Tegan Broadwater
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317 appearances
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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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You're going through the stuff. You feel like a big brother or something to them. So yeah, you wish the best for them. You want them to succeed. It's a long shot with a lot of folks, but I've seen some success.
Yeah. And that's exactly how it works is they want to see you spending the little narc budget, which is not that big in the first place. And then I work up to the point where I'm dealing with so many people and buying little samples because I'm looking for the big guy, but all these other guys know that T's this big time dude and they want to sell me something. I'm like, hey, man, give me 100.
I'll see if I can move what you got or whatever, just as then I'll do something for you. That kind of thing once I got to that point. But I'm spending the budget for the week for the whole team. And my sergeant at the time was the only reason why I was able to succeed, because I kept him apprised of what I was trying to do. He knew I had targets.
He's known me for a long time by then and knew that these other dudes would come in at 10 o'clock. hang around the office, fart around a couple of cases or whatever, go to lunch from 12 to three, seven deep and then whatever. And meanwhile, I'm nowhere to be found. So these guys are complaining about me being some kind of loner. And I'm just like, dude.
It was just exciting work for me. I just, I couldn't sit around.
So yeah, he saw that and understood and allowed that to happen, essentially covered for me. Yeah. Knowing that I was working, what results I was getting to a reasonable extent. I would meet with him once a week and at least say, you know, this is kind of where I'm getting in close with this guy, blah, blah, blah.
There was a lot that I couldn't explain to him, obviously, because if I'm going in off the books when I'm going into work and essentially nobody knows I'm at work except one of the patrolmen I used to work with just telling him on a midnight shift, hey, man, I'm fixing to go do this thing. You mind standing by? They don't know the process, but yeah, man, I got you.
And I'll just say, hey, stay far enough away, blah, blah, blah. And I'll keep the phone line open. That was my wire, so to speak.
So that if anything goes wrong, he can roll up with the lights and sirens. Drive through the front door, man, because these are all like burglar barred, fortified, whatever. I said, just come save my ass.
It's something cool to do, answer a call or waiting for a call or whatever. Somebody calls and says, you know, homicide detective, and you go out hunting.
I needed to do it primarily because time was a key factor. And essentially, I spent so much time that it was a non-starter. There was no team that could stay down there every single day, including weekends and everything else.
Yeah. And even just the hangouts every day of the week, I would spend some time. I would at least drive through and say, what's up? If I'm on a Saturday and I'm doing something with my family, I would still roll through there and give a what's up. They saw me almost every single day for that straight 18 months. People saw my face rolling through there. And that was part of it, though.
I never just disappeared for periods of time. That's when people start thinking, where have you been? Like, what's going on? And I have to make up some kind of ruse, but I got locked up or wherever else I was supposed to be. And unfortunately, I lived in the same city, which was part of the other anomaly in this case, is that I'm crapping in my own backyard, essentially.
So that made it more difficult. But that's why off the books, I would say, other than a couple of the things that I was involving myself with that would have been Once you go up the chain and say, hey, I want to go, you know, hang out with these dudes and play video games and we talk for smack. I'm going to try to meet some new people wherever. You do that on a daily basis.
Just some of it's prohibitive. You don't have enough manpower. Some of it is just the stuff they wouldn't want you to do just for safety sake or whatever. Because, again, they want you to be wired. I wanted absolutely not to be wired. The time all we had was that primitive crap that just taped all over yourself.
Yeah, and it gets so much easier, too, to where if somebody does call you at 2 in the morning and saying, hey, man, this XYZ, and I say, I'll be there in a minute, and I literally roll up and 25 minutes later, that would be something that would take three hours to get guys on call to get their cars, go gear up, meet at the office, wire me up, figure out a game plan.
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Because they just think, we'll take the case that you brought to us thus far, and if they feel like they could put their own undercover in there and insert them, or just take the case and run it up through the AUSA at that point and take all the credit for the case. The U.S. attorney. Yeah, because they're federal agencies.
And obviously, the DEA would have people that are fully equipped to try to get an undercover in or whatever, but... I already knew. I said, man, this is ridiculous to try to insert someone else when I'm already in there. What's the point? All you're doing is complicating it, putting more risk on someone else when the case is already rolling forward.
It's rolling downhill now if I had the funds and the equipment. That's what I was looking for. So that's when the FBI was the obvious thing. And what's interesting is that they have a whole trained undercover program, but they appreciated the fact that this was already being accomplished. And I think it's just common sense. And of course, the FBI still gets all the credit for the case.
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