Thomas Higginbotham
speaker
41 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Thomas Higginbotham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
And we just sat there and we waited and we didn't know, we kind of just Listen to hear what we're going to hear and then make a decision. If there was any violence, obviously we would have to put an end to it.
Oh yeah, we heard everything. Yeah. Everything.
Michelle, I've never watched it.
Really? I never watched it. What I heard, I heard. And I said, that's all I need to know. What else do I need to know? I didn't want to watch it.
No, I was sitting there. I heard it. And I know it happened. And I didn't need to hear anymore. It was sickening. It was scary.
I was worried about him. I was worried about his emotional state, really. He's married, he has kids, he's with these guys.
He could easily get hurt. He could harm his marriage. There's a lot of things that could go wrong. And he's drinking. And he's on motorcycles. He's in cars. All the things that happened to civilians could happen to him. And that's his job. That's his career. And after a while, you see his personality. It changes. It changes. And I've seen it with undercovers before.
The problem is he's at a national run for the outlaws. We don't know who they bring to their parties and their meetings and the people he's going to see. He could have easily bumped into someone he had arrested as a local cop or whatever or an FBI agent. He knows he's around dangerous people. He's there.
So they bring him in, that means he has to be a probationary outlaw. He has to start like everybody else. So he has to basically be that guy. He may be required to commit a violent act or commit a felony to get that patch. So they put him in that position. Then they start showing up at his house or his apartment. You know what I mean? So now you look at like Scott, like where the L was.
He was with them, riding with them. So he'd ride at the back of the pack. But when the angels of the rival gangs attacked
bikers they have in massachusetts i'm sure they do in other states they go to the back of the pack they run them over and they shoot them that's what they do so now we're going to have this big guy six four six five he's a perfect target for a rival gang so i'm not comfortable with that and why would i be
It's the ultimate in your face.
I got your colors. I'm wearing your colors. I infiltrated you. Your club. That's the victory.
He didn't drop out of the investigation. He didn't. He stayed in the investigation, but he was a puppeteer. He was doing his deals from whatever state he was in, and we were able to finish the case.
Yes.
How are you, Michelle?
My name is Thomas Higginbotham, and I was a trooper from 1978 to 2009. I retired in December 2009. I retired as a sergeant.
Ever since I came on in 1978, I seized a lot of stolen motorcycles from various gang members. And I was able to develop information, develop informants.
They finally did manage to patch over a club. It was a nomads and some devil's disciples. They patched over a small group in Brockton and they opened up their first clubhouse in Massachusetts. I believe it was 1993. So they were here. Everybody was quite concerned about them.
We tossed it around about the possibility of putting an undercover in, and we kind of agreed that You know, we could try it. Let's see how far the investigation would go. You know, I'm not a big fan of it, but I said, yeah.
Showing 1–20 of 41 · page 1 of 3
Next →