Got set up selling 2 80's to a snitch. They wanted me to set up my guy, told them I'm not ratting and to keep processing me. They tried to seize my car for auction but my lawyer was able to get it back. They kept it for about 8 months though. Stole my Ipod, phone, cash and everything else in the car.
I got set up sellin 80's to a snitch, but take that 2 pills and multiply it by 25 and then you got the number I got caught movin. I didnt tell em shit. got hit with conspiracy to distribute and distribution. had my phone tapped n everything. The snitch told the cops that i was the main distributor that was the connect for all the dealers in the area and that i was the supplier of all the oxys in the local highschool. Both totally complete bullshit lies. i was 21 years old and didnt even GO to highschool in that town, didnt even know nobody there. they thought i was a fuckin queen pin or some shit, they were hot for me for sure.
but when it got to the interview time the weird shit was that they didnt even push me to give up nobody. They didnt ask me my source, and i KNOW that my co defendent didnt tell them jack shit cuz he was my boys family. They didnt have no info about our connect, and they didnt ask, and now that i think about it, i realize that it had to be becuz *I* was the "big guy" that they wanted. obviously 50 pills aint big, but to the small town that I had brought the shit to from Paterson, I guess it was a big deal to them. like, obviously they knew that there was somebody higher up than me that I got the shit from, but I guess they figured i was big ENOUGH for them, you know? It woulda went way beyond their means, their jurisdiction, cuz my connect was much bigger, and not even in the US all the time, so I guess they settled for me since all these cops ever did was bust kids for a couple bags of dope for personal use, and the biggest local "dealers" they ever caught was always just kids middlemannin a bag or 2, or sellin one xanax pill, or like a oz of weed to a friend. shit like that. they musta thought they hit gold, slap on the back from their boss like way to go bustin up that county wide narcotics oxycontin ring! 8
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when i realized that shit, that i wasnt just somebody they was workin thru on their way to get the big fish but that i was the end of the line for them, the end result that they had been lookin for, I was on some shit, best believe, like oh fuck, cuz i knew that i was headin for some definite prison time, especialy in a place like that where a bust as "big" as mine was rare.. this was a big operation for them, they had treated that shit like a fuckin FBI bust, mad undercover cars, marked cruisers rushin up and blockin off the parking lot like a god damn movie, and runnin up to me with the guns like FREEZE!! Shit felt like i was a cartel leader or some shit instead of just a junkie with good connects makin moves. they musta really felt like I deserved all that show, scare me or impress me or somethin, who knows. Either way it was obvious that they thought they caught a big player. 8)
It was a fucked up situation, and when I looked back i realized how stupid i had been. I went against my own rules , just went against all my instincts and every rule i had set for myself for the shit , becuz i was a dopehead and i was hungry for money, hungry thinkin of the bricks i was gonna cop and flip with the money i got, just caught up in the payoff and not the risk. Kinda brushed that shit aside like naaaa, its fine, it wont happen to ME, im just bein paranoid, etc. but i knew the whole time, i think. I just didnt let myself recognize that i knew that I was like, walkin right off the plank, you feel me? but my judgement was fucked up like it always is when you a fuckin dope feen. wat can i say.
Anyways, I had the last laugh on that one. ended up coppin out on a great plea, the cops fucked up their procedure when they applied for the warrant for my phone tap. dumb ass small town mutha fuckas wasnt familiar with doin it i guess, and i forget exactly wat it was, they was supposed to have some type of hard evidence other than hearsay from the CI, that i was dealin, before they got the warrant for the wiretap. enough to like earn it, justify it, prove that it was definately necessary, but they didnt. my lawyer explained it like they were supposed to catch me in a deal at least once before, that they had to actually observe me doin somethin illegal and do atleast one deal without bustin me, as official evidence to get the wiretap, before they could tap the phone and then bust me. but they jumped the gun, got the warrant signed on false pretenses just on the assumption of wat they would find, and busted me the first time they ever seen me deal. so he was able to get the warrant thrown out on a technicality related to all that shit.
Before we learned about that mistake, I was lookin at definite state time, 15 years, soemthin like that, prolly woulda ended up with a 3-5 realisticly but who knows. but when my lawyer uncovered that little fuckup, the prosecution realized that they didnt have a ace in the hole like they thought, cuz all the wiretap evidence would be out if we went to trial. I knew that a noncustodial was the best shit i could ever hope or pray for, so instead of goin to trial, knowin the prosecution had a shaky case but still had decent evidence from my co conspirator and possessing the 50 pills enough that i was far from guaranteed acquittal, i took the plea and got a long ass probation sentence, conditional on a bunch of terms like they can revoke my plea and send me back for sentencing on the original charges if i fuck up and dont comply, etc. I barely got out of that shit by the fuckin skin of my teeth tho.
it was my 2nd offense, that charge and later on i caught a 3rd but thats another story. Im still on probation now tho, been on for almost 2 years and got another couple to go but considerin how it coulda ended up I know I got as lucky as i could ever hope to get in my life.
So thats my CI story....Tell you fuckin wat....you can never be too careful. I could tell you a whole books worth of the shit that I did wrong but thats a discussion for another place and time.
