How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #5

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"You can cut it in half

'cause I'll give it to you pure.

"You should be able to get about

10 grand out of that back there

"if you sell it in grams."

I don't know where

I came up with this,

but I got a pin, and I

heated it with a lighter,

and you can put a hot pin

under this cellophane here,

and that will pop open.

So, then you can slide the

cigarettes right out of the pack

without breaking the seal.

The 50 grams of coke

fit into this pack

like it was made

to fit into that pack.

I thought,

"Ah, this is brilliant!"

I put the cigarettes with

the coke in it in my pocket

with the pack I was smoking.

Leaving Colombia, you have

to go through immigration.

There's no just going

and getting on the plane.

So, I'm going through immigration, there

are two guys there, and they go...

"On behalf of the Unites States Government,

we're checking all people

"who fit a profile,

who seem to be involved with drugs..."

I said, "Are you kidding me?

I'm a reporter! I'm a journalist!"

But they said, "We still have to

take your clothes off, please,

"and get your suitcases off the plane."

I'm going,

"No! I'm not taking my..."

"Sir, there's nothing we can do about it.

You have to."

I take my pants off,

still have my jacket on.

I pass them my pants, cursing

and swearing, and my socks,

and I reach my hand

into my jacket pocket.

I put the cigarettes I was holding

the coke in on the bottom

and the cigarettes I was smoking

on the top, and I flipped it open,

the one I was smoking, pulled

out a cigarette and lit it.

Offered them a cigarette,

which they each took.

I mean, these guys are making 30

bucks a month, we can't forget.

I'm lighting their cigarettes,

and I take my jacket off

and hand it to them, and my shirt,

holding the cigarettes and the

coke in my hand the entire time.

The moment they handed me back a piece of

clothing that had a pocket in it, shwamp!

I immediately stuffed

the coke back in the pocket.

And that's how I got

in the coke business.

After that, Brian O'Dea

was in business.

He got a small amount of coke, and he dissolved

it in water, and then poured in material.

What we used were ponchos, or ruanas

as they're called in Colombia.

So, here we now had this piece of material

that had a couple of grams of coke in it,

and then I just folded up those ponchos

buddy, put them in my suitcase,

and headed on a direct flight to L.A.

from Bogota.

You just soak it in the water, and

then evaporate the water off. Simple.

Of course, methanol is what you should

be doing it with, and not water,

'cause methanol evaporates

off at room temperature.

Water, you got to wait forever

for the sh*t to evaporate,

which is, you know...

It's a learning process.

If these individuals were

putting their expertise

towards a legitimate goal,

could probably be very

wealthy as entrepreneurs.

We have seized drugs

in prosthetic legs,

heroin in kidney beans,

in the back of paintings.

Individuals swallow condoms filled with heroin.

Heroin pellets, we call them.

Once that condom breaks open

or that balloon breaks open,

there's not much anyone's going to

be able to do to save your life.

A million dollars in a few

months is a lot of money.

But how would you like to

make that in a few days?

Everyone dreams of climbing to

the top of the game one day.

Some people can play baseball,

basketball, or sing, or dance.

With some of the icons being

millionaires from selling drugs,

of course, I wanted...

I didn't want to be like Mike.

I didn't want to be like Michael

Jordan or Magic Johnson,

I wanted to be like...

I wanted to be like Freeway Rick!

My name is Freeway Rick Ross.

My claim to fame

is being a drug kingpin.

At that time, I never did

drugs, I had never smoked weed.

I was going to a junior college playing

tennis when my car was broken down.

I was in financial

ruins at the time.

I needed some money.

Narcotics is

a thing of the future.

If we don't get

a piece of that action,

we risk everything we have.

I mean, not now, but 10 years from now.

When they put those movies

out, that made us curious.

I mean it was almost like

being a movie star.

You know, how people

wished to be movie stars.

That was the way I felt

about cocaine.

We went to the movie, it might

have been 15 or 20 of us.

And we were all curious.

Most of the older people were

saying, you know, that, uh...

"You can't make any money

in South Central off of cocaine."

What I found out is that the PCP

dealers made so much money for PCP,

they had the money, and they

became my first customers.

We just kept escalating

and escalating

until my mom found out

and put me out the house.

I was ghetto-rich at that time so I had

plenty of places that I could move.

The trick to becoming a kingpin

in any industry is innovation.

Freeway Rick introduced

crack to the West Coast.

When people snort cocaine, they snort

so much their nose start bleeding.

So, they needed another way

to get it into their systems.

People would come by

early in the morning,

you know, like, doctors and

nurses and truck drivers.

They want to get some,

and they want to smoke it.

They started saying stuff like,

"Man, I wish it was ready to go already."

So we got hip, and we started

cooking it up for them,

so we would have the powder

here and the Ready Rock here.

Eventually, everybody started

wanting it, uh, Ready Rocked.

For one minute, it was

like, in South Central,

then it moved to Inglewood,

then it moved to West L.A.

Then it moved to Compton,

then it moved to Watts,

it's like a virus.

Pretty much every day I could do a

million dollars' worth of drugs.

There was days that I would go to

two and three million dollars.

I gave a lot of money away.

I mean, that's part of,

you know, being successful,

so that you can help your

family and friends, you know.

Somebody would come up to

your house when it was due,

car notes, light bills,

you know, friends in jail.

So much stuff... You know, just

give to kids on the street.

I mean, it's a good feeling when you

can help somebody else, you know.

One of the best feelings

that you can have, so...

I probably used to take about $40,000 a

day around with me just to give out.

You know, 'cause people be coming up

to me all day, anyway, to see me.

So, you know, you got to give

it to them if you see them.

When you're a kingpin,

word travels fast.

Like Pablo Escobar was

to many Colombians.

For communities with

struggling economies,

you are a primary job creator,

community leader, godfather,

bank and charitable organization.

You know, if I was in trouble, I would

want somebody to give me a helping hand.

When you're this high profile,

there's enormous pressure

on law enforcement to make a bust.

And if your operation is tight,

collecting evidence

can be nearly impossible.

That's when Meltin puts a bag of

marijuana into Ferral's pocket.

California Judge Jim Gray

can explain their thinking.

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