Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Life as a Career Criminal: Outlaw Biker’s Crazy Stories
Sun, 05 Jan 2025
Michael Hudson shares his insane life story of being in a biker gang and becoming involved in the international drug trade. Devils of Contrapand: How a Former High End “Escort” Survives South Florida’s Narcotics Underworld In the midst of the most violent period in South Florida’s history Marlene Hudson—a gorgeous ex-call girl—immerses herself—along with her teenage sons, Michael and Douglas—into the perilous world of international drug-smuggling. A criminal industry infested with snitches, junkies, wise guys, and assassins; all intertwined with drug enforcement and geopolitics. Despite murder attempts, prison sentences—daring escapes—and multiple homicides, Marlene and her crew of dope-running-island-jumpers manage to import hundreds of tons of marijuana and cocaine along Miami’s intracoastal waterways. This true crime epic is at once a gripping Blow-style thriller with memorable characters and breathtaking twists, and a Cocaine Cowboys first-hand look at the international drug trade of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Follow me on all socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattcoxtruecrime Do you want to be a guest? Send me an email here: [email protected] Do you want a custom "con man" painting to shown up at your doorstep every month? Subscribe to my Patreon: https: //www.patreon.com/insidetruecrime Do you want a custom painting done by me? Check out my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopart Listen 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/B0851KBYCF Bent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4GC7TM It's Insanity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFYXKK8 Devil Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TH1WT5G Devil Exposed (The Abridgment): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1070682438 The Program: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0858W4G3K Bailout: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bailout-matthew-cox/1142275402 Dude, Where's My Hand-Grenade?: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNFHBDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1678623676&sr=1-1 Checkout my disturbingly twisted satiric novel! Stranger Danger: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSWQP3WX If you would like to support me directly, I accept donations here: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69 Cashapp: $coxcon69
Chapter 1: What led Michael Hudson into the world of crime?
We went to Guatemala with almost $2 million on the boat. We took about $400,000 cash off the boat and brought it back. I'm looking at it, it's got to be a typo, 22,000 kilos. So I'm reading the indictment. So it was $45.5 million. And I remember when I heard the story,
Not that this is the most ridiculous story. And I thought, man, that's, you know, this is, it's, come on, stop it, bro. And there's the report on the three guys that approach him that he gets into a fight with. And there's a, attached to it is a transcript. And so they pull the pilot and the co-pilot out, you know, the plane. They're standing there. They're like, okay, you guys didn't pay.
And they execute him. Well, Doug just happened to be... taking a piss in the jungle. So he takes off. He flies in there on his private plane, convinces Castro to let these guys go.
They load them all up. This guy's about six foot freaking 11. He carries a 44 Magnum. You walk by there about three in the morning when they're in their REM sleep. Hold your nuts and you walk up in there and you try to get the motorcycle. Bangs on the door butt naked and I rip by about 70 miles an hour and Pat's jaw is, you know, he's like...
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I'm here with Michael Hudson. Michael Martini Hudson, actually. No, don't say Michael Martini.
I'll start over. Martin. Martin? Yeah. On the driver's license, it says Martin because they made a mistake, but it's M-A-R-T-E-I-N-E. That's actual. So just say Michael Martin Hudson.
Okay. Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I'm here with Michael Martin Hudson. And I wrote a story about Mike called... um devils of contraband and which he never really liked the title of but it's about basically he's essentially a part of the genre that is what's known as uh cocaine cowboys uh he was active in well he was he was a part of the uh dirty dozen and then he ends up moving into the um
into smuggling operations in Miami back in the 70s, 80s, 90s. And we'll get into that. And so it's going to be a really interesting story. So check it out. You know, I want to like I typically start most stories. I obviously start, you know, with something interesting. And then I jump back to the origins of like where the person was raised, that sort of thing.
So and you were raised in Arizona, but your mom, but the way it happened was your mom was basically just a maniac teenager, right? She got married young, had two boys, you and your brother, and she ended up getting caught smuggling marijuana from Mexico into the United States. Correct. Right?
