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Federal Informant Holds Dealer Hostage (How She Escaped)
Wed, 25 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What experiences shaped Courtney's early life?
I felt more safe with scarier types of men. He had tracking stuff on my phone. I couldn't reach out to family that this man was going to be a villain in my life. I'd never had anybody be that cruel.
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My dad is biker, had biker friends, biker-affiliated friends. And I, even at a young age, I feel like I glorified anything that was on the other side of it. We were in an urban area where I feel like that impacted who I was in my juvenile years quite a bit. It was a rough area that I grew up in, but I grew up really just not having any ambition.
I don't remember having any ambition to be better than anybody I was around. It just felt like I was destined to do something wrong. I feel like, you know, there wasn't really anybody that was guiding me to do better.
It was, it was very bizarre looking back now that I'm a parent about how I would, there wasn't anybody like pushing me really hard for school or pushing me to like figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. It was just, I was just kind of like, kids are meant to be seen, not heard type of a thing. Ultimately he kicked me out from being kind of a troubled youth kid.
How old was that?
I was 15.
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Chapter 2: How did drug use begin for Courtney?
And it started a, over a decade journey that, you know, that we're here to talk about today, you know, um,
When you say pills, you mean just any pills?
Klonopin, Vicodin, Percocet, Xanax, yeah, the whole thing. And, I mean, I believe that my entire drug addiction was like my karma for helping other people's drug addictions long before I had my own. Because, I mean, I didn't, you know, you don't care when you're out there doing shit like that to people. You don't realize you're doing something to people.
You're just getting some money, and that's kind of how it went. I was functional. I don't believe that I was an addict until much later because something else I learned in West Virginia was about the existence of meth. I had never heard of speed before. In Massachusetts, I feel like there was like some crackheads, but like I'd never heard of speed in my life.
West Virginia in my 20s is when I was exposed to speed and manufacturing. And that's when my life took a complete spiral.
Is there, are they, like, is this some place, like, they're making it there or are they bringing it in from Mexico?
We were making it. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, not that stuff. Okay. But I had already been, I had turned into, I broke the cardinal law and I was doing my own supply when it came to pain pills. And that went on for many years. And then we were sourcing from the pill mills here in Florida.
So when they shut them down, everything changed in West Virginia and they started making people go to pain clinics and it wasn't as easy to get pain medicine. So. Around the same time that I quit, well, not quit doing pain pills, but graduated into H, was when I started to date a cook and learn the ropes of shake and bake, or anhydrous cooking.
And I had very little understanding of how dangerous being around that is. And because of that, I was diagnosed with COPD and emphysema in 2019 when I was 33.
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Chapter 3: What led to Courtney's involvement in drug manufacturing?
Go ahead. So when he strands me out there.
I was just going to say, so how do you get out of this motel room?
So he strands me out there. I had a friend working on a pot farm in southern Oregon. And I had another friend and my aunt, I wouldn't even be sitting here talking if it wasn't for my auntie Sue that let me come to her house because everyone told her not to help me. They're like, no. But I was stuck there for about a month and a half after the fact.
And so I went down to this little pot farm and where I found some fellow tweakers. I had stopped doing H and but continued to do speed until I literally got on a plane. I found some very nice people somehow. I mean, truthfully, if I wouldn't have found the nicer people out there, I don't know what would have became of me in the middle of this, like.
in the middle of absolutely nowhere in Oregon, a place called Selma. It was just in the middle of nowhere. I found some nice people, and I stayed there for the month, and then I finally got out of there and got to Florida December 5th of 2017. Um, and I had like one blip of a relapse on the 26th of January of 2017. And then I stopped and then that was it.
I hadn't used to, I hadn't used again after that. Um, but that, that man continued to menace me even after I got to Florida, he had Googled my family members in Florida, you know, Google, you can find anybody's information now. And he showed up at my aunt's house and it was, it was insane.
Is he missing a leg?
Not yet. He still had his legs. And what had happened was I had quit using and I had very quickly, after I got to Florida, became pregnant with my existing daughter's father. We're in the middle of a divorce right now. We've been married for 20 years. We're in the middle of a divorce right now.
But he basically, because I made the decision to change my life, he was like, I'm going to bring our daughter down to see her and, you know, let's do this the right way. And so I get pregnant like two seconds into recovery. And so when he showed up to Florida a couple months later and I was pregnant, I was too afraid of him to then tell him. I didn't tell him it was his.
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