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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They filed the case federally and all that stuff. So I'm working undercover. So honestly, the last person that gets credit for anything is the undercover because they're That's what you do. So you're not there for a glorification. You get done with a case like that and then raise your hand and say, I'm undercover, then you're never working again.
So essentially everyone else is taking whatever credit they want, the gang unit and the FBI and the this and this, and they're all do press conferences. But I'm not showing my face. Sure.
That's not how it works. When you're in a civil service based department, you test for every promotion and you either make it or you don't. That's how it goes. There's good things and bad things about that because it's a competency test and you cover leadership and different things like that. But it doesn't necessarily mean you have great leaders either. Right.
Because if you can take the test better than me, now you're the next leader.
I was probably too old by then. I don't know what the FBI cutoff is, but I was 35-ish. It's probably like 36. I was pretending to be 29 or whatever it was. Sure. Yeah. I don't know.
Yes, you have to laugh at it because otherwise I tear up every time. But yeah, I was at a level to where guys were coming to me all the time and I was moving out of the fishbowl because obviously the crip territory was more than those six square blocks. That was just a violent hub But a lot of the supplies were coming from outside that neighborhood, still all interconnected and crip-wise.
So I was really careful about who I was talking to because moving from guy to guy was, I could do dope deals all day long, but if they're not a crip, I'm not interested in talking to them at all because I'm still working. Even if the FBI has given me money to spend, I have to spend it wisely.
I have to still justify how the money, especially with the FBI, you have to justify how the money's being spent. So we had this cat that pulls up. I happened to pick up my informant just to get a brief and see what he's been doing. Met this little corner store. We're driving around having a little sip, and this dude pulls up and flags us down. I see the car.
It's this gold Lexus, and he keeps driving around like, who's this fool? He pulls up, and he's like, for tea, Manny. hey, what's going on? I met you once through whatever and explained who he is. And I'm looking over at my informant who knows that this guy needs to be a crip for me to even, but he's trying to sell me something, man. I got this great stuff and whatever.
I'm like, hey man, it's all good. You don't need nothing, but it's good to meet you, whatever. And then I look over at my informant, he gives me a little something like, hey man, he's a crip. He's probably a low level crip. But again, the level of crip is insignificant to me. I'm creating a conspiracy case of A whole bunch of Crips are causing a bunch of violent crime in the city.
So you're basically, this is like a Rico organized crime. Yeah. That's the idea is tying all that together. Not the dope. At that point, it was a risk for me to say, I'm going to come in and do a low level dove deal because I'm supposed to be this big dude. And he wants to sell me the whatever. But at that point, I'm also trying to say, well, this is a Crip, a lower level Crip is still a Crip.
And a lot of times they're doing a lot of the violent acts themselves anyway. So I said, all right, man, that's cool. Where are you going? He said, just follow me. He said, my house, whatever.
And we pull in, pull up the driveway, like a normal, it's a little shotgun, little house with little burglar bars on the top, built in the fifties, little hood house, typical thing, fence out in the front yard and everything else.
He goes through the front gate and up the stairs, open the burglar bar, lock everything up back behind us, have a typical room set up with a little coffee table, couch on one side, giant screen TV on the other side, practically nothing else in the apartment besides a gun, a scale, and some dope.
And somewhere there's a Bible and porn. Somewhere. A Bible and porn? Yes. Those have to be present in order for you to solidify a proper dope house. That's ridiculous. It's percentage-wise pretty amazing. That's really ridiculous. And so we just start chatting, just familiarizing, whatever he's talking about, whatever his stuff was. The TV happens to be on. And this was back in 2006, 2007-ish.
So again, you realize there's four channels on TV for the most part at that time. It's not like everybody had 2,600 choices. And when they have TV in the county jail, it's running one of those channels all the time. Cops happen to be one of the most popular. So cops is on in the trap house. Cops happens to be on in the trap house.
I don't even notice the cops on the trap house until I'm standing up. Those two are sitting down. My informant sits down and this other fool sits down. We're just jaw-jabbing about stuff or whatever. And I hear a voice behind me. You talk about the feeling of dread that comes over.
You get that adrenaline SNS dump, and my auto-exclusion happens, and I'm seeing in tunnel vision, and my heart rate's racing, and I recognize that it's me from several years back. At that time, I did an episode in 1999 that was on replay. Fort Worth did a crap load of episodes. They used to be on reruns all the time. I didn't even volunteer to go.
My sergeant made me go on this day when I was on the cops episode. But there's a giant-ass TV behind me with my big white Nordic mug on there in a police uniform driving a police car arresting this fool on the freeway. And... These guys are facing me. So behind me, I'm thinking I got this giant backdrop. Lord only knows. And I've told you about all the things that I've prepared for. Sure.
And these people pull guns. I got this. I think I'm tactically sound as long as I don't have somebody else to worry about. I'm going to do this if they ask me this. I'm thinking all these things so that I can just focus solely on whatever important scenario is placed in front of me instead of thinking of all these ancillary things. And this son of a bitch just confused the hell out of me.
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