1 00:00:01,930 --> 00:00:07,790 In this episode of American Greed, they're young, rich, and running wild. 2 00:00:08,590 --> 00:00:10,630 We're just having fun. Here, you want some pills? 3 00:00:10,970 --> 00:00:13,970 Here's some pills. You want to smoke some weed? Here's some weed, you know. 4 00:00:14,810 --> 00:00:18,910 A group of Florida teens stumble into an unlikely career. 5 00:00:19,790 --> 00:00:20,830 Drug lords. 6 00:00:22,590 --> 00:00:26,750 They wanted them, and we had them, and they would pay whatever for them. 7 00:00:27,630 --> 00:00:31,990 And what they lack in experience, they make up for in creativity. 8 00:00:33,170 --> 00:00:36,230 We would slice the back of the teddy bear, stuff it with cash. 9 00:00:37,290 --> 00:00:38,290 They were clever. 10 00:00:38,950 --> 00:00:40,390 Stupid clever, but clever. 11 00:00:41,410 --> 00:00:46,830 But the good times don't last long, as the feds infiltrate their drug ring. 12 00:00:47,630 --> 00:00:50,970 I know we both want to make money, so the number one thing we've got to do is 13 00:00:50,970 --> 00:00:53,110 keep flow going. They were getting reckless. 14 00:00:54,090 --> 00:00:58,350 And when the hammer comes down, it's every man for himself. 15 00:00:58,830 --> 00:01:00,430 I knew we were in some deep trouble. 16 00:01:02,150 --> 00:01:07,590 And when they handed down the sentences, my bag to judge, it's almost as if you 17 00:01:07,590 --> 00:01:08,469 just die. 18 00:01:08,470 --> 00:01:09,470 You just cry. 19 00:01:11,550 --> 00:01:17,030 That is why American Greed is here today, because it was American Greed. 20 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,540 It's the summer of 2009 in magnificent Tampa, Florida. 21 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,100 Lance Barabbas is throwing a rager. 22 00:01:47,420 --> 00:01:53,280 The 21 -year -old invites dozens of friends to his luxury condo in the 23 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:54,880 upscale Channel District. 24 00:01:55,940 --> 00:01:59,020 He said, I'm going to throw a party. It's going to be all exclusive. 25 00:01:59,820 --> 00:02:03,100 Wild. A lot of women. A lot of friends. 26 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,340 The party has the ingredients to fuel a young man's wildest fantasy. 27 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,680 Girls in bikini, boo, and plenty of drugs. 28 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:23,360 Kegurators, Jägermeister machines, little butler trays with a pile of 29 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,480 cocaine on it. 30 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,440 He had bought like an ounce of cocaine. 31 00:02:27,740 --> 00:02:31,220 There was pills and weed and it was crazy. 32 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:37,640 Later that evening, Lance has a special surprise for his party guests. 33 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,600 You know, he decides to pull out a backpack full of money and just starts 34 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:43,660 dumping it on the bed. 35 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:50,500 Party goers say that Lance dumps nearly $100 ,000 across the mattress. 36 00:02:52,140 --> 00:02:55,880 At the time, he was dating a girl, and he had, you know, two of her girlfriends 37 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,540 were in their room, and, you know, they just started getting in their lingerie. 38 00:03:01,450 --> 00:03:02,490 Just taking pictures. 39 00:03:04,110 --> 00:03:11,110 Lance also owns a mini arsenal, AR -15, an AK -47, and a 40 00:03:11,110 --> 00:03:12,750 variety of handguns. 41 00:03:13,030 --> 00:03:15,950 The weapons spice up the girl's selfie. 42 00:03:16,290 --> 00:03:22,030 These beautiful girls in their underwear with tens of thousands of dollars. They 43 00:03:22,030 --> 00:03:24,810 can post it on Facebook for all I care, and it's hilarious. 44 00:03:25,830 --> 00:03:30,350 The party is a celebration of Lance Barabbas' business success. 45 00:03:31,410 --> 00:03:37,130 His startup company brings in tens of thousands of dollars each week. 46 00:03:37,990 --> 00:03:40,390 They were on the verge of making millions. 47 00:03:40,770 --> 00:03:43,650 They were making tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars. 48 00:03:43,910 --> 00:03:47,530 They were making to kids infinite amounts of money. 49 00:03:51,310 --> 00:03:55,830 But Lance's business plan is, of course, illegal. 50 00:03:57,710 --> 00:04:01,710 For the past year, he and his friends have been dealing oxycodone pills. 51 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:09,810 In the late 2000s, it's a golden opportunity that Lance Barabbas and his 52 00:04:09,810 --> 00:04:12,290 are all too happy to exploit. 53 00:04:13,470 --> 00:04:18,709 Lance was abusing drugs. He was living like there was no tomorrow. 54 00:04:19,630 --> 00:04:24,070 And that's kind of literally how it all went for him. There was no tomorrow. 55 00:04:25,190 --> 00:04:26,470 Lance was just... 56 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,540 Waiting to get taken down. 57 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:39,220 The tale of aspiring drug lord Lance Barabbas and his unlikely drug ring 58 00:04:39,220 --> 00:04:43,400 in Pasco County, Florida, in the small town of Hudson. 59 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:50,860 Though it's located just an hour north of Clearwater Beach, Hudson might as 60 00:04:50,860 --> 00:04:53,840 be a world away from that famous coastline. 61 00:04:55,340 --> 00:05:00,020 The last reason Hudson Beach was on the news is because there was a flesh 62 00:05:00,020 --> 00:05:01,480 -eating virus in the water. 63 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:10,600 But it's kind of, I would say, a mixture between beachy, coastal, and 64 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:15,660 redneckish. If you weren't at the beach or down on the bow, you're at the mud 65 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:16,660 hole. 66 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:29,160 Landon Barabbas is the middle child of the three Barabbas siblings. 67 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,400 His baby brother Lance is two years younger. 68 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:40,500 Lance is always skinny and kind of the runt, so football wasn't, you know, his 69 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:45,140 thing. When he got into high school and got introduced to wrestling, that's 70 00:05:45,140 --> 00:05:46,560 where he really excelled. 