That's because they're just stories, I'm sick of this f****** dude lying acting like he was the connect after he put me in dirty Mike in prison.. this dude was just a dope fiend every now and then he would get one or two pounds of tree off of us and it wasn't even for him... He was copping it for the guy that lived next door to him and he always made two or three hundred bucks off of it which he spent on Coke... This dude got dirty Mike 18 years in prison I'm sick of him on here lying telling all these stories... I'm getting ready to post links to our indictments I'm going to upload them to Google drive for everyone to click the link and see...
@@swissmilitischristilxxii3691 honestly I don’t think what he’s telling us, is what the Cartel’s and FBI didn’t already know. So I don’t think it’s hurting anyone.
I work in the cannabis industry and this is one of the most informative video series I’ve ever seen. I’ve been talking it up to customers and coworkers alike, keep up the good work with these. I think you have a real winner here.
I absolutely love your channel. I was in that business from 1979 to 2017. I have so many stories I should write a book. Lots of interactions with police in the areas you describe in your video,never busted. I'm retired now and live on an island surfing everyday.
Your shorts into longs is a killer RU-vid strat. We see the early hustle but what happens after you’ve spent your dealing stories and wisdom, I’ll sub to see it!
Incredible is a strong word, definitely interesting and informative but not incredible. One of the biggest problems with society now a days is the hero’s people look up to when in all reality their anything but hero’s or good role models.
@@420folife nobody’s called the guy a living hero for selling drugs, but engaging with ruthless cartels in business is always going to be incredible and interesting to most people.
Back about 9 years ago. Payday.. hit the mall w/ my gf. Had a zip on me. Saw a low profile roadblock on the way back home. So I blew through the roadblock at like 25 miles an hour. Came to a stop, rolled my window down and blindly backed up. Got to the cops and said ‘damn man, I barely even saw you guys as I was passing.’ Had my ID ready. Apologized and Politely told them, I didn’t recognize the road block due to them not having lights on. He laughed and told us to have a good night. It’s the demeanor man. If you had drugs on ya, you wouldn’t blindly back up into a road block you just skipped. Doesn’t hurt I have vision restrictions on my ID either.
I mean, only if he starts getting traction telling me more specific stories which could be dangerous for him, so I get the feeling it's just going to be done at some point soon.
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This entire series thus far has been the most interesting and most ACCURATE summary of the early 2000's W game.....everything from the prices, growers, areas of distribution, profits, laundering the money, transport......everything down to the T is so ACCURATE...... Only the ones who were truly involved in the 04-08 era know what the Golden years are. By the time 09,10,11 hit, the game was flooded. Everyone and their mama had a W connect and every other person you see on the street had a Verizon burner flip phone..... Everyone start pushing out if state to Ohio, Detroit, Tennessee, Oklahoma, because New York wasn't accessible. Vacuum sealing and taking the greyhound with 48 packs across the nation used to net the courier 6k per trip, and they'd be taking 2 trips a week. Money was everywhere. Crazy to hear this guy tell this story that so many other Northern California's were involved in. Even if this guy looks like a nerd/geek.....bemeive it or not, these nerdy guys were the ones with the Connect.
One of my friends we'll call P used to live in Louisville Ky and he told me some crazy stories about coming across bud and taking it all the time when he worked at UPS!!
@@nadasurf9009 damn. That's crazy. I only took drugs cause I knew no one would complain. I mean a few did, but when they wouldn't specify what they were shipping it was never looked into. I'm kinda jealous your buddy makes that much.
I remember working at a UPS in 95 unloading trucks and the DEA popped up and went to the trailer next to mine in which the supervisor personally unloaded the trailer until they found what they were looking for and they left. When the DEA walked in, those tough ass supervisor and managers looked like punks. This guy ain’t lying at all.
@@4h844 right they might about this stuff but not the ins and outs of if. having a general knowledge of it and a full working knowledge of it are 2 different things.
@@lordvika2526 You missed the point. These people are actively involved in the trade in some instances, and others are actively putting away top kingpins. You think that the CIA, DEA, IRS don't know the loopholes and strategies that exist? Or do you think only the smartest people decide to push drugs? It's an issue of scale. There are so many people committing crimes they try to focus their sights on the top dog. Follow the money has been a saying for hundreds of years. You really underestimate the resources of the government.
