1 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,360 This was my everyday life. 2 00:00:16,620 --> 00:00:18,380 You're just doing what you have to do to survive. 3 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,720 I've agreed to set up a corrupt cop. 4 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,860 I'm afraid for my life and my family's life. 5 00:00:33,940 --> 00:00:35,180 It's like kill or be killed. 6 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:39,500 I've made a deal with the devil and it was time to pay the dues. 7 00:01:06,950 --> 00:01:12,990 Early 2000s, I was a young kid in Baltimore, 15 years old. 8 00:01:14,910 --> 00:01:16,790 It was a really tough place to grow up. 9 00:01:17,870 --> 00:01:24,470 My neighborhood, it was a place of few options of what you can be and what you 10 00:01:24,470 --> 00:01:25,470 can do with your life. 11 00:01:27,310 --> 00:01:30,570 Very low education, very low incomes. 12 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,520 I always dreamt about life outside of the projects and, you know, what it 13 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,380 be like not having to hit gunshots at night. 14 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:48,360 On a daily basis, you would see massive, massive amounts of drug activity. 15 00:01:50,660 --> 00:01:52,960 Everywhere you look, it's the drug trade. 16 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,040 Baltimore is nothing but a big drug trade. 17 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:01,240 My mom, you know, she was a drug addict. 18 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,860 And my dad, he spent maybe 60, 70 % of his life in jail. 19 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:13,220 Not having even one of my parents kind of just made me feel alone a lot. 20 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,320 So I live with my grandmother. 21 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:32,680 You know, 22 00:02:33,380 --> 00:02:37,460 she gave me nourishment. She gave me value. She just gave me all the 23 00:02:37,460 --> 00:02:38,460 foundations. 24 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,900 My grandmother was the person that always would tell me that I should go 25 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,440 I always wanted to make my grandmother proud. 26 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:58,240 But my grandmother was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. 27 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:03,020 It spread through our whole body. 28 00:03:05,780 --> 00:03:08,720 So I knew she wasn't going to be around forever. 29 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:19,040 I just felt really low at that point. 30 00:03:23,980 --> 00:03:29,520 And I just hated not having all the money I needed to help myself, my 31 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:30,520 grandmother. 32 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,980 I began to start feeling a feeling of hopelessness, you know, like no matter 33 00:03:36,980 --> 00:03:41,180 what I do, it's never going to be good enough. No matter how hard I try, you 34 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:42,280 know, I'm stuck here. 35 00:03:44,420 --> 00:03:48,540 So I started to lose faith in myself and everything. 36 00:03:51,460 --> 00:03:57,000 When you're born into poverty, a lot of the kids of my age, it's just one road 37 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,400 to go down, and that's into the drug trade. 38 00:04:04,010 --> 00:04:08,990 But I knew that my grandma, she just always wanted me to stay as far away 39 00:04:08,990 --> 00:04:12,970 it as possible. As far away from drugs, that life is possible. 40 00:04:18,190 --> 00:04:19,190 Mom, it's me. 41 00:04:20,709 --> 00:04:23,110 Eventually... Mom! 42 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:25,330 It happened. 43 00:04:27,970 --> 00:04:29,430 What are you watching now? 44 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,100 I just gave her a kiss, and she felt like ice. 45 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:50,720 She was gone. 46 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:05,420 After my grandmother died, that was my rock. That was my foundation, you know. 47 00:05:05,460 --> 00:05:07,920 So once you lose your foundation, 48 00:05:08,670 --> 00:05:10,850 It's like a house. What are you standing on? It's nothing. 49 00:05:11,810 --> 00:05:15,130 I just remember feeling like completely powerless, you know, completely alone. 50 00:05:20,530 --> 00:05:26,690 But things were about to go from bad to worse. 51 00:05:29,450 --> 00:05:33,590 I was pulled over by some cops. 52 00:05:34,510 --> 00:05:37,470 One of them asked me, you know, he said, where's your black ass going? 53 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:40,180 I said, sir, I'm just, you know, going home. 54 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,360 And he told me to get up against the wall. 55 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,360 Don't move your hands on me, man. 56 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:46,760 Come on, you know the score. 57 00:05:50,420 --> 00:05:51,420 We'll go home. 58 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,080 You know, we all go home in a minute. 