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Cartel Smuggler Makes Millions, Flips to Feds, & Get's Caught! | Dr Hal Bradley
11 Mar 2025
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I had kingpin status. And Chapo at that time was just a guy like the rest of us. You're not going to be able to walk away from this. There was a $100,000 bounty on my head. I'm going to have to go to the DOJ. I've tried to get away from the cartels. They're not going to let me go. How would you like to go to work and make your careers?
And these agents, unfortunately, were on the payroll of some load cartel. And this is how I was found out. I got caught smoking a cigarette on campus. And back in those years, Matt, they kicked you out of school for a semester for a violation of something as trivial as cigarette smoking. But my mother was working full time. My parents had divorced by then. So she was raising three kids by herself.
She didn't want me wandering the streets while she had to work. So she had a friend that owned a mining corporation down in Durango, Mexico. They made the decision to fly me down there, so we flew into Mazatlan, Sinaloa State, and we were met there by two of his workers from the whining company that took us up to the state of Durango from Sinaloa.
This is the part that just kills me, by the way. At that time, was Mexico just a lot less dangerous of a place?
It was. It was an amazing time to be down there in the 60s. It was just starting to blossom into some of the criminality issues that we're confronted with down there today. But basically where I was at up in Walterio and then two clicks further to the mining camp, there was only a couple hundred people in the village.
They only had one power line running through the village and all of the housing there were adobe shacks.
and it was extremely primitive matt everybody bathed in a public pond a pond and the women washed the clothes in the stream that flowed into the pond and on the weekends they would get together and have festive activities you know with big cook-offs and the men would be drinking and the young kids like all of us would be out there swimming in the pond and it was just a great memory a great
time in my upbringing but the mining camp was not only producing zinc and silver the mining camp was a front operation for brown production and this was controlled by uh back then matt they didn't have cartels yet what they had were criminal organizations in mexico and you're you're probably aware of that history right
So this was probably within four to five years before the cartels actually started getting information. But anyway, when all my friends were still home riding their Schwinn bicycles with eight-panger handlebars and banana seats, I was down there riding a burro. And I was riding in the back country outside of the mine. And I would take the trails that would take me along the poppy fields.
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