71 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,080 You know, Lance and I have a special bond because we've known each other and, 72 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,180 you know, we've been through a lot together. 73 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,020 Doug Dodd is good friends with Lance and knows the other Barabbas boys, 74 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,240 including the oldest brother, Larry, through the wrestling team. 75 00:06:03,140 --> 00:06:05,740 Here they are in a high school team photo. 76 00:06:06,980 --> 00:06:11,460 Another pal, Richard Sullivan, rounds out the tight -knit crew. 77 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,240 I met them at Hudson High in ninth grade. 78 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:18,220 We all wrestled together. 79 00:06:18,940 --> 00:06:22,760 They're kind of just wisecracking privilege, I would say. 80 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,700 The Barabbas family is well -known in Hudson. 81 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:33,920 The boy's mother, Lisa, runs a homeless shelter called Holy Ground. 82 00:06:34,780 --> 00:06:37,680 She actually raises her kids in the facility. 83 00:06:38,980 --> 00:06:40,780 I thought raising them here was good. 84 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,120 I was giving them the Christian background. They always had to go to 85 00:06:45,340 --> 00:06:47,200 Lance was always going to grow up and be a pastor. 86 00:06:47,660 --> 00:06:50,980 He used to carry his little Bible and we all dressed up in a little suit. 87 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,480 It was unique. It was different. 88 00:06:55,740 --> 00:06:57,140 Always stuff going on. 89 00:06:57,740 --> 00:07:03,420 I got to learn a lot about people and, you know, all walks of life. 90 00:07:05,220 --> 00:07:09,080 Despite appearances, the family is financially secure. 91 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,480 Lisa received a generous insurance settlement when her husband, the boy's 92 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:18,960 stepfather, He was tragically killed in a car accident in August 2000. 93 00:07:21,860 --> 00:07:28,740 So my mom, she always provided for us. We always got to, you know, shop 94 00:07:28,740 --> 00:07:30,020 for the clothes that we wanted. 95 00:07:30,580 --> 00:07:36,680 They all had brand -new vehicles, Ford Lightnings, jacked -up Dodge Rams with, 96 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,960 you know, 36 -inch lifts on them and all that. 97 00:07:47,310 --> 00:07:53,570 In contrast to the boys' relative comfort, in the late 2000s, many 98 00:07:53,570 --> 00:07:55,590 the Hudson area are struggling. 99 00:07:56,390 --> 00:07:59,750 Florida was ground zero of the prescription pain pill epidemic. 100 00:08:00,050 --> 00:08:02,350 They were very abundant down here. 101 00:08:04,090 --> 00:08:10,490 Roxycodone and oxycodone pills, roxies and oxies, flow freely in the state. 102 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:14,970 At the time, the pills are largely unregulated. 103 00:08:15,780 --> 00:08:19,820 Doctors prescribed the painkillers for a variety of ailments. 104 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:27,280 These pill mills, these strip mall so -called medical centers, where you had 105 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,580 doctors who were seeing patients for 30 seconds, 45 seconds, and issuing 106 00:08:32,580 --> 00:08:37,539 prescriptions. A guy walks in, doc, I'm in pain, here you go. 107 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,600 There was no other state like this. In Florida... 108 00:08:42,830 --> 00:08:46,950 There was more pain management clinic than there was McDonald's, you know? 109 00:08:47,690 --> 00:08:54,670 In Florida in 2008, 10 times more prescriptions were provided by doctors 110 00:08:54,670 --> 00:08:58,530 pain medication than the rest of the country combined. 111 00:08:59,750 --> 00:09:01,810 So how is that possible? 112 00:09:02,210 --> 00:09:03,470 How can that be? 113 00:09:06,730 --> 00:09:09,710 Doug Dodd says the pills are widely abused. 114 00:09:10,380 --> 00:09:14,480 especially among teens looking for a quick and easy high. 115 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,360 Roxycodone was more of the drug of choice. 116 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,580 Roxy's was more so the quick, break it up, snort it, you're good, where Oxy's 117 00:09:24,580 --> 00:09:29,400 had like a little coating on it. We liked it. And once we started 118 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:30,860 we were hooked. 119 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,560 He says the pills are common at parties. 120 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,120 Wild nights and fun times. 121 00:09:40,330 --> 00:09:43,970 And one of their big trucks, and, you know, we'd have a keg on the back, and 122 00:09:43,970 --> 00:09:45,350 we'd just have a pocket full of pills. 123 00:09:46,050 --> 00:09:47,130 And that was the party. 124 00:09:51,750 --> 00:09:57,090 In addition to fueling a good time, the pills provide a unique business 125 00:09:57,090 --> 00:09:58,090 opportunity. 126 00:09:58,530 --> 00:10:02,270 Dodd says a family friend hooks him up with a supplier. 127 00:10:03,210 --> 00:10:07,830 He says he makes up to $5 ,000 a month selling the drug. 128 00:10:08,910 --> 00:10:13,550 The money that I made from the pills was very motivating. 129 00:10:13,850 --> 00:10:19,410 You know, I made more money and the flip of a finger than I made working 40 130 00:10:19,410 --> 00:10:22,010 hours a week at a restaurant. 131 00:10:23,610 --> 00:10:28,590 Landon Barabbas is in college when opioids are securing their grip on his 132 00:10:28,590 --> 00:10:29,590 hometown. 133 00:10:29,770 --> 00:10:33,130 He's a wrestler at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. 134 00:10:34,810 --> 00:10:37,050 He attends the school on a scholarship. 135 00:10:37,790 --> 00:10:39,950 but is sidelined with a knee injury. 136 00:10:40,910 --> 00:10:45,930 I ended up actually having three knee surgeries, and through the course of 137 00:10:46,130 --> 00:10:51,830 accompanied with what was going on back home, is when I started getting into 138 00:10:51,830 --> 00:10:54,210 pain pills, mainly the Roxy's. 139 00:10:55,190 --> 00:10:57,430 Over Christmas break in 2007, 140 00:10:58,210 --> 00:11:02,090 Landon is back home in Florida visiting his friends and family. 141 00:11:02,710 --> 00:11:05,430 One day, while kicking back with his buds, 142 00:11:06,570 --> 00:11:07,790 Inspiration strikes. 