Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Global Smuggler Caught by NYC Cop | Insane True Crime Story
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the story behind the global heroin operation?
If you don't come with our money, your family, you, you're all gone. You don't understand the reach we have. We're all over the world. And if you hit the piece of wood just right on a corner, it would open. And inside it was a heat-sealed plastic container with one ounce of 95% to 97% pure . You can make about $100,000 off it. I'm sending you a package with 20 to 25 statues three times a week.
You start doing the math. That's a lot of money. This kid... was hooked up with the main source of supply of the drugs who was in Thailand. And he was the guy that was going to cooperate. And we get driven up to North Hong Kong, near the China border, to a housing project. I'm unarmed. He's unarmed. Walk into the building, takes us up.
On the way up, I tell Keith in the elevator, Keith, I got a kid at home and a pregnant wife. No matter what happens here, we're getting out of here. I don't care if I have to throw somebody out a window, stomp on their throat. I'm getting out of here. Understand that? Went upstairs, turned the recorder on, rang the bell. Guy opens the door with a gun in his waistband. I was like, I'm fucked.
I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm in the middle of nowhere. They're never going to find my body.
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I am here with Dan Murphy. And we just met him at PodFed. No, wait, we met him at, we're at CrimeCon. And we just met him at CrimeCon. I'm not even gonna redo that. We just met Dan at CrimeCon, and he is the co-host of a podcast called Gold Shield with Tom Smith. And he is a retired New York City detective? Detective? I'm getting so much right.
And we're going to hear his story. So check out the interview. Like nobody expects me to be professional.
It's fine. We leave in all kinds of flubs because it's like, hey, this is not slick.
It's just a couple of knockoffs. You want to see professional, get Netflix. This is YouTube. It's free.
You're on YouTube. Yeah. So. It's either me or some guy lighting up his farts. Which one do you want to watch? I mean. So anyway.
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Chapter 2: How did the undercover operation in Hong Kong unfold?
Right.
So I'm sending you a package with 20 to 25 statues three times a week. You start doing the math. Right. That's a lot of money. So we tapped into this. it ended up taking us a couple of these guys cooperated. I mean, some of the craziness.
How do you, I mean, how do you track that down? Like, I mean, this is a guy you're saying that he's mailing it back there. They're cutting it up. They're distributing it. I'm like, did you guys, do you end up catching a low level drug dealer? And then you get him to give you the guy above him. Like,
Here's what happened, actually. A member of the narcotics division in the Bronx had an informant who turned them on to a guy who was receiving heroin in the mail. He said, this guy I know from my neighborhood. All right, great. They deal with the US Postal Inspection Service, and they do what's called a mail cover. This guy's address is such and such. Any packages that come here, take a look at.
Well, US Customs and the US Postal Inspectors can open any package they want and check it out. So they checked out a package. Sure enough, had a lot of stuff in it. And they did what's called a controlled delivery. Postal inspector pretends to be a postal carrier, knocks on the door. Hey, you waiting for this package? Yeah, great. Sign here.
And you get what's called an anticipatory search warrant, which means I'm anticipating when he gets this package, he's going to open it up in a minute or two. And we are allowed to hit. If he accepts the package, we can hit the warrant. Right. So this one knucklehead accepted a package. They hit the warrant. They grabbed him. It turned out to be Asian heroin. They gave us a call.
Now this guy cooperates because he's looking at the rest of his life in prison. Right. And so he comes in and he cooperates and he is a character, to say the least. He thinks he's a big time mobster, but in reality, he's kind of a wimp. He tried lying to us a couple of times. That doesn't work in federal court. And he lives a very interesting lifestyle. I'll just leave it at that. But.
We ended up then getting the Italian guy who was related to Lucchese, who was funny as hell. A little bit about Mikey. I won't say his last name. He's probably dead. Mikey, when we grabbed him, he took off from us and we had to chase him in the car. And when we finally get him out of the car, he fights. So we throw him down on the ground and we cuff him and stuff.
And he's like, what's with the guerrilla tactics? Why didn't you just call my lawyer? I would have come in like a gentleman. You're a knucklehead. Right. What are you thinking? Paul Castellano? You're just some moron. Call my lawyer? No, we're not calling your lawyer. And so Mikey gets brought down. I interview Mikey and I tell him, you know, you're looking at the rest of your life in prison.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did detectives face in tracking drug shipments?
I was introduced as a New York businessman who's going to be over in Hong Kong on business anyway. I have to bring you some money. I have to do this. We have to be careful with the accounts right now. I need you to change the accounts. I need to come over and discuss that with you in person, all this stuff. And they went for it. So myself and my DEA partner, Keith- We're a salt and pepper team.
He's the same size as me, African-American guy. And the two of us are going to go over there and do this, right? We're both Americans. I'm sorry.
I mean, if he looks like you, then you're both cops. You both look so much like cops.
Yeah, but not there. Not there? Well, let's go back to what I talked about earlier about hope. People believe what they want to believe. You're going to bring me money. You're a representative of this guy. He owes us money. you're our new contact, all this other stuff.
Yeah, they want it to be real.
They want it to be real, so they bought it. We went over there, flew over to Hong Kong, total life-changing experience, never been anywhere near there before. And now we have to work with the locals. It turns out that the locals, it was too corrupt. But the locals are tiny compared to you. Oh, God, yeah. Oh, the cops were like, I'm 6'3". The cops were all 5'5". 5'6".
It's so nice of you guys to help us.
Thanks. Elbow rest. No, they were nice enough and very professional. They just weren't tactically sound in any way, shape, or form. But we had to do an in-person meeting with these people. And so made arrangements to meet at the Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong in a safe space, so to speak, in a public space. We could talk.
And I was wired up with a Niagara recording device, which looks like an iPad almost. It's like about that thick and that big at the time. It was ancient equipment in 1995 when we did it before. And I was wearing this belly band in my back. And I had microphones taped to my chest. And I'm thinking, all they have to do is pat me down and they're going to kill me. Right. But guns are rare over there.
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