The Legend of Cocaine Island (2018)

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OK.

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- Shall I just walk up there, man?
- Yep.

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Make sure I look good, bro. Shit.

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Alright.

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- Oh I haven't put my sunglasses on.
- sunglasses.

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This is to hide my identity.

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How much longer
you guys think this is gonna be?

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Alright, let's do this.

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If you knew where $2 million
was buried in the ground,

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would <i>you</i> dig the shit up?

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Fuck, yeah I would.
And I did it one time.

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Everybody's got a...

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different story to tell, you know.

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You know, some of them are funny.

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Some of them are, you know,
basically tragic, but...

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everybody's got stories, you know.

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It's kinda hard to
describe where I live.

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It's not the end of the world,
but we can see it from here.

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That's... about the best way
I can describe it.

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There's been people come and go
over the years,

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but Julian's been
out here a long time.

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He's our local hippie.

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He walks barefooted
everywhere he goes.

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He didn't have much...

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as far as materialistic stuff goes,

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but... he had a good story.

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You know the difference between a...

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northern fairy-tale
and a southern fairy-tale?

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Well, a northern fairy-tale
starts off, "Once upon a time..."

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A southern fairy-tale starts off,

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"Y'all ain't gon' believe this shit."

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Hell, I heard his story so many times
I can almost repeat it verbatim.

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You gotta understand
the way it happened.

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See, his wife ran a turtle research center
in Culebra.

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Julian would walk the beach
looking for...

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turtle nests,

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and that's where
the story started.

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One time, he saw this...

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big thing washed up
on the beach and...

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he didn't know what it was, but...

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the way it was wrapped up, you know,
it was in...

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watertight wrapping,

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so he knew it wasn't garbage.

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You know,
he pulled it out of the water and...

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he was hoping it was money.

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Well, when he opened it up...

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it turned out to be...

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cocaine.

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And he went, "Shit!"

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I believe he weighed it
and it was over 70lb of coke.

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That's about $1 million, you know.

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So somebody was out a lot of money.

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You know, he never had an intention
of trying to sell it or anything.

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He was just trying to figure out...

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where he could
basically get rid of it.

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He was afraid to turn it in.

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Puerto Rican cops were...

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you know, about as corrupt
as you could find.

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He didn't know what to do with it.

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It was probably a comedy

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'cause he said he'd carry it
to one spot and hide it...

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go back the next night and get it
and move it to another.

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It's kinda like a dog with a bone.

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He finally just said, "To hell with it."
He buried it.

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And that's where it stayed

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for over 10, 15 years.

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And he moved back here.

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And that $1 million were just waiting
for someone to dig it up.

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<i>♪ Address unknown ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Not even a trace of you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Address unknown ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Oh, how could I be so blind ♪</i>

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<i>♪ To think that you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Would never be hard to find? ♪</i>

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<i>♪ From the place of your birth
To the ends of the Earth ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I've searched only to find ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Only to find ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Address unknown ♪</i>

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My name is Rodney Hyden.
I'm president of BH Builders.

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We started the company in 1998.

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We are general contractors
and we do commercial concrete work.

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I'm a dreamer.

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You know, I always dreamed
of being the guy

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that builds big
four- and five- and six-story buildings

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and it came true.

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I mean, one of my first jobs
was a four-story motel

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that I never would have thought I'd be
doing in my second year in business.

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Yes, I am an optimist.
I'm not pessimistic at all.

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When I grew up, we were poor.

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I can remember times that my mother
and father would take a loan out

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to get our Christmas.

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During summers growing up,
I would work with my dad.

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I started working for him
for a dollar a day

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so I could save up
and buy my first shotgun.

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My father's done
every trade in the business

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and became a project superintendent.

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But he wasn't a businessman and...

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people took advantage of him.

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Just watching him bust his ass
all those years

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taught me don't ever depend
on somebody else to do what you can do

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and, if you can't do it,
learn how to do it.

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Golly,
we have done some huge projects.

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Back in 2000, 2001,

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we did the $20 million honors dormitory
at the University of Florida.

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That job going on, at the same time,
we were doing the skybox.

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And we were just everywhere.

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I had over 80 people working for us.

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Things were clicking.

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I've had all the toys.

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Had a Harley, three-car garage.

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I had a Corvette in one bay.
I traded one boat in for another.

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Emily was born all when this happened

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and my wife didn't work,
she stayed home and took care of Emily,

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something she always wanted to do.

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I never thought I'd be able
to go get her a new car

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and park it in the garage,

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so when she got home
and opened the garage, it would be there.

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But it's the first time I ever got
to do that and it was wonderful.

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I mean, times were great.
They were just unbelievable.

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But then the recession hit.

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I'm Emily Hyden
and I'm Rodney Hyden's daughter.

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I think that I have
a pretty normal family,

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but only because I've lived there
my whole life, so I see it as normal,

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but, from the outside looking in,
my family is probably pretty strange.

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Good food, good meat,
good God, let's eat.

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My parents are really chill in the
sense that I can tell my mom everything

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and she just kinda
goes along with it.

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My mom and my dad
have, like, a pretty open rapport.

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Like, they don't really...
There's no filter in my family.

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I feel like it's normal, but it's probably
not compared to other families, so...

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fairly strange, I would say.

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I never wanted to be single.

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Y'know,
I wanted to be somebody's wife.

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But I wanted the picture.

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I wanted the husband, the house,
the child, the dog.

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Each of us had been married...

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Y'know we'd each been married before.
He came with a child, I came with a child.

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And so, we got married
in a little bed-and-breakfast.

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We just had, like, six or eight friends,
my parents, you know.

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It was just a sweet...

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perfect moment.

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Our marriage sticks.

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It's never bored.

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I've never been bored.

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When we got married,
he was working for somebody

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and making good money,
but making them <i>better</i> money.

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We're doing alright,
but they're doing great.

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And they're doing great
because you're helping them...

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live this great life.

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And I wanted a piece of it.

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You know, my mama raised me
to want those things in life.

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The Hammock, at the time,

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was one of the
prestigious neighborhoods

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and the homes were big
and fabulous and...

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Then we found the land
in The Hammock and

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started to build this phenomenal,
beautiful home and...

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we were movin' up.

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We were movin' up.

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We appreciated the things
that Rodney worked hard to get for us.

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But it's not enough.

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And then we decided
we needed a swimming pool.

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And then we decided
we needed a river house.

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And then we needed the boat,
and then we needed the jet skis.

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And then he needed a motorcycle.

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It was, you know, endless.

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We <i>loved</i> our life.

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I <i>loved</i> it.

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The construction industry,
it was boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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So much work
that you just couldn't get to all of it.

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And then, all of a sudden,

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it was like... gone.

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<i>Let's talk about the speed
at which this market is deteriorating.</i>

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<i>Everything
has been completely wiped out.</i>

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<i>The Dow traders are standing there
watching in amazement</i>

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<i>and I don't blame 'em.</i>

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<i>We haven't seen anything
like this since the Great Depression.</i>

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<i>Will somebody come on TV
and tell the truth about how bad it is?</i>

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<i>We're in the midst
of a serious financial crisis.</i>

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<i>We are in the last days
of this country's survival.</i>

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<i>I have talked to the heads
of almost all of these firms</i>

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<i>in the last 72 hours</i>

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<i>and he has no idea
what it's like out there.</i>

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<i>None! They're nuts!
They know nothing!</i>

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<i>I really want to know.
Is the American dream dead for me?</i>

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<i>♪ I love the USA ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I love the USA ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Fuck, yeah, this place is great ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I love... ♪</i>

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<i>The foreclosure problem
has a ripple effect</i>

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<i>and touches almost everyone
here in Central Florida.</i>

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<i>The government's going to step in</i>

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<i>with nearly a trillion dollars
for the banks market.</i>

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<i>It's time for a conversation</i>

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<i>as to what they're going to do
to prevent massive foreclosures.</i>

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<i>This could be
the most serious recession in decades</i>

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<i>and that means life as most Americans
know it is about to change,</i>

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<i>in some cases dramatically.</i>

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<i>♪ I love the USA ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I love the USA ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Fuck, yeah, this place is great ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I love the USA ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I love the USA... ♪</i>

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<i>I do believe in the American dream.</i>

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<i>But today, for far too many Americans,
this dream is slipping away.</i>

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<i>♪ I love the USA... ♪</i>

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<i>I was over $1 million in debt
to the bank.</i>

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<i>And I felt like a disappointment
when I had to tell her.</i>

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It was the life that I loved
and I did not want to walk away from.

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So I thought I'd compromise.

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We found the property
out in Watermelon Pond and...

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I'd always said I wanted a sunset

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and Rodney bought me
the prettiest sunset in Alachua County.

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But it came with a price.

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And we put
a double-wide out on the property

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and the double-wide became
our permanent residence.

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And that was okay for a while.

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But then...

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our two-year plan...

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erm...

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crept into a three-year plan.

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A four-year plan, five-year plan,
six-year plan, seven... -year plan.

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Eight years later,
we were still in the double-wide...

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parking in the sand.

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When I had been
in a 3,600 square-foot home

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with a three-car garage,

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and now I was living in...

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a home the size of
my three-car garage.

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And I said those things
to my husband.

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We're in Piney Woods, Florida.

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It's Archer.
This is my 40-acre farm that...

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I've had for ten years now.

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This is where I was
when I heard the story.

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Every piece of property out here
has had that story told on it.

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The legend told the story.

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I'd tell people, "Who the hell's
walking along the road in bare feet?"

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And I said, "Is there a couple
of drag marks between the footprints?"

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"That's Julian...

238
00:15:57,831 --> 00:15:59,249
draggin' his nuts."

239
00:16:12,012 --> 00:16:13,597
The social life in...

240
00:16:14,431 --> 00:16:18,519
Piney Woods, Florida is...
like no other.

241
00:16:18,602 --> 00:16:21,271
Everybody stays to themselves, but...

242
00:16:21,772 --> 00:16:25,526
Fridays, Saturdays, phones started ringing,
"Where we gonna meet tonight?"

243
00:16:25,609 --> 00:16:28,237
You know, it was just a get-together
for the happy hours.

244
00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,072
We called it "Piney Wood Happy Hour."

245
00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:33,575
I felt a lot like Wendy
in <i>Peter Pan.</i>

246
00:16:33,659 --> 00:16:36,662
Like, I would cook and the Lost Boys
would come eat dinner.

247
00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:39,999
Well, when Rodney
first moved in,

248
00:16:40,082 --> 00:16:42,209
it was mainly having these parties

249
00:16:42,292 --> 00:16:43,585
where he was introduced

250
00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:45,254
to all the other neighbors.

251
00:16:45,337 --> 00:16:48,007
It's a very unique
cast of characters out there.

252
00:16:48,090 --> 00:16:52,052
It's just one story
after the next story.

253
00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:55,681
Course, Julian started his story
about Puerto Rico.

254
00:16:59,935 --> 00:17:02,396
It seemed like, every party,
he would tell this story.

255
00:17:02,646 --> 00:17:05,024
I have to say,
the first time I heard it,

256
00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:06,775
it was a little far-fetched.

257
00:17:06,859 --> 00:17:09,528
<i>Julian's story was probably
the most fascinating story</i>

258
00:17:09,611 --> 00:17:10,738
<i>I've ever heard in my life.</i>

259
00:17:10,821 --> 00:17:12,364
Oh, come on!

260
00:17:12,448 --> 00:17:15,826
Some people, y'know, would laugh
and, "Oh, let's go get a submarine."

261
00:17:15,909 --> 00:17:17,119
I told them, "Y'all crazy.

262
00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:20,539
Then what the hell would you do with it
if you got it over here?"

263
00:17:21,123 --> 00:17:24,043
We don't know anybody to sell it to.

264
00:17:24,334 --> 00:17:26,253
<i>Julian was sitting on a goldmine.</i>

265
00:17:26,336 --> 00:17:29,006
<i>We're talking about 32 kilograms
of cocaine.</i>

266
00:17:29,089 --> 00:17:31,800
<i>"X" marks the spot.
Treasure, treasure, treasure.</i>

267
00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:35,095
<i>Goddamn, man,
he knows right where he buried it.</i>

268
00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:39,141
<i>I liked picturing it in my mind.</i>

269
00:17:39,224 --> 00:17:42,019
<i>You know,
visualizing where he buried it.</i>

270
00:17:42,686 --> 00:17:46,106
<i>Sneaking back in there and getting it.
But it was a fantasy.</i>

271
00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:47,566
<i>It was just a story.</i>

272
00:17:48,817 --> 00:17:49,985
<i>It was just a story.</i>

273
00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,696
<i>It was just a story.</i>

274
00:17:53,781 --> 00:17:55,783
<i>Just a story.</i>

275
00:17:57,034 --> 00:17:59,328
<i>Just a story.</i>

276
00:18:20,974 --> 00:18:23,018
My dad picks up strays.

