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Former South Florida drug smuggler Ken Behr returns to Honor Among Thieves Podcast to explain how he became a DEA confidential informant. Facing up to 25 years in prison after a marijuana bust, Ken recounts his decision to cooperate and the two years he spent working undercover while trying to stay in his young daughter’s life.

In this Part 2 interview with Nelson Rodriguez Jr., Ken shares stories of recorded drug deals, paid informants, undercover sting operations and asset seizures. He describes a close call in Jamaica, a $100,000 payout he says he witnessed another informant receive, and his role in an investigation involving a proposed 10,000-kilo cocaine deal linked to Canadian organized crime.

The conversation also explores the pressure of a RICO case, the personal cost of becoming an informant, and the operations that still trouble Ken decades later. He reflects on receiving probation, raising his children and leaving drug trafficking behind in this firsthand true crime account of cooperation, consequences and second chances.

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Chapters

00:00 Ken Behr: Drug Smuggler Turned DEA Informant

05:01 The Marijuana Bust That Led to a RICO Case

09:22 How a One-Pound Bust Exposed a Smuggling Network

17:35 Facing 25 Years: Pressure to Become an Informant

27:52 Why Drug Smugglers End Up Broke

37:18 How Ken Was Recruited as a DEA Informant

41:12 Paid DEA Informants and a $100,000 Payout

44:03 Meeting His DEA Handler: Code Name Kilo Bravo

50:23 Inside Ken’s First DEA Drug Sting

1:01:32 Wearing a Wire for a West Palm Beach Drug Bust

1:11:12 The Recording Equipment Ken Used for the DEA

1:22:09 Undercover in Jamaica: Ken’s Emergency Extraction

1:31:10 The 200-Kilo Hashish Sting in Fort Lauderdale

1:36:21 The Personal Cost of Becoming a DEA Informant

1:43:05 Canadian Mob: The Proposed 10,000-Kilo Cocaine Deal

1:52:09 DEA Cooperation and the Pressure to Name Names

1:59:46 Ken Behr on the War on Drugs

2:05:23 Leaving Drug Smuggling Behind: Ken’s Lessons

2:09:32 Ken Behr’s Book, Podcast, Crime Nightly and Redemption

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Former Miami drug dealer Westchester Stevie, an original member of the Miami Westchester Boys, gives a firsthand account of his rise through Miami’s nightclub drug trade. He explains how he went from selling small bags as a teenager to operating a 450-pound pill press, turning 25,000 ecstasy pills into 50,000 and beginning a 15-year drug run supplying street dealers, bars, restaurants and nightclubs across Miami.

Stevie recounts moving bricks, throwing a box of kilos from his car while escaping federal agents and fleeing to Disney World after federal agents raided his home. Following a two-year federal investigation, he turned himself in, received a 12-year sentence and ultimately served nearly seven years in federal prison.

Now working as a successful car salesman, Westchester Stevie reflects on the Westchester Boys, Miami’s cocaine and ecstasy eras, the consequences of fast money and how prison permanently changed his life. This episode of Honor Among Thieves Podcast offers a raw look inside Miami crime, drug trafficking, federal prison and one man’s journey away from the streets.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:52 Origins of Miami’s Westchester Boys

05:54 Scarface and Miami’s Fast-Money Era

10:06 The Wildest Westchester Boys Street Brawl

13:56 Building Miami’s Ecstasy Pill Operation

19:34 From 1,000 to 25,000 Ecstasy Pills

24:24 The Collapse of Miami’s Ecstasy Era

30:00 From Ecstasy to a 15-Year Cocaine Run

35:28 Escaping Police With Kilos of Cocaine

40:24 Surrendering and a 12-Year Federal Sentence

42:09 FDC Miami, Gustavo Falcon and a Prison Brawl

46:48 FCI Oakdale and the Prison Cellphone Business

49:47 FCI Bastrop: Cartel Drones and Prison Gangs

52:53 Refusing a Mandatory Prison Head Tattoo

56:36 From Drug Dealer to Successful Car Salesman

1:01:38 Miami Grow Houses and a 450-Plant Police Raid

1:07:11 Aggravated Assault and Boot Camp at 18

1:09:34 His Warning to Young Drug Dealers

1:11:42 Legacy, Redemption and Faith After Prison

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Former Stripper turned drug dealer Danielle Sachs reveals how painkiller addiction pulled her into fake prescriptions, pharmacy fraud and Florida’s pill-mill economy. In this unfiltered Honor Among Thieves Podcast interview, Danielle explains how she sold prescription pills from Miami and Palm Beach to Kentucky, landed on Gainesville’s Most Wanted list and eventually became involved in a murder case featured on A&E’s The First 48.

After her arrest was captured by The First 48, Danielle spent nearly four years in county jail before receiving a 15-year sentence and serving 13 years in Florida state prison. She breaks down Florida’s principal law, life inside a women’s prison and the dangerous prison-contraband economy that continued her cycle of criminal behavior.