143 00:11:08,330 --> 00:11:13,350 There was conversations amongst us between me, Lance, and his brother 144 00:11:13,430 --> 00:11:16,090 One thing led to another, and we started talking about it. 145 00:11:17,190 --> 00:11:23,090 While OxyPills are abundant in Florida, they're less common in Tennessee, where 146 00:11:23,090 --> 00:11:24,310 Landon goes to school. 147 00:11:25,230 --> 00:11:26,830 The market was there. 148 00:11:27,350 --> 00:11:28,350 Supply and demand. 149 00:11:29,990 --> 00:11:32,530 Roxys are generally 30 milligrams. 150 00:11:33,710 --> 00:11:39,190 In Florida, Dodd says the pills are priced around $8 to $10 when bought in 151 00:11:39,910 --> 00:11:45,530 Up in Tennessee, they're going for, you know, $15 to $20 to $25. If you buy a 152 00:11:45,530 --> 00:11:49,690 bunch of them, they're going for $30 per single for one pill. 153 00:11:51,170 --> 00:11:53,490 Oxy80s are even more valuable. 154 00:11:53,950 --> 00:11:59,110 The 80 -milligram pills can be had for $20 in the Sunshine State. 155 00:12:00,190 --> 00:12:01,750 If you go to Tennessee... 156 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,680 paying up to $80 for one single pill. 157 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:11,560 The boys seek to capitalize on the market inefficiency. 158 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:18,320 We ended up sending some back up there with Landon, and from that day on, it 159 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:19,660 just spread like a wildfire. 160 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,140 It's the whole basis of American capitalism. 161 00:12:23,340 --> 00:12:25,380 The kids saw a good trade. 162 00:12:30,020 --> 00:12:31,700 Next on American Greed. 163 00:12:32,270 --> 00:12:36,310 The budding businessmen get creative to keep up with demand. 164 00:12:37,350 --> 00:12:41,050 So they had these teddy bears. It was working. It was pretty seamless, 165 00:12:41,490 --> 00:12:45,170 There's kind of like there's an American genius for these things, right? 166 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:05,020 In early 2008, brothers Lance and Landon Barabbas, Doug Dodd, and their friend 167 00:13:05,020 --> 00:13:08,640 Richard Sullivan embark upon their new business opportunity. 168 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:16,100 The boys are going to be drug distributors, shipping OxyPills from 169 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:21,380 Tennessee. The drugs are extremely popular and profitable in the volunteer 170 00:13:21,380 --> 00:13:22,380 state. 171 00:13:24,020 --> 00:13:26,060 Tennessee with the cash cow, yep. 172 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:28,020 That's it. 173 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:33,080 They wanted them, and we had them, and they would pay whatever for them. 174 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:38,260 At Cumberland University, Landon Barabbas is friends with a wrestling 175 00:13:38,260 --> 00:13:39,920 named Justin Knox. 176 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:46,580 Not only were we around the same weight class, but he kind of, how would you say 177 00:13:46,580 --> 00:13:48,400 it, had like the same personality as me. 178 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:51,920 Justin Knox is from the city of Knoxville. 179 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,940 Doug Dodd says Knox becomes the crew's point man in Tennessee. 180 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,620 He was the main distributor up there. So Landon would keep a certain amount of 181 00:14:01,620 --> 00:14:07,160 the pills and then, you know, they would go to Justin or Justin would pass them 182 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,780 on to his guy and they just got divided up. 183 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:16,540 There was just always an abundance of pills, you know, just a lot, a lot of 184 00:14:16,540 --> 00:14:17,499 pills. 185 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:21,880 But before there's profit to be made, the guys need to figure out a way to 186 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,720 safely transport the pills. 187 00:14:24,460 --> 00:14:29,000 Hiring a driver to make the 600 -mile trip is the first option. 188 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:33,100 They had it all figured out. He'd bring a girl with him most of the time and 189 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:37,760 drive a not very suspicious vehicle. He'd drive down, bring the money. 190 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:41,660 We'd give him the stuff. He'd stay overnight, leave the next day. 191 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,340 But the trip is perilous. 192 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,620 Just one traffic stop and the Enterprise is in jeopardy. 193 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,720 The problem with it is they needed more and more. 194 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,740 Things needed to happen fast, and they needed more. 195 00:14:55,660 --> 00:15:01,120 To limit their exposure and keep up with demand, the crew devises an alternate 196 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,120 plan. 197 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:08,100 One day, while perusing the aisles at a pharmacy, they make a surprising 198 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:09,100 discovery. 199 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:15,940 We were at the vitamin section, and Lance, thinking in his head, vitamin C 200 00:15:15,940 --> 00:15:17,520 the same size as the Roxy 30. 201 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,220 Vitamin B12 is the same size as... 202 00:15:21,690 --> 00:15:22,690 He oxiates. 203 00:15:23,110 --> 00:15:26,070 The vitamin bottles are the perfect disguise. 204 00:15:27,090 --> 00:15:31,550 So he buys, you know, four or five bottles of the vitamin C, four or five 205 00:15:31,550 --> 00:15:32,590 bottles of the other vitamin. 206 00:15:33,150 --> 00:15:39,010 We get back to the apartment, and he dumps them out. And then we would fill 207 00:15:39,010 --> 00:15:44,310 bottles with oxys and roxys, and then we would glue the seal back on, put the 208 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:47,930 cap back on, screw it, and then put them into a care package. 209 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,180 Care packages are mailed to Tennessee a few times each week. 210 00:15:54,420 --> 00:16:01,400 And we go to our local UPS or FedEx one way overnight it, and it gets there the 211 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,400 next day. 212 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:06,240 Each shipment is worth tens of thousands of dollars. 