277
00:18:23,393 --> 00:18:26,146
He has this, like, complex
to pick up people

278
00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:29,858
and just try to, like, help them out
when he thinks they're struggling, but...

279
00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,653
Yeah, we compared it
to going to the Humane Society

280
00:18:32,736 --> 00:18:35,948
where you, like, pick the old one
and you hope things go okay,

281
00:18:36,031 --> 00:18:37,950
'cause you just want it
to have a good life.

282
00:18:38,033 --> 00:18:42,663
That's my dad, but with people
that do drugs and stuff, so...

283
00:18:43,038 --> 00:18:45,582
I'd rather be in here right now
than out there working.

284
00:18:45,666 --> 00:18:46,708
Yeah.

285
00:18:46,792 --> 00:18:50,420
As he, like, gets older,
he wants to feel younger.

286
00:18:50,504 --> 00:18:53,423
And I think that,
by hanging out with these people,

287
00:18:53,507 --> 00:18:57,845
it kind of allows him to, not only relive
when he was that time, but also...

288
00:18:58,053 --> 00:18:59,513
I've thought about it a lot,

289
00:18:59,763 --> 00:19:02,099
and I think it's his way
of self-correcting his

290
00:19:02,182 --> 00:19:03,392
- old mistakes.
- Bye.

291
00:19:03,517 --> 00:19:05,978
Just to fix them in other people,
or at least try.

292
00:19:06,645 --> 00:19:08,814
Sometimes he just gets caught up
in it all.

293
00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:14,528
One of the strays that my dad
picked up was Andy.

294
00:19:36,592 --> 00:19:38,719
Come on. Get up here. Come on.

295
00:19:42,431 --> 00:19:45,475
<i>We'll be trying the case
for the jury. A seven-year case...</i>

296
00:19:56,445 --> 00:19:59,698
I had a fella
that was a friend of my son's...

297
00:19:59,781 --> 00:20:01,783
and...

298
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,036
he...

299
00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:05,746
When I first met him, man...

300
00:20:06,371 --> 00:20:08,624
he was so fucked up on something,
I don't know what.

301
00:20:08,707 --> 00:20:12,586
I assumed it was pot,
'cause he always had good pot. Always.

302
00:20:12,753 --> 00:20:13,629
And...

303
00:20:14,254 --> 00:20:17,174
But later found out
that he had an opium problem.

304
00:20:20,928 --> 00:20:22,429
No, I don't have a drug problem.

305
00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:27,935
I do drugs,
if that's what you're asking.

306
00:20:28,143 --> 00:20:29,645
Absolutely. Yes, I've done 'em.

307
00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,314
More than most. But...

308
00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:35,067
nowadays, it's not a problem.

309
00:20:37,444 --> 00:20:39,154
I took a liking to this kid, man.

310
00:20:39,238 --> 00:20:42,157
He had a personality
that you just cannot...

311
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:45,535
You can't hate him.
I don't hold it against him.

312
00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:48,705
But I wouldn't let him on the jobs.
He'd hurt himself or hurt somebody else.

313
00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:51,333
But what I had him do,
I'd let him come to the office,

314
00:20:51,416 --> 00:20:53,961
he'd clean the office
or he'd wash my truck.

315
00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:56,046
He did all the things
that I didn't want to do.

316
00:20:56,129 --> 00:20:58,382
Plus I paid him
ten dollars an hour and...

317
00:20:59,049 --> 00:21:02,094
I was just helping the kid out
and it's 'cause I liked him.

318
00:21:03,011 --> 00:21:04,471
One of the boys.

319
00:21:05,097 --> 00:21:06,098
Like my homie.

320
00:21:06,890 --> 00:21:10,394
Straight up. He used to take me around
all the time to his job sites and shit.

321
00:21:10,477 --> 00:21:12,854
Like...
show off his new friend and shit.

322
00:21:13,397 --> 00:21:15,399
No, he was my boy, dude. He was...

323
00:21:15,482 --> 00:21:18,026
He was a cool-ass dude,
loyal as fuck.

324
00:21:18,110 --> 00:21:20,445
Andy and I discussed Julian's story.

325
00:21:20,529 --> 00:21:23,323
He'd heard it from my son...
or somewhere,

326
00:21:23,532 --> 00:21:25,993
and I told him the story again and...

327
00:21:26,910 --> 00:21:31,206
old Andy would scratch his head and go,
"Man, what I could do with that."

328
00:21:31,832 --> 00:21:36,503
<i>I could tell the day he told me
the story that he wasn't bullshitting.</i>

329
00:21:36,586 --> 00:21:39,298
I mean, it was a, "holy shit!"
for sure, right?

330
00:21:39,381 --> 00:21:41,633
I mean who wouldn't say,
"holy shit!" to that?

331
00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:43,468
$2 million on the street.

332
00:21:44,219 --> 00:21:46,054
But, wholesale, probably like...

333
00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:49,433
erm...

334
00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:51,768
shit, maybe...

335
00:21:56,189 --> 00:21:58,191
I don't know, like... shit...

336
00:21:59,234 --> 00:22:02,487
Damn, it might be worth more
than $2 million, now I think about it.

337
00:22:03,572 --> 00:22:04,906
This money could change your life.

338
00:22:05,907 --> 00:22:06,908
Without a doubt.

339
00:22:07,868 --> 00:22:08,702
Period.

340
00:22:09,494 --> 00:22:10,495
Fresh!

341
00:22:11,538 --> 00:22:15,792
Now if Andy knows the story, there's no telling
how many people know the story

342
00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:19,755
or have heard the story
or how twisted the story got or...

343
00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:21,256
Yeah, no telling.

344
00:22:28,388 --> 00:22:32,851
The last time Andy was working for me,
he lived with a guy named Dee.

345
00:22:33,935 --> 00:22:36,355
Dee goes by Danny, Dee, Cuban.

346
00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:38,231
This is his name.

347
00:22:43,862 --> 00:22:45,030
<i>I know him as Dee.</i>

348
00:22:45,822 --> 00:22:48,784
<i>When you're not around him
and you talk about him, it's "The Cuban."</i>

349
00:22:55,540 --> 00:23:00,796
So I went to pick Andy up
at the address he told me he was at.

350
00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:05,509
I didn't even cut the truck off.
He was in the driveway with this guy, Dee.

351
00:23:05,592 --> 00:23:08,303
And he got in and
Dee walks up to my...

352
00:23:09,179 --> 00:23:11,223
window and introduces himself.

353
00:23:11,306 --> 00:23:13,433
And the first words
out of his mouth were,

354
00:23:13,517 --> 00:23:15,769
"Hey, man, I can help you
with that story."

355
00:23:27,781 --> 00:23:31,785
I've done everything in my life.
Drug deals, stole, robbed, been in gangs.

356
00:23:32,035 --> 00:23:34,121
And to do it for so long,
it just comes natural.

357
00:23:34,204 --> 00:23:35,872
More you do something,
better you are at it.

358
00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:39,709
My mom didn't really have a lot of money,
poor, you know,

359
00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:42,254
so I grew up in the streets,
projects, stuff like that.

360
00:23:42,587 --> 00:23:45,799
Getting into gangs.
Went to prison at a young age.

361
00:23:46,466 --> 00:23:48,677
But prison is basically
a college for criminals.

362
00:23:49,344 --> 00:23:51,430
If you don't have nothing,
you start from the bottom.

363
00:23:51,513 --> 00:23:52,472
Like I did selling coke.

364
00:23:52,556 --> 00:23:53,640
I started with an 8-ball.

365
00:23:53,723 --> 00:23:56,518
The ones that make it and survive
are the ones that organize themselves

366
00:23:56,601 --> 00:23:57,853
and treat it like a business.

367
00:23:58,478 --> 00:23:59,980
Firstly, you gotta have good product.

368
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:01,857
The second thing is
you gotta beat prices.

369
00:24:01,982 --> 00:24:03,316
And everybody used to laugh 'cause

370
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,486
the half gram I'm selling for 15 bucks,
everybody is selling for 20.

371
00:24:06,570 --> 00:24:08,113
"No, he ain't gonna make no money."

372
00:24:08,363 --> 00:24:09,448
But people would come to me,

373
00:24:09,531 --> 00:24:12,701
they could spend 15, have a gram
<i>and</i> go get cigarettes, so they're happy.

374
00:24:13,410 --> 00:24:16,121
Yes, off an ounce,
somebody might make more than me,

375
00:24:16,204 --> 00:24:18,665
but by the time they get rid of
that ounce, I got rid of 3 or 4.

376
00:24:18,748 --> 00:24:20,333
So in a week I make
more money than them.

377
00:24:22,169 --> 00:24:23,753
Yes, I feel it is easy, drug dealing.

378
00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:26,047
You know,
it's just about following the rules.

379
00:24:27,299 --> 00:24:28,925
It don't matter who you are
or what you do,

380
00:24:29,009 --> 00:24:31,011
if you strive to do something
and work at it hard,

381
00:24:31,094 --> 00:24:32,804
eventually you will succeed always.

382
00:24:32,888 --> 00:24:33,847
There's no failure.

383
00:24:33,930 --> 00:24:36,933
If you fail in life, it's because you quit
or give up what you're doing.

384
00:24:38,643 --> 00:24:40,061
It wasn't long after that...

385
00:24:41,229 --> 00:24:42,314
in a matter of a week,

386
00:24:42,397 --> 00:24:44,107
Dee walks in my office

387
00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:46,193
and... he proceeded to

388
00:24:46,276 --> 00:24:47,819
wanna know more about the story.

389
00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:52,157
Let's face it,
Dee and I don't know each other that well.

390
00:24:52,449 --> 00:24:55,368
Never done anything with him,
never bought any pot from him.

391
00:24:56,203 --> 00:24:58,497
I don't know if this guy
is trustworthy or not.

392
00:24:58,580 --> 00:24:59,998
A little conversation won't hurt.

393
00:25:00,081 --> 00:25:02,542
Our first meeting about it
was in his office.

394
00:25:02,626 --> 00:25:05,212
I sat right across from him
and he's telling me the story, you know.

395
00:25:06,129 --> 00:25:09,174
Biggest thing was,
he just wanted to be sure

396
00:25:09,257 --> 00:25:11,092
that somebody can move it
when it got back here.

397
00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:12,969
That was his thing,
'cos he didn't know nobody.

398
00:25:13,053 --> 00:25:16,014
I told him, "It's not a problem.
You get it here, I'll move it for you."

399
00:25:17,432 --> 00:25:19,809
So, you know, it's starting to...

400
00:25:21,394 --> 00:25:22,270
sound like...

401
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:25,023
this could be interesting.

402
00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:27,025
Y'know,
when he realized my background,

403
00:25:27,108 --> 00:25:30,028
that I had moved a lot of cocaine,
I was able to move it,

404
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,656
it just made him hungry
to want to go get it.

405
00:25:32,948 --> 00:25:36,409
When Dee would come over, it was usually
after-hours and it was like...

406
00:25:36,493 --> 00:25:39,037
It was almost like
having a beer after work.

407
00:25:39,246 --> 00:25:42,832
He's gonna come by and we're gonna
talk smack about money, man.

408
00:25:42,999 --> 00:25:44,960
We're talking about a way
to make some money here.

409
00:26:04,521 --> 00:26:09,067
Well, as with any proposition,
you know, Dee's...

410
00:26:09,693 --> 00:26:13,196
presenting his proposal to me

411
00:26:13,446 --> 00:26:15,610
in such a way as,

412
00:26:15,735 --> 00:26:19,195
we're literally pulling out a
calculator and he's telling me...

413
00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:20,579
Millions.

414
00:26:20,704 --> 00:26:21,788
Literally, millions.

415
00:26:22,372 --> 00:26:24,749
I didn't use no calculator.
I did all the numbers in my head.

416
00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:26,293
Rodney would use a
calculator though.

417
00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:28,712
He'd get his little calculator out
and try to add stuff up.

418
00:26:28,795 --> 00:26:30,422
"How much is this, that?"

419
00:26:30,630 --> 00:26:32,841
Type it in and he'd be amazed
at how much it is.

420
00:26:32,924 --> 00:26:37,262
Twenty-eight kilograms
at $25,000 on the street,

421
00:26:37,345 --> 00:26:39,472
doubled because he's going to
double the weight,

422
00:26:39,556 --> 00:26:41,141
but it would double the money.

423
00:26:41,224 --> 00:26:42,475
And the numbers were...

424
00:26:43,059 --> 00:26:46,563
easily calculated
and it's starting to make sense.

425
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:49,858
So, you know, he didn't realize
what he had there.

426
00:26:49,941 --> 00:26:52,402
So you know, I was looking at it as, huh,
"It's a gold mine."

