Oscar Castro

It was like a group of like five of us.

So this gentleman, Tulio, which was the head guy here.

He would distribute drugs throughout New York, say Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn.

He had different people he would give this pure that's coming from overseas.

I would eventually find out that, you know, maybe once or twice a month, he's got passengers going down to Columbia and bringing the stuff back.

Usually couples, maybe sometimes just a woman by herself, you know, with a kid.

But yeah, they were just smuggling these drugs back up.

When the drugs would get here, they would pay me to go pick up the passengers, take them to a hotel.

I would take them to a hotel called the Pan American Hotel in Queens, right by the airport, and just get the drugs from them, leave them there, take it to the apartment in Queens.

We'd go there, we'd weigh it, make sure everything's there, and then I'd take her back the money.

And we split ways.

Stamps everywhere.

Right.

I'm pretty sure.

I'm pretty sure that would happen.

So I did one trip in 98, one trip in 99, and then I got caught on my third.

Yeah, I wish I could have done it several times, but you can't because you'll get flagged.

How many times are you going to come to Colombia?

So that's also the reason why I flew to Ecuador the third time because we already done Colombia twice.

right so going back to the story working with these guys we're doing everything right we're picking up passengers we're distributing drugs we're taking it to elizabeth to um to a spot we had in the seaports we're taking it to newark and um throughout all this time you know we're just partying you never think about saving money especially at that age i was 16 17 18