213 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,420 Well, if they were off the 80s, it was a $60 ,000 package. 214 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,920 Each package was different. They could have a couple thousand pills in there. 215 00:16:16,020 --> 00:16:16,959 They could have... 216 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,740 Two or three hundred pills in it. 217 00:16:19,380 --> 00:16:23,900 The Roxy 30s, they're the littlest, so, you know, you could spend a thousand, 218 00:16:24,060 --> 00:16:25,280 two thousand of those easily. 219 00:16:25,820 --> 00:16:28,060 So you're talking 36 down. 220 00:16:28,740 --> 00:16:34,560 To move that much cash back to Florida, the boys once again get creative. 221 00:16:35,540 --> 00:16:38,700 Proffits were shipped back in teddy bears. 222 00:16:39,260 --> 00:16:43,360 They'd slice the back of the teddy bear, stuff it with cash, and then mail the 223 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,620 teddy bears back, majority of the time. 224 00:16:47,050 --> 00:16:52,730 I remember one time FedEx rings the bell and Lance gets a package and it's a 225 00:16:52,730 --> 00:16:59,130 brown teddy bear and we unzip the back and stuff full of hundreds and fifties 226 00:16:59,130 --> 00:17:03,530 about $50 ,000, $60 ,000 cash dumped in this teddy bear. 227 00:17:04,790 --> 00:17:11,450 To keep up with demand, the Florida crew is tasked with increasing the supply of 228 00:17:11,450 --> 00:17:15,589 pills. We just started reaching out to other people and networking and... 229 00:17:15,950 --> 00:17:22,270 I had one guy that actually turned me on to the whole doctor shopping process. 230 00:17:22,910 --> 00:17:28,490 He was going to five different doctors, and I started getting all of his 231 00:17:28,490 --> 00:17:29,490 prescriptions. 232 00:17:30,230 --> 00:17:34,110 We would pay for them to go to the doctors, fill all their prescriptions, 233 00:17:34,110 --> 00:17:39,030 return, they would sell us their pills at an extremely low cost. 234 00:17:41,290 --> 00:17:46,170 But one of the best ways to get pills is with your own prescription. 235 00:17:47,250 --> 00:17:51,970 Through the junkie grapevine, the guys learn how to fake a back injury. 236 00:17:52,490 --> 00:17:56,270 Then we knew a couple guys that told us about putting pressure on your spine 237 00:17:56,270 --> 00:17:57,390 when you lay in the MRI. 238 00:17:58,930 --> 00:18:03,770 When the MRI came back, they said that I had a bulging disc in my back, and 239 00:18:03,770 --> 00:18:04,770 that's all we needed. 240 00:18:05,650 --> 00:18:08,450 Basically, and all the doctor needed was a sufficient MRI. 241 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,180 to cover his own ass in order to write those prescriptions for you. 242 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:20,500 According to their medical files, this group of chiseled wrestlers might as 243 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:22,400 be Florida retirees. 244 00:18:23,420 --> 00:18:30,060 So when I first walked in there, 18 years old at 125 pounds, and I walk out 245 00:18:30,060 --> 00:18:33,100 there with 240 Roxycodones. 246 00:18:33,940 --> 00:18:35,600 It was like a golden ticket. 247 00:18:36,060 --> 00:18:40,340 I went back to my doctors the next month and walked out of there with like 500 248 00:18:40,340 --> 00:18:45,540 pills. So within the 30 -day period, I got like 700 pills. 249 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,440 It was absolutely mind -blowing. 250 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:57,560 Next on American Greed, big profit equals big fun. 251 00:18:58,620 --> 00:19:02,000 I'm making more money than some CEOs of companies. 252 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:03,880 It's just like... 253 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:05,660 A fantasy land. 254 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:27,440 Despite their secret lives as aspiring drug lords, Doug Dodd, the Barabbas 255 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,900 brothers, and their friends appear to be typical college students. 256 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,020 Doug keeps a regular class load at a local community college. 257 00:19:36,980 --> 00:19:41,060 I didn't plan on it being long -term. My goal was, you know, get in, get out. 258 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:46,780 I was still going to school and trying to maintain somewhat of a normal life. 259 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:52,400 But unlike most college students, these guys are flush with cash. 260 00:19:52,980 --> 00:19:58,840 I would say anywhere from $50 ,000, $60 ,000 a month each. 261 00:19:59,780 --> 00:20:01,600 It was a lot of money. 262 00:20:02,830 --> 00:20:06,650 Just what does a college student do with that much money? 263 00:20:07,090 --> 00:20:08,770 Exactly what you'd expect. 264 00:20:09,170 --> 00:20:12,610 To be honest, just dumb stuff. 265 00:20:17,710 --> 00:20:19,290 A party every night. 266 00:20:19,810 --> 00:20:21,790 Every night, you know. 267 00:20:23,670 --> 00:20:27,550 We went to all the UFC fights that were around. We went to football games, 268 00:20:27,770 --> 00:20:29,530 hockey games, baseball games. 269 00:20:30,110 --> 00:20:34,590 You know, we all had four -wheelers and dirt bikes and boats and jet skis and 270 00:20:34,590 --> 00:20:35,590 new trucks. 271 00:20:37,190 --> 00:20:39,230 We went to the Super Bowl in 09. 272 00:20:39,630 --> 00:20:42,130 We had front -line seats. 273 00:20:42,530 --> 00:20:46,650 We paid all -exclusive pass, you know, walked the field, met the players. 274 00:20:49,710 --> 00:20:55,130 Doug Dodd says he tries to maintain a modest lifestyle. He keeps a relatively 275 00:20:55,130 --> 00:20:57,870 low profile and lives with his grandmother. 276 00:20:59,180 --> 00:21:04,980 My goal was, at first it was to save, you know, $100 ,000, and then it was to 277 00:21:04,980 --> 00:21:07,260 save, you know, $250 ,000. 278 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:11,900 This was basically, it was seed capital for a better life. You know, it was 279 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:14,540 saving to buy a house, saving to start a business. 280 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,380 Lance Barabbas is more ambitious. 281 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:20,760 Lance was going to live large. 