427
00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:54,529
It was an equitable...

428
00:26:55,071 --> 00:26:59,075
proposal from Dee where he just wanted
half of it. He just wanted...

429
00:26:59,576 --> 00:27:01,244
He wanted half to get rid of it

430
00:27:01,328 --> 00:27:03,788
and I'm going to be sitting here with half
to just...

431
00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:08,376
locate it and turn it over to him
to take care of from there.

432
00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:10,003
The biggest problem was though...

433
00:27:10,545 --> 00:27:11,838
how are you gonna get it here?

434
00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:14,424
Not being from the streets, and all,
he didn't understand,

435
00:27:14,507 --> 00:27:18,553
to bring in 32 keys of cocaine into
the United States from another country

436
00:27:18,637 --> 00:27:20,355
is very hard to do without

437
00:27:20,496 --> 00:27:23,259
an organization backing you
that's, you know, organized,

438
00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:25,214
and knows what they're
doing, that's connected,

439
00:27:25,250 --> 00:27:26,484
you know, to make it happen.

440
00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:27,927
As we talked,

441
00:27:27,994 --> 00:27:31,965
it became clear to me that he
knew a guy. His name was Carlos.

442
00:27:35,695 --> 00:27:37,489
Carlos knew everything
about everything.

443
00:27:37,572 --> 00:27:39,449
These were people that were
already trafficking drugs,

444
00:27:39,532 --> 00:27:40,700
bringing it into the States.

445
00:27:41,284 --> 00:27:43,787
And, you know, they knew the ins
and outs and everything to it.

446
00:27:43,870 --> 00:27:45,288
They could actually bring it in.

447
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,418
His guy in Tampa was <i>the guy.</i>

448
00:27:50,502 --> 00:27:53,380
This was nothing for him
to be able to do.

449
00:27:54,005 --> 00:27:56,424
His friend was Puerto Rican.

450
00:27:57,258 --> 00:27:58,259
His friend had...

451
00:27:58,885 --> 00:28:03,556
connections to bring stuff
into the country and...

452
00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:06,101
he ran a big operation.

453
00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:24,160
Kingpin. That's the word.

454
00:28:24,244 --> 00:28:25,120
Kingpin.

455
00:28:25,203 --> 00:28:27,789
I'd never been face to face
with a real,

456
00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:31,751
I mean, a real big-time smuggler
who owns his own plane.

457
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,050
I said, " What the heck! I'll go meet
him. What's it gonna hurt?"

458
00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:51,146
I walked into the bar and and looked over
to my left and saw Carlos.

459
00:28:52,021 --> 00:28:54,649
He looked exactly like something
you'd see on TV.

460
00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:56,985
He was dead image, if not better.

461
00:29:05,535 --> 00:29:06,703
He was a...

462
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:09,414
pretty well-dressed fellow with...

463
00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:16,337
pressed slacks, you know,
and alligator shoes and a belt to match.

464
00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:18,006
He had on...

465
00:29:19,048 --> 00:29:22,010
some kind of
silky print shirt that...

466
00:29:23,344 --> 00:29:24,220
Man, he just...

467
00:29:24,304 --> 00:29:26,139
You didn't want to
rub up against him,

468
00:29:26,222 --> 00:29:28,767
because it looked like...
his clothes were perfect.

469
00:29:30,185 --> 00:29:34,397
Carlos kind of reminded me a little
of Tony Montana with his...

470
00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:36,357
With his body language...
and his accent and the way he...

471
00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:43,072
you know, put a little extra in
behind some of his words.

472
00:29:43,948 --> 00:29:44,991
<i>Scarface.</i>

473
00:29:46,367 --> 00:29:47,494
I just liked that guy.

474
00:29:49,245 --> 00:29:52,457
First time I watched <i>Scarface</i>
was probably when it first came out.

475
00:29:52,665 --> 00:29:55,126
I've watched it several times.
I went to the theater to watch it,

476
00:29:55,210 --> 00:29:57,378
then I watched it on HBO
I don't know how many times.

477
00:29:57,462 --> 00:29:59,923
"Say hello to my little friend."

478
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,092
"Say hello to my little friend."
"Say hello to my little friend."

479
00:30:11,684 --> 00:30:13,853
<i>Say hello to my little friend!</i>

480
00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:21,486
He had a shot of tequila
in his hand when I walked in,

481
00:30:21,569 --> 00:30:24,197
the best they had,
it was in a silver bottle.

482
00:30:24,823 --> 00:30:27,158
And he asked me if I wanted anything,

483
00:30:27,242 --> 00:30:30,203
so I told him,
"Well, I'll have a margarita, no salt."

484
00:30:30,537 --> 00:30:33,081
And... so I sipped on a margarita.

485
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:37,544
And while I was sipping on that margarita,
he must have downed four or five shots.

486
00:30:37,752 --> 00:30:39,671
It was like one right
after the other.

487
00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:41,965
They ran out of whatever
he was drinking,

488
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:44,926
so they popped a new bottle and
he asked them to bring it to the table.

489
00:30:45,510 --> 00:30:48,377
So he's a big shot,
you know, big time.

490
00:30:49,010 --> 00:30:51,605
I mean, how often do you see a
guy get a bottle at the table

491
00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:53,518
for him to pour at his own leisure?

492
00:30:54,060 --> 00:30:55,228
It was pretty cool.

493
00:30:58,773 --> 00:31:00,567
Carlos Private Air.

494
00:31:01,651 --> 00:31:03,903
He gave me a card at the meeting...

495
00:31:05,613 --> 00:31:10,285
and explained to me that he had
a twin-engine Queen Air airplane.

496
00:31:11,494 --> 00:31:12,495
And...

497
00:31:13,246 --> 00:31:15,248
I told him, look,
if we were going down there,

498
00:31:15,331 --> 00:31:18,334
there's no sense in me taking
a separate flight, I'd just fly with him

499
00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:19,627
and he says...

500
00:31:19,961 --> 00:31:23,089
"No, you will not see
my tail wing number, ever."

501
00:31:24,340 --> 00:31:26,885
And that was kind of a
way of saying...

502
00:31:27,927 --> 00:31:32,932
"I don't know you. I don't trust my eyes
off of you with that kind of payload."

503
00:31:33,016 --> 00:31:33,933
I told him that,

504
00:31:34,017 --> 00:31:35,894
"I'm not a drug dealer.

505
00:31:36,686 --> 00:31:38,730
I'm not here to get
in the drug business.

506
00:31:39,939 --> 00:31:41,858
But I wanted to take care
of my family.

507
00:31:41,941 --> 00:31:43,735
And I'm not a greedy person."

508
00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:45,987
Well, I...

509
00:31:47,196 --> 00:31:50,283
I was giving Carlos
all the information I had,

510
00:31:50,533 --> 00:31:54,120
you know, except exactly
where I thought it was.

511
00:31:54,787 --> 00:31:57,874
I wanted to see for myself where...
you know, confirm it

512
00:31:57,957 --> 00:31:59,834
before I passed that information on.

513
00:32:00,835 --> 00:32:03,129
So... you know, I told him the story.

514
00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:06,382
I was talking that smack,
that drug talk, you know,

515
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:09,761
talking about "keys"
instead of "kilograms."

516
00:32:10,136 --> 00:32:11,930
Carlos called them "turtle eggs."

517
00:32:12,013 --> 00:32:12,931
That was his code word,

518
00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:16,267
because there's an island they lay eggs
and they were buried, so

519
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:18,311
he came up with the name
"turtle eggs."

520
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:22,482
And then he started talking about
what his fee was,

521
00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:24,817
you know, how much he wanted and...

522
00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:28,196
And what the plan was
for the upcoming week,

523
00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:29,322
what we were gonna do.

524
00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:32,992
The deal was I would go down there,
try to locate it.

525
00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:34,619
Once I verified where it was,

526
00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:37,372
he would fly down, get it
and bring it out of the country.

527
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:40,833
And the fee for that,
four bricks of cocaine to do that.

528
00:32:40,917 --> 00:32:41,751
Good deal.

529
00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:46,297
We've got a plane,
we've got a pilot...

530
00:32:47,006 --> 00:32:48,383
and we've got a plan.

531
00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:50,176
It's time to go to Puerto Rico.

532
00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:31,843
Dude, I was...

533
00:33:32,510 --> 00:33:33,678
ready to get to the...

534
00:33:34,178 --> 00:33:35,013
to the island.

535
00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:37,682
We got on the plane in Orlando,
flew out.

536
00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:41,227
And shortly thereafter,
we landed in San Juan.

537
00:33:42,145 --> 00:33:45,064
And then, from San Juan,
you could either take the ferry...

538
00:33:45,732 --> 00:33:48,067
or pay 40 bucks for a puddle jumper.

539
00:33:48,151 --> 00:33:51,446
So I said, "Man, let's take the airplane.
That'd be neat, flying in."

540
00:33:51,529 --> 00:33:53,114
We flew from San Juan to...

541
00:33:53,823 --> 00:33:54,907
Oh, hold on.

542
00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:56,868
Hold on.

543
00:33:57,326 --> 00:33:59,829
Fuck. Theo, you know I know it, dude.
Just give me a second.

544
00:33:59,912 --> 00:34:01,497
It's not Vieques, was it?

545
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:03,875
Hold on, hold on...
woah woah woah... huh!

546
00:34:04,667 --> 00:34:06,335
I got it. Give me five seconds.

547
00:34:06,419 --> 00:34:09,338
I got it. I <i>just</i> had it, Theo.
Don't say it.

548
00:34:10,089 --> 00:34:10,965
Don't say it.

549
00:34:12,341 --> 00:34:14,302
It's such...
Oh, my God, it's right there.

550
00:34:14,385 --> 00:34:16,679
I'm going to do this myself, Theo,
so please don't...

551
00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:19,307
I have to.
It's going to bother me if I don't.

552
00:34:20,224 --> 00:34:22,727
Even with that hint
you just tried to give me, I still...

553
00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:24,103
But I know it.

554
00:34:24,395 --> 00:34:28,024
If I don't get it in 30 seconds,
we'll move on. It's...

555
00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:32,403
Oh, wait, there it is, there it is.

556
00:34:32,487 --> 00:34:33,321
Fuck.

557
00:34:35,948 --> 00:34:38,201
Oh, my God, it's gonna... Culebra.

558
00:34:38,826 --> 00:34:41,788
Fuck you, Theo.

559
00:35:08,731 --> 00:35:12,777
So we're coming into Culebra
and there's two mountains on either side.

560
00:35:13,361 --> 00:35:16,781
And as this pilot got closer,
we had a crosswind.

561
00:35:17,323 --> 00:35:18,783
I didn't know shit about that.

562
00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:20,076
Rodney says, "Oh, by the way,

563
00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:23,121
this is one of the top-ten
worst airports in the world to fly into."

564
00:35:23,704 --> 00:35:26,124
I was like, "You're ready to die
for this shit, huh, Rodney?"

565
00:35:36,342 --> 00:35:37,885
Oh, he was scared, dude.

566
00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:40,096
He was, like,
holding onto me so tight.

567
00:35:40,179 --> 00:35:43,516
Dude, our plane turned
sideways and it is

568
00:35:43,599 --> 00:35:45,017
<i>fucking</i> crazy.

569
00:35:50,898 --> 00:35:53,901
Oh, my God. I'm glad
that's the last time I'll ever do that.

570
00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:55,903
That bitch was scary
as a motherfucker.

571
00:36:12,753 --> 00:36:14,630
It's just beautiful, man.
The water...

572
00:36:14,714 --> 00:36:17,008
The number one beach in the world,
might I add.

573
00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:18,301
Flamenco Beach.
I think it's like...

574
00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:22,138
It's not very big. It's...

575
00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:25,766
It took me, to go all the way
round the island in a jeep,

576
00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:27,268
half hour, 45 minutes.

577
00:36:28,394 --> 00:36:30,730
So the first night we were there...

578
00:36:31,272 --> 00:36:32,315
we had an early dinner.

579
00:36:32,398 --> 00:36:34,734
It was an early dinner
and I ordered a lobster for dinner.

580
00:36:48,748 --> 00:36:52,126
It was a nice place
and Rodney was like,

581
00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:54,295
like I said, man,
he was in that mood, dude,

582
00:36:54,378 --> 00:36:57,006
and he was just trying to play the part
while we were there,

583
00:36:57,089 --> 00:36:58,716
like he was some big-timer.

584
00:37:01,761 --> 00:37:02,803
The lobsters...

585
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:05,181
They come up to you and they're like,

586
00:37:05,264 --> 00:37:06,641
"Y'all want lobster?"

587
00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:09,435
You say "yeah," and they go down
to the bay and get this shit for you.

588
00:37:09,518 --> 00:37:12,188
Straight up. He went and grabbed
the motherfucker and came back.

