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American Underworld: Meth cookers, arms dealers and gangsters (VIDEO)

By April MacIntyre Sep 16, 2011, 19:13 GMT

He’s been chased, blindfolded and threatened with his life. He’s negotiated with meth cookers, arms dealers and gangsters.

Tune in alert for some riveting TV from Discovery, as American Underworld is a series that features raw and compelling footage for television.

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He’s been chased, blindfolded and threatened with his life.  He’s negotiated with meth cookers, arms dealers and gangsters. 

Mark Allen Johnson literally risks his life to pursue stories most wouldn’t dare. 

In Discovery Channel’s all-new American Underworld, premiering Monday, September 19th at 10PM ET/PT, Johnson enters some of the most extreme, violent and hard-to-access subcultures in the country – from drug manufacturers to the sex trade – to tell the stories of an underground world that could be right next door. 

Johnson brings back some of the most raw and compelling footage on television.

In the premiere episode Drugs, Johnson shows firsthand how drugs are mad (in home kitchens), distributed and used, from one of the largest crack cocaine business in Los Angeles to a highly toxic – and rarely seen –  “shake ‘n’ bake” meth production process in rural Tennessee. 

After extensive negotiations, Johnson also gains the trust of a major homemade steroid producer and supplier who cooks up performance-enhancing drugs from raw ingredients sent from secret foreign suppliers.  He tests them on himself before distributing them to people in gyms and homes across America.

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