282 00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:25,160 Lance was Scarface. He's the guy in the group that has no boundaries. 283 00:21:26,690 --> 00:21:29,510 Lance's nickname is The Little General. 284 00:21:30,110 --> 00:21:35,110 His friends say he lives up to the title and is considered the crew's leader. 285 00:21:37,050 --> 00:21:42,690 Lance is a type A personality, very outspoken, 286 00:21:42,910 --> 00:21:44,970 speechless on his mind. 287 00:21:45,930 --> 00:21:49,050 Loud, can be crazy, obnoxious. 288 00:21:50,890 --> 00:21:54,090 He's the guy that stirs the drink, you know, he's the guy that makes things go. 289 00:21:55,130 --> 00:21:59,890 Lance takes full advantage of his financial windfall. One of his first big 290 00:21:59,890 --> 00:22:05,370 purchases is the truck of his dreams, a tricked -out red Ford Lightning. 291 00:22:06,170 --> 00:22:10,010 We walk into the dealership, so we go inside, do our paperwork, and he's like, 292 00:22:10,110 --> 00:22:12,610 all right, how are you going to be paying it? He's like, cash. 293 00:22:12,990 --> 00:22:15,490 I think like $25 ,000 in cash. 294 00:22:16,430 --> 00:22:22,590 rubber bands wrapped around each individual $1 ,000, and pulled it out of 295 00:22:22,590 --> 00:22:28,170 little Louis Vuitton bag and slapped it on the table, and we began counting it 296 00:22:28,170 --> 00:22:29,170 out. 297 00:22:29,450 --> 00:22:33,830 The guy's like, you know, what are you, some kind of male exotic dancer? 298 00:22:34,210 --> 00:22:35,790 And he's like, something like that. 299 00:22:38,050 --> 00:22:43,730 Lance rents a half -million -dollar condo in Tampa's Channelside district. 300 00:22:44,510 --> 00:22:49,510 It was just like a little pad, sexy, got money. 301 00:22:49,790 --> 00:22:54,950 It was just right below the coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There was other 302 00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:57,070 professional football players that lived there. 303 00:22:58,530 --> 00:23:02,430 The guys are regulars on Tampa's nightlife scene. 304 00:23:02,630 --> 00:23:05,230 They say Lance leads the way. 305 00:23:05,630 --> 00:23:09,370 We'd party all night, bring everybody to VIP. 306 00:23:10,650 --> 00:23:16,170 He'd spent thousands of dollars on a bar tab, paid for anybody to come up there. 307 00:23:16,550 --> 00:23:22,090 He went out religiously every single night, you know, whether it's at a bar 308 00:23:22,090 --> 00:23:23,049 strip club. 309 00:23:23,050 --> 00:23:26,010 He would spend the money faster than he'd make it. 310 00:23:26,550 --> 00:23:30,010 But Dodd says Lance is getting out of control. 311 00:23:30,350 --> 00:23:34,870 He's worried that his friend is bringing unneeded attention to their business 312 00:23:34,870 --> 00:23:35,870 affairs. 313 00:23:36,330 --> 00:23:39,910 He would invite people over when he got his money counter out and he's counting 314 00:23:39,910 --> 00:23:40,910 $40 ,000. 315 00:23:41,570 --> 00:23:46,910 Doug would get furious with Lance because he'd say, are you an idiot? 316 00:23:46,910 --> 00:23:52,910 this. And Lance would say, dude, we're not going to get caught. 317 00:23:53,310 --> 00:23:56,250 And the way we're not going to get caught is because we're too smart. 318 00:23:59,590 --> 00:24:05,370 Next on American Greed, the burgeoning drug empire suffers its first setback. 319 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,480 He got caught on college campus red -handed with pills. 320 00:24:23,940 --> 00:24:28,720 Throughout 2008, the boys' business grows at a rapid pace. 321 00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:32,080 Operations expand to other dates. 322 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,040 Tennessee, Alaska, New York. We had a guy that would go to Carolina. 323 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:41,240 In Alaska, they went up to $100 for one pill. 324 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:47,680 But in December 2008, the first crack appears in the enterprise. 325 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,880 While at college in Tennessee, Landon Barabbas is busted with a care package. 326 00:24:54,340 --> 00:24:59,300 I go over to the mail room and I pick a package. I walk outside, get in my truck 327 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:02,800 and... The local narcotics officers are there. 328 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:07,940 Landon is arrested and charged with possession. 329 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,980 The next day, he's kicked out of school. 330 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:18,460 He says Lance is unnerved by his arrest and helps pay the $15 ,000 to bond him 331 00:25:18,460 --> 00:25:23,780 out. As soon as I got arrested, Lance, he shut everything down. 332 00:25:24,220 --> 00:25:28,540 But it only lasted like a few weeks, maybe. 333 00:25:29,450 --> 00:25:31,470 And he went right back to mailing packages. 334 00:25:32,850 --> 00:25:37,270 In addition to his legal woes, Landon has another problem. 335 00:25:37,890 --> 00:25:39,490 He's addicted to the pills. 336 00:25:40,210 --> 00:25:43,210 He goes to rehab, but it doesn't stick. 337 00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:51,130 I was there 21 days, but I think like after the fifth day, I had 338 00:25:51,130 --> 00:25:53,550 some pills brought to me, snuck in. 339 00:25:54,670 --> 00:25:56,490 So I wasn't ready to stop. 340 00:25:58,250 --> 00:26:03,030 The little general eventually boots Landon from the family business. 341 00:26:03,730 --> 00:26:07,610 Lance says, I'm cutting you off. You're no longer having to deal with anything. 342 00:26:08,350 --> 00:26:15,030 He started saying that I'm too messed up, partying too hard, calling me a 343 00:26:15,030 --> 00:26:17,410 junkie and stuff like that. You need to get help. 344 00:26:18,290 --> 00:26:24,450 With Landon out of the picture, friends say Lance turns to his oldest brother to 345 00:26:24,450 --> 00:26:25,490 pick up the slack. 346 00:26:25,850 --> 00:26:27,390 And that's when Larry. 347 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,000 I actually got involved because Landon and Lance separated. 348 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,900 Larry basically became Lance's personal chauffeur, and they were hanging out 349 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:40,680 every day, driving him around, doing whatever errands Lance needed to do. 350 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:48,880 In June 2009, the crew suffers another setback when Justin Knox, their main 351 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,320 distributor in Tennessee, encounters his own problems. 