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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Yeah, I think so, too.
No, it doesn't make any sense. They would have explained that to me at some point. Hey, there's stuff you don't know and just leave this alone. I wasn't told to leave it alone. I would follow up and they said, I don't know. Because again, I'm handing it to you who has to get it through four levels of command structure.
Yeah. He's lucky that I hid all my stuff. Because again, he could have figured out who I was and it stopped me in my tracks before not only did I make any progress through the case, but... The first time I show up when they're notified that, oh, this guy's actually not T. He's not a source. He's a cop. Then who knows how they would have handled that because he wasn't going to tell me not to go.
I just ratted you out. He's going to rat me out to them knowing it was me. And then I'm going to keep showing up thinking I got my game still. which is, who knows where that goes. Yeah, oh my God, that's terrible.
Yeah, I think it manifests most when, you know, I would come home and my wife would notice that I was stressed. And, you know, I don't want to make it cheesy, like I was just constantly in character and I couldn't get out, but... When you're living every day amongst those folks, you do develop an accent. Hey, I'm just going to be here for a minute.
And then you come back in three hours and she's like, you've been gone for three hours. You said you're going to be gone for a minute. I said, well, I mean, a minute, you know. But I think ultimately what it is, and I think in a lot of cases, really what it is, High stress, low sleep.
And I think over time, that just starts to take a toll in general in terms of how you treat people, how you treat yourself. I was a big super workout buff, but I lost tons of weight during this thing because I know I've heard of guys that are working out all crazy while they're... I don't know where I would have found the time to do that.
I would sneak in, go into a kid's game in my UC car, drive way out to wherever, but... I didn't have time for much else. And then when we could go out and we had something that we wanted to do, I was freaking exhausted. I'd sleep through movies and would be snapping at people because I'm just irritated and tired as hell.
And those are the types of things that start to take a toll on a relationship.
Well, I would have loved to. I didn't even really think about it a lot. I tried to exercise as much as I could. But having worked out so hard before, and there's times where you work out, and there's times where you're like, eh, I might call it a workout. I might not.
Yes. Brush and floss. I wore a bunch of baggy clothes anyway, so I didn't even notice that I was losing all the weight I'd worked so hard to get, which is no big deal. All that weight anyway, just at my age now, causes me to have surgery.
Yeah. Not all of them, but yes, in general, yeah. Especially people that don't get long sentences. Most of the time, these dudes, when you're dealing with a police department or whoever, whatever investigative agency is coming in and doing short-term busts, these guys get in and out. The slap on the wrist is a slap on the wrist.
And if they think, hey, part of the penance that you pay to be in a gang is that you might have to do a year here and there, that's not a big penance to pay. So when these guys get rounded up and they're doing 25 and 30, that's a big penance to pay. And you'd be amazed the things that will come out of people's mouth at that point.
And I was surprised at some of the people that didn't, because the ones that didn't, I was hoping would. And the guys that did, I was hoping wouldn't and would just eat the years. But you just don't know. But I think the vast majority of people, when they're facing some significant consequence...
will change their behavior a little bit or at the very least my hope is when you come out and you are 48 that maybe now you'll be a little bit more mature because you're not going to go out and gangbang at 48 and no one's going to take you seriously anyway although people still do it's pretty amazing to see these old guys out there still talking about they're at OG and everything else but
My hope is that changes eventually. But again, these are not mature people in general. They grew up, hit the streets early, quit school, and then kept doing what they're doing, and then went in prison, learned how to do bad stuff better. And there are a few, and the ones that make it and rehabilitate to whatever degree are really great people because they're still people.
They take the sociopath out, and they feel like they can learn a life lesson and go forward. And they're great people when they have that experience. That's somebody I can learn a ton from now. Either that's actually had that kind of experience and they can bring that forward, take that lesson forward and teach other people. That's invaluable.
Informants are a different breed altogether. They're stuck between wanting to be endearing themselves to you for ulterior motives. Yeah, they're getting paid, yeah. And wanting to play the gang game, but they're not really accepted as much as you would think they were, or else they'd be the ones you're chasing. Sure.
So it's an interesting thing, and you get to know them really well, because essentially, if you're working with an informant, they know who you are already, and you're still going into... a dangerous situation and they already know who you are. So the level of trust that you have to have with somebody at that point is pretty intense.
And so you learn a lot more about them than you would somebody else, because in those instances, you can ask those hard questions. They're going through a questionnaire in order to be certified and blah, blah, blah. You do meet their families and you ask them a bunch of questions. You're like, man, why are you not showing up on time? Are you freaking using, you bastard?
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