Real Story of How a Former Sniper Became a Target of an FBI Takedown | IRONCLAD

this time of my life I'm bodyguarding for a client who is just a big big big money guy Wall Street all of this I'm gonna make this story very short um essentially he did the exact same thing Bernie Madoff did I was with this client for six months every single day getting paid the most ridiculous money that I ever got paid traveling all over the U.S with him we were in Nashville Tennessee pulling up to our Airbnb we got surrounded by 45 Federal FBI uh local SWAT team and sheriffs did full call out surrounded the vehicle and P5 at my head by the FBI female dogs helicopters whole nine yards and what was crazy and impressive is I didn't see it coming a mile away wow we pull up to our Airbnb I hopped out of the vehicle was walking up to the door to check in and my client enrolled his window down he goes get in the car get in the car get in the car and we're in a million dollar neighborhood in Nashville Tennessee where the road leading in just had whole bunch of cars parked on the road so nothing out of the norm and I run to the Suburban jump in because I'm driving up on the Suburban at this time which was mine and uh jump in the vehicle throw it and drive and he's lying because you don't know what the thread is you don't know what no idea what's happening jump in the vehicle he's just going go go go go jump in throw it in Drive start going and five of the cars on the highway I'll just go oh man the ones behind us today within seconds we were completely u-shaped in the front of us everything's clear behind rifles drawn out eight dots on me at this time I'm vested I have a pistol on me rifle behind me pissing off my door because we were traveling on average with like 200 300 000 with us like in cash in cash and um do what how come he was just a baller he just I mean we went to Vegas and spent 2.5 million dollars in four days just I mean I mean every kind of show every kind of just a different kind of lifestyle that if you don't live in that like A-list kind of Lifestyle it just makes no sense lying down as you pass in those cars and then as soon as it would have I mean there's the only thing I can think of and I was pretty relaxed at this time we were just on a little vacation we had three peoples in the car we were gonna hang out in Nashville for a few days and uh when MP5 went to your head where you're like peripheral vision is that finger on the trigger is this thing on is this this person's first day I honestly don't remember yeah it happened so fast and so loud like I'd never been on the other end of what we do so it was wild violence of action works 100. and I realized well I realized that it wasn't this wasn't gang bangers or something yeah this is because they all had FBI across they had 10 came over the exact number like 10 to 13 agents that flew from um San Francisco to make the arrest oh interesting so they had I know one of those people okay everybody was had all their stuff visible so I knew we were good my hands instantly went to the roof they start doing call outs so called him out first uh back passenger exit the vehicle back driver exit the vo Go Passenger exit the vehicle and now it's just me yeah and which if you know the highest threat leave-in that way if you have to start firing you're not hitting everybody else so I'm just chilling in this vehicle and they're like all right sir and I was like uh I don't know and now this is the first time I talk and I'm like um who's in charge and girl next week shut the [ __ ] up and then one of the other guys is like sir this is Officer Smith yeah uh what is it and I was like sir my name is Lucas O'Hara I'm ex-military I have a pistol on my side a pistol on my door a rifle behind me I'm wearing a vest I have no idea what's going on I'll do exactly what you tell me to do videos thank you so much because we have the door open what do they have anything so my door's still closed my hands are still how are they hearing you it's like back doors open windows are open windows are open because we had all our windows open regardless so I'm talking to them through my open window because we were just hanging out music on the radio like that kind of day so staying there hands on the roof and she goes he's like is the epistle in your door panel and I was like yes sir he goes all right well we're gonna have you do she's gonna crawl over your center dashboard you're gonna get on the ground not dashboard center console you're gonna get on the ground you're gonna let my officers detain you and I was like yes sir absolutely he goes go ahead and start moving and I went yeah I like about as slow as I could go yeah a little bit which very quickly released the tension a little yeah you move a little faster than that son and I was like thank you sir so I moved out got the ground jumped on top of me why didn't they come over and Pull and open the door and just because the pistol was in the door because I told them I had a pistol had a pistol mounted to my door so if you open the door of my Suburban I had a holster mounted to the side of my door so if my door opened I could grab my pistol off the door so they I don't know why but they didn't want me to