59 00:05:53,860 --> 00:05:58,460 One's holding my head in the brick. The other one's kind of got me, an arm in my 60 00:05:58,460 --> 00:05:59,460 back. 61 00:05:59,780 --> 00:06:02,060 And dad laughing at me. 62 00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:21,640 When they get in their car, I was just standing there. 63 00:06:24,060 --> 00:06:29,500 I just let the devil in, and I let him take control of the wheel at that point. 64 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,480 You know, I just said, life, you know, everybody. 65 00:06:34,980 --> 00:06:39,500 At this point, I don't have anything to live for. My why is in the grave. 66 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,080 You know, she's been tooken from me. So this hurt and pain that I feel, I'm 67 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:46,500 going to exact it upon the world. 68 00:06:53,820 --> 00:06:59,180 I didn't have a positive role model, so I didn't stand a chance on avoiding the 69 00:06:59,180 --> 00:07:00,380 drug world at that point. 70 00:07:01,140 --> 00:07:05,590 So I got one of my... close friends to make the introduction to the local 71 00:07:05,590 --> 00:07:06,590 dealers. 72 00:07:08,690 --> 00:07:13,770 They explained I was to keep a dollar off everyone I sold, which equated to me 73 00:07:13,770 --> 00:07:14,770 keeping $50. 74 00:07:14,850 --> 00:07:19,150 Me being a kid at the time, $50 is like a million dollars. So I'm like, okay, 75 00:07:19,270 --> 00:07:24,210 totally. That was like the taste of blood for a vampire. 76 00:07:31,490 --> 00:07:36,470 So over the next couple of years, I began selling drugs relentlessly. 77 00:07:38,970 --> 00:07:41,270 Day, night, 24 -7, 365. 78 00:07:43,030 --> 00:07:49,370 I lost all morals and values, and 79 00:07:49,370 --> 00:07:53,610 I was just completely blinded to right or wrong. 80 00:07:54,890 --> 00:07:58,590 My grandmother would have been totally disappointed in me. 81 00:08:00,430 --> 00:08:03,970 That was exactly what she didn't want for me. 82 00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:08,890 But I had no idea what I was getting myself into. 83 00:08:09,750 --> 00:08:12,410 My life was going to get a hell of a lot more dangerous. 84 00:08:19,130 --> 00:08:24,790 So one night, I'm just about finished, you know, selling all the drugs that 85 00:08:24,930 --> 00:08:26,950 and I was just walking home. 86 00:08:41,070 --> 00:08:45,550 There were two cops that patrolled the neighborhood regularly named Detective 87 00:08:45,550 --> 00:08:48,050 King and Detective Murray. 88 00:08:48,870 --> 00:08:52,750 They were kind of like narco cops. 89 00:08:54,010 --> 00:08:55,530 They had a big reputation. 90 00:08:56,690 --> 00:09:01,410 When they came, you knew that they weren't going to stop until they got 91 00:09:01,410 --> 00:09:02,410 they was looking for. 92 00:09:06,010 --> 00:09:09,850 I just remember being scared out of my mind like a guy's a police. 93 00:09:11,310 --> 00:09:13,110 And then right then and there. 94 00:09:16,210 --> 00:09:22,450 Within 30 seconds, he shows me a bag of heroin and asks me, you know, what was 95 00:09:22,450 --> 00:09:23,450 this? 96 00:09:24,390 --> 00:09:27,410 At this point now, I know I'm completely. 97 00:09:32,460 --> 00:09:35,980 I just remember thinking, you know, am I finally going to jail for the first 98 00:09:35,980 --> 00:09:38,040 time? You know, like, fear the unknown. 99 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,620 We pull over at a pretty abandoned part of that neighborhood. 100 00:09:48,580 --> 00:09:50,920 So I know something's not right. 101 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:59,120 Detective King says to me that he's very impressed by the way I carry myself. 102 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:01,520 I like the way you conduct your business. 103 00:10:02,030 --> 00:10:05,350 At this point, I'm like, what is going on, you know? 104 00:10:08,010 --> 00:10:11,530 I realized they had probably been watching me selling the drugs, and 105 00:10:11,530 --> 00:10:12,530 they were targeting me. 106 00:10:15,530 --> 00:10:17,830 But I had no idea why. 107 00:10:19,570 --> 00:10:23,030 That's when he told me, you're going to work with us now, you hear me? 108 00:10:24,430 --> 00:10:25,430 You think? 109 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,760 They tell me step out the car. 110 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,960 As soon as he popped the trunk, I'm looking at tens of thousands of dollars 111 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:05,960 worth of weed. 112 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:13,680 Detective King wanted me to sell the weed and give him a profit off of it. 113 00:11:14,860 --> 00:11:19,980 You know, I was starting to drive home how corrupt these officers were. 114 00:11:21,020 --> 00:11:26,520 I realized that the only difference between me and him is that he's a drug 115 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,340 dealer with a badge and I'm a drug dealer. 116 00:11:31,370 --> 00:11:35,230 He says, if you don't do what I ask, there will be consequences. 117 00:11:35,630 --> 00:11:36,810 You know, you're going to jail. 118 00:11:40,430 --> 00:11:43,930 Me and him both knew that I had no choice but to play ball. 119 00:11:51,050 --> 00:11:54,510 I just tell him, I'll do it. 120 00:11:55,570 --> 00:11:58,710 They became the master, and I became the puppet. 