589
00:37:13,481 --> 00:37:17,443
Dude, this guy ordered a five-pound
lobster and you see this thing, dude...

590
00:37:17,526 --> 00:37:20,988
I swear to God, Theo,
it was that big around.

591
00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:24,784
That big around and it was,
like, that tall.

592
00:37:25,743 --> 00:37:26,577
I swear to God.

593
00:37:27,286 --> 00:37:30,081
Rodney's, like,
real particular about food.

594
00:37:30,623 --> 00:37:33,084
Like, he gets mad if you don't eat it,
you know what I'm saying?

595
00:37:33,167 --> 00:37:36,045
So, I had this big-ass lobster
in my face

596
00:37:36,128 --> 00:37:38,965
and I don't even like lobster,
might I add.

597
00:37:39,048 --> 00:37:42,343
I was shoving it down my throat, because
I knew Rodney was going to yell at me,

598
00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:44,720
'cause it was like a hundred dollars
for the lobster, right?

599
00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:45,680
Luckily...

600
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,849
Rodney tapped out, like,
halfway into his,

601
00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:51,352
so I knew I was straight
and I could put mine down.

602
00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:54,021
I was praying. I was, like,
so happy, dude,

603
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:56,857
'cause I was not looking forward
to eating that whole fuckin' lobster.

604
00:37:56,941 --> 00:37:59,068
That night,
I got sick as a motherfucker.

605
00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:08,160
On the way down,
Andy tells me he forgot his medicine.

606
00:38:08,244 --> 00:38:10,121
I knew he was on pain medication,

607
00:38:10,204 --> 00:38:13,457
but I also knew it wasn't medicinal,
it was recreational.

608
00:38:14,041 --> 00:38:15,251
And he was addicted

609
00:38:15,459 --> 00:38:20,840
and he was supposed to have brought
his Suboxone or Methadone

610
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:22,258
and he didn't have it.

611
00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:26,387
So, basically, by Saturday morning...

612
00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:28,764
he was sick as a dog,

613
00:38:29,181 --> 00:38:31,267
and he was totally worthless.

614
00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:33,728
Rodney thought
I was withdrawing from drugs,

615
00:38:33,811 --> 00:38:36,230
but I believe it was the lobster.

616
00:38:40,067 --> 00:38:43,362
You know, Andy's getting sick
at this point, man. I mean, it's like...

617
00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:47,575
"God, you're ruining this trip, dude.
You're gonna ruin it."

618
00:38:48,534 --> 00:38:52,163
<i>You see, in this world,
there's two kinds of people, my friend.</i>

619
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:54,540
<i>Those with loaded guns...</i>

620
00:38:55,291 --> 00:38:56,709
<i>and those who dig.</i>

621
00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:58,544
<i>You dig.</i>

622
00:39:01,088 --> 00:39:04,091
I left the room
we were staying in

623
00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:06,802
and I went on a little expedition.

624
00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:17,772
Before we left, I went to see Julian
and I took my laptop down there.

625
00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:21,275
We googled it up.
He showed me where his trailer was.

626
00:39:21,692 --> 00:39:23,319
He showed me where he had buried it.

627
00:39:23,819 --> 00:39:28,699
If I could find his trailer, then I felt
like I could find where it was at

628
00:39:28,783 --> 00:39:31,035
and do some investigating.

629
00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:32,661
Mobile home sits here,

630
00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:34,997
it's between the cistern
and the mobile home.

631
00:39:35,081 --> 00:39:39,001
Well, my God, that was only a matter of
six or eight-feet distance

632
00:39:39,085 --> 00:39:41,087
that I had to probe or search around

633
00:39:41,170 --> 00:39:42,713
to see if I could find something.

634
00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:47,176
So I took the jeep and went to
where Julian's trailer was supposed to be.

635
00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:14,120
All I wanted to do
was locate where the trailer was.

636
00:40:14,370 --> 00:40:18,207
But when I got there... man,
there's no fuckin' mobile home there.

637
00:40:18,290 --> 00:40:19,333
It's gone.

638
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:23,295
I couldn't see Julian's trailer.
I didn't find it. I couldn't find it.

639
00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:25,965
I did see a pile of debris.
So I called Julian.

640
00:40:26,048 --> 00:40:29,009
"Julian, man, are you sure
I'm in the right place?" He goes...

641
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:32,721
"Was the desalination plant
in front of you?" "Yeah."

642
00:40:33,222 --> 00:40:35,433
"Was the fish and wildlife office
to your right?"

643
00:40:35,516 --> 00:40:36,434
"Yeah."

644
00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:38,519
"Well, it's right there
to the left, man.

645
00:40:38,602 --> 00:40:39,770
You see the cistern?"

646
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:40,688
"Yeah, I saw it."

647
00:40:40,771 --> 00:40:44,150
He goes, "It's right between the road
and the cistern is where my trailer's at."

648
00:40:44,233 --> 00:40:45,776
I said, "Julian, it ain't there."

649
00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:47,862
He's like, "Come on, man.

650
00:40:47,945 --> 00:40:49,822
They had to have torn it down then."

651
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,158
But... I had another big problem.

652
00:40:52,241 --> 00:40:54,869
I had nothing to dig with.
No shovel, no nothing.

653
00:40:54,952 --> 00:40:57,621
I mean, I thought
they were readily available anywhere.

654
00:40:57,872 --> 00:41:00,583
Well, not in Culebra.
There's no Walmart in Culebra.

655
00:41:07,256 --> 00:41:08,632
Julian's trailer was gone.

656
00:41:09,717 --> 00:41:12,344
Andy was sick as a dog,
and I didn't have a shovel.

657
00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:15,014
End of deal, man.
I mean, I'm... we're going home.

658
00:41:16,015 --> 00:41:19,185
So we left, the next morning.
First flight I could get out, we left.

659
00:41:22,271 --> 00:41:23,939
Rodney and Andy went
over to Puerto Rico.

660
00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:26,650
They get there and they realize
they need shovels and stuff to dig.

661
00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:29,403
They couldn't find shovels. I mean,
what the hell are they doing here?

662
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,822
Look, motherfucker,
if you wanted to know what's down here,

663
00:41:31,906 --> 00:41:33,532
you should have
brought your ass down here.

664
00:41:33,616 --> 00:41:36,285
Like, don't fucking bother me.
I'll call <i>you.</i>

665
00:41:36,535 --> 00:41:38,204
You probably never seen him
get mad, huh?

666
00:41:38,287 --> 00:41:40,498
Dude, that is a scary fuckin'
sight, like,

667
00:41:40,581 --> 00:41:42,041
I wanna run.

668
00:41:42,124 --> 00:41:45,294
Andy ended up being sick, in the hotel,
couldn't help Rodney at all.

669
00:41:45,377 --> 00:41:47,671
So Rodney's out there,
trying to dig this shit by himself.

670
00:41:47,755 --> 00:41:51,592
You've seen Rodney. He's a fat dude. So...
he ain't out there doing manual labor.

671
00:41:51,634 --> 00:41:53,552
So to do manual labor like this,
he just...

672
00:41:53,636 --> 00:41:55,638
He's calling me,
talking to me while he's doing this,

673
00:41:55,721 --> 00:41:57,515
out of breath and everything,
pissed off.

674
00:41:57,598 --> 00:42:00,726
"Fuckin' Andy. He's sick in there,
probably withdrawing, da da da da."

675
00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:04,855
Andy apologized about being sick.
He said "It'll never happen again,

676
00:42:04,939 --> 00:42:07,233
but I promise you,
we gotta go back down there."

677
00:42:07,733 --> 00:42:10,319
Yeah, I believe it's more
about just incompetence, y'know.

678
00:42:10,402 --> 00:42:12,279
Which I kinda felt
he wouldn't be able to anyway,

679
00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:15,533
but this much money, what was going on,
you gotta let them try to do it again.

680
00:42:29,713 --> 00:42:32,258
Alright, so... Rodney was like,
"We're gonna go in two weeks."

681
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,760
I'm not gonna waste
a second trip down there.

682
00:42:34,843 --> 00:42:36,845
The first was wasted.
I'm not wasting a second trip.

683
00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:40,849
So... I got with Julian
and confirmed the location.

684
00:42:40,933 --> 00:42:44,603
Julian tells me exactly, you know,
on the map,

685
00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:46,897
"Here's a cistern where
they held water,"

686
00:42:46,981 --> 00:42:50,943
and I even drew a section of it
and kind of said, "X" marks the spot.

687
00:42:51,527 --> 00:42:53,237
Skull and crossbones, bro.

688
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:54,572
Are you kidding me?

689
00:42:54,655 --> 00:42:57,241
I didn't <i>sleep</i> the night
before we left

690
00:42:57,324 --> 00:43:00,077
and I didn't sleep the night before
we left the second trip.

691
00:43:00,661 --> 00:43:01,662
Let's go get it!

692
00:43:10,129 --> 00:43:12,172
I told my wife
I was going on a fishing trip.

693
00:43:12,256 --> 00:43:14,174
I didn't lie to her.
I just didn't tell her where.

694
00:43:20,055 --> 00:43:22,266
We went back after dark and...

695
00:43:23,350 --> 00:43:25,311
sat there for a minute, you know,
making sure

696
00:43:26,103 --> 00:43:28,063
no lights came on heading my way.
I'm thinking, "Golly...

697
00:43:31,525 --> 00:43:33,819
maybe a turn of one or two stones

698
00:43:33,902 --> 00:43:36,113
and I feel the top of a...

699
00:43:36,196 --> 00:43:38,282
of a duffel bag or something," and...

700
00:43:39,325 --> 00:43:42,411
"Am I gonna know something
ten minutes from now or am I not?"

701
00:44:00,137 --> 00:44:03,390
It was an adrenaline rush altogether
and, this time,

702
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:04,683
I found a shovel.

703
00:44:13,192 --> 00:44:14,693
Who do you think was digging first?

704
00:44:15,194 --> 00:44:17,571
<i>Yeah, Andy was the digger.
He was the man.</i>

705
00:44:26,455 --> 00:44:29,375
<i>It was funny 'cause
he doesn't have any ass, man.</i>

706
00:44:29,458 --> 00:44:30,626
<i>I mean, he just like...</i>

707
00:44:31,210 --> 00:44:34,171
<i>He tried and he's out of breath
after about three strokes.</i>

708
00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,298
- C'mon, man.
- Take it.

709
00:44:36,382 --> 00:44:37,675
I was, like,
"Man, fuck this shit."

710
00:44:38,258 --> 00:44:39,843
<i>Then I got the shovel and tried.</i>

711
00:44:39,927 --> 00:44:41,887
Rodney, I've never seen him
work so hard.

712
00:44:42,388 --> 00:44:44,223
Straight up,
I've never seen him do nothing but

713
00:44:44,306 --> 00:44:47,267
pointing motherfuckers out, tell 'em
where to go, 'cause he's the boss.

714
00:44:47,851 --> 00:44:51,230
This motherfucker was down there
digging with his bare hands.

715
00:44:54,942 --> 00:44:59,613
We got burned out trying to dig,
in no time, because we were so excited.

716
00:45:00,155 --> 00:45:02,908
We were trying to make it happen quick,
but it was like...

717
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:04,493
hitting your head
against a wall.

718
00:45:09,456 --> 00:45:11,959
And... I was sitting there,

719
00:45:12,042 --> 00:45:15,838
in my head, I was like, "What the fuck
are you doing right now, dude?

720
00:45:15,921 --> 00:45:19,842
Like, you're in another country.
You're out here digging up cocaine.

721
00:45:20,634 --> 00:45:21,802
What the fuck are you doing?"

722
00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:24,513
I was praying
that we did not find the coke.

723
00:45:43,407 --> 00:45:45,617
We tried to dig in this dirt, man,

724
00:45:45,701 --> 00:45:47,995
and he and I both were sweaty.

725
00:45:49,037 --> 00:45:53,041
I mean soaking wet with sweat
within about 20 minutes.

726
00:45:53,125 --> 00:45:55,544
The ground was too hard.
It was rock hard.

727
00:45:56,170 --> 00:45:57,045
We fucking...

728
00:45:57,755 --> 00:46:00,883
tried to start digging
and it was just impossible and...

729
00:46:01,508 --> 00:46:03,302
that's when I was, like,
"No, fuck this shit."

730
00:46:03,385 --> 00:46:05,971
Rodney stayed trying
for fucking, like, two hours

731
00:46:06,054 --> 00:46:08,807
and then, finally, he went, like,
"Man, this can't be done."

732
00:46:09,391 --> 00:46:11,727
You have to have a backhoe
to dig in this dirt.

733
00:46:12,394 --> 00:46:15,147
It was <i>so</i> hard you weren't gonna dig.