352 00:26:55,360 --> 00:27:00,640 Knox lives in a high -rise apartment in downtown Knoxville, but his neighbors 353 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,400 are annoyed by his constant activities. 354 00:27:04,420 --> 00:27:08,680 A neighbor called the police and said that there was a strong odor of 355 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,680 coming from his apartment. 356 00:27:09,820 --> 00:27:11,940 I think this was a recurring problem. 357 00:27:12,380 --> 00:27:16,620 So the Knoxville Police Department drug unit went down there to investigate it. 358 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:20,480 Michael Gettings is one of the officers on the scene. 359 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,580 When we knocked on the door, Mr. Knox appeared to be under the influence of 360 00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:26,580 marijuana at the time. 361 00:27:26,980 --> 00:27:29,920 The officers get a warrant to search the apartment. 362 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,060 They hit the jackpot. 363 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:40,280 They found MDMA and marijuana, steroids, Oxycontin, money, 364 00:27:40,460 --> 00:27:44,820 guns, a money counting machine. They knew they were onto something pretty 365 00:27:45,140 --> 00:27:49,780 And then we also found what we believe to be a drug ledger with... 366 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,920 the prices that individuals had owed to Mr. Knox for the bills that he had sold 367 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:55,920 to them. 368 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:01,080 Justin Knox is arrested, but once again, Lance isn't concerned. 369 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,580 Lance is like, don't worry about it. 370 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,940 Everything's okay. I'm flying up there tomorrow. 371 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,140 We're going to have it taken care of. 372 00:28:10,220 --> 00:28:12,600 But they did have something to worry about. 373 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,120 Justin Knox is facing multiple felony charges and agrees to cooperate with 374 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:19,120 authorities. 375 00:28:19,610 --> 00:28:23,510 He strikes a plea deal, and the charges against him are eventually dropped. 376 00:28:26,410 --> 00:28:33,270 The Barabbases say Knox informs them that his buddy, Dustin Wallace, a .k .a. 377 00:28:33,270 --> 00:28:36,770 -Boy, will now be their main contact in Tennessee. 378 00:28:37,610 --> 00:28:42,330 Business was still the same, but he was to deal with D -Boy directly, and D -Boy 379 00:28:42,330 --> 00:28:45,650 would figure out the shipments, where they go, and things like that. 380 00:28:47,110 --> 00:28:51,950 Unbeknownst to Lance, DEA agents are watching D -Boy's every move. 381 00:28:52,590 --> 00:28:57,650 Agents say Dustin Wallace makes most of his drug deals at a shopping mall on 382 00:28:57,650 --> 00:28:59,290 Knoxville's west side. 383 00:29:00,370 --> 00:29:04,550 We could see Dustin Wallace's apartment from the roof of the parking garage at 384 00:29:04,550 --> 00:29:05,269 the mall. 385 00:29:05,270 --> 00:29:10,510 And we could watch Dustin drive over to the mall and meet with Picard. 386 00:29:12,550 --> 00:29:15,270 Authorities place a wiretap on Wallace's phone. 387 00:29:15,930 --> 00:29:21,030 They quickly learn where the pills are coming from. You're hearing a whole lot 388 00:29:21,030 --> 00:29:24,890 of a few people. You know, I listen to Lance Brabus a lot. 389 00:29:29,070 --> 00:29:30,670 Next on American Greed. 390 00:29:31,530 --> 00:29:33,430 I'm going to have something off you tomorrow. 391 00:29:33,690 --> 00:29:37,010 Guarantee if you have a Tuesday, whatever it is, it'll be like minimum. 392 00:29:38,490 --> 00:29:42,110 Minimum, you know, like 200 pills, 100 and something of each. You know what I 393 00:29:42,110 --> 00:29:43,110 mean? Minimum, yeah. 394 00:29:50,220 --> 00:29:55,740 In the summer of 2009, federal authorities in Tennessee are closing in 395 00:29:55,740 --> 00:29:56,439 drug ring. 396 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,980 Phone taps provide a wealth of information. 397 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:05,600 Most of the good evidence was when you would hear Lance talking to people like 398 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,540 Dustin Wallace and coaching him through how he needs to sell the pills and move 399 00:30:10,540 --> 00:30:12,920 them quickly in order to make profits. 400 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,800 I know we both want to make money. 401 00:30:15,020 --> 00:30:18,820 You make money when you get your hand, and I make money when I give you. 402 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,120 The number one thing we've got to do is just keep the flow going, you know what 403 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,120 I mean? Like, keep going. 404 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:30,100 He was constantly on him to move product and get money collected and get that 405 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:31,100 money back. 406 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,680 If I stop your denim, you know what I mean? We've got to do everything and all 407 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,840 means to try to keep it going as best we can. 408 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,620 Agents tracked the group's shipments from Florida to Tennessee. 409 00:30:42,570 --> 00:30:47,430 On one afternoon, they witnessed Dustin Wallace personally pick up a package of 410 00:30:47,430 --> 00:30:52,310 pills. Dustin Wallace was coming to the FedEx location in Knoxville to pick up a 411 00:30:52,310 --> 00:30:56,270 package. And I actually stood in the back and watched and videoed through a 412 00:30:56,270 --> 00:30:58,310 window as he came to the counter to get his package. 413 00:30:59,090 --> 00:31:03,470 After several months of surveillance, federal authorities acquired enough 414 00:31:03,470 --> 00:31:05,590 evidence of the crew's criminal activities. 415 00:31:07,270 --> 00:31:08,490 I can feel it. 416 00:31:10,540 --> 00:31:12,080 I could feel it closing in. 417 00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:23,640 On October 20, 2009, the United States government indicts 14 members of what is 418 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,620 called the Barabbas Criminal Enterprise. 