121 00:11:59,850 --> 00:12:03,470 At that moment I realized that my life was about to be turned upside down. 122 00:12:22,270 --> 00:12:23,770 I'm back on the streets the next day. 123 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:27,250 I've agreed to sell drugs for a corrupt cop. 124 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,760 I don't know what I've got myself into. I'm totally over my head. 125 00:12:32,660 --> 00:12:34,480 I'm pretty recognized in this area. 126 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:41,400 You know, if anyone finds out that I was essentially doing business with 127 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:46,760 Baltimore City Police, I was as good as dead. 128 00:12:54,220 --> 00:12:59,260 Someone I knew was a marijuana dealer. I immediately take the weed to him. 129 00:13:02,140 --> 00:13:05,420 I'm scared because he's a dangerous guy. 130 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:12,220 And the street value of it was about $50 ,000. 131 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:21,000 So he's suspicious of what I actually have. 132 00:13:25,130 --> 00:13:26,130 He started me down. 133 00:13:26,870 --> 00:13:31,330 So I build up every ounce of strength that I have in me, and I start right 134 00:13:31,330 --> 00:13:32,330 at him. 135 00:13:36,790 --> 00:13:43,150 He says, if you get this weed, I tell him that, you know, that's my business. 136 00:13:57,070 --> 00:13:58,070 And it worked. 137 00:14:02,170 --> 00:14:07,590 So at that point, in my mind, I just have to give Detective King the money, 138 00:14:07,590 --> 00:14:09,670 then, you know, this thing is going to be over. 139 00:14:19,310 --> 00:14:21,010 So I go to meet King. 140 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:35,200 He's smiling from ear to ear. 141 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:37,620 Looks like someone that just hit the lottery. 142 00:14:38,420 --> 00:14:40,840 He says, you're everything that you was ever supposed to be. 143 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,340 And then he says, this is going to be a regular thing between me and you. 144 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,220 I can't do this no more. 145 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:55,180 Come on, look at all this money that you got. I realized this wasn't a one -time 146 00:14:55,180 --> 00:14:58,120 deal. It was something that was going to go on and on and on. 147 00:15:07,310 --> 00:15:13,530 So after that, King begins to call me very regularly, 148 00:15:13,590 --> 00:15:20,490 maybe once a week, twice a week, with drugs 149 00:15:20,490 --> 00:15:23,230 that he has confiscated that he's looking to wholesale. 150 00:15:24,270 --> 00:15:28,210 If the cops catch a wind on what I'm doing, then I'll probably go to federal 151 00:15:28,210 --> 00:15:29,210 jail. 152 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:40,040 I knew that this was a relationship that would eventually end in disaster. 153 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:50,300 So at this point in my life, I'm 17 years old. You know, I have my 154 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:51,300 the time. 155 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:57,180 I had to keep selling drugs a secret because she wouldn't have accepted it at 156 00:15:57,180 --> 00:15:58,180 all. 157 00:16:00,020 --> 00:16:03,660 I would tell her that I had been gambling and I wanted shooting dice. 158 00:16:06,350 --> 00:16:10,710 but I had found out my girlfriend is pregnant. 159 00:16:13,950 --> 00:16:18,110 So at this point, I'm like shaking in my boots. You know, I wasn't prepared to 160 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:21,810 be a parent at all. Like, I wasn't even adult myself. 161 00:16:22,970 --> 00:16:29,490 But at the same time, I knew that I didn't have a choice in the matter and 162 00:16:29,490 --> 00:16:31,930 that I was essentially about to have to man up. 163 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,480 I have to get out of this situation, King. 164 00:16:40,420 --> 00:16:46,440 And so I decided that the next time I see him, I'm going to tell him I'm out. 165 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,720 But this time, I realized his demeanor is totally different. 166 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:05,869 I look at... the package of drugs in smaller amounts than normal. 167 00:17:06,829 --> 00:17:09,710 He's telling me that that's all he can come up with. 168 00:17:11,849 --> 00:17:15,810 He can't find as many drug dealers. He's desperate at this point. 169 00:17:18,950 --> 00:17:25,589 He throws out the suggestion that 170 00:17:25,589 --> 00:17:31,730 maybe instead of me buying the drugs from him, I told him who had them. 171 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,400 I need to know where the stash house is at. 172 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:43,140 For me to become a snitch and help him, you know, target dealers, I told him 173 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:47,440 I agreed to sell him, but I never agreed to help you get him. 174 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,480 You don't work like that. 175 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,740 You know, snitching on my friends, you know, that's the ultimate betrayal. 176 00:17:56,060 --> 00:17:57,320 I'm not asking you, Devon. 