Scott Payne

No, the funniest thing to me was, is I'm like a young agent.

You know, I'd already been a cop for five years and a vice narcotics investigator, but I'm like, oh, this is the big time.

It's in New York and I'm listening to them and they start getting into this heated argument.

and i'm like oh they're talking like they just don't make it like they used to and this it's just not even pure like it used to be like oh man they're talking about drugs this is gonna be i mean it's this heated argument that goes on and on and they were talking about uh a donut shop oh what and i'm not like i was like man i thought i was onto something big that's funny now they don't make it in the family after all the arguing for like an hour they're like you know they don't make those donuts like they used to well it could have been code but i don't think it was i think it was just straight up

I don't know.

No, not the way it played out.

I don't think they were trying to hide anything.

I think it was legitimately the donut shop.

I mean, you should if you're a decent criminal.

I don't know, because I don't work it.

I don't know how much they control or don't control.

There are other people who work that field that are way more, they would be much more of an expert on it than me.

Well, I started at the sheriff's office.

So after three years in uniform patrol, I went to Vice Narcotics Investigator, or I made Vice Narcotics Investigator.

And Vice would be your prostitution and gambling back then in South Carolina.

And then, of course, narcotics.

Got it.

But my first undercover in law enforcement, yeah, I think I just rolled down to the corner and bought a crack rock for $20.

Okay.

what happened to that guy uh yeah we i think we ended up arresting them because what you do sometimes is if you got a high high drug trafficking area like on the corner we might roll through there a couple times make some buys get some recordings and then we might have to figure out who it is before we can charge them but yeah i think we picked that person up yeah but he was probably low on the totem pole item yeah he's on the corner just slinging he's probably getting he's probably a user yeah for every five he sold he probably gets one to fill up