Tegan Broadwater
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317 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Wow.
Well, the tag on that question is profound, of course, but I think no is the answer, but it depends on to what extent. If you work for a company that essentially makes its hay on the back end, bullying people into doing business and it's some kind of illegal whatever, and you work for that company knowing that that goes on, there's some culpability that goes on.
But obviously there are extremes in how people act in terms of who's the most violent, who's just a kind of a connector. There's always those guys that I would run into that just know all these fools, but aren't really at a level to where they can just make a perfect introduction. In terms of enforcement, a lot of those guys that are the most violent end up either being
knocked out in prison or running the show. If they're smart, Mike Kingpin was involved in several murders. but was out and had gotten smart and was running stuff to where this dude's never got his hands on anything. So he's running from a ghost. Everybody knows who he is, but he's not driving to houses and delivering stuff.
He's dealing with the Mexican Connect, pulling in 250K a week, moving product in this one part of town. It's just pretty unbelievable.
That's a great question because when you talk about how organized the business is, these guys at the top got really smart. There's a reason why you're involved in several murders and you're a strong arm and you're smart enough to be a leader, but you're not driving a freaking Porsche around with 21-inch wheels and Whatever, drawing attention to yourself. Sure.
So these guys are living in modest houses, driving okay cars and just doing their thing. And the lower on the totem pole you get, the more you see the money being squandered. We had an informant in one of my cases where we ended up paying him like 50K for all of his help. He'd helped us for several months doing this one case and took him two months to spend the 50K.
And this is a guy that lives in a rental in the hood. And it was just a shame. He bought two cars that ended up getting loaned out and stolen. And then he bought a kilo. And I was like, dude. When you get to that point, you're like, yes, there's a level of sophistication, but ultimately they're not applying themselves to really learn how to run a true business.
They just outpower each other along every part of the path and then don't really have that financial responsibility unless you're one of those kingpins.
Yeah, there has to be. And I swore because of the amount of money that was coming in, I swore that when my kingpin went down, that money was somewhere. We were raiding little storage places that we found in associates' names, everything that was completely empty, cleaned out. And all of a sudden, his wife is starting to deal with these same people at the same level and picking up where he left off.
I think I'm thinking, man, she's not... equipped to do this. And within a couple of months of the roundup, because they hadn't even transferred or completely tried and sent to their long-term federal facility, she got whacked. And so I'm thinking, okay, now the money's really somewhere. Because at one point you thought, well, he's handing her the reins and she's going to continue this business.
Then there's still active money somewhere. But when she's gone... That's sitting somewhere. It's not like she handed it off to somebody because she didn't expect to die that night. So I think there still might be some money somewhere. But as you know, too, it's difficult.
You go do 30 years in Fed and then get out and all of a sudden dig up some kind of treasure and then pretend you're going to live an honest living and start with that kind of money. That's also really a sophisticated process.
Yeah, that's a sophisticated move. And again, at every level, you're talking about something else. And again, this was a big city gang. They were trying to infiltrate. So that was their primary method of infiltration. I don't have to have a job because I'm part of the market here.
But it wasn't like some kind of ingenious thing where they're just doing the dope game and somebody at the top is just doing their thing and then stepping out and bugging, taking their winnings and moving to another country or something. It just didn't work like that because they were all homies still.
That sounds kind of Nordic, suspiciously.
Yeah, of course. And that's really the beauty of undercover, because I think the studying that I did and the cases that I read about and the people that I talked to in terms of how they managed to succeed in cases and fail in cases, everybody kept saying, you've got to modify your behavior and try to fit into this group and that group.
And it was difficult for me to even get into the narcotics unit or to do some of that stuff because I'm just a big white stiff. And we have these Poor minority neighborhoods that are having all these crime issues and we need somebody that can fit into the profile or whatever. And I'm like, man, that's just not how it works.
They've made some exceptions. I don't know if it's widely accepted, but again, they have so many sects throughout a lot of those things that you'll find some Hispanic folks. Occasionally you'll find some white folks, but I would say 95, 96% African American. But if I showed up fat, wearing gold and tats all over my face and some missing teeth and maybe some teardrops, I probably could have died.
tried to get an association, but that wasn't really my goal anyway. I almost got more information fitting in by standing out because I thought, I'm not just white.
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