734
00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:17,608
I'm in construction, man.
I know how to di...

735
00:46:17,691 --> 00:46:19,568
I know when you can dig
and when you can't.

736
00:46:19,651 --> 00:46:21,820
We'd made no progress
and I was pissed.

737
00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:28,911
He's like,
"Andy, if you get some weed,

738
00:46:28,994 --> 00:46:30,829
that will make
this whole trip worthwhile."

739
00:46:31,205 --> 00:46:32,372
And so I went down the street

740
00:46:32,498 --> 00:46:35,083
and I found some little skater dudes
and got a bag of weed.

741
00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:37,753
And it was some fucking trash.

742
00:46:38,837 --> 00:46:40,172
But it got me high.

743
00:46:53,435 --> 00:46:56,313
I almost brought some back with me
just 'cause I knew we'd be straight.

744
00:46:56,396 --> 00:46:58,565
Luckily I didn't 'cause the second
we got off that plane,

745
00:46:58,649 --> 00:47:01,276
Customs hit that plane... hard.

746
00:47:07,533 --> 00:47:09,201
We land in San Juan.

747
00:47:10,410 --> 00:47:11,245
All of a sudden...

748
00:47:16,750 --> 00:47:19,878
What the hell was going on?
What's going on here?

749
00:47:20,254 --> 00:47:21,839
And they pulled everyone
off the plane,

750
00:47:21,922 --> 00:47:25,509
lined up our luggage
and hit the dogs all over this shit.

751
00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:28,428
I knew what they were there for.

752
00:47:30,222 --> 00:47:32,182
They were gonna check this plane...

753
00:47:33,267 --> 00:47:34,268
for drugs.

754
00:47:35,477 --> 00:47:37,229
Fuck, yeah, made me nervous, dude.

755
00:47:37,729 --> 00:47:39,022
But we didn't do it.

756
00:47:39,098 --> 00:47:43,561
And, 'cause we, me and Rodney, were never
going to bring the cocaine back.

757
00:47:43,652 --> 00:47:46,196
But, I'm telling you, man...

758
00:47:46,822 --> 00:47:50,826
I'll never forget,
that 30 minutes seemed like four hours.

759
00:47:51,368 --> 00:47:55,706
Well, after they searched,
I said to myself, "It's over.

760
00:47:55,789 --> 00:47:58,792
I mean, that's the icing on the cake
right there.

761
00:47:59,376 --> 00:48:03,005
I am not coming back, taking a chance,
even if we'd have found it.

762
00:48:03,380 --> 00:48:04,423
No and hell no.

763
00:48:04,923 --> 00:48:06,341
I'm done. It's over."

764
00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:10,262
It was a wrap, bro.

765
00:48:11,513 --> 00:48:12,389
We're done.

766
00:48:15,893 --> 00:48:17,978
Till... Carlos called Rodney.

767
00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:25,986
When I got back I was done.
It was over.

768
00:48:26,069 --> 00:48:27,154
It was a totally...

769
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:28,906
failed mission.

770
00:48:28,989 --> 00:48:32,117
I had had it up to here
with this whole story.

771
00:48:32,326 --> 00:48:34,995
I stopped answering my phone
for a long time.

772
00:48:35,621 --> 00:48:38,040
At that point,
I wanted to be done with Carlos.

773
00:48:38,457 --> 00:48:39,917
I wanted to be done with Danny.

774
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,669
But... he was being a nag.

775
00:48:43,003 --> 00:48:45,589
He was bugging
the living shit out of me.

776
00:48:45,672 --> 00:48:48,717
So, finally, I picked up the phone.

777
00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:49,927
What?

778
00:48:50,218 --> 00:48:51,929
He called me with a
whole new attitude.

779
00:48:52,554 --> 00:48:54,389
He's like, "I need to meet with you.

780
00:48:54,473 --> 00:48:57,225
I've got a new proposal for you
and you're going to like it."

781
00:48:57,309 --> 00:49:00,228
And I said,
"Carlos, it can't happen, man.

782
00:49:00,896 --> 00:49:05,067
We got searched.
There's people all over that place.

783
00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:06,902
You're not gonna just go there
and dig it up.

784
00:49:07,486 --> 00:49:10,906
It's crawling with federal employees.
How are you gonna do this?"

785
00:49:10,989 --> 00:49:12,699
- He said...
- I can do certain things

786
00:49:12,783 --> 00:49:15,535
that you can't
because I'm Puerto Rican. You...

787
00:49:16,244 --> 00:49:17,371
are a gringo.

788
00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:18,789
He said...

789
00:49:20,123 --> 00:49:24,419
"Let's meet again. And, when we meet,
make sure you bring the map."

790
00:49:30,842 --> 00:49:34,972
I wanted to hear his plan, you know,
"What do you propose here, Carlos?"

791
00:49:35,722 --> 00:49:38,433
He was going to... go there...

792
00:49:39,434 --> 00:49:41,478
take a crew on a yacht...

793
00:49:42,187 --> 00:49:43,021
and...

794
00:49:43,522 --> 00:49:44,815
dig the cocaine up.

795
00:49:45,399 --> 00:49:46,858
'Cause he was gonna go dig it up,

796
00:49:46,942 --> 00:49:49,152
it <i>was</i> four kilograms,
now he wanted eight.

797
00:49:49,403 --> 00:49:51,029
And I said, "Look, man...

798
00:49:51,697 --> 00:49:52,531
good deal."

799
00:49:52,739 --> 00:49:53,991
I don't have to do anything.

800
00:49:54,074 --> 00:49:56,451
They're gonna do everything.
He's gonna go get it.

801
00:49:56,535 --> 00:49:58,745
Dee's gonna take it,
Dee's gonna get rid of it

802
00:49:58,829 --> 00:50:00,747
and they're gonna bring me the cash.

803
00:50:00,831 --> 00:50:04,334
It went from easy money to...
easier money.

804
00:50:04,876 --> 00:50:07,587
All I gotta do is give him the map.

805
00:50:24,146 --> 00:50:25,355
I did believe him.

806
00:50:26,565 --> 00:50:28,066
Was that a mistake?

807
00:50:34,322 --> 00:50:36,700
Amateur hour, dog.
That's what it was.

808
00:50:37,576 --> 00:50:39,161
That's what it was, bro.

809
00:50:39,244 --> 00:50:42,122
From the get-go,
I knew it was about a one in a million.

810
00:50:42,205 --> 00:50:43,498
You know, or ten in a million,

811
00:50:43,582 --> 00:50:45,000
whatever you want to say.

812
00:50:45,083 --> 00:50:47,627
Like, he mighta got lucky
and fuckin' got it, but...

813
00:50:48,211 --> 00:50:50,338
dude, it just seems
too good to be true but...

814
00:50:50,547 --> 00:50:52,883
being the naive person
he was that day,

815
00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:55,594
I mean, that was set up
for a robbery.

816
00:50:56,136 --> 00:50:57,095
You know, like...

817
00:50:58,430 --> 00:50:59,347
Like, who are we?

818
00:50:59,431 --> 00:51:02,267
Two white dudes in the middle of Florida
with all this coke?

819
00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:05,645
What is to keep these
big-time motherfuckers who got a plane

820
00:51:05,979 --> 00:51:06,980
from just taking the coke?

821
00:51:48,105 --> 00:51:50,816
I wanted to hear from him.
I was hoping to hear from him.

822
00:51:50,899 --> 00:51:54,402
And he had me fired up at that meeting.
He had me fired up.

823
00:51:55,070 --> 00:51:58,073
I thought, "This guy...
I've asked him if he's, you know, how..."

824
00:51:58,156 --> 00:51:59,157
In a nice way, I said,

825
00:51:59,241 --> 00:52:02,244
"How do I know you're not gonna just
get it and tell me you didn't find it?"

826
00:52:02,327 --> 00:52:06,790
He said, "I wouldn't be in business
if I worked that way."

827
00:52:10,252 --> 00:52:13,338
I trusted that he was gonna do
what he said he was gonna do,

828
00:52:13,839 --> 00:52:17,259
but it was a mistake for me
to even talk to him after I got back.

829
00:52:17,342 --> 00:52:19,344
I should have just not even
talked to him.

830
00:52:19,427 --> 00:52:22,556
I should have told him and Dee to take
a walk and leave me alone,

831
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:23,473
but I didn't.

832
00:52:25,851 --> 00:52:28,228
He did just what I said.
He ripped me off.

833
00:52:28,311 --> 00:52:30,063
And... it's over.

834
00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:30,981
It's over.

835
00:52:46,329 --> 00:52:47,956
<i>I trusted him...</i>

836
00:52:48,123 --> 00:52:49,666
<i>And it's over. It's over.</i>

837
00:53:05,348 --> 00:53:06,433
He found it.

838
00:53:10,061 --> 00:53:11,938
Fuckin' Julian ain't lying!

839
00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:13,815
It's there! I'd have kissed him.

840
00:53:13,899 --> 00:53:17,027
I'd have hugged his neck and said,
"Man, I'm sorry I called you a son of a bitch."

841
00:53:17,694 --> 00:53:20,071
Because he sent me the picture.

842
00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:21,281
Now it's real.

843
00:53:21,364 --> 00:53:22,866
"What am I going to do
with the money?"

844
00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:26,745
"How is Julian gonna look
when I'm handing him...

845
00:53:27,370 --> 00:53:29,414
stacks of hundred-dollar bills?"

846
00:53:29,497 --> 00:53:32,334
You know,
"What's Julian gonna think?"

847
00:53:33,126 --> 00:53:35,378
I didn't sleep, man.
I didn't sleep all night.

848
00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:39,341
I would lay down and close my eyes
and just picture

849
00:53:39,424 --> 00:53:41,343
big packages of cocaine.

850
00:54:08,703 --> 00:54:10,830
Now... when is he coming back?

851
00:54:12,249 --> 00:54:14,459
It was a long, hard wait.

852
00:54:16,795 --> 00:54:20,590
It was like being a kid
on Christmas Eve, man.

853
00:54:20,674 --> 00:54:23,927
Y'know, it's like, "How am I gonna get
through tomorrow and the next day?"

854
00:54:24,010 --> 00:54:25,971
'Cause Carlos said that
I'd see him Friday.

855
00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:31,768
Well... when Carlos finally
made contact with me,

856
00:54:31,851 --> 00:54:33,520
and I answered the phone...

857
00:54:33,645 --> 00:54:35,689
he said,
"Let's meet at the golf resort,"

858
00:54:35,772 --> 00:54:39,109
and then he called me back
and changed it to a new location.

859
00:54:39,192 --> 00:54:42,487
And then <i>he</i> says
that I had 30 minutes to meet him

860
00:54:42,570 --> 00:54:43,780
or he wasn't going to be there

861
00:54:43,863 --> 00:54:45,240
when I got there, it was over.

862
00:54:45,824 --> 00:54:48,159
First I'm going here, now I'm going here?
Fuck, y'all.

863
00:54:48,702 --> 00:54:51,246
If I didn't hurry,
he was leaving the country

864
00:54:51,329 --> 00:54:53,456
and I wouldn't see him ever again.

865
00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:56,418
I was driving like a bat out of hell
and hauling ass.

866
00:55:03,341 --> 00:55:07,387
I couldn't get a hold of Andy and Danny
had a flat and couldn't make it,

867
00:55:07,470 --> 00:55:09,055
which was pissing me off.

868
00:55:09,139 --> 00:55:11,224
Like, "Where the fuck are you guys?"

869
00:55:13,143 --> 00:55:15,812
"Goddamn, I'm not gonna make it.
You know, he's gonna be gone."

870
00:55:15,895 --> 00:55:17,272
Oh, it's a fucking nightmare.

871
00:55:35,749 --> 00:55:39,377
I made it, dude.
It was cutting it close, but I made it.

872
00:55:43,006 --> 00:55:44,642
He told me he would be inside.

873
00:55:44,678 --> 00:55:47,295
He was buying a rod and reel,
was what it was.

874
00:55:47,469 --> 00:55:50,764
So I walked in, went past the cash
register and he's coming down the hallway

875
00:55:50,847 --> 00:55:53,058
with a little short fishing pole
in his hand.

876
00:55:53,892 --> 00:55:58,188
Carlos looks at me and I look at him and
I said, "Man, I'm so glad I made it."

877
00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:00,899
I felt bad about...

878
00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:05,570
some of the thoughts I had about him,
wondering if he was a rip-off,

879
00:56:05,653 --> 00:56:08,782
wondering if he was gonna...
live up to what he said.

880
00:56:09,324 --> 00:56:12,035
I was kinda feeling
like I owed him an apology.

881
00:56:17,123 --> 00:56:19,751
I take it all back,
what I thought about Carlos.

882
00:56:19,834 --> 00:56:21,336
He wasn't an asshole.

