Tegan Broadwater
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317 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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So I just thought, man. Your refrigerator light gives you a sunburn. Yeah. wasn't making buys from the small time guys. So the easiest way for me to start was to go down onto the blocks and take somebody with me that did fit a little bit more over the profile and say, I'm new to town, but I'm not here to play. This isn't my game. I do powder cocaine.
I don't do any hard stuff or whatever, but I'm just hooking my boy up over here. He's trying to get his game going. And I would make it all about him that asked me a bunch of questions. I'm not going to ask you questions. You have to ask me, no, this is all about him. You can ask him the questions that you want.
And I'd pull in and he would make an order for some crack cocaine and then they would come over and bring it to him. And then I would hand him the money and we'd make that transaction that way. I'm pretending like I'm trying to be the one that's being extra cautious. I see.
I'm going to fight your cautiousness with my cautiousness saying, look, yeah, I'm actually not ready to do this because my game is way above your head.
Yeah, in this case, it's exactly what it was. It was somebody that was trying to work a case off. Those are really hit and miss. But this was a perfect way for me to get in because I could be seen at least doing something where everything went without a hitch.
And I was also being uber cautious is normally in the blocks that we're talking about where they called the fishbowl nose little six square block area. I mean, you know, white people coming down there to do any business. It was just, it was a gang haven.
And the only other people in there that weren't gang affiliated were just trying to make it, but had to live with all this violence in a prostitute hotel at the end of one of the entrances, one way in, one way out. So I just thought, everyone thought it was presumptuous anyway, that I even had the plan. My boss laughed. My informant laughed. We're sipping whiskey at each other. Really?
He just laughed his ass off. That's not a good sign. You know, the city council and the chief of police and the mayor had all said, all right, this is a nuisance. This area is a big problem.
And we need to do something about it. And so they started doing all the typical things, jump outs and writing warrants and hitting dry holes. What's a jump out? Just driving an unmarked van into the thing and all of a sudden, you know, 10 cops bail out and just try to grab everybody that's running. That doesn't sound super effective. Yeah. But what do I know? You'd be surprised.
And when you're talking low levels, you can get somebody that's got something in their pocket that's running and you end up finding them. They'll give up something. Oh, I see what you mean.
This is like the Giuliani stop and frisk type of stuff. You pull up and then you just hop out of the van. When everybody starts running, you're saying stop because you know that it's an active drug selling area and then people are running. So you have a reason to at least- Stop them and ask questions at that point.
Anyway, none of that stuff was working because there was too much information back in there to where there was too much heat.
Law enforcement deemed it the fishbowl because every time you went in, we went in too deep if you're answering calls down there or whatever, because it was just a super violent area in a generally violent part of town. It was just a really focused part. Where is this literally in the United States? It is in Southeast Dallas, Fort Worth area. I see. Okay. Every city has a similar area.
Fort Worth is what, the 10th largest city in the US. And everything is predicated upon the way that the practices are handed down when they started here in LA. Once you get through the prison systems, then that's where you accumulate more intel, more people that you can put out on the streets and you can take this set and now start a Texas chapter essentially and do that kind of thing.
No. And at some point, people are like so off put by gang violence of like, let them go kill each other. That's fine if there's no collateral damage. The fact is, you have people that have been living there for generations and they're old and poor and just trying to make it. And they can't just up and move. So it's not as simple as that.
And then you've got these kids that are leaving the home and living six deep with an aunt next door. And all of a sudden they get a quick way to make a buck. And then they turn into something. But by the time they're in their mid-20s, they'd be part of the enterprise.
And it's just bringing this nuisance and danger around all these other people that are trying to raise kids and do whatever they can. And that's really the motivation anyway in this whole thing. That's why I swore to my wife, this is going to take me three months, I think, to get through it. I already had my target list.
Thought I could get this knocked out in three months and at least make some good cases and get these people out of that part of the neighborhood and clean it up and see if they'll sell the houses off and then leave the people that are just trying to survive. I think it's the misconception about any poor part of town is where the crime is very high.
It's still a very small percentage of people who are committing the crime. That's sad.
Yeah.
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