The Debrief With MyronGainesX - Former Fed Explains Biggest Dirty Cop Bust EVER! Operation Shattered Shield

00:00:00.600 All right, and we are live. What's up, guys? Welcome to Fed It, man. We got a great show

00:00:04.300 planned for y'all. We're going to talk about Operation Shattered Shield, the largest corrupt

00:00:08.840 police bust in New Orleans history. It's going to be lit. Let's get into it, baby. It's going

00:00:13.840 to be a good one.

00:00:18.580 Move over, Denzel.

00:00:20.080 Okay, guys, I used to be a special agent. I'm launching your investigations. This is

00:00:24.360 the arrest paperwork. Okay, so here is the booking. Cases that I did mostly were human

00:00:31.500 smuggling and drug trafficking. Those are like two crimes that I'm a very good agent,

00:00:35.860 very strong agent. I did a lot of big cases. I've done Title III intercepts, which is basically

00:00:39.500 listening to phones. I've written hundreds of affidavits to arrest people. I've done,

00:00:44.760 I've been to Grand Jury and testified a million times. I've done big cases. I've done. All

00:00:51.140 right, cool. What's up, guys? Welcome to Fed It, man. I'm really excited for

00:00:54.280 today's episode, man. You guys could be anywhere else, but you're here with us.

00:01:00.220 So I appreciate that greatly, man. And we got a special guest in the house. You want to

00:01:04.840 introduce yourself, Ms. Co-host, for today's episode?

00:01:09.700 Hi, I'm Jay.

00:01:11.540 You have anything else you want to tell the people?

00:01:14.280 No.

00:01:14.940 That's it?

00:01:15.380 I don't know what I'm doing, so I hope it goes well.

00:01:17.480 Okay, fantastic. All right, guys. So yeah, welcome to the show, guys. Today's episode

00:01:23.640 is going to be great. I'm really excited for it. I did a lot of research for this one.

00:01:28.240 We haven't done a public corruption case yet on this. Well, actually, no, I told you guys

00:01:32.600 about that time I arrested Border Patrol agent for being a pedo. But this is like real corruption,

00:01:36.840 like misusing your authority type corruption. So this case, guys, is a case from the 90s.

00:01:43.080 We're actually going to break down two different documentaries that talk about this investigation.

00:01:47.180 So I appreciate that, that you guys are here with us. So let me see here with the super

00:01:51.500 chats. Can we start highlighting some of them here? We got, okay, so five-star sports betting,

00:01:55.760 bruh. Yeah, I appreciate it, my friend. And sorry for delay, guys. We had a Zoom call right

00:01:59.740 before this one. So, and then we got five-star sports betting goes, Myron, have you ever been

00:02:03.680 shot at or even hit? Was there ever a time I might not make it home tonight? Cross your mind

00:02:08.580 in the line of work?

00:02:10.080 I've been in some pretty dangerous situations. I'm not going to lie, but I've never been shot

00:02:13.840 at, never been hit. So that's good. But there were times where like we were doing, you know,

00:02:18.180 very high-risk warrants. And I was like, oh shit, well, this, this is, this is very dangerous. But

00:02:23.560 I got to a point where, so when I was on a job, guys, I was like, my primary focus was being the

00:02:30.820 case agent. And the case agent guy is the person that controls the investigation. They're the one

00:02:35.220 dealing with the U.S. attorney's office. They're the one writing the affidavits. They're the ones

00:02:37.880 that are running the case. Like they're managing the case. So when you're the case agent and you're

00:02:43.680 doing all this stuff, you don't have time to like sit there and like, you know, do surveillance on

00:02:47.800 guys before you're going to arrest them, all other shit. So a lot of times when I had high-risk

00:02:51.180 arrest warrants, I would either delegate it to our SWAT team or I would give the warrant over to the

00:02:55.500 marshals and they would go get them for me. So that saves a lot of time, bro, because like,

00:03:00.180 like we call it betting down somebody down. Whenever you have a warrant for someone or you know you're

00:03:03.760 about to arrest them, you got to watch them for a couple of days to see where they live,

00:03:06.720 you know, see what their pattern of life is so that when you actually hit the house,

00:03:09.820 you know, he's going to be there. And that shit is extremely time consuming. So what I would do is

00:03:13.980 I would just give my warrants over to the marshals and they will go get them. And the thing is,

00:03:18.200 is that I had a relationship with the U.S. marshals. There were, I was friends with one of

00:03:21.040 them on the Mexican border. So they would do their little roundups like once a week. Right. And they

00:03:26.020 will go get the fugitives when he went and got, he would get my guy purposely last because I used to

00:03:29.840 wake up late and, uh, and then I would go and meet them at the, uh, at the station once he picked

00:03:35.100 them up for me. And then I just go in there and do the interview and he would sit in and everything

00:03:38.060 else like that. So, uh, you know, cause I was like very, um, if I worked with you, I would share

00:03:42.940 my informants. I would share my information, everything else like that, which is rare,

00:03:46.160 you know, federal law enforcement, everyone wants to kind of work for themselves. And,

00:03:48.920 you know, this is my informant and I'm not sharing information or whatever. But like,

00:03:52.000 if I worked with you, I was always very forthcoming with my investigation. So like,

00:03:55.420 and marshals don't really do complex investigations like that. So when you bring them into something like

00:03:58.860 that, that's like a big, sexy case, they're going to go above and beyond to help you.

00:04:02.200 So I always used to do that. He would go get my guys for me. He'd go in there with a SWAT team,

00:04:05.880 pick them up, blah, blah, blah. And then I'll just show up, do my interview, everything else like

00:04:09.420 that, because you don't have time to bed your guys down, your targets down when you're actually

00:04:13.500 doing big cases, which this case we're about to break down was huge, which we're going to talk

00:04:17.020 about that. Um, and I'm going to give you guys some insight as well, because I've done

00:04:20.400 investigations very similar to this as well. Um, okay. And then what do we got here?

00:04:24.420 Anything, uh, we got nine, um, 12 pack of modelos. Was that Chris mugshot? Yeah, probably.

00:04:30.480 Uh, that's actually Len Davis guys, who was one of the main corrupt police officers in

00:04:35.580 this investigation, which we're going to get into. Uh, and then we got Nigel Sapp,

00:04:38.520 20 bucks. You should have done the Baltimore gun trace task force. That's some serious

00:04:41.720 public corruption. Don't worry. I'm already ahead of you. My friend, I watched that, um,

00:04:45.260 that HBO special. We run this city and I already have the documents for it. So I'm already a step

00:04:50.260 ahead of you, my friend, but a good catch there. Um, we're going to definitely break that one

00:04:54.420 down too. Uh, let's see here. And then we got, uh, Chris Clayton, five bucks. Thank you so

00:04:58.420 much. And then we got Nate Draco. That intro music makes you want to be, makes you want

00:05:02.720 to be a hype man. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I'm going to redo that, that intro, uh,

00:05:06.240 Kaizen graphics. If you're in here, bro, let me know, because I definitely want to redo that

00:05:09.800 intro. I think we can make it better. Um, as you guys know, we're always trying to improve

00:05:13.100 the quality of the show. All right, cool. So, um, I got my notes here. Uh, I took a lot

00:05:18.160 of notes for this one. I'm really excited to share this case with you guys. We're going to

00:05:21.440 be breaking down two different documentaries. Uh, one is from vice. The other one is from

00:05:25.160 the FBI files. Um, and the one from the FBI files, I think is better because it's a little

00:05:30.240 bit more detailed, but we're going to be flip-flopping between the two and breaking down different

00:05:33.840 aspects of the case because, you know, there's portions of the vice documentary that shows

00:05:37.260 things that I think are very important and relevant that you guys can learn from. And

00:05:39.920 then there's also parts from the original documentary that I think you guys are going

00:05:43.800 to be able to learn from as well. So, uh, before we get this thing going, there's already

00:05:47.660 500 guys in here. So please like the video, man, uh, subscribe to the channel if you

00:05:51.800 haven't already, because there's no one else on YouTube that is a former special agent

00:05:55.720 with Homeland Security or any federal agency for that matter, that breaks down these cases

00:05:59.280 to the degree that I do. I know there's a lot of lawyers on YouTube that break down cases,

00:06:02.840 but they can't really tell y'all how these investigations are done from an investigator

00:06:06.580 standpoint because a prosecutor and an investigator are two completely different things. So cool.