883
00:56:21,419 --> 00:56:25,173
He's a businessman and he did
what he said he was gonna do.

884
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,218
He just does business
a little different than I do.

885
00:56:28,676 --> 00:56:30,595
And I remember saying to him,

886
00:56:30,678 --> 00:56:34,968
"Hey, man, I wish there was more business
to be done," because he'd been successful.

887
00:56:36,434 --> 00:56:39,979
It's Christmas morning and I've got
the biggest present under the tree

888
00:56:40,063 --> 00:56:41,481
and I'm getting ready to open it.

889
00:56:41,564 --> 00:56:45,019
He gave me his key, pointed out to his car.
It was at the end of the parking lot.

890
00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:47,779
He goes, "There's my car.
Go ahead and pull around there.

891
00:56:47,862 --> 00:56:50,490
Open the trunk and
I'll be right there."

892
00:56:51,157 --> 00:56:52,534
So... that's what I did.

893
00:56:59,541 --> 00:57:02,544
When he pointed to his car,
he was at the far end of the parking lot.

894
00:57:02,794 --> 00:57:04,754
So I went all the way around,

895
00:57:04,838 --> 00:57:09,467
because I'm fixing to pick up
a pretty substantial

896
00:57:09,551 --> 00:57:12,554
package here, and I was starting
to get a little paranoid here.

897
00:57:18,893 --> 00:57:20,520
But there wasn't anybody around.

898
00:57:35,618 --> 00:57:36,786
I go to his trunk...

899
00:57:37,537 --> 00:57:38,621
I opened it up...

900
00:57:39,581 --> 00:57:41,207
and couldn't believe it.

901
00:58:15,408 --> 00:58:16,242
Well...

902
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:23,041
my whole outlook on it was
how many times do you...

903
00:58:24,751 --> 00:58:25,960
meet somebody that...

904
00:58:26,586 --> 00:58:28,755
buried a treasure, literally?

905
00:58:29,631 --> 00:58:32,217
And, at the same time,
how many times do you meet somebody

906
00:58:32,300 --> 00:58:34,427
that can go get it and bring it back
and get rid of it?

907
00:58:35,637 --> 00:58:37,972
It is a once-in-a-lifetime deal.
I mean...

908
00:58:38,556 --> 00:58:41,809
You're never gonna have all that
come together ever again in your life.

909
00:58:43,353 --> 00:58:45,188
And... it was like...

910
00:58:46,648 --> 00:58:47,524
do it or die.

911
01:00:01,639 --> 01:00:04,183
<i>Hey, man!
I can help you with that story.</i>

912
01:00:04,267 --> 01:00:06,394
<i>That story, that story, that story...</i>

913
01:00:24,162 --> 01:00:25,747
They pulled me over

914
01:00:25,830 --> 01:00:28,499
because I was driving too close
to the car in front of me,

915
01:00:28,583 --> 01:00:30,960
which is bullshit. It was just
a reason for them to pull me.

916
01:00:55,234 --> 01:00:58,321
They patted me down and searched me
and didn't find nothing, you know,

917
01:00:58,404 --> 01:01:01,574
and I had to use the bathroom at the time,
I really legitly did.

918
01:01:01,658 --> 01:01:03,743
What I shoulda done
is went ahead and pissed myself.

919
01:01:06,329 --> 01:01:08,623
The other cop said,
"Did you pat him down?" He said, "Yeah."

920
01:01:08,706 --> 01:01:10,333
He said "Did ya 'whoop'?"
He did like that.

921
01:01:10,416 --> 01:01:12,085
Like, check me, y'know.
And he said, "No."

922
01:01:12,210 --> 01:01:14,128
So he actually checked me

923
01:01:14,212 --> 01:01:17,173
and he reached down there
and grabbed my, y'know, nut sack area.

924
01:01:34,982 --> 01:01:35,942
So they sit me down and,

925
01:01:36,025 --> 01:01:37,443
I dunno, my hands,

926
01:01:37,527 --> 01:01:39,946
I've got small wrists
and my thumbs are, like, double-jointed.

927
01:01:40,029 --> 01:01:41,656
Always been able
to slide outta handcuffs.

928
01:01:41,739 --> 01:01:43,157
Just always been able to do it.

929
01:01:43,241 --> 01:01:45,243
So I'm sitting there.
There's three of us.

930
01:01:45,326 --> 01:01:48,079
So when I seen both the male officers
go to the back of the other car,

931
01:01:48,162 --> 01:01:49,080
just the female there,

932
01:01:49,163 --> 01:01:50,707
I stood up and took off.

933
01:01:50,790 --> 01:01:51,624
Hey!

934
01:02:13,438 --> 01:02:14,856
I took off around the corner

935
01:02:14,939 --> 01:02:17,233
by the time I got round
the back of the store, he was on me.

936
01:02:20,270 --> 01:02:21,392
It's always aggressive.

937
01:02:21,428 --> 01:02:23,475
There's no such thing
as not aggressive.

938
01:02:27,326 --> 01:02:28,369
Once I knew they had it

939
01:02:28,453 --> 01:02:31,038
and they put me in a car, I knew
there was no getting away from it.

940
01:02:31,122 --> 01:02:33,624
I'm sitting there, everything's running
through my mind, y'know.

941
01:02:34,083 --> 01:02:35,334
I've been to prison three times.

942
01:02:35,418 --> 01:02:38,337
They didn't have to tell me the time
I was facing. I knew what I was facing.

943
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:39,380
And I'm facing life.

944
01:02:39,464 --> 01:02:42,091
No ifs and buts. I'm never
getting out, is what I'm looking at.

945
01:02:42,175 --> 01:02:44,427
So the officer came to talk to me

946
01:02:44,594 --> 01:02:46,179
and asked me would I
be willing to work?

947
01:02:46,929 --> 01:02:49,515
I said, "Well, you know, if I am,
what's the procedures?"

948
01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:50,767
And he straight up told me,

949
01:02:50,850 --> 01:02:52,935
if I was willing to work,
I'd go home, right then.

950
01:02:53,519 --> 01:02:56,063
"Depending on what you can give us
depends on what happens to you."

951
01:02:56,355 --> 01:02:59,192
So once they told me that, I knew
I had to give them something bigger.

952
01:02:59,275 --> 01:03:01,944
For me to get off, I had to give 'em
something bigger than what I had.

953
01:03:05,948 --> 01:03:08,910
So I told them, "How about $2 million
of cocaine coming into this country?

954
01:03:08,993 --> 01:03:09,994
Would that be enough?"

955
01:03:12,872 --> 01:03:14,373
"Y'all ready to go on a treasure hunt

956
01:03:14,457 --> 01:03:16,751
for 32 keys of fucking cocaine
coming into this country?"

957
01:03:23,257 --> 01:03:26,427
<i>♪ Picture this, I'm a bag of dicks
Put me to your lips ♪</i>

958
01:03:26,511 --> 01:03:29,305
<i>♪ I am sick
I will punch a baby bear in his shit ♪</i>

959
01:03:29,388 --> 01:03:31,724
<i>♪ Give me lip
I'mma send you to the yard ♪</i>

960
01:03:31,808 --> 01:03:35,144
<i>♪ Get a stick, make a switch
I can end the conversation real quick ♪</i>

961
01:03:35,228 --> 01:03:38,272
<i>♪ I am crack, I ain't lying
Kick a lion in his crack ♪</i>

962
01:03:38,356 --> 01:03:41,484
<i>♪ I'm the shit, I will fall off
In your crib, take a shit ♪</i>

963
01:03:41,567 --> 01:03:44,320
<i>♪ Screaming yes, I am guilty
Motherfuckers, I am death ♪</i>

964
01:03:45,655 --> 01:03:47,240
<i>♪ You wanna hear a good joke? ♪</i>

965
01:03:47,824 --> 01:03:50,451
<i>♪ Nobody speak, nobody get choked ♪</i>

966
01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:04,006
<i>♪ Fuck out of here... yeah ♪</i>

967
01:04:11,097 --> 01:04:13,933
<i>♪ Nobody speak,
Nobody get choked, hey ♪</i>

968
01:04:21,232 --> 01:04:22,942
<i>♪ Live to shoot another day ♪</i>

969
01:04:31,909 --> 01:04:33,953
<i>Live from CBS 47,</i>

970
01:04:34,036 --> 01:04:36,706
<i>this is </i>Action News At 5:30,

971
01:04:36,789 --> 01:04:38,708
Your Questions. Answered.

972
01:04:39,375 --> 01:04:43,087
<i>Tonight, we begin with a federal sting
involving a local man,</i>

973
01:04:43,170 --> 01:04:46,007
<i>a treasure map,
and a remote Puerto Rican island.</i>

974
01:04:46,090 --> 01:04:47,550
<i>Investigators followed the map.</i>

975
01:04:47,633 --> 01:04:51,178
<i>Now, they didn't find any treasure, but
what they did find is worth a lot of money</i>

976
01:04:51,262 --> 01:04:52,805
<i>and it's also illegal.</i>

977
01:04:52,889 --> 01:04:54,849
<i>It sounds like something
out of a movie.</i>

978
01:04:54,932 --> 01:04:57,935
<i>A treasure map that leads
to buried treasure on a remote island.</i>

979
01:04:58,019 --> 01:05:01,314
<i>I've been in law enforcement
for 25 years</i>

980
01:05:01,564 --> 01:05:03,858
<i>and I've yet to have seen a situation
exactly like this.</i>

981
01:05:04,275 --> 01:05:08,613
<i>But instead of treasure, 54-year-old
Rodney Hyden ended up with drug charges.</i>

982
01:05:09,155 --> 01:05:10,948
<i>It all started back in June.</i>

983
01:05:11,032 --> 01:05:14,201
<i>A detective from the Alachua County
Sheriff's Office received a tip</i>

984
01:05:14,285 --> 01:05:15,202
<i>about the Archer man.</i>

985
01:05:15,286 --> 01:05:17,788
<i>He had flown over to Puerto Rico
to find it himself.</i>

986
01:05:17,872 --> 01:05:21,459
<i>He locates the pile near a turtle
sanctuary on the island of Culebra</i>

987
01:05:21,542 --> 01:05:23,294
<i>but doesn't have
the tools to dig it up.</i>

988
01:05:23,419 --> 01:05:24,754
<i>That's when the undercover agents,</i>

989
01:05:24,837 --> 01:05:27,256
<i>posing as drug-trafficking pilots,
step in.</i>

990
01:05:27,340 --> 01:05:31,010
<i>Never in my experiences the...
criminals provided us</i>

991
01:05:31,093 --> 01:05:34,680
<i>with a map leading us to
the illicit drugs.</i>

992
01:05:34,847 --> 01:05:36,807
<i>Hmm. Interesting story.</i>

993
01:05:36,891 --> 01:05:40,478
<i>Yeah, Lauren Hallacher reporting,
federal agents arrested Hyden on Friday</i>

994
01:05:40,561 --> 01:05:44,106
<i>for possession of five kilograms or more
of cocaine, with the intent to distribute.</i>

995
01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:47,985
<i>Federal agents have the cocaine
saved as evidence now for Hyden's trial.</i>

996
01:05:54,408 --> 01:05:55,993
The ride to jail didn't bother me.

997
01:05:56,869 --> 01:05:58,704
Spending the night in jail
didn't bother me.

998
01:06:00,539 --> 01:06:02,333
Being stupid didn't bother me.

999
01:06:02,416 --> 01:06:06,504
Now it was a matter
of my family's livelihood.

1000
01:06:08,130 --> 01:06:10,633
What are they gonna do without me?
Because I'm going to prison.

1001
01:06:14,470 --> 01:06:15,429
My cell phone rang.

1002
01:06:16,180 --> 01:06:19,433
And... it wasn't a number
that I recognized

1003
01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:21,310
and it asked me...

1004
01:06:21,852 --> 01:06:25,189
if I was Jamie Hyden
and I said, "Yes, who's this?"

1005
01:06:25,815 --> 01:06:28,943
And they proceeded to tell me that...

1006
01:06:30,319 --> 01:06:34,240
That my husband had been incarcerated
by Homeland Security.

1007
01:06:36,867 --> 01:06:40,746
"What do you mean? Jacksonville?
Homeland Security? Cocaine?"

1008
01:06:42,456 --> 01:06:43,833
I fucked up. Yeah.

1009
01:06:44,125 --> 01:06:46,127
It was the stupidest thing
I've ever done in my life,

1010
01:06:46,210 --> 01:06:48,504
and I'm guilty
for my part in it, but...

1011
01:06:50,381 --> 01:06:53,009
all that had to be done
at any point was...

1012
01:06:53,926 --> 01:06:58,681
"We know what you're doing, just give us
the map and we'll go get it and take..."

1013
01:06:59,348 --> 01:07:01,809
You know, slap me on the hand.
But no.

