Woman on the run from the Feds shares her family’s crime history: ‘I inherited the family business’

Family businesses that persist are passed down from one generation to the next, and Maia Clayre (@immaiaclayre) told TikTok that hers is in the business of crime. Maia, who is allegedly on the run from federal authorities, shared her family’s crime history on social media.

She replied to a TikTok user who brought up a case about a transgender woman on the run because she didn’t want to be put in prison with men. Maia identified as that person and disclosed that her family has an extensive crime history. She started with her father, who she alleged was arrested for a bank robbery in Brockton. Maia also pulled an article about his arrest and identified the suspect as her father.

“Now, we gonna get into my mom’s side. This is the crazy side,” she claimed. Maia described her alleged grandfather, Robert Hickey, as a very violent man. She continued, “So, he has been a criminal since he was a teenager. This man is a career criminal, has been in prison his entire life, basically, in and out.” Maia claimed that cops were even afraid of her grandfather because he allegedly beat multiple cops and a corrections officer, incited riots in prison, and escaped Plymouth County Prison with three other people.

“They literally reformed the prison system in Massachusetts,” Maia alleged. She claimed that after they had escaped, the state had to upgrade its security systems. Maia didn’t go into detail about his crimes and moved on to her first step-father, whom she identified as Joey Bebo.

Crime runs in the family

She explained that her mother’s best friend’s brother and Bebo went out together to “deal with something,” but ended up stabbing their victim in the heart. “Obviously, you know. The mob is the mob. You take the charge and get out,” Maia explained. She claimed Bebo took the charge and was accused of second-degree murder in January 2023.

“We can talk about my mother. My mother has never been arrested or caught for anything, luckily,” Maia claimed. At one point, her mother also allegedly got off a drug trafficking charge. However, Maia also claimed that her mother was a former drug dealer and addict. She further alleged, “She had me selling drugs as a kid. They also had me trained to do check fraud, so literally, as an elementary school kid, I was doing all that stuff for them.” It wasn’t a one-off errand, unlike this Albuquerque mother who allegedly told her ten-year-old to retrieve a gun during a fight. Maia said she also went on “runs” with her family at the Canadian border.

But there was more, and Maia said even her second stepfather also committed a crime. She claimed that he was involved in Operation Roadkill and was subsequently arrested. While her second stepfather and her grandfather were in prison, Maia said they “messed with” the opposing side in prison.

A month after Operation Roadkill, the FBI visited to tell the family that they had intercepted a letter. The opposing prison group allegedly put out a hit on Maia’s family, and they were offered witness protection. They denied it because they still had a gated home but said cops were still stationed outside their home and would drive by every fifteen minutes.

Allegedly inheriting a legacy

Their ties to crime went beyond her grandfather, and Maia claimed her grandmother, Clayre, even went to school with the boss of the Winter Hill Gang, James Whitey Bulger, and his brothers. She didn’t explain her involvement with Whitey and moved on to the Italian side of her family. Maia said she had an Azorean surname because her family is Azorean-Italian, and she also disclosed that she is in the crime business.

“He keeps asking what I did. Girl, I inherited the family business,” Maia said. She continued, “When it came to… My family ran the East Coast.” It’s unclear what the family business is, but Maia snorted through her nose to censor the trade. But not everybody is born into crime—some people marry into it, and this ex-mob wife explained what men in the mafia look for in women they marry.

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