How I Became An International Cocaine Trafficker

I was selling up to 5 or 10k there's a carrot week on a couple of occasions people who tried to kill me ended up spending nine years in prison in Ecuador I've had a human face throughout my time trafficking one of them is posh Peter my name is Peter Tristan and I'm an ex international cocaine trafficker the first international import ever did was from Holland of 2000 pills brought them in just before Christmas and made everyone's Christmas really good and yearsI and it was actually quite a few years after I did that that I ever go into the cocaine trafficking because I did have in prison so that kind of stole things I'd just be mad to visit a friend to drop off some coke I had a briefcase in the front of the van care in which there were I think that maybe a year a thousand pills you know a couple of ounces of coke scales and all sort of sawed-off shotgun in the back of the vent and a marked police car came up behind me and and pulled me over basically very quickly it became obviously it wasn't the museum traffic so they immediately went into the front van they pulled out the briefcase like oh look what we found your whole world just stops reframe you know you'll go in one place and that's behind the walls of Bosma prison during my time in prison I talked to the end I decided that you know should I decide to get back into trafficking drugs the it would be cocaine because it was low volume and high value having been released didn't do anything for several months then got tempted made a phone call and said look can you try and find me a source who would be able to give us the hook-up in South America for the cocaine so sat round in this kitchen in London talking to the Colombian and he says to me you know we're bringing the cocaine in and whip we're bringing in impregnated in rubber and then they were putting it into the ground sheets of tents as if it was part of the ground shake so absolutely Faraday's how long's like that wow that is really cool I'd like us out of this so the first one collected it from Quito gave it back to England we extracted it sold it made about 100 120 thousand each yeah it was good really good feeling it together by the end when I was living in a manor house and driving Mercedes and just being to flash basically [Music] on a couple of occasions people tried to kill me I had a gun pulled on me once in London a Derringer two-shot pistol in Chyzyk because obviously by that point I was selling and up to five or ten kilos of coke weak volumes and money involved by that point where you know well where someone's well killing me basically the level of paranoia was insane you are constantly certainly of that sort level you know anyone around kilos of cocaine and tons of Hashem you know stuff big amounts that you know were kinda critical maybe 10 years plus at least ended up spending nine years in prison in Ecuador having been arrested in Quito in Ecuador I tried to escape so they transfer me to the fourth most dangerous prison in the whole of South America which at that time held 8,000 people was split between two rival gangs completely getting controlled the two gangs are at war with each other hand guns explosives machine guns in the prison four or five minutes a week just absolutely insane it became my sort of pastime coming up with ways of escaping I employed some people to dig a tunnel out of the prison unfortunately it got discovered I was also planning with members of the FARC then we get an RV to eat rocket-propelled grenade and blow the blow the wall of the prison and get some machine-gun covering fire on the watchtowers and then make our escape like that as well or a helicopter lift but that was too expensive [Music] by this point actually in Quito I'd more or less ended up in charge of the wing that I was living home because I have a knack of organizing people and sorting things that and I'd realized that no one was really bringing any coke a good cocaine into the prison obviously there's a big opportunity and as you know he's a wing full of foreigners there that wanted to take the most drugs they've got money so I think now I might as well start running it wing was normally quite busy in the evening you know people running about cooking getting a drugs doing drugs I had taken a plate of food to a friend one everyone's doors are open it's very quiet you know you can feel something is not quite right and it's just been this this explosion right next to my head here and one of this other gang to come up behind me with a handgun shot over my shoulder and right in front of me is shot the guy in the face blowing the back of his head out so he's dead dived in my room slammed the door shut to our long gun fight ensued a couple of other gang gang members came out with ourselves so did this lot so there was about 10 or born site shooting and about two or three on the other using one had an Uzi mr. Lucey submachine gun a nine Miller of light several nine millimeters 38 colt 45 I mean a lot of gunfire we were transferred on mass from the old prison in Guayaquil the really dangerous one into this new prison with all high security you know cameras everywhere we went from having basically freedom to the way of your wife yeah you know him sell TVs to suddenly nothing there was a light that came on at 6:00 p.m. I went off at 10:00 p.m. Harold completely incommunicado too much disappeared so at that point I went get me out so the embassy we started the process to get me back to Britain I remember getting back to one's birth and be put in a Cell ours is like wow this feels like a hotel room to me all these people are coming into the prison you know I just London gonna crying and moaning so bad it's terrible the food's really bad if we only get visit three times a week and there's a site are you not at this fantastic they police what I was insane I've never been out of prison for that to coming out I just felt you know that everybody knew I was an ex-con like just come out of prison I honestly felt like I had convict tattooed across my forehead I was diagnosed having post-traumatic stress disorder it been impassable environment is it almost like walls I think that you can't get out of it's just ring this I'm just still readjusting really to be honest it is a dangerous business to be most of my friends the degree involved it's probably 60 70 % dead there's very few people that go through life as a cocaine trafficker any sort of or any sort of drug trafficker that haven't been to prison or they're alive every day I wake up and I'm just happy to be alive just to be able to breathe fresh air and open my eyes and know I'm safe I'm very lucky to be alive I mean there are still people others still want to kill me now that's life [Music]

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Id: AAPi7BF681g

Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 12 2019