Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Undercover ATF Agent Buys Illegal Firearms | The World of Gun Trafficking
17 Nov 2024
Ignacio Esteban is a recently retired Special Agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) with in the United States Department of Justice. As a Special Agent in the Miami and Tampa Field Divisions, he worked undercover investigating violent street gangs, international firearms traffickers, violent repeat offenders, and other types of federal investigations. Ignacio Books& YouTube Videos https://www.amazon.com/L-GANG-WARS-Ignacio-Esteban-ebook/dp/B09T3SMNGD?ref_=ast_author_dphttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/N9-qBCSwztc DC Snipers https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3IvAm3aEP3k Evil Empire, Communist China https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PN60E30q6Fc Freedom vs. Tyranny the Battle for Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JeOl1BX_0Kw Jimmy Hoffa https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mmVaceOlbgY Prison Gang Killers https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GnrTr85XNZs MS-13 Follow me on all socials! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/matthewcoxitc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattcoxtruecrime Follow my 2nd channel - Inside The Darkness! https://www.youtube.com/c/InsidetheDarknessAutobiographies Want to be a guest? Send me an email here! [email protected] Want a custom Con man painting shown up at your doorstep every month? Subscribe to Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/insidetruecrime Get a custom painting done by me! Check out my link! https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopart Listen to True Crime Podcasts anywhere! https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my prison story books here! https://www.amazon.com/Matthew-Cox/e/B08372LKZG Support me here! Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69 Cashapp: $coxcon69 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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hey listen the stuff's inside but these guys don't want to bring it out so i go out here normally what you do is wrap it up you bring the car real quick we're done i get the hell out of here right and he said but he wants to come in you go inside i was like and i know there's more people coming in he doesn't know that i know that already so i'm i'm almost like uh no dude i don't want to meet anybody i said no it's fine i said no and i said okay what do you give me the money and i'll go get i'll get it for you i said uh no i'm not doing
What's going to happen is you're going to walk away with $3,000 and I'm going to have a bigger headache to deal with to chase you and everybody else who just stole my money.
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I'm going to be doing an interview with Ignacio Esteban, and he is a former, yeah, retired ATF agent who was undercover. He has had a really interesting life, and yeah, so check it out. Honestly, I just basically start at the beginning, like where you were born,
You know, how you grew up and kind of like, you know, and how you got into, you know, how did you become an ATF? It wasn't something you were always interested in, that sort of thing, you know. Where were you born?
Yeah, yeah. I was born in Los Angeles, in California, but raised in South Florida, in Miami. Okay. And, you know, I've always had some interest in law enforcement, obviously. You know, you grew up in the same times. I was born in the 70s, and I grew up when I was younger in the 80s with Miami Vice, right? And I'm in South Florida, right?
How cool, you're seeing Don Johnson, you know, you're watching the cool cars, the Ferraris, right? You're thinking, man, that is pretty cool. So that always was, you know, always in the back of your head, and you're looking at that, but never thought... I would ever do that kind of work, really. I kind of, you know, that was cool. And I like the guns. I like the training.
I like putting out these bad guys. And the cocaine cowboys were huge back in the 80s. Well. Years later, I go to college. I went actually up not far from where you're at, up to St. Louis University. It's a Catholic university. And I get my degree in political science and history. Then I come back to FIU in Miami. So now we're looking about the mid-90s.
And I'm working my degree in international relations. And I was able to go to law school. I got accepted to a law school in Lansing, Michigan, Thomas Cooley. And, you know, the farthest thing in my head, but, and I'm seeing the prices, how expensive law school is. And this is mid nineties, a lot more now, obviously, but even in the mid nineties, and I didn't have a, I had a scholarship in college.
I played tennis, a number one for my school, but it was going to cost me about like about 30,000 a year.
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