Tegan Broadwater
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317 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Tegan Broadwater’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How do I make this case survive? I've been through the ringer and I've ran giant operations and these punk gangbangers are trying to put a label on me that's going to get me killed in the street. This is the lowest next to a pedophile. You can't put a label on somebody worse than this. Do I want to die? No. Was I willing to lose my job over making this successful? Yes.
Yeah, it is something I'm not supposed to be doing. It was with the resources that we had. Here's how you would set up a deal. Typically, you would say, all right, this is my target. This is the time I'm trying to go do X, Y, Z. And then you get a team of five dudes from the gang in it and suburbans and a bunch of white dudes with backwards baseball caps and beards.
hanging out in the hood three blocks away with listening devices. You go in, you give the date and time, what you're going to do, and you go in and you try to accomplish whatever the part of the mission is, make the buy, whatever. It's just so freaking conspicuous and time consuming to get that together. And hey, these guys are saying, hey, man, B just went to Waco and he's going to be back.
Are you interested in doing some business? And it's two in the morning. I'm not going to get eight dudes out of their beds to come show up and do all this conspicuous stuff with a bunch of white dudes. Because that's the other thing is these dudes parking in these enterprise leased cars all over the hood. They're just like, I think something's up because these people also have lookouts.
Now, there are some real expert guys. Again, if you're working with the FBI and you've certified your undercover status and you have a team of people from different places that you're going, that's fine. But I was also working in my own backyard, and I had so little money.
And so little opportunity to just go in and start flashing money and blowing up stuff that I had to leverage the time that I could spend down there. Sometimes I would go down there specifically asking for someone I knew that was gone so that I had an opportunity to just hang out. But not spend any money because the guy was gone.
And because I didn't have the money, too. I needed to establish relationships and find out who's who. And so I would just go down there. And before you knew it, after 8, 10, 12 months, I'm going down there and they're inviting me down, bringing... four pack of Magnums and we're sharing malt liquor and playing Madden and whatever, and it's all good.
But in the beginning, that's the idea is that's how you build relationships. You know who I am. You've seen me. I'm asking for so-and-so who's not here. And so the rest is, hey, what's up? You want a beer? And just seeing what's going on. So that's a little bit different level of pressure for somebody instead of me saying, well, can you get me something? It's not all business.
Oh, yeah. Scared me to death because I knew the guy and I was a little bit over paranoid anyway because. Oh, you knew the guy that sold the information. I knew the guy. So you're like, oh, crap. He knows who I am. He knows who I am.
He didn't know what I was doing that I was down there because when I started this thing, I acted a little over paranoid when I would make a buy and go tag the evidence and have it analyzed. I didn't put it to a long form report and put it in the system, which other people could potentially access.
There are hard files in the narcotics office and the gang offices where you could go in and somebody could have essentially just followed my whole case by coming in behind and checking out what reports I'd made. So I would literally just say, here's the report number.
And further details forthcoming, I would keep my own reports to where I could go back after the fact because I was just so paranoid. I didn't even think it was going to come to that, to be honest with you. I just thought nobody really knew a lot about what I was doing other than my immediate supervisor. That's all that needed to know.
I just felt like I was getting so deep that I don't need a bunch of people talking about anything that I'm doing. There's too much to lose from general chatter. So when I found that out, it scared me to death. I thought, oh my gosh. First of all, I was so glad that I didn't have a report in the box because these guys couldn't tell him who I was.
And it wasn't like he was involved to the extent where he's down there at the houses doing deals. He was working cases also, but he was just avoiding cases that involved any of them. He didn't bust those guys. Yeah. I don't even know that he was on the take as much as he had personal relationships having grown up around them.
He just didn't want to bust his friends. Yeah, he was corrupt to the extent that he was also when we say we're doing the jump outs and the warrants and all that stuff before I came up with the undercover plan. That's the reason why none of those houses had any people or dope or guns.
It's coming. And then they would just be gone. Fortunately, that's how they handled it, as opposed to let's arm up and put 20 people in here. Sure. But he was just telling them, hey, be gone, whatever. They'd clean the place out. It'd look like, man, these people don't even know what they're doing, but you're swearing. Like, man, I swear this had some stuff in it yesterday.
I did not want to meet him, but I was curious about what information that he could provide because I told him I had some places on the other side of town that were catching a lot of heat. And if I gave you some addresses, could you get them to him and see what he could find out? That was essentially what I was trying to do.
Ultimately, I wrote up an inter-office thing and said, hey, here's the deal. Here's my complaint. This guy's completely crooked and blah, blah, blah. He's going to get somebody killed. What happened to him? Nothing. Nothing happened. He retired happy. Wow, that's really horrible. Yeah, it's terrible. And again, look, I'm a low totem pole.
I was doing what I was doing, but I send it to this supervisor who then says, whoa, this is a big deal. Send it to this supervisor, to that supervisor, and then to the... I don't know how far it got before somebody just said... I'm calling BS or whatever. No one even asked me any further questions.
I submitted the written document with the complaint on it with all of the details, the legend about dates and times and who said what and everything that I could give. And it came back with jack squat.
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