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'm trying to remember if it was right after the deal, the guy showed up and we did the deal, or if it was right before. So this blue SUV pulls up, they call it a blue Jeep, no matter what it is, if it's a Jeep or if it's a Durango, everyone in the hood calls it a Jeep. But it was, I think it was a Durango, blue Durango, pulls up and everybody starts flocking over to it.
Now my kingpin, I'd known who the kingpin was since before the case started. I had run-ins with him just doing warrants and stuff. He never got busted for anything. So I knew he was the guy. I didn't know how big he actually was in real life. And he had been laying low. He split town and there was a lot of heat from the feds or whatever. I don't remember who he said he caught heat from.
I was thinking, it's not heat from me because I haven't been at your doorstep, but I wish I had been. So he apparently was back in town. This window lowers down and I see from his nose up, he's poking his head out the back of his own car like somebody's driving him around. And all these people are gathering around. It's like the freaking king has showed up into the town.
And I'm thinking, man, this is unbelievable. I walk over and of course I'm with these two dudes that I'm doing deals with. One guy's linking me with a new guy and we're getting what I need. It's a natural symbiotic situation. Walk over with the crowd or whatever. And I see him. I know exactly who is.
I only can guess that he might know maybe who I am, but I've seen him and talked to him with a balaclava years before, but he wouldn't recognize me otherwise. And I just remember catching some eye contact as he's talking to people and kind of high-fiving and whatever. And I kind of looked over. I'm going to give him the what's up. He gives me like a what's up.
And it wasn't curious or suspicious or anything. He just gave me a what's up. And I thought, that's cool. Normally, who's the snowman here in the middle of the crew? Who is this dude? So I thought it was cool that I got the little what's up. And that was my first inkling that, man, this connection, this is like a manifestation in real life of these people all lead to this.
And we're all standing here right now. This is ultimately what the goal is to get all these people out of here.
Yeah.
You hope it happens all at once. That's the plan anyway. There was the FBI agent, assistant U.S. attorney, and several people from the FBI field office in Dallas were working tirelessly and overnight to help write all these documents. search and arrest warrants for all these target locations. We had 51 people in the conspiracy at the very end, 41 of whom went federal sentencing and 10 went state.
So we're running warrants all over the city for these people to do all at once. And so they're having this big to do in a gymnasium full of seven, eight, nine agencies. We've got ATF and FBI. We've got Fort Worth SWAT. We've got gang unit. All these people are all gathered. There's 200 plus officers in this gymnasium talking about what we're going to do the next morning at 6 a.m.
To me, I'm just, my mind's blowing. Are you nervous? Are you excited? I'm both. And honestly, it was surreal because by then I'd been doing it for so long. Just the fact that it was actually going to culminate in anything that meant it was done was weird for me.
It was just something where I felt like my behavior, I was willing to just keep doing crazier and crazier stuff to just keep this thing building So it was surreal that it was even ending at all. And normally, too, you do a case and then you crack the door down. That's the fun part. And everybody else is doing this for me.
I'm working from the end of the FBI and I'm following their lead, too, because I'm just assigned to the FBI as a TFO. I'm not actually an FBI agent. So I'm following all the protocols that they have to go through.
A task force officer, a municipal or a sheriff department or somebody that's assigned to the FBI. They get credentials and work in the office. So it was surreal for me there, too, because it was just enough old school. We walk in the room the next morning at 6 a.m. They got this long table with big red telephones, old school dial in hard line telephones lined up and down.
I think the FBI, honestly, many agencies had all these passe technological things when they worked in their office at WordPerfect. I think by then WordPerfect had been defunct almost forever. a decade. They still used it, but it's hard to actually pull up a file. You steal something from there, put it on a thumb drive and try to pull it up.
Most computers at that time, they're essentially is naturally encrypted, you know, behind the times. But all these big boards, all the targets are listed and whatever's going on. I was a nervous wreck knowing all this stuff was supposed to go down. So they launch everybody. They give a green light over the radio at 6 a.m.
And all these tactical teams are hitting all these different locations at six o'clock in the morning, all over the city. We only got 17 of the people in the first day. Oh, wow. So there was a bunch more people over the next couple of weeks that we were working on rounding up. And that was the most nerve-wracking time.
With a sniper rifle. Jeez. So yeah, it took a couple of weeks. Most of them got rounded up within the following week-ish because it was still an aggressive thing. When that roundup came out, there was a lot of attention brought to the case, news conferences and everything else. There was a lot of patrolmen and everything else that were also actively interested in finding some of these guys.
So we got lots of help. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It was a nerve wracking time though. Happy, sad too, for the guys that you get to know and that you really like and knowing that that's the end of that is also kind of nerve wracking too. So what was the result then? A lot of these guys got some decent time. Yeah. The lowest was, I think we had seven went to trial.
All the rest of them pled and shared information. Of the ones that went to trial... I testified on behalf of several of them also in terms of behalf of their character, because they were people that I thought deserve to be in the conspiracy. Once these arrests are made, I have no control over what sentences they get or you've got a federal judge that's tough on crime guy and you lose control.
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