23:50 this guy says fed ex isn’t good because they route everything to Kentucky them says fed ex is the best because it’s on time and has good tracking? These stories are made up
@@user-hn3uu3gj2g he said ups didnt he? I think some of the stories might be made up he has too many pulled over stories. My theory is he is doing all this this stuff to launder his money 😂😂
@@user-hn3uu3gj2g wrong. USPS is the best as they require a warrant to search packages unlike FedEx/UPS which are private companies and can search at random. Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about to be saying he’s making up shit.
I stumbled across your channel this morning. I got my start much the same way you did, except in the south. Bounced to California for a few years and then came back East to take advantage of the arbitrage. Long story short, as I got older & had kids, legalization pushed me into the legal markets and I’m a farmer/greenhouse operator now 😂 Your channel definitely brings back memories though-good and bad 😂😂
Stoners driving around with silly amounts of weed gives the old days a bad name. How hard is it to not get stopped by the cops? There was so many of us driving around with all sort of gear in normal cars and never once stopped by the cops because we didn't act like fucking idiots. We were worried about a crash, not the the traffic cops. And yeah we started the same way, noticed the price difference between areas so found a retailer and figured out transport. I never sat on it though. We moved that shit immediately on the same day. Competition squeezed the margin too hard and we stopped after 6 glorious years. Also we didn't get that greedy, was making a tidy $15k every 3 weeks and had a office to make it look like I was working but just played world of warcraft most of the time.
@@yzyszn3774 I followed the rumours and asked around. I'm in Europe, so it's a little different. But essentially we all knew it was coming from Morocco, up in the Riff. So that's where we went. Turns out they were friendly and quite accommodating. I asked the first guy smoking hash, and followed the trail. When word got around I had money and was looking to buy, they put themselves in front of me. Same would apply in Cali I'm sure. Go to where the growers are known to be, follow the smell of weed and tell em you are buying.
Thin blue line sticker, Some type of fishing sticker, and a bunch of fishing poles in the back seat. 8/10 cops love fishing. Friend would remember all the different lakes and rivers along the way
From a retired US Postal Service manager, you're welcome! Great series. Totally understand why mailers often used Express and Priority: best tracking, delivery guaranteed. I'm the biggest drug dealer I know now. Thanks!
I am a 90s kid living in western ma and i can confirm how hard it was to get good weed back in the day. "Kind bud" came around once in a while. Other than that, it was 19 year old brick weed loaded with seeds and stems for 50 a quarter
Former UPS worker in Ky here. Sorry about those lost packages but they really helped on our end. Lol if you only knew how and why those “disappeared” would make great content.
The thought, effort and brilliant ideas and ways of working around what a person would probably call challenges. Being able to use the Intel they had to outsmart and always be one step ahead of the Law is what makes me so damn interested in these
It's all about what's legal. specific ways to ship it so they legally cannot open it, they must wait for you to sign and recieve the package and open it to raid you and charge you
Id bring a vaccum sealer with my alcohol gloves etc, and use charcoal lined bags just to get to a safe house then totally repack for transport. That was a whole 'nother process.
The most important thing he said in this whole thing is "at the time." The mail is still your best option, but much more difficult now. All these methods are more difficult now. They are still in use. But a lot more risky.
@@josephsmith3908 easy, yes. Risk free? Not nearly as risk free as 15 years ago. Depends on your threshold of risk also. Losing a package is part of the game. Just like your customer becoming desperate for whatever reason and sticking a pistol up your nose or getting t boned by a drink driver with 70 kilos of grass in your trunk and waking up handcuffed to a hospital bed with two broken legs and a rib perforated your lung. Shit happens. Snitches are everywhere, also. And then you have a situation like where I live. In Mississippi. In 2010, had you gotten pulled over and got caught with a half of a joint in your ashtray, and a Tennessee tag on your car, these people would push the issue and you could serve years in prison. I cannot tell you how many people I know from my time in the penitentiary that were there for what I feel like would not even registered a second glance in the Pacific Northwest. Also, I speak from experience. Which makes it all subjective. All I can really do is relate what I know, what I've seen, you get the idea. In 2004 I was at my friend's house and he got a kilogram of marijuana through FedEx. Came in the mail. You would never have known what was in that package. You know professionally sealed and everything it was was done right. But on the way home that night he stopped and got his mail out of the mailbox and and of course you know there was the there was the package, and 5:00 in the morning before the sun was coming up the local Metro narcotics unit kicked down the door. On the contrary here just around the beginning of covid I had a friend that was regularly receiving the kind of packages that that this gentleman was talking about sending through FedEx and so on and so forth. Whether it be marijuana, THC cartridges, a 12 lb bag of pure MDMA, kilograms of amphetamines, suitcases full of xanaxes. And he wasn't even the least bit worried about it you know he had the cops following him around everywhere he went and staking out his house and all that stuff and it just you know didn't really concern him. He felt safe and confident in the way him and his associates were doing their business. And it continued right on until he overdosed in a hotel room and died. I just feel like it's a considerably riskier proposition these days taking into account all the technology and money that law enforcement has to bring to bear on the situation then it was 10-15 years ago.
