Freddy Loya
Appearances
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
Born in Texas, raised in Mexico. 91, I got here in the Massachusetts.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
Honestly, he was polite and he didn't have no reason to pull us over, you know. So he explained to me I'm kind of on a task force to combat all these opioids and pills, smuggling and dealing, you know, like he was doing a good thing.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
So it got to the point where if we'd be here for a week, we'd get pulled over four times in a week, you know, trying to search for drugs and drugs and pills.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
I said, what? No, he didn't. Yes, he did. Freddy, I saw him. So I opened the middle compartment and checked for the pills. The pills weren't there.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
I mean, I was... Pissed, I ain't gonna lie. I was pissed. So I go and made a laugh to him and he's sitting inside his car. He doesn't even bother. He's just like sitting over here. What do you want? Talking to me like he's the big boss or something. I said, I want my pills back. I said, those are not your pills.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
Those are my wife's pills and she's gonna be pissed on me if I don't got those pills when I get back.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
So he's like, well, you're going to help me out. He wanted to know what people is bringing drugs into the workforce. I said, I don't know nothing about it, you know.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
What can you do? Put a complaint on the police, to the captain of the police? Nothing's going to happen.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
It could have just been some alcohol-infused bravado. But to hear him tell it, there were honest conversations about violent revenge. And around this time, early one morning in September 2017...
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
Well, that night, it was the end of a long day for me.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
I think I was like minutes away when I got the call.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
He calls me and he tells me there's a cop in here. And now he's searching. I asked him, how does this cop look? So he starts describing me the cop. And it's exactly the description of Santos. And then he tells me, but he's not wearing a uniform.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
First of all, I'm upset. I started getting upset and mad immediately, you know. Second of all... As I am on the call, you know, I realize that he's doing this illegally and that he's not on duty, you know? So that's when I asked to call 911.
Spotlight: Snitch City
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
Oh, I finally got you, motherfucker. Yeah, I'm never going to forget that. Yeah, finally he made that mistake that I was kind of waiting, you know.