How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #6

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"I know this fellow may have been

involved with drugs before,

"so I'll plant some on him now.

"So, he's good for it from before,

maybe not this time,

And then, they actually go to

court and they involve themselves

in what they call "testal lying."

And that's how they

busted Freeway Rick.

The cops on my case

had planted drugs on me.

I pled guilty to 10 years.

So, knowing the cops are going

to arrest you at some point

no matter how good you are,

what can you do?

The first thing you need to

understand is how drug cases work.

Drug cases are prosecuted

unlike any other criminal case.

Here's a cop and

a lawyer to explain how.

It's impossible for the police

to have a normal procedure

in a crime where

nobody wants to report it.

Nobody calls 911 when they use a

drug, buy a drug, or sell a drug.

In traditional law enforcement,

a crime gets committed,

police try to find

who committed the crime.

This is the way

drug enforcement works,

you look for a suspect, and then you try

to trick them into committing the crime...

For you!

It's backwards.

So the government

goes around sort of saying,

"Let's find suspect, who should be a...

"Well, let's try to set some f***er up."

Here we are, observing the DEA,

who've arranged to buy

drugs from a suspect.

He's the guy on the right

with the baseball cap.

He's completely surrounded by law

enforcement, and has no idea.

Just chill, just chill. Got any weapons on you?

Anything on you?

Nothing? No guns,

no knives, no drugs?

All right. But just to protect,

do you have anything on you,

The reality is that the cops don't

really care too much about this one guy.

Their objective is to just use

him to cuff more dealers.

We'll lock up this middle man,

hopefully, this middle man will

cooperate and get us the distributor,

and we'll just go up the ladder

and keep going up the food chain.

It's very intimidating

and overwhelming.

I'm gonna say to you, you

know, you got a lot to lose,

you're looking at a lot of time.

I mean, even if...

Even if you're not,

you're gonna try to sell

him that he's going.

You know, you're going

to jail for a long time.

If they don't know,

they may give it up.

You either go to jail,

you get a record.

From there, you have trouble getting

a job, can't support your family.

Or in the other hand, you

become an informant for us,

and we'll let you off the charge.

This exact scenario is what

gets most dealers into trouble.

One of your employees or

customers gets picked up by cops

and turned into a snitch.

Yes, this was a situation in Vegas

where there was a guy,

he started using drugs

and Las Vegas Police

somehow got a hold of him.

Eighteen-year-old Clifford Townson

denies he belongs to any gang,

but admits he traveled from Los

Angeles here to Las Vegas.

He has been arrested

for selling cocaine,

and police suspect

he is a gang leader.

They actually put it in

the newspaper, and on TV.

We were celebrities,

we were the L.A. guys

who had all the drugs, so...

Well, we were looking at 55 years.

Skipp was offered a deal.

If he would plead guilty,

and save the prosecutors

the trouble of going to trial.

The offer came that it would be

five years as opposed to 55 years.

Um, I signed up for it.

And what happened to the snitch?

He didn't get any time at all.

Matter of fact, he was let go, they

might have even paid him, I'm sure.

Federal drug money

is allocated to states

based on drug arrest numbers.

Alexandra Natapoff

is an award winning scholar

and nationally recognized

expert on snitching.

Snitches are very good

at producing arrests.

They may not be very good at

solving important crimes,

or getting drugs off the street,

or making communities safer,

but they are very good

at producing arrest numbers.

I was standing on the

side of 18, 12 officers.

Everybody pack a big gun.

You hear me?

And they, they are police.

They can shoot you.

Meet Derek Migras,

a Texas crack addict

who police demanded give them 20 drug

dealers in a local housing project.

Mr. Pascal told you if

you got incarcerated,

bad things can happen

in prison, right?

No, he told me that he

would make a phone call,

and have the biggest dick

son-of-a-b*tch, excuse my words, y'all,

females,

but these is his exact words.

"I have the biggest dick son-of-a-b*tch

in there f*** you every day."

So what you gonna do

if you was in my shoes?

Cooperate and say

what they want you to...

So Derek gave the

police a list of names.

And 28 people were arrested.

Most snitches in the arena of street and

drug crime will never have a lawyer.

They'll never talk to anyone

about their rights,

about the nature of the case that

the government has against them.

They'll negotiate with the police

officer right there on the street

or maybe in the back

of the police car.

All right, let me

tell you like this here.

I never bought drugs from Regina Kelly.

Straight up.

It turns out that all the

names were fabricated.

But cases like this

happen all the time.

There's another reason

Derek Migras

gave a list of innocent

people to the cops.

Because snitching

on a real drug dealer

can have very

serious consequences.

Rachel Hoffman was a young

woman in Tallahassee, Florida.

She was a college graduate,

she had a bright future

ahead of her.

But she was caught by the police

with a small amount of marijuana

and some non-prescription pills,

and the police threatened her.

They told her that she

could work it off.

She could do

an undercover drug buy.

She was supposed to buy

15,000 ecstasy tablets,

50 grams of cocaine,

and two handguns.

She said,

"Mom I don't want you telling anybody,

"'cause I'm getting

all my charges dropped."

Rachel called her father

just hours

before the sting operation

was to begin.

She said,

"Dad, I'm really thinking about you today."

And that was my last

conversation with her.

The people that she was set up to

meet knew that something was fishy,

and so they shot her.

And at the end of the day,

when the police were confronted

with whether they had made

the right decision

to send in a 22-year-old college

girl to make this kind of drug deal,

do you know what they said?

They said,

"Well, she didn't follow protocol."

Now, see that's where everybody feels

we're looking to blame someone...

But I asked you what happened, you said,

"She deviated from the plan."

Well, and that's where, uh...

Whenever the plan started going,

um, south, if you want to say,

uh, where we lost

contact with Rachel

because she did not show up at the

location she was supposed to have gone to.

You don't think she was pushed

into it, coerced by your officers?

Threatened with prison?

For charges that were never filed?

Again, we don't threaten people to

become confidential informants.

That's not part of how we operate.

No, sir.

The moral of the story

for most dealers is

But if you do,

name innocent people,

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