00:06:13.760 Uh, you have anything you want to tell the people Jay, before I get into this bad boy?

00:06:17.700 Um, no. Okay. No. All right. Cool. Um, and she's involved in the legal world as well, guys. So

00:06:26.040 she's going to, uh, know some of the concepts and everything else like that, that we're going

00:06:30.200 to be talking about. Um, cool. So we're going to start guys by reacting to this, um, documentary.

00:06:37.100 I'm going to be stopping it periodically to talk about certain things, give you guys a little bit

00:06:40.640 more info. Um, but this is from the FBI files guys. So, uh, let's go ahead and start breaking this

00:06:46.200 bad boy down now. I'm going to share a screen with y'all. Okay.

00:06:52.800 Russia narcotics. The drug lords have all the power, even over the police. Corruption in New

00:06:59.240 Orleans grew like cancer, eating away at public safety and threatening to destroy the city.

00:07:05.360 Lord by easy wealth, crooked cops began breaking the laws they were sworn to uphold. I'm Jim

00:07:11.840 Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office. When it became clear that the police

00:07:16.680 could no longer police themselves, the FBI had to get involved. It was a case where the

00:07:22.760 line between friends and enemies became dangerously blurred. So just so you guys know, um, the FBI

00:07:29.440 is their primary agency that investigates public corruption in the United States. Okay. The federal

00:07:34.360 Bureau of Investigation under the department of us justice. Um, and now do other agencies also

00:07:40.660 investigate public corruption to a degree? Yes. But the FBI lead agency when it comes to public

00:07:45.080 corruption. So when it's, uh, when we're talking about arresting dirty police officers, um, dirty

00:07:48.780 agents, dirty, um, dirty government employees, uh, you know, people that are involved in espionage,

00:07:54.460 like, you know, your boy, uh, Snowden, right. He went ahead and leaked secrets and he was, uh,

00:07:58.840 he was had an NSA clearance and SCIA clearance. Um, so when it comes to any type of public corruption,

00:08:04.180 mayors, governors, whatever it may be, the FBI typically takes the lead on these types of

00:08:08.960 investigations. Okay. New Orleans, 1993. Now, New Orleans in 1993 guys was a different world.

00:08:19.520 And I'm going to show, uh, show you guys that here. Um, right now, this is what was going,

00:08:23.900 what New Orleans was like in 1993. But for some residents, there's a dark side to this tourist

00:08:29.500 hotspot. And tonight the problem of violent crime is an epidemic in New Orleans. Once again,

00:08:36.160 the big easy is headed for a record setting year for murders, 389 murders, four to five

00:08:42.360 times the rate of other cities, which is insane guys. Um, you know, I was born in 90. So this

00:08:50.060 is a little bit, you know, before my time, but anyone that's older in the chat understands,

00:08:54.780 uh, New Orleans was really dangerous at this point in the early nineties. I mean, four times

00:09:00.120 the national average and murder. So this is kind of to illustrate for you guys, what the atmosphere

00:09:05.040 was like, um, back then. When I was around about 13 years old, things begin to change in the projects.

00:09:12.920 Crack cocaine had a tremendous impact in the African-American community because these people

00:09:17.200 were already poor. So crack cocaine guys is basically cocaine that's, you know, boiled up.

00:09:22.540 And what you're able to do is you're taking, able to take the powder-based cocaine,

00:09:25.720 cook it up, spread it much further. And it's much cheaper, more addictive and potent than regular

00:09:31.560 cocaine. Okay. And this, it was very popular. Obviously the crack epidemic, um, went crazy in

00:09:37.560 the eighties and, uh, it really affected the lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, which tended to be,

00:09:43.360 uh, predominantly African-American. So, uh, you know, obviously New Orleans is, um, you know,

00:09:49.660 not an exception to that.

00:09:50.600 And they would do anything to get it. It was crazy.

00:09:54.820 You know, when crack was introduced, it changed the game. You know, you started seeing,

00:09:59.600 you know, people hanging on the corners, you know, these areas that were really nice areas. Now,

00:10:04.520 some of these areas are really hot areas. But back then, you know, you would see the tennis

00:10:09.420 shoes, throw it up on the line. You know, some of these corners becoming what they would say,

00:10:14.260 million-dollar corners.

00:10:15.340 The reality is that if you're dealing crack, you have to pack a gun.

00:10:22.060 Yes. Very, very violent times, guys. Um, because obviously everyone is fighting to sell the same

00:10:27.640 product.

00:10:28.440 So what it led to indirectly was an armed force of cocaine entrepreneurs.

00:10:37.400 Cocaine-preneurs.

00:10:38.620 The city famous for celebrating life.

00:10:41.180 Or crack-a-noors, I guess, in this case.

00:10:42.640 Even in death, has set a record no one can tolerate.

00:10:47.260 At the time, New Orleans was leading the country in the number of homicides.

00:10:52.060 Okay, so Kathy Adams, FBI special agent, retired. This woman was one of the case agents on this

00:10:57.500 case, guys. So as I explained before, what is a case agent? A case agent is a person that manages

00:11:01.820 and directs the case. Um, she was the co-case agent in this case. You guys are going to meet the

00:11:06.460 actual case agent here in a second. And his name was, uh, I think, Stan Hatton.

00:11:10.680 And violent crime. So there wasn't a lack of work for law enforcement. It was having to prioritize

00:11:19.420 the resources to address the problems.

00:11:23.200 Okay. So now you guys kind of understand what the atmosphere was like in the early 90s in New Orleans.

00:11:30.840 Tourists packed the city looking for a good time. Not all of it leaked. Cocaine was in demand,

00:11:36.900 and the dealers cashed in.

00:11:41.820 It was a violent business.

00:11:46.220 For protection, the drug lords turned to those whose duty was to serve and protect.

00:11:57.140 Officers lined their pockets while enforcing the will.

00:11:59.640 How's the sound, by the way, guys? Give me one in the chat if you guys, uh, the sound is good.

00:12:03.560 Um, but yeah, this is crazy shit, man. And this was actually going on in New Orleans where they

00:12:07.640 were fucking beating the shit out of the dealers.

00:12:11.960 They controlled turf-like thugs, terrorizing innocent civilians.

00:12:19.240 Agent Stan Hatton of the FBI's public corruption unit in New Orleans.

00:12:23.100 Light echo? Hold on. Let me see if I can get rid of it right now, guys.

00:12:25.960 I want to make sure y'all are good here. Okay.

00:12:31.920 Let me know if it echoes now, guys. Give me one in the chat. I'm going to play it again. Let me know.

00:12:37.140 This is Stan Hatton, by the way, guys. This is the case agent on the actual case.

00:12:40.000 ...was aware of the growing problem.

00:12:43.380 Fire intelligence told us that there was a great variety of corruption, uh, taking place among,

00:12:48.480 uh, many different officers on the department. However, uh, this, the one thing that seemed to be the most...

00:12:54.320 ...no echoes now. We good? All right, baby. That's what we're talking about.

00:12:57.460 Okay. Awesome.

00:12:59.320 Uh, all right. So this is Stan Hatton right here, guys. This was the actual case agent.

00:13:02.120 He was assigned to the public corruption squad, uh, for FBI, um, New Orleans at the time, back in the 90s.

00:13:09.760 ...most pervasive was that officers were out there working with drug dealers on the street,

00:13:14.060 were protecting drug dealers on the street, and were stealing money and drugs from drug dealers on the street.

00:13:18.960 One such drug dealer was Terry Adams, known on the streets as Scaboo.

