How to Make Money Selling Drugs

take your clothes off, please", 603 00:32:04,762 --> 00:32:06,463 "and get your suitcases off the plane." 604 00:32:06,464 --> 00:32:09,599 I'm going, "No! I'm not taking my..." 605 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,335 "Sir, there's nothing we can do about it. You have to." 606 00:32:12,336 --> 00:32:14,337 I take my pants off, still have my jacket on. 607 00:32:14,338 --> 00:32:17,774 I pass them my pants, cursing and swearing, and my socks, 608 00:32:17,775 --> 00:32:20,710 and I reach my hand into my jacket pocket. 609 00:32:20,711 --> 00:32:23,947 I put the cigarettes I was holding the coke in on the bottom 610 00:32:23,948 --> 00:32:26,650 and the cigarettes I was smoking on the top, and I flipped it open, 611 00:32:26,651 --> 00:32:29,619 the one I was smoking, pulled out a cigarette and lit it. 612 00:32:29,620 --> 00:32:31,755 Offered them a cigarette, which they each took. 613 00:32:31,756 --> 00:32:34,758 I mean, these guys are making 30 bucks a month, we can't forget. 614 00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:37,460 I'm lighting their cigarettes, and I take my jacket off 615 00:32:37,461 --> 00:32:39,296 and hand it to them, and my shirt, 616 00:32:39,297 --> 00:32:43,833 holding the cigarettes and the coke in my hand the entire time. 617 00:32:43,834 --> 00:32:49,639 The moment they handed me back a piece of clothing that had a pocket in it, shwamp! 618 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,909 I immediately stuffed the coke back in the pocket. 619 00:32:52,910 --> 00:32:57,480 And that's how I got in the coke business. 620 00:32:57,481 --> 00:33:01,050 <i>After that, Brian O'Dea was in business.</i> 621 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:08,792 He got a small amount of coke, and he dissolved it in water, and then poured in material. 622 00:33:08,793 --> 00:33:12,962 <i>What we used were ponchos, or ruanas as they're called in Colombia.</i> 623 00:33:12,963 --> 00:33:16,499 So, here we now had this piece of material that had a couple of grams of coke in it, 624 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:19,736 and then I just folded up those ponchos buddy, put them in my suitcase, 625 00:33:19,737 --> 00:33:22,972 and headed on a direct flight to L.A. from Bogota. 626 00:33:22,973 --> 00:33:28,411 You just soak it in the water, and then evaporate the water off. Simple. 627 00:33:28,412 --> 00:33:31,548 Of course, methanol is what you should be doing it with, and not water, 628 00:33:31,549 --> 00:33:34,050 'cause methanol evaporates off at room temperature. 629 00:33:34,051 --> 00:33:36,653 Water, you got to wait forever for the shit to evaporate, 630 00:33:36,654 --> 00:33:38,935 which is, you know... It's a learning process. 631 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,830 <i>If these individuals were putting their expertise</i> 632 00:33:46,831 --> 00:33:48,498 <i>towards a legitimate goal,</i> 633 00:33:48,499 --> 00:33:51,768 could probably be very wealthy as entrepreneurs. 634 00:33:51,769 --> 00:33:55,572 We have seized drugs in prosthetic legs, 635 00:33:55,573 --> 00:33:59,641 heroin in kidney beans, in the back of paintings. 636 00:34:04,414 --> 00:34:09,986 Individuals swallow condoms filled with heroin. Heroin pellets, we call them. 637 00:34:09,987 --> 00:34:12,856 Once that condom breaks open or that balloon breaks open, 638 00:34:12,857 --> 00:34:16,959 there's not much anyone's going to be able to do to save your life. 639 00:34:19,129 --> 00:34:22,098 <i>A million dollars in a few months is a lot of money.</i> 640 00:34:22,099 --> 00:34:24,768 <i>But how would you like to make that in a few days?</i> 641 00:34:24,769 --> 00:34:27,637 <i>Everyone dreams of climbing to the top of the game one day.</i> 642 00:34:27,638 --> 00:34:32,408 Some people can play baseball, basketball, or sing, or dance. 643 00:34:35,845 --> 00:34:39,549 With some of the icons being millionaires from selling drugs, 644 00:34:39,550 --> 00:34:41,818 of course, I wanted... I didn't want to be like Mike. 645 00:34:41,819 --> 00:34:43,820 I didn't want to be like Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson, 646 00:34:43,821 --> 00:34:44,988 I wanted to be like... 647 00:34:44,989 --> 00:34:47,150 I wanted to be like Freeway Rick! 648 00:34:47,490 --> 00:34:49,893 <i>My name is Freeway Rick Ross.</i> 649 00:34:49,894 --> 00:34:52,795 My claim to fame is being a drug kingpin. 650 00:34:57,500 --> 00:34:59,903 At that time, I never did drugs, I had never smoked weed. 651 00:34:59,904 --> 00:35:03,640 <i>I was going to a junior college playing tennis when my car was broken down.</i> 652 00:35:03,641 --> 00:35:05,508 I was in financial ruins at the time. 653 00:35:05,509 --> 00:35:06,676 I needed some money. 654 00:35:06,677 --> 00:35:08,912 Narcotics is a thing of the future. 655 00:35:08,913 --> 00:35:10,680 If we don't get a piece of that action, 656 00:35:10,681 --> 00:35:14,117 we risk everythi