sentence in this maximum security penitentiary in Hawaii but because of a courtroom deal he still has access to his beloved carrier pigeons. He was allowed to create a pigeon pen in the roof of the prison. 

One of the only know photographs of
Old Lady Hawkins shown holding one
of the carrier pigeons used for smuggling.

While in prison it was detected that Birdy had been using his homing pigeons to coordinate activities in secret with his comrade Old Lady Hawkins on the outside. The pigeons could fly all the way from the Hawaiian prison to the Bagumba Islands. In addition Birdy would smuggle Trigonella seeds that he had developed under the guise of a new types feed that would be healthier for his birds. Like the messages, they were also flown to Old Lady Hawkins by the pigeons where upon she would take the Trigonella seeds and give them to her hired botanists on Trigonella Island to begin cultivating them.

These seeds that had been genetically modified by Birdy and were also genetically combined and cultured with the Captivora berry which produced a much hardier seed than traditional Trigonella. They could grow in much harsher conditions and would yield about 

200% more berries per plant. In addition the narcotic effect was about 20 times more potent. The pidgins were equipped with a small piece of fabric in the form of a backpacks , the interior of which contained the Trigonella and messages. Pigeons weigh between 300 and 500 grams, and can carry up to 10 per cent of their body weight, or about 30 to 50 grams. One pigeon could carry $5000 worth of seeds. 

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Winning The War

By 1968 Hawkins was in total control of the Pacific and her willingness to use violence against her Honolulu competitors or anyone else who displeased her, led her rivals to make repeated attempts to assassinate her. In an attempt to escape the hits that were called on her, she fled to the South Pacific to a desolate island that was hidden from the world deep within the Bagumba Island chain, there she continued to run her operations remotely. 

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Life on the Island and the Rise of the Mysterious Trigonella Berry Drug 

For the last several decades  deep within the mysterious waters of the Bagumba Islands, there had been odd rumors of an old woman who lived alone on The island of Trigonella Atoll. Just 160 miles Southwest of Watubi Island, Trigonella Atoll is one of the smaller less inhabited islands in the Bagumba Island Group, For the most part the island is pretty much overgrown with jungle and has a widely varied landscape, climate, soil type and terrain; moreover, the rugged terrain has facilitated social isolation. Trigonella Atoll has several main roads running through it with dozens of bridges crossing the many rivers and streams. There are hundreds little of trails and paths leading away from the islands villages. Some of these old paths lead to that house that was said to be haunted and considered taboo. The house was an old dilapidated farmhouse on an abandon pineapple ranch that was held together by overgrown shrubs and vines. 

The two crazed apes that are owned by Old Lady Hawkins that
 protect her home and drug farm on  the Island of Trigonella Atoll 

Stories were told of a very frightful and disturbing woman who lived there, nobody knew her real name but everybody referred to her as “Old Lady Hawkins”. One story is that she has two crazed pet apes, a gorilla and an orangutan, that ran amuck in the woods giving chase to anyone who came too close to her house. And if they should catch you , the crazed apes would drag you back to the old lady she would lock you up, torture you and eventually kill you! The local tribes in the Bagumba Islands believe her to be a witch or necromancer and that she would drop down on you from the sky and snatch you up on her broomstick never to be heard from again. 

To this day most of the local island tribes stay far away believing this story, however it is very likely that these reports were promoted by Old Lady Hawkins herself to keep intruders away. 

Finally in the late 1960's after being investigated by Interpol some details finely emerged about Old Lady Hawkins and her very strange life, It was believed that after her arrival to he islands, Old Lady Hawkins had become the new leader of he feared Bagumba-Marubi syndicate. It was not too hard to imagine that Hawkins in the roll of the syndicate boss considering that Hawkins was one of the biggest drub dealers in the world to date. Nicknamed "Old Lady", Hawkins was a legendary figure in the drug trafficking underworld, and had reportedly never spent a day in prison. Her cartel was known to traffic a wide range of narcotics such as domestically produced heroin, marijuana and cocaine. But towards the end of her despicable career as a drug kingpin her entire operation halted and became focused strictly on the new and mysterious drug that came form the Bagumba Islands, the infamous and loathsome trigonella berry. 

The trigonella berry is a plant that was grown as a cash crop exclusively on islands in the South Pacific. For centuries it had been known that natives living in the Bagumba Islands were using the local trigonella berries as an anesthetic and a trance-inducing tea. The trigonella berry was used as a traditional spiritual medicine in ceremonies among the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands. 

The rare blue coloured trigonella species 

Not much was thought of this mildly stimulating island berry until the mid-1960's when it was reported that a crazy eccentric doctor living on one of the islands in the Bagumba Group began conducting experiments with the Trigonella berry. He discovered that the rare blue coloured Trigonella species can only be found in the Bagumba Islands. And when this

unique variety is concentrated, refined and meticulously combined with various herbs and chemicals, the narcotic properties of the trigonella berry turns it into one of the most powerful, intoxicating and coveted compounds ever created. The trigonella drug is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for insanity, hysteria and lunacy. 

Trigonellathylamine was discovered by the
 brilliant chemist/scientist Boris Balinkoff

Trigonellathylamine was discovered right in the heart of the Bagumba islands, in 1966 by eccentric chemist/scientist Boris Balinkoff who named it Trigonellathylamine. Users of trigonella describe the drug as a wonderful pharmaceutical which primary effects are similar in action to PCP (angel dust), ketamine (an anesthetic), DXM (dextromethorphan) and the ayahuasca derivative (DMT) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline and Earl Grey tea. “It's like time travel, meeting God, finding oneself, perceiving everything and nothing all wrapped up into one little pill". After Old Lady Hawkins migrated to the Bagumba Islands she set up and ran her entire underground network right there on the small island of Trigonella Atoll.  In the entire Bagumba Island group Trigonella Atoll (hence the island’s name), and it is where the trigonella berry plants were the most abundant and easiest to grow. It was also speculated that Trigonella Atoll had the most abundant yield of plants within the entire South Pacific. 

In this rare photo Old Lady Hawkins is teaching
a new recruit in her organization how to
attach the carrier pidgins with contraband 

Many suspected that Old Lady Hawkins was connected to hundreds of drug lords and drug distribution cartels throughout the world but since arriving on Trigonella Atoll, the police couldn't connect her to any of these gangs or crimes.

Hawkins was a pioneer in the drug trade, by using her savvy wit, her remarkable ingenuity and by utilizing resources of her reprehensible and unlawful team that she assembled (especially Birdy), she had the uncanny ability to stay clear of incarceration and the resourcefulness to protect her administrators, buyers and sellers. For the entirety of her career she had successfully kept law enforcement fumbling in the shadows. 

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By Jenna T. Martin  (Jenna-The-Huntress) * March 28, 2018

 * Ongoing Update© 1965-1980 Powered by Kupaki Company™ 

and © 2012-2018 KUPA- Bagumba™. All Rights Reserved.