00:13:33.480 He was a small-time operator who was being extorted by Officer Sammy Williams.

00:13:38.420 So you got what I need? Come on now, give me what I need.

00:13:40.840 Okay, so what is extortion, guys? Basically, extortion is, uh, a promise of violence against you

00:13:47.540 unless you comply, typically, by paying money or some type of other asset to someone

00:13:51.560 that, um, that is protecting you or whatever.

00:13:54.440 Now, this was very common with the mafia.

00:13:56.040 You know, they tell businesses, hey, you want to operate here?

00:13:58.380 You want to pay us protection costs?

00:14:00.240 You need to go ahead and pay us, you know, a certain amount of money or whatever it may be,

00:14:03.600 or else your business is going to get fucked up.

00:14:05.260 So this guy was a drug dealer, and he was getting extorted by the police.

00:14:08.380 Now, some of you guys are probably wondering, well, whoa, whoa, hold on, wait.

00:14:10.640 Wait, Myra, why the hell were the police extorting drug dealers in the early 90s?

00:14:14.980 Well, guys, there's a couple reasons.

00:14:16.360 Number one, we knew that, uh, crack was exploding, right, in the United States in the 80s

00:14:21.220 and leaked into the 90s.

00:14:22.420 New Orleans was a very poor city.

00:14:24.100 The murder rates were crazy.

00:14:25.600 And we're also going to show here, which I'm going to pull this up for y'all right now,

00:14:29.280 what was the pay like for police officers back then, guys?

00:14:32.520 And it's actually fucking crazy.

00:14:34.140 It was a very dangerous job.

00:14:35.360 So we're going to play this other clip right here.

00:14:38.380 Just so you guys kind of get an insight.

00:14:39.840 And this guy right here is, uh, Deez, guys, who was a part of this documentary.

00:14:43.140 He was one of the corrupt police officers that was indicted.

00:14:45.280 Survived the fifth.

00:14:50.600 The dangerous work demanded of cops in the district far outweighed the compensation.

00:14:56.200 We didn't get paid a whole lot of money.

00:14:58.080 You know, I don't know.

00:14:58.720 That's one of the cops that was, uh, arrested.

00:15:00.460 Deez.

00:15:00.680 I don't know exactly what it was.

00:15:02.380 I don't know if it was $10, $12.

00:15:04.020 Holy!

00:15:05.180 1993 average incomes.

00:15:06.460 New Orleans Police Department.

00:15:07.320 16, uh, what?

00:15:10.260 1664?

00:15:11.400 Uh, or 16, yeah.

00:15:12.900 Yeah, $16,640,000 per year, it looks like.

00:15:16.280 And then New Orleans, $24,000.

00:15:17.840 That was, as the average in the United States average was $26,362.

00:15:21.400 I think that's a, that's a typo there.

00:15:23.480 Um, which is fucking crazy.

00:15:25.220 So, let's go ahead and look at how much that was in today's day and age.

00:15:29.180 So, $16,640,000 in 1993, today, has the buying power of about $32,000, which is fucking nothing, guys.

00:15:40.300 You know what I'm saying?

00:15:41.300 Uh, that's barely anything, okay?

00:15:44.220 Compared to United States average and New Orleans.

00:15:47.240 So, obviously, anytime you have police departments where they're getting paid that little, right for corruption.

00:15:52.240 Anytime you guys go through a background check for a law enforcement agency, like, for example, when I went through with HSI, they do a very thorough background check.

00:15:58.500 And most police agencies do a thorough background check.

00:16:00.640 And the reason why is because they know when you're not getting, when you're in debt or you're not getting paid or whatever it may be, you're going to be more, uh, susceptible to corruption.

00:16:10.020 So, in this case, uh, the New Orleans Police Department wasn't making shit.

00:16:13.920 And then on top of that, it was extremely dangerous, okay?

00:16:17.520 Um, and $26,000 back then was the roughly of about $52,000 today, guys.

00:16:23.320 So, that kind of puts things in perspective.

00:16:25.420 You know, not giving these guys, uh, you know, out for their corruption, but you can kind of see where they were coming from, right?

00:16:30.700 You made more money committing crimes versus protecting the people against it.

00:16:34.340 Listen, the pay wasn't good.

00:16:38.260 Streetcar operators made more than some cops.

00:16:41.220 Certainly more than entry-level cops at the time.

00:16:43.900 That was one of the prosecutors on the case.

00:16:45.440 Okay, so let's, so now you guys know kind of what was going on.

00:16:52.820 We'll go back to the original documentary.

00:16:54.240 So, Skaboo, right here, is getting extorted by Sammy Williams, okay?

00:16:59.160 A police officer for the New Orleans Police Department.

00:17:01.640 But this time, the protection money Skaboo paid Williams wasn't enough.

00:17:08.060 On Christmas Eve, the officer demanded that Skaboo pay him $10,000 cash by 6 p.m.

00:17:14.120 If Skaboo failed to show, Williams threatened to beat him and guaranteed him 20 years to life.

00:17:22.800 So, he told him, yo, you got to pay 10k up, bro.

00:17:27.240 And the drug dealers can't do nothing.

00:17:28.600 What are they going to do?

00:17:29.100 Go to the police and be like, hey, listen, bro.

00:17:31.320 Uh, you know, I'm getting extorted.

00:17:33.780 I know I'm selling drugs and everything, but I'm getting extorted, man.

00:17:36.080 This money is mine.

00:17:37.020 Like, bruh.

00:17:40.540 You can't do nothing.

00:17:42.020 They can't do shit.

00:17:43.160 So, this guy takes it upon himself, and you're going to see what he does here next.

00:17:46.380 Shout out to my guy, Ed Lattimore, in the chat.

00:17:47.820 He goes, uh, they did the same background check for my secret clearance in the Army.

00:17:51.400 Wanted to make sure I wasn't in debt and would sell secrets.

00:17:53.580 Absolutely, bro.

00:17:54.460 They take that shit very seriously, especially now.

00:17:57.060 And then we got Raul here.

00:17:58.420 Goes, PDs do credit checks for this reason.

00:18:00.060 This is why we need to pay our officers more.

00:18:01.720 Keep up the hard work.

00:18:02.420 And God bless you, Myron.

00:18:03.160 Thank you so much, my friend.

00:18:04.080 I appreciate it.

00:18:04.860 Hope you guys are enjoying this breakdown.

00:18:06.940 So, let's keep going.

00:18:07.400 If he was at the office at 5 o'clock on fucking Christmas Eve, that's how I could tell this

00:18:30.980 guy was a hard charger, bro.

00:18:32.000 Christmas Eve, you ain't going to catch no agents in the fucking office, bro.

00:18:34.640 I was, like, the only guy that would be in the office on Christmas Eve or on Christmas

00:18:38.820 Day working.

00:18:39.640 So, um, yeah.

00:18:41.440 You know what I'm saying?

00:18:41.820 I like the video, by the way, guys.

00:18:43.240 So, yeah.

00:18:43.760 This guy, you could already tell.

00:18:44.780 I mean, he was a case agent on this thing, so I already knew he was a hard worker just

00:18:47.780 from, you know, to put a case together like this, I could only imagine the work that

00:18:50.880 it took.

00:18:51.500 But, uh, yeah.

00:18:52.520 This guy was definitely a hard charger.

00:18:53.900 You ain't going to find many agents in the office on Christmas Eve.

00:18:56.220 Didn't have the $10,000, the corrupt...

00:18:58.480 Let alone talking to a potential cooperating witness.

00:19:01.060 A cop was demanding in less than an hour.

00:19:02.960 What are the name of the officers?

00:19:05.600 When Scaboo contacted me, we realized that that was our best chance to do something about

00:19:09.580 police corruption.

00:19:11.100 And I immediately arranged to meet him and debrief him in person.

00:19:15.420 There was no way we could get everything together by 6 o'clock.

00:19:18.100 By the time I met with him, it was 30 minutes before the deadline.