177 00:17:57,740 --> 00:17:58,740 I'm telling you. 178 00:17:59,129 --> 00:18:03,410 He told me if I don't get information to him soon that something's going to 179 00:18:03,410 --> 00:18:04,410 happen. 180 00:18:05,730 --> 00:18:09,270 He would plant evidence and get me a long time in jail. I mean, it would have 181 00:18:09,270 --> 00:18:10,890 been all out war at that point. 182 00:18:11,750 --> 00:18:17,830 I wanted out, but I couldn't tell him because it seems like it's about to 183 00:18:17,830 --> 00:18:18,830 hit the fan. 184 00:18:22,330 --> 00:18:24,170 So at this point, I don't have any choice. 185 00:18:25,130 --> 00:18:27,550 And I just tell him, it's fine, I'll do it. 186 00:18:29,420 --> 00:18:36,100 But I tell him that, you know, I need a few days for logistics to help him find 187 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:38,900 dealers and stashes and everything. 188 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,260 I was kicking a can down the road trying to start it by some time. 189 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:51,380 But at that point, my life was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. 190 00:19:09,770 --> 00:19:16,450 Detective King wanted me to give him the names of high -level dealers so that he 191 00:19:16,450 --> 00:19:19,230 could get his business started and booming once again. 192 00:19:21,290 --> 00:19:25,110 A few weeks later, he called me. 193 00:19:28,350 --> 00:19:29,350 Yeah. 194 00:19:29,590 --> 00:19:31,210 What you gonna do for me, Devon? 195 00:19:32,370 --> 00:19:35,250 King said, do you got any information for me? 196 00:19:35,610 --> 00:19:39,010 I need their names. I need the corners. Do you understand? 197 00:19:39,550 --> 00:19:41,350 I knew that soon something had to happen. 198 00:19:43,710 --> 00:19:50,410 I tell him that I'm working on something, temporarily keeping him off 199 00:19:50,410 --> 00:19:53,990 while I came up with a better plan of getting rid of him. 200 00:19:55,050 --> 00:19:56,050 Give me Nate. 201 00:19:57,470 --> 00:19:58,470 Hello? 202 00:19:59,310 --> 00:20:03,970 But it's like a house of cards. 203 00:20:04,470 --> 00:20:08,330 You know, just one wrong move, all could just fall down. 204 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,940 A couple of days later, I just take a short walk to the store. 205 00:20:21,340 --> 00:20:22,520 I see a police car. 206 00:20:24,580 --> 00:20:31,120 The lights are flashing. The officer told me, he says, you've been detained 207 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,120 questioning. 208 00:20:33,380 --> 00:20:36,140 You know, so I immediately ask him, you know, what's the charge? 209 00:20:38,620 --> 00:20:41,060 I'm like, what the hell is going on right now? 210 00:20:55,150 --> 00:20:56,810 They take me to Central Bookend. 211 00:21:02,030 --> 00:21:03,690 It's totally new territory for me. 212 00:21:06,970 --> 00:21:10,650 I'm just trying to hold myself and hold my composure and prepare myself because 213 00:21:10,650 --> 00:21:17,110 I know that whoever walks through this door is about to maybe level my whole 214 00:21:17,110 --> 00:21:18,110 life. 215 00:21:21,090 --> 00:21:24,070 The next thing I know, I look up. 216 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,180 And I see King. 217 00:21:30,660 --> 00:21:32,360 And then he said, come with me. 218 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,720 You know, his domain is all business. 219 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:58,630 He says to me, You see the reach I have. 220 00:21:58,850 --> 00:22:01,130 You give me names, you get to walk out that door. 221 00:22:02,290 --> 00:22:07,810 King had flexed his muscle, you know. He had got me picked up off of the streets 222 00:22:07,810 --> 00:22:09,630 with the snap of his fingers. 223 00:22:12,690 --> 00:22:16,970 He said to me, what do you have for me? You need to give me something. 224 00:22:19,410 --> 00:22:22,810 I just said, that is nothing that I can do. You know, I can't help you. 225 00:22:23,750 --> 00:22:24,750 Not a snitch. 226 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:39,040 But I know if I didn't give him any information, he could level the 227 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,620 weight of the whole Baltimore City Police Department against me. 228 00:22:44,660 --> 00:22:46,020 He gives me a star down. 229 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,640 But I tell him there's nothing I can do to help him with that. 230 00:23:03,690 --> 00:23:06,330 I felt like King had declared war at that point. 231 00:23:08,290 --> 00:23:11,710 I had made a deal with the devil and it was time to pay the dues. 232 00:23:20,470 --> 00:23:23,370 But for some reason, they let me go. 233 00:23:25,930 --> 00:23:28,130 But I knew this wasn't over yet. 234 00:23:29,310 --> 00:23:33,930 The first thing that was crossing my mind... was having Ken killed. 235 00:23:42,950 --> 00:23:46,990 I knew I had enough money that I could even orchestrate a hit on him easily. 236 00:23:47,550 --> 00:23:49,710 I knew people that were crazy enough to do it. 237 00:23:54,530 --> 00:23:59,850 But I immediately come back to reality that I'm not a murderer, you know. 238 00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:11,830 In the middle of the perfect storm that I got going on, I get a phone call. 239 00:24:12,950 --> 00:24:14,690 Come down to the hospital. 