come out my door because of that they would rather me keep my hands visible crawl across get on the ground so get on the crown very quickly detain me um once I was in handcuffs the whole mood changed everybody kind of took a breath took me down to the curb at this point straight shaking leg shaking hand shaking adrenaline dump is finally you get that little clear spot sit down they go through my wallet find my blue card carries permit military ID my service dog ID just all my stuff FBI agent comes over like do you have any idea what's going on here today I I don't have a [ __ ] clue what just happened because he's already gone that's him in a car gone dang so I'm sitting there and they're like all right and everyone like the cops come over like what's up brother how you doing he goes where'd you serve start talk about military stuff all of them were ex-vets got me out of handcuffs in about five minutes and they're like you have no idea what's going on and I was like no I don't they're like your client has stolen millions and millions of dollars and they're like we've been setting this up for almost six months now which is the exact amount of time I had been working with them his previous bodyguard had no background which I picked up the client from him I had known him in Atlanta so when I got picked up I am apparently because of my background it was a big red flag to him because they were putting this whole package together to swoop them so all of that the guy comes over and he goes all of this is for you wow and he was like we thought we were gonna have a fire fight today and it was just this like everybody's laughing now two of the guys came over and gave me a hug and they're like you did good buddy you did good and he was like we thought this was gonna go because we couldn't figure out why he had someone like you working for him if he didn't know this was about to happen so there overhead do you see a Hilo or anything do you know oh yeah so yep we got a Helo in there just one just one uh just one and then the news there was a news one that showed up pretty quick um and then two dogs and then the rest was local SWAT the FBI and then the there was a few guys from DEA there because I don't know why the DEA was there there was at least two that I can remember um so did they know do you ever find out if they were tracking your vehicle or if they or everything they had photos of me at the nightclubs like they had everything because as soon as that happened I went home and went to directly to the FBI headquarters in Atlanta I put money through my account for him I did everything oh wow half his cards and now you're a conspirator and here's the other issue is three weeks before that I invested 75 000 with him oh wow money that I didn't have did you ever get it back or you didn't have it no I took out loans for it oh geez so was that a guy I bought I bought so the way that works is you invest let's put it versus you invest because he was doing hedge funds so he did it identical to what Bernie did so which I didn't know at the time this was someone that I considered like a father figure I was with this man he was older it was in his 50s um I was with him all the time like I watched him work I watched him trade I watched everything he was a true sociopath like nothing like to the point where I was holding my hands on the money handed over to him because I wanted to start my own security company and I was like this is literally everything I have and I go I hope you don't you realize how much I'm trusting you he put his hands on top of my hands and he said I cannot tell you how proud I am of you cannot wait to see where your business goes I love you like a son and he took that money knowing by this time from what I found out later he was already on the Run he knew this was going to happen and after six months of being with him every day still did that so the vehicle was in my name he covered all the payments on it which was through the roof because I had an up armored Suburban so roughly 200 000 vehicle and then all that money I took out in loans because I had perfect credit 800 plus credit score took all the loans to invest this you invest let's say fifty thousand dollars on the first of every month you get a return of 2500. so my goal was let's say invest 50 000 get that return of 2500 put all that money back into it fast forward five years now I'm making a profit of this money invest another so then within x amount of time I'm just getting 50 Grand off the inch or five grand a month off the interest of the money that I put in yeah makes sense I had seen people make millions off it working with him like there he had clients that were just making money hands over fists they were at the top closer to the top of the pyramid and I trusted him and there was no reason for me not to he was working with some of the biggest names in Atlanta like I had people that I had worked for previously that were investing with him and I waited six months before I did it and then finally hit that part and that was three weeks away so I lost everything

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Length: 9min 49sec (589 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 18 2023