00:19:21.460 Yeah, I feel pretty good about that.

00:19:22.900 Haddon and his partner quickly hashed out a plan.

00:19:25.380 This is, I think, the best one we've got.

00:19:26.460 Scaboo would meet the officer as arranged, but he'd be wearing an FBI wire.

00:19:35.380 The agents couldn't arrange $10,000 on such short notice.

00:19:38.980 So, this is very important to know.

00:19:42.620 Electronic surveillance, guys, is like the cornerstone of getting evidence when it comes

00:19:47.820 to the feds.

00:19:48.900 You need to be able to video record or audio record criminals when they're conducting

00:19:54.640 criminal activity.

00:19:55.580 You know, this is how conspiracy cases are built.

00:19:57.560 This is how large-scale investigations are built.

00:19:59.900 You need informants.

00:20:00.640 You need to incorporate defendants.

00:20:02.060 You know, you need to undercover agents, which this case is going to show you guys all of

00:20:04.920 that, but in this case, so this guy getting extorted, he owes $10,000 to this dirty cop

00:20:10.160 on Christmas Eve, and he's telling him, hey, pay your extortion fees.

00:20:13.580 So, what does he do?

00:20:14.200 He calls the FBI, listen, man, this shit's going on.

00:20:16.840 I don't have the money, whatever.

00:20:17.820 So, this agent meets up with him with another guy.

00:20:20.360 Hey, well, why are you up?

00:20:21.880 Go meet with him.

00:20:22.760 Let's see what we get, because they know at this point, the FBI knows that there's

00:20:25.860 dirty cops in the New Orleans Police Department, but they don't have anyone on the inside

00:20:29.400 or anyone dealing with them.

00:20:30.300 So, this guy calls in, and they're able to finally get their foot in the door.

00:20:34.920 In this public corruption case, and this is how it all begins.

00:20:37.340 So, you know, and this is great that he was able to kind of do this on the fly, meet with

00:20:40.940 them so quickly, wire them up, and then send them back out there, because to be able to

00:20:45.140 get $10,000, guys, within an hour or two is impossible.

00:20:48.440 You know what I mean?

00:20:48.820 You're going to need something called purchase of evidence funds, right?

00:20:51.760 And this is very difficult to procure because you need to do memorandums, send them up the

00:20:56.120 chain, go ahead and get your first-line supervisor to approve, and then a second-line supervisor,

00:21:02.460 something like $10,000 back then in 1993, which would be the equivalent to, like, damn near

00:21:06.780 $20,000.

00:21:07.480 Now, you would probably need at least, like, a third-line supervisor's signature to get

00:21:11.300 that kind of money to be able to do a meet like this.

00:21:14.420 So, you know, they don't have the ability to get that money now, but what they're going

00:21:17.780 to do is they're going to go ahead and send them in, and you guys are going to see what

00:21:19.860 they do next.

00:21:21.480 And then Super Chat's here, Raul.

00:21:23.300 We got Gabriel Badwolf goes $5 all the way from the UK.

00:21:25.680 UK does similar checks before, granting security clearance.

00:21:27.700 My brother had to go, had to get it for a government contract this company had for IT support.

00:21:31.980 Yes, guys, when it comes to getting a clearance or being in any type of position where it's

00:21:35.440 public trust, they're going to go through a background check, and they're going to make

00:21:37.420 sure that you're not in debt, because when you're in crazy debt, you're going to do stupid

00:21:40.560 shit and sell secrets and or put yourself and or, you know, the US government or the

00:21:45.480 government that you work for in a compromising position, okay, for money.

00:21:50.480 Skabu would have to convince the cop to accept smaller payments over several meetings.

00:21:55.440 Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

00:21:56.300 Okay, they could be rough.

00:21:57.300 Well, you know that.

00:21:57.900 You worked with them.

00:21:58.620 Yeah, I have.

00:22:00.260 Assured by Haddon that he would...

00:22:01.680 Which that was a very intelligent plan, by the way, by the case agent here, to tell the

00:22:06.520 informant that you're going to pay him in increments.

00:22:08.360 And the reason why that's important, guys, is you're going to be able to document each separate

00:22:12.400 event, okay, and, you know, memorialize it in a report, and you're going to have more

00:22:18.360 evidence.

00:22:18.660 You're going to be able to build up more evidence to show a pattern of activity.

00:22:22.620 Be under constant surveillance.

00:22:24.480 Skabu took his position.

00:22:36.140 Officer Sammy Williams was still on duty when he arrived with a prisoner cuffed in the back

00:22:40.500 seat of his cruiser.

00:22:41.320 So this fucking guy shows up with someone in the back of his cruiser.

00:22:49.080 JD Trini goes, when I started back in 2014, my salary was roughly $35,000 in a city that

00:22:53.200 is one of the highest in crime.

00:22:54.540 It forced you to do a lot of overtime just to get by.

00:22:56.500 Yeah, man.

00:22:56.920 It's tough, bro.

00:22:57.520 It's tough.

00:22:59.500 Yeah, this shit is like a movie.

00:23:00.640 Yeah, bro.

00:23:01.120 It gets better.

00:23:01.860 Don't worry, guys.

00:23:02.900 So let's keep going.

00:23:03.580 So he picks up the cooperating witness with a suspect in the back of his car.

00:23:11.760 Oh, Lord.

00:23:12.840 Williams drove Skabu to a deserted spot behind a seafood market.

00:23:33.380 He ordered him to throw the $10,000 into the trunk.

00:23:36.520 Skabu told Williams he only had $3,000 now, but would pay the rest later.

00:23:46.200 If the cop arrested Skabu, he'd never get his payoff.

00:23:49.780 And guys, mind you, $3,000 in 1993 was the equivalent to like $6,000 today.

00:23:55.120 Okay?

00:23:55.560 This is a lot of money.

00:23:57.300 Remember, New Orleans police officers, we just talked about it, are only making $16,000

00:24:00.740 a year back in 1993.

00:24:02.580 So this is almost like, almost damn near half of this guy's salary.

00:24:06.260 Agents hoped Williams would agree to meet him again for more of the money.

00:24:10.440 So Williams is a dirty cop.

00:24:11.560 Skabu is the informant.

00:24:13.660 He did.

00:24:15.200 And the FBI had it all on tape.

00:24:19.960 Hadn't believed this one incident would lay the groundwork for exposing more corruption

00:24:24.300 in the New Orleans Police Department.

00:24:26.620 Our main objective was to try and create a strategy that would enable us to prosecute

00:24:30.680 as many bad officers as we possibly could.

00:24:33.000 All right.

00:24:35.180 So now the fucking games begin, guys.

00:24:36.980 Okay?

00:24:38.260 Anytime you got dirty police officers or dirty law enforcement personnel, it's immediately

00:24:47.500 going to get accepted by a U.S. attorney's office, bro.

00:24:49.600 Like these are the sexiest types of cases for federal prosecutors.

00:24:53.680 Okay?

00:24:54.160 So they do the meet.

00:24:55.680 It goes well.

00:24:56.840 He accepts the extortion money.

00:24:58.580 Okay?

00:24:59.020 And the FBI is able to collect that electronically and witness it, which is huge.

00:25:05.020 They could go ahead and get him right there for extortion and or bribery.

00:25:09.280 But obviously, the FBI just doesn't want to take down one dirty cop because if you got one

00:25:13.180 dirty cop, more than likely there's a bunch of others.

00:25:15.860 Because when you're a corrupt police officer, guys, when there's a corrupt police officer

00:25:20.080 in the organization, a lot of the times they're going to be insulated and protected from misconduct

00:25:24.840 allegations or internal affairs by other dirty cops.

00:25:28.320 Okay?

00:25:28.940 So Stan obviously was intelligent enough to know, yo, this is probably going to end up

00:25:33.420 being a conspiracy.

00:25:34.240 He goes to the U.S. attorney's office right away and gets him on board.