240 00:24:21,410 --> 00:24:21,950 Next 241 00:24:21,950 --> 00:24:30,730 thing 242 00:24:30,730 --> 00:24:33,530 you know, I say the most beautiful thing I've saw in my life. 243 00:24:34,110 --> 00:24:38,930 She looked at me, and she started crying, and then, like, right there, 244 00:24:38,930 --> 00:24:41,870 just knew that everything had to be over. 245 00:24:48,430 --> 00:24:51,750 At this point, my daughter is my exit plan. 246 00:24:52,310 --> 00:24:56,170 You know, as soon as I see her, that's it. I have to be around to raise her, 247 00:24:56,170 --> 00:24:57,550 know, and teach her right from wrong. 248 00:25:02,510 --> 00:25:05,630 I didn't want to raise my child from a jail cell, and I didn't want to raise my 249 00:25:05,630 --> 00:25:06,630 child from the grave. 250 00:25:07,890 --> 00:25:14,490 I began to just realize how much, you know, how serious that I had to be about 251 00:25:14,490 --> 00:25:16,610 getting Detective King out of my life. 252 00:25:17,830 --> 00:25:23,710 I realized essentially that I have to go up the food chain. I needed to step up 253 00:25:23,710 --> 00:25:26,950 to the next level. So I picked up my phone, and I called the FBI. 254 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,920 Someone picks up. 255 00:25:33,660 --> 00:25:34,660 I take a breath. 256 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,040 And I say I'd like to report a crime. 257 00:25:39,180 --> 00:25:41,320 He says, what type of crime? 258 00:25:42,780 --> 00:25:47,300 I tell him that I've been recruited by some cops. 259 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:51,040 I'm selling drugs for these guys. They're robbing dealers. 260 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:53,580 They want me to snitch on people. 261 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:58,000 I'm looking for a way out. You know, I just pour it out. You know, I'm crying. 262 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:00,900 You know, I'm telling them, like, I'm just tired. 263 00:26:01,340 --> 00:26:06,420 I started to realize, talking to them, that I was just a child that was robbed 264 00:26:06,420 --> 00:26:07,420 of their childhood. 265 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,300 And now, you know, I'm free for my life and my family's life. 266 00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:17,460 And then he says, we're going to need to meet you. 267 00:26:19,220 --> 00:26:22,320 I tell him, OK. 268 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:28,980 Now I've told the FBI about my crimes. You know, I'm on their radar. 269 00:26:29,470 --> 00:26:31,010 There was no turning back at this point. 270 00:26:47,010 --> 00:26:50,910 I don't know exactly how this is going to play out. 271 00:26:51,150 --> 00:26:54,450 You know, this is the FBI we're talking about now. This isn't just some local 272 00:26:54,450 --> 00:26:55,450 cop. 273 00:26:58,860 --> 00:27:01,180 I'm feeling more nervous than I've ever had in my whole life. 274 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,680 This guy says to me, hello, I'm Major Richard Wolfe. 275 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,760 Why didn't you take it from the top? 276 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:21,460 I can tell that, you know, he's by the book, law and order. 277 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,580 He strips the drugs off the street and not resell them. I opened up like a 278 00:27:24,580 --> 00:27:27,780 butterfly. He proposed that I work for him. So I told him everything. 279 00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:34,220 It's blackmailing me, man. Detective Wolf says to me, for us to get started, 280 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:37,340 are going to have to have some type of proof. Yeah, sure, yeah. 281 00:27:37,580 --> 00:27:38,780 Of what's going on. 282 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,400 Can you call him now? 283 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,560 So, I called King. 284 00:27:57,889 --> 00:28:01,510 At this point, it's not aggressive. You know, he's just making a conversation. 285 00:28:02,290 --> 00:28:05,430 Listen, I know I've been rough on you. Maybe he's desperate at this point. I 286 00:28:05,430 --> 00:28:07,650 want you to know I respect you. And he doesn't want to lose me. 287 00:28:07,910 --> 00:28:08,910 I've been thinking. 288 00:28:09,430 --> 00:28:10,430 I got a plan. 289 00:28:10,530 --> 00:28:12,910 He says to me, let's get back to making money. 290 00:28:13,730 --> 00:28:20,410 So we agree to meet the next day at the credit union where his office was. 291 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,260 We hang up the phone, you know. 292 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,280 Agent Wolf begins to lay it out to me. 293 00:28:32,260 --> 00:28:35,460 He tells me that I would have to wear a recording device. 294 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:40,520 Do you feel comfortable becoming an informant? Immediately, when he says 295 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,280 you know, I'm going through my head like, oh, whoa. 296 00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,800 It's small, so you can conceal it really easily. 297 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,400 I'm sitting looking at this recorder, and I'm thinking that, you know, this is 298 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,280 first -class snitch stuff right here. 299 00:29:02,370 --> 00:29:04,370 Now I'm an FBI informant. 