How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #4

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wall and make about $8,000 a day.

Once you've stacked up enough money,

you can buy larger quantities

and supply dealers yourself, which is

what Skipp's gonna teach you to do.

I was 10 or 11 years old, my

family life was dysfunctional.

My mother worked two jobs,

my father wasn't in the home,

so before drugs came

into the community,

lot of people who would hustle would

rob banks or rob jewelry stores.

The aggression, the

violence wasn't for me.

Skipp was struggling

to make ends meet

in order to protect himself from the

Crips bullying his neighborhood.

but it was the relationships

I had with the Crips

that actually

introduced me to drugs.

I saw them having money, and I was

asking them what are they doing,

and the more I hung out with them, I

got more into the culture of drugs.

We used to go to, uh,

different areas

that weren't populated

by the L.A. culture

so they wanted it, but they

didn't have the connection,

so we would come out

and be that connection.

You'd have to have, uh, a

family contact or a friend.

I myself went to Las Vegas.

There are more than a hundred

street gangs in Los Angeles.

Police now say they have

become heavily involved

in the drug trade, exporting their

crimes throughout the west.

Going out of town when people

knew you were from L.A.,

that number one,

made you a star celebrity.

And then, if you were the

guy who had the drugs,

it made you an even

bigger celebrity.

Made all the girls love

and want to come to you.

The difficult part became

how to get it out of town.

I myself would always

buy a bucket.

Put whatever I want inside of it

and go get a girl who likes me.

Don't tell her what's in the

car, and let her drive it.

Did the girls

ever get pulled over?

Nah, I've been fortunate that

that has never occurred.

Um, however, they did get pregnant,

and I now have children.

The relationships that

I wanted for a weekend

have lasted longer

than I expected.

A lot of smugglers get

someone else to drive.

But how do you keep

track of you driver?

The DEA make a living

chasing drugs across country.

So they can tell you how the smartest

suppliers keep track of their cargo.

the source of supply had rigged

this car with a GPS locator

and a phone, so he could

actually dial into the phone

and he could monitor if the transaction

was going correctly or not.

He would know if the vehicle

was out of position.

Now, you don't want to put

your drugs in the trunk.

You're going to want some new

options on your vehicle.

Designing "traps" is standard practice

for any local chop shop.

It's kind of like

a combination safe.

It has to be a series of things

activated in the vehicle

Like, they may have to have the air

conditioning on, the blinker on,

and a couple of other things within

the vehicle for it to activate.

You got money to spend,

you'll get a real good trap.

We've seen some sloppy

ones, this is good work.

When they're closed, you would never

know by looking at it with your eye

so whoever constructed this

one was a professional.

It goes the whole length

of the back seat area.

So you could fit probably

in excess of 10 kilograms

of, uh, narcotics, large amounts

of currency or weapons.

Now you're ready.

But before you hit the road,

Pepe has some tips from back in the

day when he was running cocaine.

Get up in the morning,

you be ready.

Check your car, no lights broke.

Insure your car, everything.

Even the speed limit.

25? 25. No more.

75? 75. You know?

15, school? 15, school.

Take it easy.

And you get there. You be there.

So how much does

a smuggler expect to make?

If they take 10 kilos, they give

me $4,000 just to smuggle it,

or if it was more?

5,000. It all depends.

So you've driven a few

kilos across country,

you might be making

mid six figures a year.

Once you're in the game, you realize

just how many people want drugs.

There's everybody from the Wall Street

types to the people on the streets,

to kids going to concerts,

the stoners.

Everybody wanted cocaine.

What domestic smugglers

make in a month,

Bobby Carlton would

eventually make in a day.

In the 70s, all the cocaine was

coming in through South Florida,

and uh, back then they used to

call it the South Florida shuffle.

Everybody and anybody was selling

drugs, running drugs, moving drugs.

They were coming in, and

they were going everywhere.

The posses buy cocaine

for about $5,000 a kilo.

The drugs are then brought here to

Miami, where they're divided up

and shipped all over

the United States.

The initial $5,000 investment

is worth $125,000.

A girl that we had known, me and

some friends, we had gone over

to her house for a party, and I went with

her into her garage, and I was shocked.

There was boxes and boxes of

cash just all over the garage,

and it was just packed with money.

I just looked at her and I said,

"Look I don't care what you're into,

"or how you do it, I want in."

And she introduced me to somebody,

and, uh, that somebody

put me on a boat.

The way it works is their

drop-off point is Bimini.

Bimini's literally like 70 miles

off the coast of Florida.

You can go to Bimini, load up,

"Go fast boats" are called

go fast boats for a reason.

These, like, Colombian

cats hedge their bets.

What they do is they send about

15 to 20 of them at a time.

the odds of getting arrested are

very slim, the money's very good.

You get into Fort Lauderdale

or you get into Miami,

and uh, you drop a boat off, and you

get a bunch of cash and that was it.

When you're 18 years old and you

come from a very poor family,

like stuff's just not happening

for you, that's a lot of money.

Fifty grand a day

would satisfy most people.

But not Brian O'Dea.

Brian was one of the most notorious

drug smugglers in the world.

He and his 120 employees would

take in over $100 million a year.

Brian's going to show you

how a college dropout

can become the CEO of a major

import-export business.

I sent two pounds of hash

to myself from England.

I got 19 months for that,

and went to prison.

When I got out of prison, I had

no money and nothing going on.

So, I thought,

maybe I can kick start

my getting back into the

world with a little coke.

I had $500 in my pocket,

and an address.

Couldn't speak a word of Spanish,

but figured I could figure it out,

so I took off to Colombia,

and I said,

"Do you know, uh, Benny?"

Showing him my card

with Benny's name on it.

I won't say his last name right now.

I might get myself shot.

So the guy, he said,

"What do you want?"

I went like that,

and I said

"Well, I got $500 with me."

And, you know, everybody started

crying laughing, right.

I told him I just

got out of prison,

I got my hands on... That's

all I could get my hands on,

and I'm just trying

to get a life started.

So he said,

"Senor, muchos huevos."

He thought I had a lot of balls.

He said,

"I'm gonna get you 50 grams of coke.

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