00:25:36.920 And we're going to see that here in a second, which the U.S. attorney's office, guys, is

00:25:40.960 the federal prosecutors.

00:25:42.240 This is not to be confused with assistant district attorney's office.

00:25:45.440 This is federal assistant United States attorney's office.

00:25:48.060 Okay?

00:25:48.980 And the U.S. attorney is the top guy.

00:25:50.680 And then underneath him are all his assistant United States attorneys, just like the district

00:25:54.100 attorney is the top guy and all the assistant district attorneys underneath him.

00:25:57.460 Once federal, once state.

00:26:01.940 In the days that followed, agents, along with prosecutors from the United States attorney's

00:26:06.880 office, began to plan their operation, codenamed Shattered Sheep.

00:26:14.680 Assistant U.S. attorney Al Winters would advise agents every step of the way on what would

00:26:19.960 be needed to convict the dirty cops.

00:26:23.380 We were involved really from day one.

00:26:25.980 For this guy right here at ChevroTV, you might have just come in late, bro.

00:26:29.000 But what I was saying was he got paid $3,000 in 1993, which is the equivalent to damn near

00:26:34.520 $6,000 today.

00:26:36.220 You got to understand, it's 2022 now.

00:26:38.300 That money in 1993, that 3K was equivalent to way more than it is, you know, back then.

00:26:44.400 You know what I'm saying?

00:26:44.760 It was a lot more.

00:26:46.240 So they were only making $16,000.

00:26:49.600 Okay?

00:26:49.960 We just showed the New Orleans Police Department salary back then.

00:26:52.720 So it was damn near half of his stuff.

00:26:54.880 That's what I'm trying to say.

00:26:56.000 So these are the U.S. attorneys now.

00:26:57.360 So these two guys, guys, prosecuted this case.

00:27:00.080 This is McMahon right here, and I forget this guy's name.

00:27:02.640 But these were the two AUSAs that did this case, okay?

00:27:06.020 Which, when you have a big, complex case like this with a bunch of, you know, with public

00:27:09.680 corruption, you're going to have more than one AUSA on the case.

00:27:13.820 Because it's going to be pretty complex.

00:27:15.400 You guys are going to see that here in a second.

00:27:16.440 We met with the case agents on numerous occasions and discussed exactly what we were interested

00:27:25.840 in being developed as far as evidence in the case.

00:27:31.680 As with most corruption cases, the FBI's strongest evidence would likely come from wiretaps.

00:27:37.380 According to Special Agent Karen Jenkins, an FBI wiretap specialist, securing them isn't easy.

00:27:48.920 And I've told you guys this before about Title Threes, right?

00:27:52.260 And wire intercepts and basically being able to intercept communication real time when people

00:27:57.660 are committing criminal activities or facilitating conspiracies.

00:28:01.660 It's extremely difficult.

00:28:02.660 And she's going to outline it a little bit.

00:28:03.780 I add a little bit more to it.

00:28:04.520 Title Threes is a court-authorized intercept or wiretap.

00:28:10.180 It's very difficult to get one approved.

00:28:12.820 It's a lengthy process, very time-consuming.

00:28:16.080 Basically, we have to have approval by FBI officials to get one.

00:28:20.340 And beyond that, we have to have the review and approval by Department of Justice.

00:28:25.520 Just to give the people a quick little recap.

00:28:28.160 So if you guys missed the beginning earlier, today we're covering Operation Shattered Shield.

00:28:33.740 So let's rewind.

00:28:34.520 We're covering Operation Shattered Shield.

00:28:39.140 This was probably the biggest police corruption case in New Orleans history, guys.

00:28:43.400 This occurred in the early 90s.

00:28:45.260 Basically, there was a crack epidemic going on.

00:28:47.080 New Orleans was one of the top cities in the United States, if not the murder capital at the time.

00:28:50.780 In 93, we had crack going crazy.

00:28:53.980 People were selling drugs all over the place.

00:28:55.460 The police were getting paid only about $16,000 per year back in 1993.

00:29:01.680 And just so you guys can put that into U.S. standards today, that is the equivalent, guys, which I showed you guys here with this little inflation chart, of approximately $32,693.

00:29:14.480 And that's how much New Orleans police officers were earning at the time, guys.

00:29:18.980 So, yeah.

00:29:21.120 It was a wild time.

00:29:22.760 So corruption was at an all-time high.

00:29:24.580 The pay was low.

00:29:26.000 Drugs were at their highest.

00:29:27.380 We're dealing with the war on drugs, the crack epidemic.

00:29:29.940 All that stuff was going on.

00:29:31.080 And then on top of that, guys, we had police officers literally extorting drug dealers, you know, stealing from them, robbing them, taking their money, taking their dope, whatever it may be, and running extortion rackets, goddammit.

00:29:43.700 They were telling these drug dealers, yo, you got to pay up if you want to go ahead and be able to sell this crack or sell these drugs in this area, which is wild.

00:29:51.180 You know, the police officers were literally extorting the drug dealers.

00:29:53.320 And the crazy part is, it's not like the drug dealers could go to the fucking police station and be like, hey, listen, guys, you know, I got a profitable business here.

00:30:00.280 I'm a crack-a-noor, you know, a crack-a-noor, and I'm out here selling this work, and these fucking guys keep taking my money.

00:30:07.000 I want to file a complaint.

00:30:08.520 You know what's going to happen?

00:30:12.560 They're going to end up in fucking jail.

00:30:14.820 So they couldn't do shit.

00:30:16.360 So right now where we are, guys, is here's the recap of the investigation so far that you guys might have missed.

00:30:23.460 So FBI agent Stan Hatton, okay, the case agent on this thing, he gets a call from an informant named Scaboo.

00:30:30.280 And he says on Christmas Eve, hey, this police officer, okay, is extorting me for $10,000.

00:30:35.380 He says that I owe money to him for basically extortion fees.

00:30:41.560 And the agent, you know, is in the public corruption group, and he knows that there's an issue with dirty police officers in 1993 in the New Orleans Police Department.

00:30:51.260 So what does he do?

00:30:51.960 He arranges to meet the informant.

00:30:53.020 They meet, he gives the, he wires up the informant, okay, and the informant goes to meet with the police officer as instructed.

00:30:59.640 So he goes and meets with the police officer.

00:31:01.260 Unfortunately, he doesn't have the $10,000, but he does have $3,000.

00:31:03.940 So the FBI record the meeting.

00:31:06.580 The police officer meets with him, takes the $3,000.

00:31:09.020 Scaboo says, hey, listen, I don't have all the money, but I'll give you more money in the future.

00:31:12.760 Bam.

00:31:13.000 So the meeting ends, the fucking police officer goes off, the informant goes off, and now the FBI is on this dirty cop's tail.

00:31:20.340 And now they know, okay, if we got one dirty police officer extorting drug dealers, there's probably more of them.

00:31:26.820 Because like I said before on the first stream, guys, when there's public, when there's police corruption, a lot of the times, it's widespread.

00:31:32.840 It's not just one dirty cop, because that dirty cop is going to have to be protected and insulated by other police officers, okay?

00:31:40.060 The blue veil is what they typically call it.

00:31:41.800 So now that they've identified that they have one dirty cop, they got him dead to rights on extortion, right?

00:31:50.120 Because he accepted the money from the drug dealer.

00:31:52.580 They go to the U.S. attorney's office, the federal prosecutors, and they say, yo, this is what's going on.

00:31:57.580 We need to build this investigation, and we need to start, you know, getting these guys, all right?

00:32:03.540 So they're starting to strategize how they're going to attack this investigation.

00:32:07.420 And where we left off was right here, where we're explaining what Title III intercepts are, guys.

00:32:13.840 And Title III intercepts, guys, are basically—well, actually, we're a little bit back from there.

00:32:20.020 And this documentary, guys, is from the late 90s, you know what I'm saying?

00:32:23.200 But it's still a very good documentary.

00:32:24.560 This is one of the prosecutors, actually, that was prosecuting this case.