300 00:29:07,350 --> 00:29:11,710 Out of everything that I've ever done in my life, this by far scared me the 301 00:29:11,710 --> 00:29:12,710 most. 302 00:29:15,270 --> 00:29:18,990 But I just had to keep on going and see this through to the end. 303 00:29:19,650 --> 00:29:21,250 I'm doing this for my daughter. 304 00:29:27,010 --> 00:29:30,350 The next day, I'm beginning to get really nervous. 305 00:29:31,490 --> 00:29:36,710 Now I've got double the trouble at this point. I've got to watch if people see 306 00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:39,830 me meet with King. I've got to watch if people see me meet with the FBI. 307 00:29:40,030 --> 00:29:42,590 I've got to worry about if King sees me meet with the FBI. 308 00:29:43,590 --> 00:29:47,710 The enemies have increased tenfold. 309 00:29:49,870 --> 00:29:50,990 So I gather myself. 310 00:29:51,430 --> 00:29:53,330 I'm ready. I've got my game face on. 311 00:29:53,690 --> 00:29:57,850 I tuck the recorder in my pocket, and I head off. 312 00:29:59,530 --> 00:30:01,030 I start going over all scenarios. 313 00:30:01,530 --> 00:30:06,410 If this recorder makes any noise, what would I say? You know, how would I 314 00:30:06,410 --> 00:30:07,410 explain this all? 315 00:30:12,510 --> 00:30:14,030 Subject is moving into position. 316 00:30:14,430 --> 00:30:18,850 I seen people in cars. I knew that they were probably surveilling the meeting 317 00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:19,850 and everything. 318 00:30:21,510 --> 00:30:24,430 King told me to meet him in the bathroom. 319 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,780 So now at this point, you know, my heart is racing. 320 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,440 Hello? 321 00:30:37,340 --> 00:30:38,420 Anybody in here? 322 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:58,020 In walks Detective King. 323 00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:03,400 It's a dead silence in the air. 324 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,760 It's almost overwhelming. 325 00:31:11,780 --> 00:31:16,320 But then he's just reaching in his pocket like, hey, take this money. 326 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,200 I don't know what's going on. 327 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,540 Then he explained to me what it's for. 328 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:26,560 He said to me that I was going to essentially take the money and buy some 329 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,600 and that I was going to sell them. 330 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,820 And we would split the profits evenly. 331 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,340 He asked me, you know, how long is this going to take? 332 00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:42,480 I told him, you know, within like two to three weeks that I would give him a 333 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:43,480 good return on investment. 334 00:31:45,740 --> 00:31:49,100 After that, like his whole mood went kind of solemn. 335 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,860 Are you going to help me with the other dealers? 336 00:31:53,610 --> 00:31:59,150 He brings up the point once again of giving him the names of high -level 337 00:31:59,150 --> 00:32:00,150 dealers. 338 00:32:00,410 --> 00:32:04,430 So I realized this was something that was going to go on and on and on. 339 00:32:05,770 --> 00:32:10,190 You know, he tells me that, you know, he isn't playing around anymore and that 340 00:32:10,190 --> 00:32:13,910 we're essentially not going to keep kicking the can down the road, you know, 341 00:32:13,930 --> 00:32:16,890 either, you know, I'm going to give him something or we're going to take more 342 00:32:16,890 --> 00:32:17,890 drastic measures. 343 00:32:22,929 --> 00:32:24,050 Oh, I know what that meant. 344 00:32:24,610 --> 00:32:28,010 If I didn't do what he wanted, I would have been killed or murdered in the 345 00:32:28,010 --> 00:32:29,010 streets of Baltimore. 346 00:32:35,150 --> 00:32:39,050 I immediately proceed to meet Agent Wolf and hop in the car. 347 00:32:41,010 --> 00:32:42,710 By reaching my pocket, I give him a quarter. 348 00:32:44,210 --> 00:32:47,650 You're going to have to give me something, or we're going to take more 349 00:32:47,650 --> 00:32:49,510 measures. At this point... 350 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:52,060 I'm thinking I won. 351 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:53,280 You know, this thing is over. 352 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,520 I asked him if we got what we need to, you know, take him down. 353 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,480 I'm afraid that it's nowhere near enough. 354 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:09,240 He told me that this was sort of like a marathon, not a race. We need to catch 355 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:15,020 King in the act of handling stolen drugs so that way we had enough evidence to 356 00:33:15,020 --> 00:33:16,140 put him away for good. 357 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,440 You know, I've done all this, you know, and... 358 00:33:19,850 --> 00:33:20,850 It's still not enough. 359 00:33:22,090 --> 00:33:26,710 But I was in too deep. The only path that I had was forward. 360 00:33:27,030 --> 00:33:28,230 You know, I had to continue. 