we're getting not just the west coast gangs, permanent gangs like the krips and the blods, but chicago, milwaukee, east coast stuff. it's all coming through here. >> in 2007, the lieutenant with the wichita police department, put a major dent in the area's gang population. he led a task force that landed dozens of gang members in federal prison. today he's the sheriff of sedgwick county. >> we did about a year and a half investigation along with atf and fbi. we were the lead agency on it. we were able to convict 50 krip gang members for various charges from distribution to cocaine to reco, reco conspiracies, homicide, a whole plethora of things, eradicated the krip gang here which was the largest gang we had. >> along with other duties, sheriff jeff easter over sees the sedgwick county jail. most of the nearly 21200 inmates here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. among them is a man regarded as one of wichita's most notorious gang leaders. he is known in the street as c 3. >> people fear. you put your head down when he walk by you. he's