Tegan Broadwater
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317 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And it's not that we can do that in mass with one kind of turnkey thing, but I think people that have a struggling kid or something that may listen to you, even if you tell them the exact same stuff their dad tells them and they don't listen, a lot of times it could be as simple as that, just saving that one dude, because he's going to then have a testimony about how he managed to get away from some of that stuff.
And then that spreads. Other people are doing that. So I really think it's just an individual thing where... Most of us get old and you realize, wow, I was trying to do all this stuff to make myself successful. And once I get to a certain age, I realize it's all about making other people successful. That's when life really becomes real. It's so much better.
But not everybody sees things like that until you can help a single person out and appreciate what that does. That's a legacy, even if you don't get your name put on a plaque for it. So I think we could solve some of those problems.
Yeah, some of them. There's some rogue undercovers and there's some straight-up trained everything-by-the-book undercovers. I've talked to a number of them. And there's been a bunch of books out there, too. Some of those are also trashed. But when I did my research, I figured it was kind of a cop-out, no pun intended, to get yourself to do the dope and then get stuck on it. I don't get it.
I just thought... Man, the easiest way to get in is to just be willing to say, okay, well, then that's fine. I'm going to go down the street and find somebody else to do business with.
And if you're really cornered, I just set myself up a little background to where I literally would go show up downtown courthouse every Saturday for a few minutes and be seen with everybody that's standing in line on probation to go take their piss test.
Yeah. And I'd say, well, I'm not going back because of you because you want to give me some kind of test. And then people can vouch that they've seen me there before.
It was kind of a mass waiting room. It wasn't literally a line, so I could be there and then walk back to the bathroom or whatever. People would just kind of see that I'm there, but not know what order I'm going.
That seems dangerous. It's the best and worst part about it, it really is, because I really just had to wing it. But I really did a ton of research. I read and spoke to people about how they did things and everything else. That's why I said it seemed... so contrived the way everybody did it because I don't think there are enough people that are truly trained.
You know, the Scott Paynes and the FBI training programs and stuff like that. I learned from those. Then you have the other guys just go off on a wild hair and kind of disappear and come back and they're addicted to stuff because they were just willing to do whatever to get through the case.
I wouldn't have been willing to throw the case away, but I just sometimes I was overly creative to a fault where I just had too many little things I was trying to plan. But I leveraged that in order to get around some of those pitfalls that I see everybody else falling into.
Makes defense a little more easy, for sure. Yeah, and it's not just credibility. Again, it's state of mind at that point. Like, okay, you did it. Now you're under the influence of something that's been proven, blah, blah, blah, which is why you're even in this.
Yeah. Yeah. And especially these days when people don't trust cops anyway.
Well, I imagine it's on the prosecutory end, really, where that would come out, I think, because when you have cases like mine where, you know, you've got these hand-to-hands and firsthand accounts of things they were saying that were incriminating, and mine was obviously, I used dope, but it was a gang case, so even a lot of the things that they would say incriminatingly to me that were used as evidence were things that...
I didn't drag out of them, but they just had to challenge my credibility on the stand. Most people plead out when they realize, oh, the dude that I've been hanging out with for eight months is this guy or however long they've known me. Then they just know the writing's on the wall. They got to deal with it.
But the ones that challenge it, their attorneys are going to just challenge my credibility as a person and professionally as well.
If you have a reasonable view on how things go. then you would at least think that we're working toward getting better enforcement and less drugs that hit the street, less addiction, less issues like that. But I don't even see it that way.
Unfortunately, I see that you have narcobs working their asses off and guys going in undercover, guys going across the border and trying to deal with cartels or anything else so that we can keep the wheel spinning and keep it from getting worse. So I think we're essentially putting people in harm's way For the benefit of not seeing it get worse.
Well, that kind of changed the game just because it's so lethal. And you get surprised. People that are taking the drugs are ignorant to it or don't care or prefer it. I mean, the people on the street... versus people like us who just look at it and be like, oh my gosh, this is gonna be the worst thing if this leaves fentanyl. Then a user's like, oh no, it's great.
Those people aren't even really taking it on purpose. That's true.
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