1014
01:07:03,144 --> 01:07:06,105
They had to make a big drug dealer
and a big drug king out of me.

1015
01:07:10,443 --> 01:07:15,865
I mean, it's not much different than the
damn piece of fruit in the Garden of Eden.

1016
01:07:17,324 --> 01:07:19,368
"Just take a bite. Just take a bite."

1017
01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:21,328
"Just give me a map."

1018
01:07:22,038 --> 01:07:24,373
"Just give me a map.
You don't have to do anything."

1019
01:07:25,416 --> 01:07:26,584
Fuck you.

1020
01:07:27,460 --> 01:07:28,627
My name is Ryan McEnany.

1021
01:07:28,711 --> 01:07:31,297
I'm a special agent
with Homeland Security Investigations.

1022
01:07:31,922 --> 01:07:33,049
My name is Joe Rawley.

1023
01:07:33,132 --> 01:07:36,218
I'm a former detective
with the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.

1024
01:07:52,568 --> 01:07:53,611
<i>Rodney?</i>

1025
01:07:59,241 --> 01:08:01,452
<font color="#ffffff"><i>I went to Tampa this weekend</i>
<i>and talked to my boy.</i></font>

1026
01:08:01,952 --> 01:08:02,787
<font color="#ffffff">Is he interested?</font>

1027
01:08:02,912 --> 01:08:04,830
<font color="#ffffff"><i>He is. He said that he trusts me.</i></font>

1028
01:08:04,921 --> 01:08:05,976
<font color="#ffffff"><i>He's real skeptical.</i></font>

1029
01:08:06,012 --> 01:08:09,687
<font color="#ffffff"><i>Nobody ever really finds shit like that.
You know what I mean?</i></font>

1030
01:08:09,877 --> 01:08:12,384
<font color="#ffffff"><i>That shit sounds
too good to be true.</i></font>

1031
01:08:12,509 --> 01:08:15,430
<font color="#ffffff"><i>- That's exactly what he told me he said</i>
- Tell him I said the same thing.</font>

1032
01:08:15,549 --> 01:08:19,447
<font color="#ffffff">- <i>Let me tell you, if it wasn't for you, Dee.</i>
- I wouldn't know where to get rid of it.</font>

1033
01:08:19,637 --> 01:08:23,289
<font color="#ffffff"><i> If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't</i>
<i>know anyone who had shit like that. </i>-Well, I got it.</font>

1034
01:08:23,415 --> 01:08:25,484
<font color="#ffffff"><i>It goes both ways,
you know what I mean?</i></font>

1035
01:08:25,552 --> 01:08:28,734
<font color="#ffffff">It's just a one time in a life
chance-opportunity.</font>

1036
01:08:29,171 --> 01:08:32,273
<font color="#ffffff">And if it's done right, you can
walk away from it</font>

1037
01:08:34,693 --> 01:08:36,070
Essentially, in the...

1038
01:08:37,321 --> 01:08:40,324
With narcotics traffickers,
you're looking to

1039
01:08:40,407 --> 01:08:43,119
generally catch a smaller fish...

1040
01:08:43,661 --> 01:08:44,870
when you're going out.

1041
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:48,082
And then you essentially
use that smaller fish

1042
01:08:48,165 --> 01:08:51,377
to go after larger fish,
who are above them.

1043
01:08:51,460 --> 01:08:53,587
You always want to be working up
to the bigger fish.

1044
01:08:53,671 --> 01:08:55,548
Rodney was like...

1045
01:08:56,715 --> 01:08:58,843
The fish
that had never been caught before.

1046
01:08:59,552 --> 01:09:01,929
Because... he wasn't really a fish.

1047
01:09:02,429 --> 01:09:04,515
Rodney was a unicorn.

1048
01:09:07,184 --> 01:09:08,853
Just some... thing

1049
01:09:08,936 --> 01:09:11,397
that was out there
that no one's ever gonna see again.

1050
01:09:11,939 --> 01:09:13,274
And if it weren't
for our involvement...

1051
01:09:15,234 --> 01:09:17,444
he would have just been
sitting with...

1052
01:09:17,945 --> 01:09:19,446
Well... probably robbed.

1053
01:09:19,738 --> 01:09:22,199
If it didn't happen like it did
I was gonna take it from Rodney,

1054
01:09:22,283 --> 01:09:24,577
so odds were stacked against him.
He woulda never got it.

1055
01:09:25,077 --> 01:09:27,788
Never. Truthfully,
I'd have buried him to get that.

1056
01:09:27,997 --> 01:09:29,415
Anybody from the street would have.

1057
01:09:29,498 --> 01:09:32,793
That much money?
You have people kill people for $10,000.

1058
01:09:32,877 --> 01:09:34,044
You're talkin' about millions.

1059
01:09:34,170 --> 01:09:35,713
That Cuban snitch.

1060
01:09:35,796 --> 01:09:38,591
That boy needs to go
on a one-way grouper trip.

1061
01:09:40,509 --> 01:09:43,345
Err... Rodney never told me
what he was up to.

1062
01:09:43,429 --> 01:09:45,681
I had no... 'Cause I woulda...

1063
01:09:46,348 --> 01:09:48,184
climbed his ass about it.

1064
01:09:48,392 --> 01:09:52,271
Most people would roll over
and snitch on everybody and...

1065
01:09:52,771 --> 01:09:53,647
He...

1066
01:09:53,856 --> 01:09:55,107
He manned up and...

1067
01:09:56,150 --> 01:09:58,360
took the load on himself, yeah.

1068
01:09:59,153 --> 01:10:00,696
And I respect him for that.

1069
01:10:00,779 --> 01:10:04,408
"They're obviously coming for me next,"
is what kept going through my mind.

1070
01:10:05,159 --> 01:10:06,744
They came for me but
it wasn't for that.

1071
01:10:06,827 --> 01:10:10,831
It was to fuckin' be put fuckin'...
witness stand.

1072
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:16,962
My name is Mark Rosenblum

1073
01:10:17,046 --> 01:10:19,548
and I was hired to
represent Rodney Hyden.

1074
01:10:20,257 --> 01:10:25,804
Rodney's a very bright guy. He is.
But, in this situation, he was naive.

1075
01:10:25,888 --> 01:10:26,931
He's a dreamer

1076
01:10:27,014 --> 01:10:30,267
and this was a dream
that was presented to him

1077
01:10:30,476 --> 01:10:33,312
that he never would have come up with
on his own.

1078
01:10:33,896 --> 01:10:39,610
First of all, Rodney did not even know
how much a kilo of cocaine sold for.

1079
01:10:40,361 --> 01:10:42,279
And the important thing
to remember is

1080
01:10:42,655 --> 01:10:44,823
that Rodney
couldn't have sold the cocaine,

1081
01:10:44,907 --> 01:10:46,992
because he didn't know anybody
to sell it to.

1082
01:10:47,493 --> 01:10:49,453
Rodney didn't have
any of those contacts.

1083
01:10:50,204 --> 01:10:52,623
He was just a... player in a game.

1084
01:10:53,374 --> 01:10:55,417
And... Rodney...

1085
01:10:57,127 --> 01:11:00,089
couldn't move up or down,
because he couldn't move anything.

1086
01:11:00,839 --> 01:11:01,924
He couldn't move...

1087
01:11:02,841 --> 01:11:03,842
a dime bag.

1088
01:11:04,551 --> 01:11:08,764
I firmly believe,
had a profiter not been present...

1089
01:11:09,556 --> 01:11:14,186
he would have attempted to try to seek
out somebody to the best of his ability.

1090
01:11:14,311 --> 01:11:16,689
I don't think he would have been
successful in that, however.

1091
01:11:17,523 --> 01:11:19,358
He partnered with
the wrong person.

1092
01:11:20,901 --> 01:11:21,819
Well, he...

1093
01:11:22,319 --> 01:11:24,947
unbeknownst to him, partnered
with the United States Government.

1094
01:11:25,781 --> 01:11:30,744
Entrapment is being induced or persuaded
to commit a crime

1095
01:11:30,828 --> 01:11:34,081
that you did not have
the predisposition to commit,

1096
01:11:34,164 --> 01:11:36,333
by a law enforcement official,

1097
01:11:36,625 --> 01:11:39,336
like a police officer,
a government agent

1098
01:11:39,420 --> 01:11:44,800
or a confidential informant who's acting
on behalf of a law enforcement officer.

1099
01:11:45,509 --> 01:11:48,053
He needs to quit his whining
about this entrapment bullshit,

1100
01:11:48,387 --> 01:11:50,347
because he was gonna
get that cocaine.

1101
01:11:51,390 --> 01:11:52,808
How is that not entrapment?

1102
01:11:55,686 --> 01:11:56,562
Anybody?

1103
01:11:59,940 --> 01:12:01,984
It's every sense of the word, right?

1104
01:12:02,735 --> 01:12:06,655
"We will go get the shit for you
and give us some...

1105
01:12:07,323 --> 01:12:08,824
and we go about our business."

1106
01:12:08,907 --> 01:12:11,452
Rodney didn't commit a crime, dude.

1107
01:12:11,535 --> 01:12:15,331
Here you have, Mr. Hyden,
wanting a pilot, okay?

1108
01:12:15,664 --> 01:12:19,084
You know, wanting the connections
to distribute it on the street.

1109
01:12:20,419 --> 01:12:21,962
And willing to pay people for it.

1110
01:12:24,048 --> 01:12:25,174
That's a crime.

1111
01:12:25,466 --> 01:12:26,884
Oh, we didn't do it.

1112
01:12:26,967 --> 01:12:28,635
We couldn't. It was impossible.

1113
01:12:29,928 --> 01:12:31,513
It's not our fault
he couldn't find it.

1114
01:12:31,597 --> 01:12:33,682
It was there, 'cause we went out there
and dug it up.

1115
01:12:36,352 --> 01:12:38,354
Right?

1116
01:12:39,605 --> 01:12:40,898
It's bullshit.

1117
01:12:42,232 --> 01:12:45,569
And we're a casualty... of bullshit.

1118
01:12:46,278 --> 01:12:47,738
Did we hold a gun to his head

1119
01:12:47,821 --> 01:12:49,823
and say, "You need to go there
and find the cocaine?"

1120
01:12:49,907 --> 01:12:52,493
You're playing with
real human lives.

1121
01:12:52,576 --> 01:12:55,496
Put the goddamn real
drug addict in jail.

1122
01:12:55,579 --> 01:12:57,414
Don't let them set up people.

1123
01:12:57,915 --> 01:12:59,291
It's fuckin' bullshit, man.

1124
01:13:00,125 --> 01:13:02,753
Well, the thing you need
to understand about trial work is

1125
01:13:02,836 --> 01:13:05,214
that you cannot predict
what a jury is going to do.

1126
01:13:06,131 --> 01:13:08,342
You never really
want to go to trial,

1127
01:13:08,425 --> 01:13:09,927
because you don't know what

1128
01:13:10,010 --> 01:13:12,262
a group of people will decide.

1129
01:13:12,763 --> 01:13:16,266
But they weren't
offering us a choice.

1130
01:13:17,393 --> 01:13:21,480
If the amount of cocaine involved
in the case is five kilograms or more,

1131
01:13:21,563 --> 01:13:26,318
there is a mandatory minimum sentence
that's required, of ten years in prison.

1132
01:13:26,777 --> 01:13:29,238
<i>You</i> hope <i>that they see it your way,
but there's 12 individual people.</i>

1133
01:13:32,408 --> 01:13:35,452
<i>I didn't know
if he would ever be coming home.</i>

1134
01:13:36,036 --> 01:13:37,663
<i>I didn't know what was
going to happen.</i>

1135
01:13:42,126 --> 01:13:47,089
The courtroom atmosphere was like
in any other trial when a verdict is read,

1136
01:13:47,172 --> 01:13:49,341
which is that everything
was very quiet.

1137
01:13:50,217 --> 01:13:52,928
And it was a very dramatic moment.

1138
01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:06,900
They read the verdict
and the verdict was guilty.

1139
01:14:30,549 --> 01:14:32,885
There's a reason
we have tissues in the courtroom.

1140
01:14:32,968 --> 01:14:34,845
There's a lot of crying that goes on.

1141
01:14:34,928 --> 01:14:36,722
Regardless of the
entrapment defense...

1142
01:14:37,222 --> 01:14:39,391
not being successful with the jury,

1143
01:14:39,641 --> 01:14:42,603
It turned out that, likely,
if the government...

1144
01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:48,859
hadn't helped dig it up
and bring it over to the United States,

1145
01:14:49,109 --> 01:14:53,071
it is very uncertain that Mr. Hyden
would have been able to pull that off.