00:32:27.740 So that I don't get hit with copyright again, guys, what's going to probably have to happen is I'm going to have to stop the video fairly often and also comment on it, okay?

00:32:38.820 So that we don't get too messed up with this.

00:32:40.900 Well, let's keep going.

00:32:42.060 Evidence in the case.

00:32:43.900 As with most corruption cases, the FBI's strong—

00:32:46.000 Oh, and I also probably have to speed it up a little bit so that we don't get—or slow it down a little bit.

00:32:52.520 Let's see here.

00:32:56.000 Let's try it at 1 and see what happens.

00:32:58.340 This is what it normally is.

00:32:59.900 I think if I speed it up, I mean, we'll see what happens.

00:33:03.900 First evidence would likely come from wiretaps.

00:33:06.700 So they already know that they're going to have to use Title 3s in this investigation.

00:33:13.580 SurikV94 goes,

00:33:14.240 I just want to say thank you.

00:33:15.100 You guys got me changing my life.

00:33:16.240 Shout out to King Keto.

00:33:16.960 Got you, my friend.

00:33:18.180 According to Special Agent Karen Jenkins, an FBI wiretap specialist, securing them isn't easy.

00:33:24.880 Yes, it is hard as fuck to get Title 3s.

00:33:29.660 Someone's saying speed it up.

00:33:31.540 Yeah, let me see if I can do a 1.25.

00:33:33.880 Yeah, we're trying to get around this copyright thing for y'all.

00:33:39.240 Do they even have a—they don't even have a 1.25.

00:33:43.260 Control, shift, and K.

00:33:49.240 Let's see if that does anything.

00:33:58.760 Title 3 is a court-authorized intercept or wiretap.

00:34:01.480 It's very difficult to get one approved.

00:34:03.660 It's a lengthy process, very time-consuming.

00:34:05.860 Basically, we have to have approval by FBI officials to get one, and beyond that, we have to have the review and approval by Department of Justice officials.

00:34:12.420 Finally, a federal judge will make the final determination as to whether or not one is authorized.

00:34:15.860 So, I've done Title 3s myself, guys, and basically, this is how it goes.

00:34:20.820 You get your criminal activity, you're able to establish that the phone that they're using or the location that you're going to bug is using criminal activity, okay?

00:34:27.960 After you establish that, you need a bunch of probable cause to be able to do it.

00:34:30.500 You need to write—basically, you need more probable cause, guys, to get a Title 3 than you do to arrest a person.

00:34:36.700 Again, one more time.

00:34:37.660 Yes, you heard me correctly.

00:34:38.880 You need more probable cause, okay, to get Title 3 intercepts than you do to actually arrest a person, all right?

00:34:45.460 Because keep in mind that when you do Title 3 intercepts, not only are you invading that person's privacy, but you're also invading other people's expectation of privacy as well

00:34:52.380 because other people that may or may not be involved in the investigation are now being monitored by the government, okay?

00:34:58.740 So, you need an abundance of probable cause to establish, yo, this person is involved in criminal activity.

00:35:03.040 So, after you get the affidavit written, not only do you have to send up your chain, now you've got to send it to the Department of Justice.

00:35:09.300 It's something called OEO, okay, reviews it, okay?

00:35:12.140 And I know this because I've done Title 3s myself, and I was affian, which they're a pain in the ass to do, man.

00:35:16.360 My affidavit was 75 pages long, and I had to articulate in there why this guy was a drug dealer, why the people that he talks to on his phone are drug dealers.

00:35:23.320 You have to identify a bunch of people in his tolls that are involved in criminal activity, all that shit.

00:35:27.640 Once it goes over to OEO and the Department of Justice approves it, they give it back to you, and then you've got to take it to a district judge.

00:35:33.280 You don't take it to a regular judge.

00:35:34.820 You take it to a district judge, which is a higher level judge than just a magistrate, okay?

00:35:39.940 Magistrate judges sit over regular court cases, you know, that aren't necessarily criminal.

00:35:43.600 They'll, you know, maybe see a person for initial appearance, but district judges are the ones that actually give out the judgments, and once a case is indicted, it goes to a district judge, from a magistrate to a district judge, okay?

00:35:57.080 And I'm running it on a little bit of a faster speed, guys, so that we don't get hit with that copyright, right?

00:36:04.060 Let's see here.

00:36:05.620 And we got the feds on to us, and that's from 12-pack of Modellos.

00:36:08.900 Thank you so much.

00:36:09.920 What else do we got here?

00:36:10.860 And I appreciate the donations, guys, because I'm probably not going to monetize this video, because I don't want to get hit with the copy stuff, so I appreciate the donations.

00:36:20.040 SurikV94, I just want to say thank you.

00:36:21.400 You guys got me changing my life.

00:36:22.440 Shout out to King.

00:36:22.720 Okay, read that one from before.

00:36:23.980 All right, cool.

00:36:24.380 Let's keep going.

00:36:26.540 After delivering two more payoffs to Officer Williams, Scabu had won.

00:36:29.980 See, that doesn't sound good.

00:36:33.400 So, okay, he did two more payoffs to the dirty police officer.

00:36:37.420 Scabu did the informant is Scabu.

00:36:39.180 Okay, so now they're going to go ahead and take the investigation to the next level.

00:36:55.760 So now the informant is going to go to the dirty police officer, because he's paid him now.

00:36:58.860 He's built some trust with him.

00:37:00.100 Okay, he's paid him three different times, $3,000, so that he can go ahead and build that rapport,

00:37:04.540 because he owed the cop $10,000 for extortion fees.

00:37:08.320 Okay?

00:37:11.540 The volume of drug business is going to increase, and Scabu would need more cops to protect him.

00:37:18.940 If Williams was interested in higher payoffs, he would need to hire more dirty cops to handle the expansion.

00:37:25.060 See, so this is genius.

00:37:26.040 They're expanding the informant's drug business so that they can go ahead and get more dirty police officers involved in it,

00:37:34.000 because you're not going to be able to do all this with just one cop.

00:37:36.920 You're going to have to get all his dirty cop friends with him to make the drug operation work.

00:37:42.160 But the issue here is that you got a lower, like a mid-level, lower-level drug dealer, right, city drug dealer in New Orleans.

00:37:49.560 How the hell are you going to be able to expand his drug trafficking capabilities out of nowhere?

00:37:55.480 So this is where you've got to start getting creative as an investigator, okay?

00:37:58.800 And I remember doing this myself, because I've done a bunch of drug cases,

00:38:01.300 and you guys are going to see what the FBI does here, okay?

00:38:06.540 Williams took the bait.

00:38:10.740 Williams is a dirty police officer, by the way, guys.

00:38:13.540 Scabu met with him for another recorded payoff in mid-January 1994.

00:38:17.780 Uh-oh, so he brings another cop with him.

00:38:26.220 Who does he bring?

00:38:30.920 Len Davis.

00:38:37.460 Oh, shit.

00:38:39.120 And that, my friends, is the person who is the main file title of this investigation, okay?

00:38:45.220 And you guys are going to see here in a second why.

00:38:47.780 They refer to him as a gangster with a badge, okay?

00:38:58.500 And to give you guys a little bit more insight as to who this guy, Len Davis, actually is,

00:39:03.600 and I took my notes here, guys, because I think it's important that you guys get his whole background here.

00:39:09.660 Um, 1225.

00:39:15.440 Okay.

00:39:16.740 Bear with me one second here, guys.

00:39:19.140 This one I'm probably going to play in a little bit more speed, okay?

00:39:24.400 Uh, playback speed.

00:39:25.540 Let's go 1.25 on this bad boy.

00:39:27.380 So this is Len Davis, guys.

00:39:28.680 This is, um, the guy who came with the other dirty police officer who ends up being one of the main dudes here, okay?

00:39:35.100 A.K.A. RoboCop.

00:39:37.520 Uh, and then we got here, Miami area code 304.

00:39:41.120 Yo, Myron, shout out to you and Fresh for getting me through this week of almost losing my little bro and giving me the info on these 304s.

