re: Any of you have stories about meeting drug smugglers, cartel members, etc

Yes

my pops got arrested in Jackson Ms in 1981 with 400 pounds of pot on a plane that had just landed from mexico ....thank god it was before they changed the drug laws and he only did 5years for it. He passed away when i was a teenager and i never got ask questions. My uncle and his wife at the time filled in the details for me when i got older.

A former business partner and I were Chicago-based financial advisers who laundered money for a Mexican drug cartel. My partner and the trucking company owners who move the cash skimmed $8 million, which caused our cartel contact to kill my partner, his fiancée, and the father-son trucking company owners. To save my own life, I useed a promotional flier my partner had shown me as the inspiration for a spur-of-the-moment claim that the Ozarks are a good potential location for laundering, and that if allowed to live, I would wash $500 million in five years. Partly persuaded, the cartel gave me a few days to replace the $8 million my partner stole, which I did by liquidating all my personal assets and closing all the company accounts. The Cartel then told me to move my family to the Ozarks and prove his claim by laundering the $8 million in three months. My wife was having an affair with this dude. She followed his advice to leave me and take our two children and as much money as she can secure, which caused the Cartel to have the dude she was banging killed as a warning to her to keep the family together.

Mostly weed, the guys that are lifers and dead were the ones that went into coke. There are tons of stories that go from South America all the way to Laos/Lebanon/and Thailand. A lot of prison stories from maxwell Air Force base, which he served 3 years there. He could actually leave the prison Daily and come back by 7, he just had to sleep there. I’ve never actually asked the price it cost to have that arrangement. He’s actually meeting with a writer pretty soon in BR to discuss book/show stuff, he’s just held out. Since my mom has passed, I think a lot of the stuff that could embarrass her is the main reason.

In Laos, to go to the mountains and get product and bring it back required a 16 truck convoy and everyone had weapons traveling through. In Eastern Europe, when my mom was stuck in Romania with me for two years.. my dad had to send supplies due to the communist party, you would have to send double because the soldiers would take half. One of the generals had a weird obsession with camel cigarettes and jack Daniels, so that would have to be included in any supply drop by the crate load.

It all started back in Gainesville in the 60s, imagine unloading a plane that they crashed in some field in the middle of the night and hauling arse.

The cartel guys, let’s just say a couple I met our brothers and known as “los monaguillos” which translates to altar boys...

I’m a retired Federal LEO. I’ve known lots of very high level drug traffickers which go way up the ranks of that Cali Cartel.

I once had a high ranking member of the notorious Cocaine Cowboys (Miami branch of the cartel) threaten to kill me.

Most of them are rats who would sell out their mother to get out of jail.

Years ago...I worked for a company fronted by the Philly mob.

True story.