Owen Hanson

Yeah, that's what they had me as, cocaine quarterback.

I was the signal caller for the cartel, and I was handling a lot of their logistics coming into the country of Australia, obviously Sydney.

Yeah, when that first package arrived, I knew I was going to become a millionaire overnight.

And I arrived 10 bricks of the finest cocaine coming from Colombia.

And once those 10 landed, I said, holy shit, I'm a millionaire now.

And it just kept happening day after day, 20 bricks, 30 bricks, another 10.

Yeah, that's what they had me do.

The cartel had me basically land the cocaine into Australia and sell it for wholesale, which at the time was $100,000 a kilo.

And then I had to wash the money, like you said.

through different methods and means.

And one of them was the Australian UGG boot.

I would buy the UGG boots, 100 pairs at a time I'd buy, and I'd fill the soles with gold coins.

And I'd have about $15,000 in each pair of UGG boots in gold.

And I would ship those UGG boots back to the United States where it was a hot commodity for UGGs at the time.

Yeah, for me, it was just, you know, looking at your surroundings, right?

And me being in Australia, I had to find different ways to get it into the country and what would cause red flags and what would not.

And I got pretty creative.

I started bringing my cocaine in through the wine.

And what I would do is I would break down the cocaine into liquid and I'd put it in bottles from a winery in California called Napa Valley.

It's a very famous place.