419 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,780 The crew is charged with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. 420 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,840 Doug Dodd, Richard Sullivan, Dustin Wallace, and all three Barabbas brothers 421 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,960 also charged with money laundering. 422 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:46,480 The feds say the group moves, at a minimum, $1 .2 million in drugs. 423 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,200 This one is unique. It was almost like we caught it in its infancy. 424 00:31:51,580 --> 00:31:56,120 You know, in one sense, if they were really business people instead of kids, 425 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:58,960 this thing could have been huge. 426 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:01,540 Arrests soon follow. 427 00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:06,960 Doug Dodd is asleep at his grandmother's house when DEA agents arrive. 428 00:32:07,690 --> 00:32:13,030 They came and got me at like 5 .30 in the morning, and I wake up to boom, 429 00:32:13,030 --> 00:32:14,170 boom, my doorbell. 430 00:32:14,410 --> 00:32:16,950 I wake up to my dog going crazy. 431 00:32:18,410 --> 00:32:22,790 Lance Barapas is a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa. 432 00:32:23,190 --> 00:32:28,050 He's pledging a fraternity when he's greeted by Special Agent Poston. 433 00:32:28,670 --> 00:32:34,270 He had an all -night retreat, and they had just ended at like 4 .30, 5 o 'clock 434 00:32:34,270 --> 00:32:35,270 in the morning. 435 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,780 I think he'd been being hazed all night and was exhausted. 436 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,460 And when he walked out of the fraternity house, we put him on the ground and 437 00:32:43,460 --> 00:32:44,460 arrested him. 438 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:50,080 Of course that's how he gets arrested, because you have to do things Scarface 439 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,660 style, even if it's teenager, the teen version of it. 440 00:32:53,740 --> 00:32:57,360 Landon Barabbas is arrested at his mother's homeless shelter. 441 00:32:58,780 --> 00:33:02,420 And all of a sudden there's just a few vehicles pull in, you know, unmarked. 442 00:33:02,820 --> 00:33:04,880 And of course at that point I was kind of shocked. 443 00:33:07,210 --> 00:33:10,710 Then they tell her both of your other sons have been arrested this morning as 444 00:33:10,710 --> 00:33:16,490 well. And she was freaking out, crying and hysterically. 445 00:33:18,230 --> 00:33:24,150 Rather than go to trial, 13 of the 14 defendants take guilty pleas. 446 00:33:24,910 --> 00:33:27,850 Doug Dodd anxiously awaits his fate. 447 00:33:29,330 --> 00:33:32,530 Yeah, I just had a million thoughts going on in my head. You know, I was a 448 00:33:32,530 --> 00:33:33,530 nervous wreck. 449 00:33:35,210 --> 00:33:39,650 He's sentenced to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to 450 00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:44,370 conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and conspiracy to commit money laundering. 451 00:33:45,970 --> 00:33:51,470 All three Barabbas brothers, Richard Sullivan and Dustin Wallace, plead 452 00:33:51,470 --> 00:33:52,710 to the same charges. 453 00:33:54,670 --> 00:34:00,470 Before her sons are sentenced, Lisa Barabbas Henry says the judge personally 454 00:34:00,470 --> 00:34:02,170 addresses her in the courtroom. 455 00:34:03,790 --> 00:34:09,610 He said, I have never, ever had a mother come before me and all her children 456 00:34:09,610 --> 00:34:12,929 being sentenced at one time. The same crime. 457 00:34:14,790 --> 00:34:15,790 I just cried. 458 00:34:18,030 --> 00:34:20,449 I cried, had a seat, and waited for the sentence. 459 00:34:21,469 --> 00:34:22,750 There's nothing else to do. 460 00:34:24,110 --> 00:34:26,510 There's no one to scream at. There's no one to blame. 461 00:34:27,670 --> 00:34:29,530 Larry Barabas gets seven years. 462 00:34:31,630 --> 00:34:33,030 Landon gets six years. 463 00:34:33,820 --> 00:34:37,480 As part of his plea deal, authorities dropped the earlier possession charges 464 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,520 against Landon. 465 00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:46,280 Baby brother Lance Barapas gets the biggest sentence of them all, 15 years, 466 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,340 as they say in court, 180 months. 467 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:55,400 Lance thinks it's funny. He said, Mom, it was such a pause when you guys sent 468 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:56,400 down my sentence. 469 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,760 Like five minutes later, you all start crying. 470 00:34:59,140 --> 00:35:01,120 I think we had to make a joke because... 471 00:35:02,410 --> 00:35:07,250 When you think a hundred and some odd months into years. 472 00:35:11,570 --> 00:35:15,470 Next on American Greed, the little general speaks. 473 00:35:16,270 --> 00:35:19,930 Lance Barapas reflects on his life as a drug kingpin. 474 00:35:20,150 --> 00:35:23,830 It was just so easy that that's the reason why I guess I dug myself into a 475 00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:28,350 bigger hole because it's like, okay, this isn't supposed to be this easy. 476 00:35:44,650 --> 00:35:49,150 After two years of wild adventures, the members of the Barabbas Criminal 477 00:35:49,150 --> 00:35:51,870 Enterprise now find themselves behind bars. 478 00:35:53,110 --> 00:35:56,410 They say the experience is sobering. 479 00:35:59,070 --> 00:36:06,010 I mean, it was a big, I would say, maturing process in the sense 480 00:36:06,010 --> 00:36:09,330 you have a lot of time to learn who you truly are. 481 00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:16,340 I will say that, you know, my 80 -month sentence, I feel, was, you know, I don't 482 00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:19,260 want to say fair, but I feel like it was just, in a sense. 483 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,900 I mean, yeah, I was wrong, you know, I made a mistake, but, yeah, I didn't 484 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:28,660 really classify myself as being, you know, one of those hardcore criminals. 485 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:36,960 All the fun times and the parties and the money and the things that we were 486 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:37,960 to do and buy. 487 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,660 None of it was worth it. 488 00:36:44,460 --> 00:36:48,920 Doug Dodd says he tries to make the most of his incarceration. 