@@philbert006 nothing is risk free but on the other side sending it is as close to risk free as it gets as long as u take certain precautions I was a mid to high level trafficker I just came home after doing 12yrs recently I was caught because my connection in Mexico got caught and the swept a fuck ton of us so I understand what your saying but in fact it's never been easier if u have a connection u can sell on the dark net and never have to interact w your customers at all and just ship through mail as long as you take no international customers and take a few precautions your good and bc of crypto ur money has never been safer just saying im super familiar
Right. I feel like what you're saying is generally the same as what I'm saying. As you outline, the key is to insulate yourself from illegal activity. The more layers, the better. Of course, he basically says the same thing. But if you're building business, and aren't in a position to insulate yourself, which takes significant money, and forced to be right in the middle, it's a lot riskier these days. So let me kind of clarify what I'm saying. I have my share of experience in this field and I've seen various things. These are all facts. I can relate the facts as as I see them, which I did. Then at the end, just shared my judgment, my opinion, as it's been influenced by the facts of my situation. So in all reality, you really just can't make a blanket statement about this whole thing and not have flexibility in your mind to consider others situations and point of views., When you sell drugs, every time you walk out the door you're taking a federal chance. That's why you get paid the big bucks. I guess it's all on the individual as to what they consider to be risky or not. My opinion is as follows: it's not worth it. Others may have a different opinion and I'm okay with that. If I can't hear their stories and opinions without getting upset and cataloging that is something to consider when I make my decisions, well then I'm already screwed. 👍
@@josephsmith3908 nah bro don’t ship if your a bull plug the cops already know about you there just staking up charges that’s what they do then they lock you in as long as they can so you don’t sell again
Man the more I watch u , the more I think ur not some story teller , ur a fuckin genius dude , idk if u read comments but the same way u was explaining the way u need to speed so state trooper can pull that person up so your transporter can keep going without getting pulled over is genius move I had in my head if I ever was to do that
You mentioned the winter of 2009, right before the Whistler Olympics. I was a working making a drop-off drive from Van to Dawson Creek, BC but, that particular winter, December - February, was the worst blizzard BC had ever seen since 1850. The snow was coming in sideways in solid sheets with 10 ft visibility. The first storm lasted a week and only snow plows were able to get around. It was 30 hours round trip, Dawson Creek was -32C (poor Mennonite horses), we got hit by an avalanche near Chetwynd once but, the scariest part was the goddamn oil and lumber truckers doing 80 on 2 lane highways, getting right on your ass and pushing you to go faster than you can see ahead. Man, that was fun though.
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This is probably the best smuggling vod I've ever seen. I actually USED to have a high school buddy just like him. All the friends knew he was a trafficker and getting rich. It's just one of those things they don't talk ab O He did all in college that did this. But even though we were best friends he obviously couldn't give me exact dails like this. This was huge business all the way until 2010. Now with weed being legal everywhere, I wouldn't imagine this model isn't profitable anymore. It's really cool how they can talk about not now. Really breakdown how it went. This is soooo interesting!