Danielle also shares the moment confinement forced her to confront who she had become, how faith transformed the final years of her sentence and how she rebuilt her life after prison. This is a raw true-crime story about prescription drug dealing, opioid addiction, murder, women’s prison, prison contraband, redemption and second chances.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

06:18 Rebellion, Running Away and Early Trouble

18:17 Stripping at With a Fake ID

26:09 The Fake Prescription Drug Operation

34:22 Landing on Gainesville’s Most Wanted

40:11 Drug Court and Florida’s Pill-Mill Era

42:42 Selling Florida Pain Pills in Kentucky

57:27 Rehab, Sobriety and the Halfway House

1:05:40 Relapsing Into Prescription Drug Dealing

1:27:31 Cocaine, Pills and a Total Downward Spiral

1:32:29 The Night That Became a Murder Case

1:59:27 Homicide Detectives Close In

2:05:31 Arrested on Camera for The First 48

2:09:07 Bonded Out and Going on the Run

2:14:03 Captured on a First-Degree Murder Charge

2:22:33 County Jail and a Forbidden Relationship

2:31:39 Building a Drug Operation Behind Bars

2:37:57 Smuggling Contraband Through Prison Visitation

2:44:41 Confinement and a Spiritual Turning Point

2:52:44 Life After Prison and Danielle’s New Mission

2:59:05 Danielle’s Message About Second Chances

3:01:32 Redemption

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Barry Seal’s son, Aaron Seal, joins the Honor Among Thieves Podcast to reveal the true story behind his father’s $1 million cocaine-smuggling flights for the Medellín Cartel. Aaron explains how Barry went from a TWA pilot to flying massive loads for Pablo Escobar and the Ochoa brothers—eventually earning as much as $2.5 million per trip.

Going beyond the Tom Cruise movie American Made, Aaron separates Hollywood fiction from reality and addresses the questions surrounding Barry Seal’s connections to the CIA, DEA and White House. He also explains why he believes the federal government failed to protect Barry before his 1986 assassination.

Aaron opens up about losing his father, his own struggles with drug smuggling and addiction, and his extraordinary decision to forgive a man involved in Barry Seal’s murder. He also reveals how he eventually became close friends with Pablo Escobar’s son.

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Chapters

0:00 Barry Seal’s $1 Million Cocaine Flights

6:09 American Made: Barry Seal Fact vs. Hollywood Fiction

11:58 Growing Up as Barry Seal’s Son

16:38 $1 Million Flights for the Medellín Cartel

18:21 Barry Seal, the CIA and the Bay of Pigs

24:59 Barry Seal’s Mena, Arkansas Contra Operation

29:20 Photographing Pablo Escobar Loading Cocaine

32:32 Why the Government Failed to Protect Barry Seal

39:06 The Day Barry Seal Was Assassinated

45:15 Aaron Seal Forgives His Father’s Hitmen

53:27 Barry Seal’s Son Becomes a Drug Smuggler

57:09 A $400-a-Day Opioid Addiction

1:06:45 66:45 Barry Seal’s Son Befriends Pablo Escobar’s Son

1:11:38 Barry Seal and the “Snitch” Debate

1:16:45 Why Aaron Forgave the Escobar Family

1:21:37 CIA Drug-Trafficking Allegations and the Drug War

1:27:45 Redemption and Barry Seal’s Legacy

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Former Miami car thief Franky Faze joins the Honor Among Thieves Podcast to reveal how growing up around gangs in Little Havana led to marijuana arrests, stolen cars and Florida prison. Franky explains how he stole vehicles from rental companies and car dealerships while earning approximately $400 to $600 per car.

Franky recounts driving away during a dealership test drive, unknowingly stealing a public official’s vehicle and being kidnapped at gunpoint by rival car thieves. His downfall began when his lookout’s mother discovered a stack of cash and brought her son to Miami-Dade police, where he revealed Franky’s movements and connected him to multiple grand theft auto cases.

Franky also discusses being arrested approximately 20 times, spending three birthdays in state custody and what prison taught him about consequences, loyalty and letting go of life outside. This documentary-style true crime interview explores Miami car theft, Little Havana street culture, incarceration and Franky’s life after crime.

Topics Covered:

Growing up around gangs in Little Havana

Selling marijuana at church and his first arrest

Learning how stolen-car operations worked

Meeting the tow-truck driver known as “The Rabbit”

Earning $400 to $600 for each stolen car

Targeting rental companies and car dealerships

Driving away during a BMW test drive

Unknowingly stealing a public official’s vehicle

Being kidnapped and threatened at gunpoint

How GPS and LoJack changed car theft

His lookout’s mother going to Miami-Dade police

Being connected to multiple grand theft auto cases

Spending three birthdays in Florida state custody

Prison, consequences and life after crime

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Chapters

00:00 Franky Faze: Former Miami Car Thief

04:07 Growing Up in Little Havana Gangland

11:04 Selling Marijuana at Church at 15

19:47 His Grandfather’s “Walk Alone” Rule

24:32 Learning to Steal Cars in Miami

32:38 Targeting Rental Companies and Car Dealerships

34:25 Stealing a BMW During a Test Drive

38:42 Kidnapped at Gunpoint by Rival Car Thieves

48:21 Bentleys, Rolls-Royces and Violent Debt Collection

53:09 Returning to Car Theft for the Thrill

59:42 The Mistake That Sent Him to Prison

1:01:15 His Lookout’s Mother Goes to Miami-Dade Police

1:06:14 Police Try to Link Him to Nine Grand Theft Auto Cases

1:14:17 Entering Florida State Prison

1:18:19 Gainesville Prison, Work Camp and Work Release

1:25:21 Cops, Robbers and Refusing to Become an Informant

1:31:05 Graffiti Dispute Leads to Another Arrest

1:37:39 Franky Faze’s Life After Crime and Prison

1:43:46 Redemption

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