Dugan Arnett

Hey everyone, Dugan here. I'm back in the feed to share an episode from the new season of Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah, a podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries. Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives and weave webs of deception, and their new season is a story of stolen valor.

Hey everyone, Dugan here. I'm back in the feed to share an episode from the new season of Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah, a podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries. Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives and weave webs of deception, and their new season is a story of stolen valor.

Lies tend to be fragile and temperamental, with small ones flourishing and bigger ones wilting under their own weight. Not in the case of Sarah Kavanaugh. The bigger her lies grew, the more real they became. Sarah was many things. A decorated veteran. A Marine who saved her comrades. A young woman fighting cancer. Sarah was everything people wanted her to be. Until she wasn't.

Lies tend to be fragile and temperamental, with small ones flourishing and bigger ones wilting under their own weight. Not in the case of Sarah Kavanaugh. The bigger her lies grew, the more real they became. Sarah was many things. A decorated veteran. A Marine who saved her comrades. A young woman fighting cancer. Sarah was everything people wanted her to be. Until she wasn't.

Turns out, no one knew the real Sarah. Not her comrades. Not her wife. No one. On this season of Deep Cover, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jake Halpern and acclaimed investigative journalist Jess McHugh unravel an epic six-year deception that upended the lives of countless people. If you want to hear more, find Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah, wherever you get your podcasts.

Turns out, no one knew the real Sarah. Not her comrades. Not her wife. No one. On this season of Deep Cover, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jake Halpern and acclaimed investigative journalist Jess McHugh unravel an epic six-year deception that upended the lives of countless people. If you want to hear more, find Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah, wherever you get your podcasts.

And now, here's the episode.

And now, here's the episode.

That was an episode of the new season of Deep Cover. You can find more episodes of Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah wherever you get your podcasts.

That was an episode of the new season of Deep Cover. You can find more episodes of Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah wherever you get your podcasts.

Before we begin, this episode may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

Before we begin, this episode may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

It's only been a month since we started publishing Snitch City, and already my colleague Andrew Ryan and I are back in court. just outside courtroom seven, it's almost nine o'clock, here for a hearing in the Stephen Ortiz case. You heard about Stephen Ortiz in the last episode. Back in 2017, he was arrested in an epic bust. His fiancee, Carly Medeiros, was there that night too.

It's only been a month since we started publishing Snitch City, and already my colleague Andrew Ryan and I are back in court. just outside courtroom seven, it's almost nine o'clock, here for a hearing in the Stephen Ortiz case. You heard about Stephen Ortiz in the last episode. Back in 2017, he was arrested in an epic bust. His fiancee, Carly Medeiros, was there that night too.

And one of the cops who was part of the arrest was her secret lover, a New Bedford police officer, Jared Lucas.

And one of the cops who was part of the arrest was her secret lover, a New Bedford police officer, Jared Lucas.

The bust was the result of a year-long investigation involving numerous local, state, and federal agencies. It was a massive effort. So big, police gave it an official title, Operation High Stakes. And at the center of it all was Ortiz, who police said ran a sprawling heroin trafficking ring.

The bust was the result of a year-long investigation involving numerous local, state, and federal agencies. It was a massive effort. So big, police gave it an official title, Operation High Stakes. And at the center of it all was Ortiz, who police said ran a sprawling heroin trafficking ring.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. This case has gone on for nearly eight years, and I've been following it closely for several of them. Conservative estimate is probably about the 20th hearing I've been to as part of this case since 2021. At most of these hearings, not much happens. But Carly told me that today might be different. She and Steven Ortiz have had their ups and downs, but they're together again.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. This case has gone on for nearly eight years, and I've been following it closely for several of them. Conservative estimate is probably about the 20th hearing I've been to as part of this case since 2021. At most of these hearings, not much happens. But Carly told me that today might be different. She and Steven Ortiz have had their ups and downs, but they're together again.