1146
01:14:53,155 --> 01:14:59,661
This case reminded me of a combination
of <i>Walter Mitty</i> meeting <i>Breaking Bad.</i>

1147
01:15:00,370 --> 01:15:03,916
Normally, it would have been
120-month minimum mandatory.

1148
01:15:03,999 --> 01:15:08,545
I would have not had any choice but to
sentence Mr. Hyden to at least ten years.

1149
01:15:08,795 --> 01:15:09,630
Normally.

1150
01:15:09,963 --> 01:15:12,716
But... there's something called
"the safety valve."

1151
01:15:12,799 --> 01:15:16,595
And the safety valve says, if you're
a first-time offender, which he was,

1152
01:15:16,887 --> 01:15:19,848
and you have no previous criminal history,
which he didn't,

1153
01:15:20,140 --> 01:15:23,143
and you meet a number
of other sentencing factors,

1154
01:15:23,477 --> 01:15:25,771
the minimum mandatory is waived.

1155
01:15:26,271 --> 01:15:29,983
Thank God for that judge, dude,
that he saw this for what it was.

1156
01:15:30,150 --> 01:15:30,984
Bullshit.

1157
01:15:31,193 --> 01:15:34,196
Judge Corrigan is a fantastic judge.

1158
01:15:34,488 --> 01:15:36,365
And that was my glimmer of hope.

1159
01:15:37,324 --> 01:15:42,037
A long period of incarceration
just didn't make any sense in this case.

1160
01:15:42,538 --> 01:15:45,165
And so,
once I had made that decision,

1161
01:15:45,332 --> 01:15:50,504
then... why not use the advantages
that Mr. Hyden does have

1162
01:15:50,796 --> 01:15:52,089
for the good of the community?

1163
01:15:52,839 --> 01:15:56,843
He sentenced me to 60 days
in jail and five years' probation.

1164
01:15:57,886 --> 01:16:01,390
There's always the one or two
nosy Nellies.

1165
01:16:01,473 --> 01:16:04,101
And, of course, their question is,
"Were you gonna leave him?"

1166
01:16:08,772 --> 01:16:11,692
But I promised him
I'd stand by him.

1167
01:16:13,986 --> 01:16:15,279
Because I love him.

1168
01:16:19,449 --> 01:16:20,867
My wife picked me up

1169
01:16:20,951 --> 01:16:23,245
and being married for...

1170
01:16:23,912 --> 01:16:27,916
twenty-three years, one of the things
that kind of fades away is kissing...

1171
01:16:28,250 --> 01:16:29,751
and I couldn't wait to kiss her, man.

1172
01:16:29,835 --> 01:16:31,420
I gave her a big one
right on the mouth.

1173
01:16:39,261 --> 01:16:43,098
I also sentenced him
to community service.

1174
01:16:43,181 --> 01:16:45,434
And in this case,
the community service was

1175
01:16:45,892 --> 01:16:50,022
that he work 20 hours a week
for Habitat for Humanity, every week.

1176
01:16:50,647 --> 01:16:53,984
And he will continue to do that
20 hours a week for five years.

1177
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:02,159
Look, it's the stupidest thing
I've ever done in my life.

1178
01:17:02,242 --> 01:17:03,243
I'm not proud of it.

1179
01:17:03,452 --> 01:17:05,454
How I didn't see it, how I didn't...

1180
01:17:05,537 --> 01:17:07,164
realize what was going on...

1181
01:17:07,247 --> 01:17:09,833
I watch movies.
I've heard of people getting busted.

1182
01:17:09,916 --> 01:17:13,962
But out of all the bad and the ignorance
and the stupidity on my part,

1183
01:17:14,129 --> 01:17:16,089
there has been some good
from this story.

1184
01:17:16,590 --> 01:17:19,134
I've helped lots of families.
I tell you,

1185
01:17:19,217 --> 01:17:20,385
it's such a good feeling to...

1186
01:17:21,094 --> 01:17:23,680
build their home for them and then...

1187
01:17:24,348 --> 01:17:26,183
hand them the keys at the end and...

1188
01:17:27,017 --> 01:17:27,893
you start cr...

1189
01:17:27,976 --> 01:17:30,771
You both hug each other and start crying.
It's emotional.

1190
01:17:30,854 --> 01:17:31,688
I love it.

1191
01:17:31,897 --> 01:17:33,273
It made a better person out of me.

1192
01:17:41,198 --> 01:17:42,783
As far as the story he told you,

1193
01:17:42,866 --> 01:17:45,786
he's trying to get his business back on
the ground. That's understandable.

1194
01:17:45,869 --> 01:17:47,496
But the truth be told, you know,

1195
01:17:47,704 --> 01:17:49,748
it ain't like he...
tricked into it or nothing.

1196
01:17:49,831 --> 01:17:51,667
He knew full well
what the hell he was doing.

1197
01:17:51,750 --> 01:17:54,461
And he wants to blame society
for taking a dump on him

1198
01:17:54,544 --> 01:17:56,046
and all this for the reason
he did it.

1199
01:17:56,129 --> 01:17:58,131
No.
Be accountable for your own actions.

1200
01:18:01,343 --> 01:18:03,929
The economy took a dump on <i>everybody.</i>

1201
01:18:04,012 --> 01:18:05,889
Ain't everybody go try to get
32 keys of cocaine.

1202
01:18:05,972 --> 01:18:08,225
Rodney tried to go get
32 keys of cocaine.

1203
01:18:08,308 --> 01:18:09,935
You know, what did everybody else do?

1204
01:18:10,018 --> 01:18:12,562
They buckled down, worked harder,
strived and got it back.

1205
01:18:12,646 --> 01:18:13,897
That's what he shoulda done.

1206
01:18:14,773 --> 01:18:16,900
You gotta have some ethical code
about yourself.

1207
01:18:17,943 --> 01:18:19,736
What makes a person
American in their heart?

1208
01:18:19,820 --> 01:18:21,697
If you love this country
and y'know what you got,

1209
01:18:21,780 --> 01:18:22,823
you're American at heart.

1210
01:18:24,574 --> 01:18:27,077
It pisses me off when I see people
complaining about being here.

1211
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:29,413
It's like, "Go live where some
of these other people live."

1212
01:18:29,496 --> 01:18:31,623
We're set up to where
it's damn near impossible to fail.

1213
01:18:31,707 --> 01:18:35,377
If a lot of drug dealers put their effort
into being legit, they'd make it, too.

1214
01:18:35,460 --> 01:18:37,587
That's just the way it is, you know,
in America.

1215
01:18:37,671 --> 01:18:40,257
That's the way we're set up.
Anybody can come here and make money.

1216
01:18:40,340 --> 01:18:42,551
Y'know, people do it all the time.
That's the dream.

1217
01:18:46,513 --> 01:18:48,140
He'll have to answer
for what he's done,

1218
01:18:48,223 --> 01:18:50,475
and I think he'll always
look over his shoulder

1219
01:18:50,559 --> 01:18:52,769
for some of the other people
he's done things to.

1220
01:18:56,231 --> 01:18:58,442
But he turned out being
the smartest guy in the group,

1221
01:18:58,525 --> 01:19:00,861
'cause he walked away
without even being arrested.

1222
01:19:21,715 --> 01:19:24,092
Considering how things
worked out,

1223
01:19:24,342 --> 01:19:26,261
it made it even a better story.

1224
01:19:26,344 --> 01:19:27,429
You know what I mean?

1225
01:19:27,971 --> 01:19:28,972
I mean, you know...

1226
01:19:29,473 --> 01:19:31,475
it cost Rodney a bunch of money

1227
01:19:31,558 --> 01:19:38,106
and I'm sure Julian got a few more gray hairs,
you know, worrying about it,

1228
01:19:38,190 --> 01:19:40,525
but it made it even a better story.

1229
01:19:50,035 --> 01:19:53,205
I have pear trees and blueberries
and plum trees and...

1230
01:19:55,081 --> 01:19:58,335
stuff like that, so I'm just trying
to feed myself as much as possible.

1231
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:05,509
Are you ever gonna move from here?

1232
01:20:05,592 --> 01:20:06,426
No.

1233
01:20:06,718 --> 01:20:07,803
I'm pretty good here.

1234
01:20:08,428 --> 01:20:10,555
As long as you all
don't come back too often.

1235
01:20:11,431 --> 01:20:12,432
Where would I go?

1236
01:20:12,933 --> 01:20:15,936
Even with the money,
I wouldn't know where to go.

1237
01:20:29,115 --> 01:20:30,242
What do you want to know?

1238
01:20:32,953 --> 01:20:34,412
I wanna hear the story.

1239
01:20:36,248 --> 01:20:37,249
Not my story.

1240
01:20:42,671 --> 01:20:43,797
Whose story is it?

1241
01:20:44,339 --> 01:20:45,924
It's not mine.

1242
01:20:49,427 --> 01:20:50,512
Not anymore.

1243
01:20:59,354 --> 01:21:01,523
I'll always wonder, man,
if they dug it up.

1244
01:21:03,650 --> 01:21:08,029
Strangely enough, they never presented
any evidence showing a dig site...

1245
01:21:08,655 --> 01:21:09,573
crime tape...

1246
01:21:10,448 --> 01:21:13,034
backhoe diggin', 'cause I know
that's what it would have taken.

1247
01:21:13,118 --> 01:21:15,078
The cocaine was extracted at night.

1248
01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:20,000
And... we don't have
professional photographers.

1249
01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:24,462
We don't have... high-tech cameras.

1250
01:21:24,838 --> 01:21:25,672
We just did...

1251
01:21:25,755 --> 01:21:28,133
The photographs
that were taken of the cocaine

1252
01:21:28,216 --> 01:21:32,470
were taken while the cocaine
was in the ground, with a phone.

1253
01:21:32,971 --> 01:21:35,223
You saw what you <i>think</i>
is a picture of it.

1254
01:21:35,307 --> 01:21:37,601
You don't really know,
'cause there was 33.

1255
01:21:37,684 --> 01:21:39,477
In the picture there
was, what, seven?

1256
01:21:40,145 --> 01:21:42,105
Where did the other 27 keys go?

1257
01:21:43,315 --> 01:21:44,608
Straight up, can someone tell me?

1258
01:21:45,233 --> 01:21:46,318
They just disappeared?

1259
01:21:47,527 --> 01:21:51,948
When you take what those pictures were
in the document file,

1260
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:56,077
compared to the actual evidence
that was in court, they don't match.

1261
01:21:56,161 --> 01:21:57,203
They don't match up.

1262
01:21:58,788 --> 01:22:03,251
For those people who believe
that we never actually went to Culebra

1263
01:22:03,668 --> 01:22:05,170
and never dug up the cocaine...

1264
01:22:05,921 --> 01:22:07,464
they're 100% wrong.

1265
01:22:08,131 --> 01:22:09,507
We went to Culebra,

1266
01:22:09,591 --> 01:22:11,217
we dug up the cocaine...

1267
01:22:11,843 --> 01:22:14,471
and we admitted
that cocaine into trial.

1268
01:22:15,055 --> 01:22:18,475
What would you say to someone
who believed it was still in the ground...

1269
01:22:18,808 --> 01:22:21,186
and was maybe planning
to go dig it up?

1270
01:22:23,563 --> 01:22:25,357
Don't do it.

1271
01:22:27,734 --> 01:22:28,818
Obviously, it's a...

1272
01:22:29,986 --> 01:22:31,237
Strongly advise against it.

1273
01:22:33,990 --> 01:22:37,285
You're saying don't go check
to make sure it's still there?

1274
01:22:38,662 --> 01:22:41,915
Correct, I would <i>not</i> go down
to Culebra or...

1275
01:22:42,540 --> 01:22:44,918
any location for that matter,
absolutely not.

1276
01:22:48,546 --> 01:22:49,422
A,

1277
01:22:50,006 --> 01:22:51,424
Julian was lying.

1278
01:22:52,634 --> 01:22:56,012
B, the cops stole it. Or, C...

1279
01:22:56,513 --> 01:22:58,223
the cocaine is still in the ground.

1280
01:22:58,306 --> 01:23:00,475
Honestly, they never dug anything up.

1281
01:23:03,687 --> 01:23:04,980
<i>I'll always wonder, man.</i>

1282
01:23:05,397 --> 01:23:06,940
How could you not think like that?

1283
01:23:07,023 --> 01:23:10,318
If you knew where $2 million
was buried in the ground,

1284
01:23:10,402 --> 01:23:11,528
would you go get it?

1285
01:23:12,737 --> 01:23:13,571
Straight up.

1286
01:23:14,322 --> 01:23:15,281
Anybody in here.

1287
01:23:16,032 --> 01:23:19,369
If you knew where $2 million was
in the ground, would you go get the shit?

1288
01:23:20,745 --> 01:23:21,705
Who wouldn't?

1289
01:23:23,873 --> 01:23:25,542
It's the American dream, bro.