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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

and they'd walk us to a special customs guy.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Mr. Smith was his name.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

I remember he had gray hair, perfect, you know.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Pop the suitcase to see the bundles of money go, welcome to the Cayman Islands.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

And off we go to the bank.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

And then I leave the money.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

I remember one time they were pulling all the money out, and I look down, I see a seed rolling along in the suitcase.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

So I let my finger go like that, ate the seed, because...

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Not that the bank would care, but let's keep it clean.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Right, right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

They make, I don't know.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

So anyway, so that was like kind of my introduction, you know, flying Learjets with millions of dollars.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

And at the same time, I was still building my own little drug empire, you know, selling quarter ounces of Coke and then ounces of Coke and weed.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Well, kind of in the beginning, it was always Coke.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

It was always marijuana.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Oh, okay.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

But most of it, you know, I wasn't a big Coke dealer.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

You know, I was a marijuana guy because in the beginning, in the 70s, there wasn't that much Coke.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

Right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Kingpin Flips on the Feds | How Crime Actually Works

As an example of the explosion of the cocaine business, when I was selling Coke, even in grams, whatever, you know, a kilo of cocaine was $57,000.