How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #7

Synopsis: Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
Director(s): Matthew Cooke
Production: Tribeca Films
  3 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
96 min
$15,285
Website
325 Views


or demand a witness

protection program.

is having a few counter

surveillance guys on your payroll.

you run an investigation

on the cops following you,

so when cops break the law, you've got

it on tape, and can negotiate a deal.

I went in and told them

they planted drugs on me,

that I didn't have drugs

that particular night.

That I was a drug dealer, but

that night, I didn't have drugs.

What these cops were doing were going

around and doing this to a lot of people.

They wind up getting indicted,

and when they got indicted,

I agreed to cooperate against the

cops for what they had did to me.

And that's how the King of Crack

spent only five years in prison.

It's a great idea to get an ex-DEA

officer on your team as well.

When you're moving tons of illegal

cargo, like Brian O'Dea was,

you can never be too careful.

We all agreed that we would

move this thing forward,

that everybody would

go on a salary,

and the deal was no coke.

If you did coke you were out.

The problem was,

Brian loved cocaine.

He loved all drugs,

ever since he was a kid.

I can tell you about the first day at

school, first period, first class.

Around the corner came this guy,

He took me to his office,

and half an hour later,

I suffered the first sexual

abuse by an adult in my life.

As a Catholic, we were taught sex

was punishable by eternity in hell.

So I came out of that office negotiating

with God not to strike me dead today.

It was horrible, buddy.

My mind became a place

to get out of.

And so I, you know,

when I discovered that

there were substances that

could take me out of there,

I was going for them.

The moment I take cocaine, it's a

nightmare from that point until I stop.

Coke has such an ownership

thing, it wants all of you.

Brian knew this was the

biggest deal of his career.

And as long as he stayed

clean, he'd be all right.

The first part of

the load was 25 tons.

And we met it up

in the Bering Sea,

and then took it off up

into a fjord in Alaska,

repackaged it all

in wetlock fish boxes,

put it all on the trucks,

I mean, it was as smooth as silk.

Once it was all offloaded,

we started partying.

There was only one little problem,

and it wasn't Brian O'Dea.

Brian's partner couldn't help but party

with a little cocaine one night.

Then another night,

and then another one.

He'd show up at the house in the middle of

the night at 2:
00 and 3:00 in the morning

in a limousine, prostitutes,

cocaine, booze.

Well, when he found out that the load

came in, he came looking for his money.

And we were very concerned about him getting

out there with a whole pack of money

and creating a giant heat-score

with these bags

of coke and hookers,

so there was a concern

about giving him anything,

giving him something, giving him

a million bucks, what do we do?

So the boys decided to give

him 50 grand, and I thought,

"He is not going to be happy

with 50 grand."

He took that 50 grand,

he left that meeting,

and he went right to the DEA's office

with the money and put it on the table.

And said, "I can tell you where there's

millions more just like that."

A few days later,

Brian and his team

were expecting 50 tons

of marijuana to come in.

So Brian took the precaution

of hiring an ex-DEA agent

to run surveillance on any law

enforcement activity in the area.

The load came in, a huge load.

We got a guy out from San Diego

who has a spectrum analyzer.

He's able to isolate the

transmission frequencies of the DEA,

and on the way up,

my scanner lights up,

And the moment it crossed the

border between Canada and the U.S.,

DEA, the FBI, alcohol tobacco

firearms, coast guard.

Expecting to find reefer.

There wasn't a joint in sight,

but there was fresh donuts made

and coffee on the brew,

and they took that as insult.

You know, you can't help doing

stuff like that sometimes.

Seventy-five tons generated,

approximately 200 million U.S. dollars.

So where do you find an ex-DEA agent

or narc who's willing to work for you?

We've got someone

we can recommend.

In high school, I wore overalls with no

shirt, my jeans tucked into my boots,

and I could yell "yee-haw"

louder than the rest of them.

Well, any of the kids that we heard of

smoking marijuana, we would beat them up.

The entire time, we'd be drinking

and fighting each other.

I decided to be cop because I

wanted to be able to fight legally.

I loved everything

about law enforcement.

I learned how to manipulate

citizens into running, or fighting.

I was very popular among all

the other police officers

because of the excitement

I could get them in.

We were trained

when a motorist was speeding,

to get real close and then

activate the red and blue lights.

Well, I learned to lag way back

then turn my lights on to give

that motorist the opinion that

"I might have a chance

to outrun this guy."

you're addicted to the adrenaline

and you don't realize it.

I was the best drug agent

in the area.

There's not a day that we don't put

somebody in jail for narcotics,

for finding mainly marijuana.

I only had 5 miles of highway

in my jurisdiction

and I made over

100 drug arrests in one year.

He's got a gun! Shoot!

The DEA, they were jealous, because they were

supposed to be making all the big arrests.

The first month, I performed

seven drug raids.

The DEA were only doing one a year.

The entire DEA.

And they had jurisdiction

of every county,

I only had jurisdiction

in one city.

I'll never forget the last

marijuana arrest I made.

And something hit me, I thought,

"I make three or four of these a day."

Almost everybody I stop

has marijuana.

There's marijuana roach in your

ash tray, and I smell marijuana.

Ladies, any of y'all got

any marijuana on you?

I thought there's got to be

something to it.

Well, for years,

I had pounds in my house

as training aids

to train my drug dog.

So, I went home, and I smoked

that pot, and I loved it.

I'm like,

"This is what it's about."

It's one of the funniest

things I'd ever done.

I married my pot dealer,

this girl named Candy.

Candy and I were talking,

and I said,

"Should I make a film on

how insane the drug war is

"or should I just teach people

how not to get busted for pot?"

All these secrets I had.

And she said, "You gotta teach 'em

how not to get busted."

High Times, Cannabis Culture,

everything out there.

We went on the Internet, and

nothing was out there like it.

Coming off the success of the

Never Get Busted video series,

we begin getting

thousands of emails

of people being arrested and

mistreated by law enforcement.

And if I got an email and it

fit exactly what I used to do,

I knew

they were telling the truth.

And we were getting

thousands of these.

So Candy and I were talking

and she said,

"You know, Barry, you were so good

at busting all those citizens,

"you should start busting

some of these crooked cops,"

and I'm like, "Yeah!"

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