00:39:46.720 We got you, my friend.

00:39:47.760 So, uh, let's go ahead and introduce Len Davis, uh, right now.

00:39:52.640 That he would have to bring somebody else in to help him do the protection operation.

00:39:55.900 And he brought in Len Davis.

00:39:57.260 Been a police officer since 1986.

00:40:02.480 Len Davis joined the New Orleans PD in 1986.

00:40:05.860 Known on the streets as RoboCop because of his aggressive policing style.

00:40:09.140 He was also a...

00:40:09.820 Hey, it's Chris Poxen, guys.

00:40:11.180 ...decorated officer.

00:40:12.360 Len Davis was kind of a police folk hero.

00:40:14.720 He had all these productivity awards.

00:40:16.600 He won a medal in 93.

00:40:18.600 But I've heard stories.

00:40:19.940 They're very distant.

00:40:21.380 He, uh, had no sense of quality of rest.

00:40:23.780 And he was also affiliated with the worst elements in the police department.

00:40:28.020 So he was out there in the streets, you know, making arrests, making things happen, whatever, you know.

00:40:32.440 And more than likely, what happened was he saw opportunities where he can, you know, steal some money from dealers, steal some drugs, whatever it may be.

00:40:40.020 And, you know, this is what happens.

00:40:42.060 You know, corruption is always slow, guys.

00:40:44.240 It starts with a little thing here, a little thing there.

00:40:46.960 Next thing you know, you're falling on telling drug dealers, yo, you got to pay me 10K on Christmas Eve, motherfucker.

00:40:51.500 My relationship with Len.

00:40:54.780 Okay, here's Adam D's guys.

00:40:56.340 He was a former police officer as well with the New Orleans Police Department.

00:40:59.360 He also got indicted for conspiracy and corruption.

00:41:04.420 Was, you know, we were friends.

00:41:07.060 You know, I would go over by his house.

00:41:08.240 They would come over by my house.

00:41:09.580 You know, we worked together.

00:41:10.580 And even sometimes, you know, we would get together after work.

00:41:14.140 I would say that we were pretty good friends.

00:41:16.000 Yeah, he really does look like Chris Boxen, bro.

00:41:19.940 You guys are fucking hilarious here, man.

00:41:23.720 I understand he had succumbed to the 5th District.

00:41:26.260 He wanted to be where the action was.

00:41:28.060 But he was loud, cocky.

00:41:29.120 But he wasn't one of those guys that worked.

00:41:30.780 Yo, he said that's Moe's dad.

00:41:35.280 On the fringes.

00:41:36.640 He was a go-getter, you know.

00:41:38.780 Len was known for taking people's dope.

00:41:41.880 Okay, and that guy used to be a drug dealer.

00:41:43.640 So he, you know, yeah, Len was known for taking people's drugs.

00:41:47.280 Len was the type of dude that would have you taken away.

00:41:50.900 Have you transported somewhere and never to be found again.

00:41:54.040 So the corruption was rampant, guys.

00:41:55.780 It was pretty bad.

00:41:57.480 So now we know who Len Davis is.

00:42:00.380 Let's go back to the documentary.

00:42:03.780 Reviewing the tapes.

00:42:04.760 Hadn't discovered a problem.

00:42:08.920 What are you looking for?

00:42:10.920 Both Davis and Williams used the coded language of the drug trade.

00:42:14.700 So Williams and Davis, the two dirty police officers.

00:42:17.420 So they got all these recordings with the informant.

00:42:19.440 However, they don't know what the hell these dudes are saying.

00:42:21.860 Because the police officers are using street drug lingo.

00:42:26.020 Just like the criminals.

00:42:28.640 So.

00:42:32.760 And this is very common, guys.

00:42:34.360 When I did my drug case, for example, when I was listening to phones,

00:42:36.800 they used to refer to certain things as, you know, with different terms.

00:42:42.120 So I'll give you guys an example.

00:42:43.320 I did a big methamphetamine drug conspiracy case, right?

00:42:45.920 So when they referred to methamphetamine, they never said, yo, bro, I need 10 kilos of ice.

00:42:52.680 No.

00:42:53.100 They would say, yo, I need a couple of squares, right?

00:42:55.360 Which would stand for kilogram.

00:42:56.560 Or they would say, hey, you know, I need some ice.

00:42:59.820 Okay.

00:43:00.120 Ice is a slang term for methamphetamine, especially on the southwest Mexican border.

00:43:04.720 Because the methamphetamine that comes from Mexico is very, it's white.

00:43:09.200 It's not yellow.

00:43:09.780 It's not that bullshit shake and bake that these, you know, white supremacy groups make.

00:43:14.820 You know, or these biker gangs.

00:43:16.180 It's legitimate, strong methamphetamine that's like 98% fucking pure.

00:43:22.340 Okay?

00:43:22.840 Like Breaking Bad type stuff.

00:43:24.420 Because in Mexico, the ingredients to make methamphetamine are not as heavily regulated as they are in the United States.

00:43:29.980 So they refer to it as ice down on the southwest border.

00:43:34.600 Okay?

00:43:35.860 So basically when you're listening to wiretaps, or in this case, guys, they're not on wiretaps yet.

00:43:41.120 Keep in mind, these are just recordings of the informant Scaboo meeting with these dirty police officers.

00:43:45.640 But it's very difficult for them to understand what the fuck they're talking about.

00:43:49.460 Because even the police officers are speaking in street code.

00:43:53.400 Okay?

00:43:53.720 Because they're not dumb.

00:43:54.460 They know that their activities are illegal.

00:43:56.580 And they don't want to necessarily speak about things openly.

00:43:59.600 Okay?

00:44:00.220 Aaron Pox's real father.

00:44:01.380 I'm looking for my son.

00:44:02.140 Is he producing tonight?

00:44:03.000 Yo, you guys are fucking hilarious.

00:44:05.180 The chat is undefeated.

00:44:06.820 All right, let's keep going.

00:44:12.320 To make charges stick, the FBI had to record the officers using language that a jury would understand.

00:44:23.560 Hadn't pressed Scaboo to get Williams and Davis to use words like dope so there'd be no doubt at trial.

00:44:29.280 Now this, stupid, this was a big mistake by the case agent.

00:44:32.820 So you never want to put your informant in a position where they got to speak in a way that is unnatural, that's going to make them feel uncomfortable, that could arouse suspicion to them potentially cooperating with the government.

00:44:48.740 Having your informant say overt words like dope or cocaine or drugs or any of the other shit is going to put you in a bad predicament.

00:44:57.420 Now, of course, you know, these, these, and, and, and, you know, like I said before, I've been praising the case agent.

00:45:01.840 He's been doing a great job on this investigation.

00:45:03.280 But this is a very telltale sign that he doesn't do drug investigations.

00:45:07.460 When you do public corruption, a lot of the times you're going after dirty cops, dirty politicians, et cetera.

00:45:13.140 These guys aren't involved in drug trafficking.

00:45:14.940 They're involved in fraud.

00:45:15.920 They're involved in embezzlement.

00:45:16.860 They're involved in more sophisticated crimes.

00:45:18.760 So for him as a public, uh, corruptions, uh, public corruption agent, he's probably not used to doing drug investigations.

00:45:25.500 You, I would never, ever tell my informant, yo, uh, bro, I need you to, uh, get the, the bad guys to speak in language, um, that the jury's going to be able to understand.

00:45:37.740 No, fuck that shit.

00:45:38.520 The pattern of activity is going to be able to allow the jury to understand what the hell's going on here with the drug conspiracy.

00:45:44.260 The actions are going to speak a lot louder than the words.

00:45:46.180 Okay.

00:45:46.420 So, um, this was a big error on the, on the part of the, of the case agent, you know, and I'm going to be, uh, very objective here.

00:45:53.380 I'm going to tell you guys when the case agent did a fantastic job and when he did a bad job, but this is a big fuck up here, which you guys are about to see.