489 00:36:49,460 --> 00:36:53,660 I went in guns blazing on any educational material I could get. I got 490 00:36:53,660 --> 00:36:56,680 certification in keyboard and business communication. 491 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,120 I learned a second language, Spanish. 492 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:05,660 I took several public speaking classes, real estate classes, business investing 493 00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:06,660 classes. 494 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:12,240 He eventually puts pen to paper and documents his life as a teenage drug 495 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:18,680 The idea came to me to write a book when I continuously seen the prescription 496 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:24,440 pain pill epidemic and newspaper after newspaper and magazine after magazine. 497 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:32,020 Dodd says he realizes his crew is just one piece of the nation's opioid 498 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,160 It just blew my mind. 499 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,680 The interaction we had with the doctors and the interaction we had with the 500 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,420 pharmacists, it just pissed me off, and I needed an outlet. 501 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:47,680 He reaches out to journalist Guy Lawson, who is intrigued by his tale. 502 00:37:48,420 --> 00:37:52,040 One of the things I'm always looking for is a new prism to understand events, 503 00:37:52,260 --> 00:37:56,880 and Doug provided that. I learned a lot about oxycodone, a lot about big pharma. 504 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:02,540 In April 2015, Lawson's story runs in Rolling Stone magazine. 505 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:09,000 They were like sort of the redneck reflection of something that was deeply 506 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,720 in America and that was, to this day, plagues the country. 507 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,720 In the years since, it's become evident that the problem is much, much, much, 508 00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:22,140 much bigger than a bunch of kids on a wrestling team making some money. 509 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,300 The story strikes a chord with readers. 510 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:31,620 Within two weeks of the article being published, we had a film deal. 511 00:38:32,540 --> 00:38:36,660 And we had Ansel Elgort that reached out, and he's one of the biggest names 512 00:38:36,660 --> 00:38:37,660 Hollywood. 513 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,580 Doug Dodd is released from prison in August 2015. 514 00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:48,400 In 2017, his own book, Generation Oxy, is published. 515 00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:53,080 While he waits for his story to hit the silver screen, he spends his days 516 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,100 speaking to patients at drug treatment centers. 517 00:38:56,660 --> 00:39:00,380 If you love yourself, you're not going to put toxic things in your body. 518 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:06,560 I feel like I have a story, and I want to share it. I feel like I have a unique 519 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:07,620 opportunity. 520 00:39:10,180 --> 00:39:15,780 But I think he's still young, he's got a lot of ambition, and he wants some good 521 00:39:15,780 --> 00:39:16,780 to come out of this. 522 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:24,380 As for the Barabbas brothers, Landon and Larry are also out of prison and trying 523 00:39:24,380 --> 00:39:27,480 to make lives for themselves on the right side of the law. 524 00:39:28,430 --> 00:39:34,310 Landon is now a small business owner with a family, but his felony drug past 525 00:39:34,310 --> 00:39:35,710 never far behind him. 526 00:39:37,090 --> 00:39:43,110 Addiction is a struggle, a daily struggle, something that I have to 527 00:39:43,110 --> 00:39:47,290 internally and deal with. 528 00:39:49,310 --> 00:39:53,750 Meanwhile, Lance Barabbas is the only member of the criminal enterprise who 529 00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:54,870 remains behind bars. 530 00:39:55,630 --> 00:39:58,110 He's scheduled to get out in 2022. 531 00:40:00,030 --> 00:40:04,810 In an exclusive interview with American Greed, Barabbas talks about his 532 00:40:04,810 --> 00:40:07,450 reputation as a teenage drug lord. 533 00:40:23,150 --> 00:40:27,050 He says the easy money was intoxicating. 534 00:40:33,050 --> 00:40:33,890 His 535 00:40:33,890 --> 00:40:44,390 addiction 536 00:40:44,390 --> 00:40:46,770 to the pills is another factor. 537 00:41:02,410 --> 00:41:06,250 into a lifestyle that eventually got me 15 years in prison. 538 00:41:09,490 --> 00:41:15,010 With plenty of time to reflect, Barabas says he regrets his actions. 539 00:41:16,270 --> 00:41:19,450 100 % guilt. 100 % guilt on my part for everything. 540 00:41:19,950 --> 00:41:24,750 My actions made it grow to what it was because I was just so hard -headed and 541 00:41:24,750 --> 00:41:28,870 persistent on just doing it my way and get it bigger and do more, do more, do 542 00:41:28,870 --> 00:41:29,870 more. 543 00:41:30,350 --> 00:41:33,250 They put their heads together and decided on a way to make money, and they 544 00:41:33,250 --> 00:41:33,928 it was illegal. 545 00:41:33,930 --> 00:41:36,450 They were all knowing participants in this conspiracy. 546 00:41:36,930 --> 00:41:41,730 There was no accident to how they got put in jail. They conspired to do this. 547 00:41:42,390 --> 00:41:46,170 Doug Dodd doesn't dispute this, but provides a warning. 548 00:41:46,570 --> 00:41:51,970 If Americans didn't have such a craving for opioids, their business would never 549 00:41:51,970 --> 00:41:53,390 have made so much money. 550 00:41:53,890 --> 00:41:59,550 I think it was bound to happen, and if it wasn't us... If it wasn't me and my 551 00:41:59,550 --> 00:42:04,430 friends, it would have been another group of individuals that got addicted 552 00:42:04,430 --> 00:42:09,770 the medication, the drug, and began selling it. Because at the end of the 553 00:42:09,850 --> 00:42:12,490 if you want to get high, you're going to get high.