361 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,220 At this point, King is like waiting for me to become a snitch and help him, you 362 00:33:52,220 --> 00:33:53,300 know, target dealers. 363 00:33:53,620 --> 00:33:55,260 Essentially taking their stashes. 364 00:33:58,140 --> 00:34:04,060 So I came up with this idea, you know, if we get some drugs, you know, in a 365 00:34:04,060 --> 00:34:09,639 large quantity, and I stash the packs somewhere, that King would go and get 366 00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:10,840 and bring them to me. 367 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,199 But the FBI won't give me actual crack cocaine. 368 00:34:17,179 --> 00:34:20,340 So I knew the perfect substitute, peanuts. 369 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:25,940 Crack cocaine looks just like peanut that you break up into a lot of pieces. 370 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,179 There's little sharp pieces. It looks like peanuts. 371 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:33,500 So that night, we get ready to execute the plan. 372 00:34:36,659 --> 00:34:41,540 At this point, I've agreed to set up a corrupt cop. 373 00:34:45,130 --> 00:34:51,750 As I'm walking, you know, to stash a big crack, I'm just feeling 374 00:34:51,750 --> 00:34:53,050 adrenaline. 375 00:34:57,190 --> 00:35:02,730 So I stash the package, and then I build up the carriage to call King. 376 00:35:04,390 --> 00:35:09,710 At this point, my heart, I mean, you could almost tap to it. You could almost 377 00:35:09,710 --> 00:35:10,710 dance to it. 378 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:22,900 I immediately tell him that I have a survival dealer in the neighborhood, 379 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,400 and he's being a bit of a nuisance for me. 380 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:35,980 I told him, I want you to go and take the stash and bring it to me. 381 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,880 So I tell him where to find the drugs. 382 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,420 He says to me, I'm on my way. 383 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,240 And he tells me he's going to call me back in five minutes. All right. 384 00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:46,660 All right, Juan. 385 00:35:49,620 --> 00:35:50,620 I'm breathing hard. 386 00:35:51,060 --> 00:35:52,840 That was exhilarating. 387 00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:54,460 It was a rush. 388 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,840 I get in the truck with Agent Wolf. 389 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:01,940 He asked me how'd everything go. 390 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:04,640 Yeah. 391 00:36:04,980 --> 00:36:06,200 I think he took the bait. 392 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,660 The phone rings again, and it's King. 393 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,580 I begin to direct him step by step. I tell him that you're going to have to 394 00:36:25,580 --> 00:36:26,740 him down about 10 yards. 395 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,160 And then look towards your left. You'll see a bag. 396 00:36:31,740 --> 00:36:32,900 What? The trash can? 397 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,120 That's right. 398 00:36:35,220 --> 00:36:36,940 I can hear him walking on the phone. 399 00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:47,400 And then the next thing I know, I hear Jackpot. 400 00:36:47,780 --> 00:36:48,780 My man. 401 00:36:50,830 --> 00:36:53,010 And I know that he's found his dash. 402 00:36:54,690 --> 00:36:55,810 It's time to meet King. 403 00:36:56,870 --> 00:37:02,690 Agent Wolf gives me the money that I promised King, you know, at the credit 404 00:37:02,690 --> 00:37:03,930 union in the bathroom. 405 00:37:04,490 --> 00:37:06,630 You know, with his return on investment. 406 00:37:07,530 --> 00:37:11,550 It's purposely marked so that they can later identify the bills once they 407 00:37:11,550 --> 00:37:12,550 retrieve them. 408 00:37:12,970 --> 00:37:14,330 Wolf gives me the look. 409 00:37:14,650 --> 00:37:15,930 It's game time. You ready? 410 00:37:17,050 --> 00:37:18,470 And I just give him the nod. 411 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,420 I turn the recorder. 412 00:37:21,620 --> 00:37:24,020 This is one of the most important moments of my life. 413 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,680 You know, this is going to make or break this case. 414 00:37:38,140 --> 00:37:39,160 I get in the car. 415 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,920 It's a dead silence in the air. 416 00:37:53,710 --> 00:37:55,630 So, man, how you doing? 417 00:38:00,510 --> 00:38:04,750 I could really start to feel the animosity, you know, coming off of him. 418 00:38:05,970 --> 00:38:08,910 And then he tells me, you know, if you would have listened to me from the 419 00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:12,490 beginning, we would be so much further along in our business relationship than 420 00:38:12,490 --> 00:38:13,490 we are now. 421 00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:21,030 But my deal wasn't over yet. There was one final twist. 422 00:38:25,819 --> 00:38:26,940 He had a gun. 423 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,640 I knew right then and there that my whole life was in danger. 