Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Ex-Police Officer Reveals Dark Side of Law Enforcement
23 Apr 2025
Matt talks with former deputy Trent James who opens up about his insane story working for a corrupt police department.Trent's ChannelsConfessions of an ex Cop: https://youtube.com/@confessionsofanexcop?si=Y-wz9SMrgB2RP8Vt2FiredCops: https://youtube.com/@2FiredCops?si=DCAYtPJwEHoNVIwUFollow me on all socials!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattcoxtruecrimeDo you want to be a guest? Fill out the form https://forms.gle/5H7FnhvMHKtUnq7k7Send me an email here: [email protected] you want a custom "con man" painting to shown up at your doorstep every month? Subscribe to my Patreon: https: //www.patreon.com/insidetruecrimeDo you want a custom painting done by me? Check out my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopartListen to my True Crime Podcasts anywhere: https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my true crime books! Shark in the Housing Pool: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851KBYCFBent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4GC7TMIt's Insanity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFYXKK8Devil Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TH1WT5GDevil Exposed (The Abridgment): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1070682438The Program: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0858W4G3KBailout: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bailout-matthew-cox/1142275402Dude, Where's My Hand-Grenade?: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNFHBDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1678623676&sr=1-1Checkout my disturbingly twisted satiric novel!Stranger Danger: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSWQP3WXIf you would like to support me directly, I accept donations here:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69Cashapp: $coxcon69 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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When you see a U-Haul coming out of the f***ing valley, out of Covolo, down onto the main highway 101, it's filled with f***ing weed, 900% of the time. Thousands of pounds of f***ing processed. You got two dudes that are from Mexico here illegally, and then they take it, they sell it, and the fear factor was so huge for these people. Now they're coming up, like, in other parts of the county.
Where I know U.S. attorneys that have been caught manufacturing evidence. fired and then rehired in another jurisdiction in a supervisor's position. So you were given a promotion. You've already framed people. If that's happening in a federal level, what's it like at a good old boys network of a small town sheriff's department?
They do a search warrant for the IP address, comes back to the lieutenant's house. That's weird. Let's do a search warrant to the internet provider. Okay, it's Comcast under the lieutenant's name. Okay, that's weird. Who lives in the lieutenant's house at the time? The lieutenant, his wife, 18 year old son. So let's do some common sense here.
It's more than likely gonna be the lieutenant or his son.
Hey, this is Matt Cox and I am here with Trent James. He is a former law enforcement officer and he's got a super interesting story and we're going to get into it right now. So check it out. Yeah.
So I'm 35 years old. Currently I was born in Harborford, West Wales. My mom was in the military, never met my dad. And she was a single mom for the vast majority of, or, you know, my, the earlier years during my childhood, we moved around a few times.
And I ended up in Mendocino county, California when I was about eight years old in Ukiah that in Mendocino county is very rural and it's part of the Emerald triangle along with Humboldt county and Trinity county. And that is basically those three counties are where the vast majority of the marijuana, the good marijuana is grown for the entire country. So, uh, I grew up there.
And very, I was a piece of shit growing up for sure. I was, I was not a good kid by any means. And through my teenage years, I was very, very angry. Um, got suspended a lot, uh, all the time and, um, switched at a couple of different schools, barely graduated high school.
I didn't give a shit about anything back then, you know, and when you're a teenager, kind of also, you think that, you know, what's best and you know, everything. I had a lot of run-ins with law enforcement during those years too. And I would say, you know, cuss them out to their face. I would say, fuck you, you know, pig and stuff like that. I hated cops.
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