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Chapter 2: How did Michael's mother influence his criminal career?
And, you know, I would sit there at the house at night, you know, high on blow and sit there and watch a car go. She had a boyfriend that she met a younger kid, and his father was a boss in the Gambino family. Joe Paterno. So you'd see a car go by, a couple of Joe's button guys would drive by.
Then you'd see another car go by about an hour later with an undercover vehicle with the shortwave aerials. And you'd see another one like that one go by at about an hour later. I would sit there at night and watch four or five cars go by in a five or six hour period. So, you know, we were under heavy surveillance. But mom just said, no, we're going to take them.
We're not going to offload over here at the warehouse. We usually bring it up here into the intercoastal here in Miami. We're going to bring it down to the Keys, you dumb asses. We're going to offload it there and bring it up in trucks right under their noses. And we got another warehouse.
And so, you know, we were never, never busted for any load ever by the, you know, although they tried to get mom, they did. They did come in the house. Which I believe when we were in Coleman, you got that indictment. My mom was indicted for cocaine in 1975 in Miami. She got it quashed or she brought her the way to the Supreme Court? No, she took it to the Supreme Court.
And there was a corrupt judge named Ellen Morphonius. She tried to extort mom for 10 grand. And then mom was a little...
has said some derogatory things about more phonies and the phone was tapped on the phone yes so on the phone she says she's she's mouth she's they had a uh well it was a bail bondsman right the bail bondsman came and said that marphonious wants detectives oh okay they want they gave they gave the tape they wanted 10 initially they wanted 10 000 and then uh
Mom was pretty upset about that. And then she said a few derogatory things about Morphonius.
But she said it on the phone. Like she knew the phone was tapped and she still called up what?
She was talking to one of her gangster friends.
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Chapter 5: What were the challenges of smuggling drugs in the 70s?
So that was it. So I, you know, um, Janet Reno prosecuted me on that case personally.
So how much time did she have?
Well, we were already on the homicide investigation. The city of Miami homicide came into that house where that individual essentially was, we killed him. What they did was they came in looking for forensic pathology, blood, brain matter, blah, blah, blah. And they found a large cache of weapons, some real exotic stuff.
And it took, you know, my kid brother and me years to collect, mostly my kid brother. So they got my prints on a sawed-off shotgun. And that was it. They were able to get a warrant out for my arrest for the two sawed-offs.
They found me in Tampa at a safe house while Doug and Bobby had jumped Florida and had gone to Tennessee to another safe house while we were being investigated and followed all over South Florida by these two homicide cops. So to make a long story short, they got me in Tampa, here in Tampa, and I went to the Hillsboro. They found me in the safe house, the Hillsboro County Jail.
Mom bonded me out, and I met a young hooker up here, and I took her back to the condo we had on the ocean in Miami. And then, you know, hung out there for a while and just kind of, she said, cool your heels for God's sake. And I had an attorney, uh, Mark Krasno that represented me in that case. And then they tried to set me up for the, uh, for the narcotics.
And then, you know, of course, and then they, so those two charges, they lumped them together and ran a concurrent. It was attempted murder of a police officer, possession of a kilo, trafficking, possession of, trafficking in cocaine, possession of, you know, you know how it is. Yeah, a little shotgun. See, I hope one of the pellets will stick.
See, so to make a long story short, we, that's about the time that, You know, I started going, my attorney was Jewish. And that's when I, you know, started, and I couldn't get, I was on bond on the shotguns. I made bond in Hillsborough County Jail. So I was on bond when I flew back to Miami with that girl. And then kind of, you know, kind of laying low.
But, you know, and everything, you know, with Doug and Bobby being out of state now, there's a lot of heat. You see? Plus, my mom's still with Joey, the Gambino captain's freaking kid. So, we got a lot of heat. So, calm down. Try to take it easy. Don't do anything crazy. But, you know, I was a little unbalanced at the time. So, I went for the street drug buy, and there were cops.
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