Actually now with all the legalization the black market is popping off because people want good weed for good prices and with dispensary’s your getting decent weed but your taxed out the ass and with the black market you can buy pounds
I know you probably don’t remember me but I remember you born and raised in Portland I was young when I met you when I was 15 this is great shit everything is facts and I know some of the people he’s talking about keep up the great work glad to see you have success in something else
I got pulled over in FL during a rainstorm, I didn't know you had to have your headlights on when it rained. The state cop was very pleasant, I yes sirred and he let me off with a warning. If he pulled me over a second time a few miles down the road he would wonder why my hands were shaking
I knew ppl who would get packages from CA here in MA. one friend opened the box and the cops kicked the door in. that was once outta 100 times easy. it blew my mind . friends since passed away ... now I just go to the dispensary but nothing beats the pound of outdoor for 1000$
@@KCNYC it got messed up and sent to the post office and like a idiot he went to get it and thought everything was cool after he waited at home for few hours . Right when he opened it they kicked the door in. The feds were outside in the woods staking up watching the whole time.
Back when I was young I drove my dad's car and he was a huge racing fan and Chevy fan. You get caught speeding with a bunch of race stickers, it's probably going to be a ticket. Pissing off a Ford fan with my dad's big Chevy bowtie stickers certainly didn't help!
Hey Johnny, I'm going through a federal pardon process for 2 counts of misuse of a communications device o aid in a conspiracy over 40 years ago. A conspiracy I might add that there was more than enough evidence to dismiss me from it but as the DEA told me..." the more the merrier." A cannabis conspiracy...descheduling is close at hand. I'm hopeful for the pardon and descheduling of people convicted of cannabis.
Good story . I was with a friend of mine camping with his family in there property on the way to shelter cove. We made a left to this small little run down town these were lots people bought mostly for a hunting camp. Well they don't need police there they take care of anything and everything on there own. Well we had 3 growers around us 1 was stealing or water. The other one had iron gates at the bottom of this steep hill that only a good lifted 4×4 could make it up. The other guy we ran into while riding our dirt bikes met us on the family property as we were getting to close to his property he was on a dirt bike and packing. When we gave him the last name of the property we were on we were golden. So if your out there in the woods you better known someone or you will be food for the forest and they won't find you.
We always shipped money between the pages of books. You can fit a lot of cash in a hardback book. Then vacuum sealed for smell... Only lost one book in a decade
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Druggies buy drugs with 1s, 5s, 10s, 20s. Dealers don't takes small bills to banks for crispy 100s. Bags of cash because that's what comes off the streets.
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Had a cop say he was pacing us speeding, funny thing was, I always used cruise control when hauling, the fkn toll booth snitched on us that it smelled like weed and he wrote us all tickets for a blunt in the car.. but he never opened the trunk, thank god it was cold cause i was shaking like crazy hoping they wouldn't open the trunk.. lol
Well from my experience of running pot from one end of Michigan to the other end in the late 90s to early 2000s and down to Indiana. I ran pot all over and I never got pulled over I made sure every light worked I did the speed limit. I didn't smoke in the car. And I had one goal get the money home. Cops can take the cash if they want. So my rules was drive safely with a road worthy car and less stops as possible and no attention getting
What’s up, Johnny? In either this video, or one of your others, you mention the Philly guys might’ve been working a mobster named Scarpa. I believe an image of Scarpa even flashes for a second, as well. Thing is, it was most likely Scarfo, if they were from Philly. Scarpa was a Mobster based in Brooklyn, NY and, he was active well before any of your story took place. I really enjoy your videos. You’re definitely going to continue to grow this channel WITHOUT A DOUBT. All the best to you.
@Ben Smith I understand that. I was just saying that maybe there was a Scarfo family member around during Johnny’s time. I wasn’t aware of any Scarpa’s operating in Philly during the period Johnny mentions. That’s all.
That’s funny he says how efficient the delivery guys are. They used to be. (Former mailman here) Guys used to deliver the mail and have a truck with maybe 5-10 packages before 2018. After 2018 most of us carried around 100-200 packages a day. Delivery services became untimely with the rise of popularity in online shopping.
@@stella-vu8vh no you can not. Not with just a regular vacuum sealer. Plus nobody would ever do that. That completely destroys the bud structure. It’s not the 2000s NOBODY smokes that Mexican brick weed.
This dude is right about ups and all that I work as a package handler and almost every week I find a package reeking of that ZA getting shipped to like Key West Florida or some shit
That “if it’s 5 minutes late it’s been compromised!” Is an exaggeration. He’s right it gets there a specific day but the time is rarely that spot on. And you never go and retrieve a package if they call and say they need you to come pick it up. It’s best to have someone who works at whichever branch who’s a buddy on the inside.