424 00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:56,280 My heart was pounding. 425 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,880 King is trying to assert his will on me again. 426 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:09,660 But then, it was all business. 427 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,040 He asked me, you know, how much are we looking at? 428 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,100 So I grabbed the fake crack. 429 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:24,440 I tell him, you know, that we have about eight G -Packs. 430 00:39:25,020 --> 00:39:26,840 Worth $1 ,000 apiece. 431 00:39:27,220 --> 00:39:28,720 You know, one time I sold him. 432 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:35,060 He looks at me with the Chuck E. Cheese smile and says, it's cool with me. 433 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:36,600 Sounds cool to me. 434 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,820 And then I give him the money for his return on investment from before. 435 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:49,500 I'm feeling really nervous because, you know, I know King knows about mock bills 436 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:50,500 and stuff. 437 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,940 I remember just feeling like this rush, this rush of emotion, like I've got 438 00:40:04,940 --> 00:40:05,940 everything I need. 439 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,960 And I reached out for his hand, and I shook his hand. 440 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:16,400 But as I'm shaking his hand, you know, I'm saying, I got you, bitch. 441 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:19,740 I got you. I finally got you, you know. 442 00:40:42,339 --> 00:40:45,200 Immediately when I get in, I reach in my pocket, I give him a quarter. 443 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,320 He tells me, great job, you know, great job. 444 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,140 You know, this is what we needed. 445 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,660 You've done everything that we needed you to do. 446 00:40:57,380 --> 00:40:59,100 You know, we don't need you to do anything else. 447 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,100 This is it. We got it from here, and we'll be in touch. 448 00:41:06,060 --> 00:41:08,520 That was it. That was the last time I worked undercover. 449 00:41:24,970 --> 00:41:25,970 Day in court come. 450 00:41:26,290 --> 00:41:28,770 I am a nervous wreck. 451 00:41:29,030 --> 00:41:30,030 You okay? 452 00:41:31,210 --> 00:41:32,210 Let's go, son. 453 00:41:39,610 --> 00:41:41,570 I've never done anything like this before. 454 00:41:45,470 --> 00:41:52,450 Since the year 2002, when I was 15 years old. I started to explain to the 455 00:41:52,450 --> 00:41:53,450 court and the judge. 456 00:41:54,110 --> 00:41:56,630 You know, how much of a monster this guy was. 457 00:41:57,070 --> 00:42:03,750 How much intimidation and fear that 458 00:42:03,750 --> 00:42:06,810 they put into this neighborhood and how he ruled it. 459 00:42:07,510 --> 00:42:13,370 We, the jury, find the defendant, William King, has to count one, 460 00:42:13,370 --> 00:42:15,450 distribute narcotics, guilty. 461 00:42:16,950 --> 00:42:22,050 Count two, conspiracy to traffic narcotics, guilty. 462 00:42:22,470 --> 00:42:23,470 Count three. 463 00:42:24,030 --> 00:42:27,430 Conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. 464 00:42:27,770 --> 00:42:28,770 Guilty. 465 00:42:39,470 --> 00:42:44,390 I remember just looking up and smiling and just saying to myself, finally free. 466 00:42:44,890 --> 00:42:47,010 Finally over. It's finally over. 467 00:42:59,050 --> 00:43:04,070 I realized that I didn't want to have a child that on bring your child to work. 468 00:43:04,130 --> 00:43:07,190 She said that my father was the biggest drug dealer in Baltimore. 469 00:43:09,990 --> 00:43:15,790 So I just knew right then and there that I needed to do better, do better for 470 00:43:15,790 --> 00:43:17,110 myself and for my children. 471 00:43:18,290 --> 00:43:23,530 It was up to me to teach them the values and the morals and principles that my 472 00:43:23,530 --> 00:43:26,610 grandmother never had a chance to finish teaching me. 473 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:34,460 So I started thinking, you know, maybe getting a job and, you know, the life 474 00:43:34,460 --> 00:43:37,220 that I thought was so boring didn't look so boring anymore. 475 00:43:39,620 --> 00:43:43,180 So I enrolled into a trade school. 476 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:47,800 At the end of the year, I graduate with top marks. 477 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,000 Now I'm just all about giving back to the community. 478 00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:57,180 I'm building gardens for schools. 479 00:43:58,010 --> 00:44:02,610 brand new houses that are being built. I'm doing all the 3D designing for them. 480 00:44:04,690 --> 00:44:10,890 I wanted to be that symbol, and I wanted to be the person there to support the 481 00:44:10,890 --> 00:44:15,110 kids and let them know that anything that you want to be, you can do it. 482 00:44:17,370 --> 00:44:22,350 I finally felt like I went from a boy to a man, finally, for once in my life.