00:46:03.000 But when Scaboo told the cops, the dope is in Davis suspected something was up.

00:46:11.320 If you're, uh, if you're in the police business and somebody, and that's the man, the case agent Stan had.

00:46:15.520 And so, yeah, dude, you say, of course, he's going to be like, what the fuck did you just say?

00:46:19.180 You know, talking about dope, uh, terrible, Xavier, five bucks.

00:46:22.200 What do you think of the Kobe Bryant Colorado case?

00:46:23.760 Lots of things to learn from that situation.

00:46:25.060 Also, perhaps break down the DC sniper, DC sniper.

00:46:27.420 I'll break down eventually, uh, the Kobe Bryant case, but he's innocent.

00:46:30.780 We all know what that girl did it for cloud.

00:46:31.980 He starts using words that are that overt and that plain that immediately makes you suspicious that this, uh, person is trying to set you up.

00:46:41.680 Davis shoved Scaboo into the car and told Williams to drive.

00:46:44.940 So, obviously, he's fucking tight.

00:46:47.180 Like, yo, what the hell?

00:46:48.300 Why are you using words like that?

00:46:49.720 So, this is not good.

00:46:51.140 Okay?

00:46:51.540 If I'm on surveillance and I see, uh, a suspect grab my informant and throw him into the back of the car like that, bro, that is not good.

00:46:59.360 You gotta get, because you, you're, you're responsible for the informant.

00:47:01.700 This is an enforcement operation.

00:47:03.320 If he gets hurt, it's not gonna be a good look.

00:47:05.920 Obviously, this is the 90s, right?

00:47:07.800 So, they weren't as, uh, strict as they are nowadays, but this would never fly today, bro.

00:47:13.700 So, they're on surveillance.

00:47:15.080 They fucking say that stupid shit.

00:47:16.260 Now the cop is mad.

00:47:17.020 Let's see what happens next.

00:47:21.120 The agents would be too conspicuous on the deserted streets.

00:47:24.500 If they pursued the cops now, they would put Scaboo's life at greater risk.

00:47:31.000 The only thing they could do was sit patiently and listen to the wire.

00:47:35.600 That's fucking crazy, bro.

00:47:36.840 If that happened today, I would have to chase after my informant and break.

00:47:40.380 I'd have to, I'd have to stop, uh, shut it down.

00:47:43.360 You, you cannot afford to have your informant get hurt.

00:47:45.760 But, yeah, I mean, so they just gotta let them go with the cops, man.

00:47:51.080 Dirty cops.

00:47:51.660 Let's see what happens next.

00:47:52.820 We got 10 bucks from Don PZ.

00:47:54.580 I've been waiting for Feta all day, and then they tried to cut it off.

00:47:57.340 I was salty.

00:47:57.920 Don't worry, baby.

00:47:58.560 I'm still here.

00:47:59.120 We ain't going nowhere, man.

00:48:00.720 I'm not fucking leaving.

00:48:05.060 Okay?

00:48:06.460 The show goes off!

00:48:08.680 All right.

00:48:14.940 When the car came to a stop, Davis' rage ignited.

00:48:18.920 They're going crazy right now.

00:48:20.180 They're pissed.

00:48:23.160 He yelled that Scaboo was never to say the word dope again.

00:48:27.180 So now they're stripping him off.

00:48:28.800 Why?

00:48:29.760 They're probably looking for the wire now.

00:48:31.920 You know what I'm saying?

00:48:32.420 They're pissed off.

00:48:33.600 Oh, fair use, by the way, guys.

00:48:34.860 And, yo, we hit 70,000 subscribers, man.

00:48:37.020 So, yo, shout out to y'all.

00:48:40.240 Yo, give me ones in the chat if you guys are enjoying this breakdown right now of Operation

00:48:44.720 Shattered Shield.

00:48:46.180 Like I said before, we got slowed down a little bit because the stream got cut off.

00:48:49.480 So we missed the first portion of it, but I gave a quick little summary for y'all.

00:48:52.440 Give me ones in the chat if you guys are enjoying this and you guys want me to break down more documentaries like this and give you guys real insight.

00:48:57.180 And I'll be able to tell you guys, like, if the agents did a good job, bad job, whatever

00:49:01.380 it may be, because I've done cases like this myself.

00:49:03.180 So this is right up my wheelhouse.

00:49:05.300 Oh, great.

00:49:05.680 I'm glad you guys are enjoying it, man.

00:49:07.540 You know, ain't nobody else on YouTube giving y'all content like this.

00:49:09.640 So like the fucking video.

00:49:10.600 Let's keep going.

00:49:11.220 They immediately took him to a deserted location, aggressively searched him.

00:49:19.700 You can hear the Velcro ripping loose on his clothes and stuff.

00:49:22.540 And that was a very tense moment.

00:49:25.960 Davis insisted that he wouldn't go to jail for careless talk.

00:49:29.900 I'll be terrified if my informant was getting stripped like this by two dirty cops.

00:49:36.120 Scaboo was sure he was going to die.

00:49:37.980 Obviously, they're probably doing this for a little bit of dramatic effect, like with the

00:49:40.820 gun and shit like that.

00:49:41.700 They probably didn't do all that.

00:49:43.720 But yeah.

00:49:46.460 Miraculously, they never found it.

00:49:48.420 So they never found the wire.

00:49:49.820 He got lucky, man.

00:49:50.660 He got really lucky.

00:49:52.780 But they were able to monitor everything, obviously.

00:49:55.160 You can hear all the clothes get ripped off and everything else like that.

00:49:57.360 So this is obviously a very scary, dangerous time for the case agent, because if they find

00:50:02.420 a wire on him, who knows what the hell is going to happen?

00:50:04.440 You know what I'm saying?

00:50:04.800 Like these cops know what they're doing is illegal.

00:50:06.380 They know that what they're doing is going to put them in jail for a significant amount

00:50:09.300 of time.

00:50:09.640 And it's unlike a drug dealer, right?

00:50:13.180 That's a very amateur move.

00:50:14.560 Yo, the dope is in.

00:50:15.600 What the fuck?

00:50:16.660 You know, no one that's a real dope dealer or a D-boy is going to say some stupid shit

00:50:20.180 like that.

00:50:20.660 You know what I'm saying?

00:50:21.020 They're just not.

00:50:21.480 That's just not how it goes.

00:50:22.920 So again, this is the case agent being a little inexperienced when it comes to really

00:50:27.720 running drug investigations.

00:50:29.660 You can't speak in overt terms like this.

00:50:32.480 But again, this agent isn't he's not a drug agent.

00:50:34.920 This guy is from the public corruption group.

00:50:36.440 And public corruption normally don't do drug investigations like this.

00:50:39.140 He's clean.

00:50:40.060 He's clean.

00:50:40.140 He's clean.

00:50:40.840 He's clean.

00:50:40.880 I'm not going to jail behind you.

00:50:47.100 Their trust was restored.

00:50:49.100 Okay.

00:50:49.560 You understand me?

00:50:51.160 So they trust him again now.

00:50:52.340 He stripped them and he's good.

00:50:53.520 He's done a drug possession deal with Davis and Williams.

00:50:58.440 For the next job, the cops drove him to a store where a drop off was to take place.

00:51:04.680 Okay.

00:51:05.120 What's a drop off guys?

00:51:06.100 A drop off guys typically is an exchange for currency, for drugs.

00:51:11.920 And I've explained this before guys, but I'll tell you guys how the drug game kind

00:51:15.500 of works.

00:51:15.740 in the drug game you need to compartmentalize yourself and what i mean by that is you need

00:51:21.500 to mitigate risk a lot of the times you're dealing with individuals that you don't necessarily know

00:51:25.560 that may be a part of another organization or may be involved even in your organization

00:51:29.520 it's better for criminals to not necessarily know who's who who does what etc because if one person

00:51:34.800 gets caught everyone could go down and this is how the mafia came down because um when they're

00:51:40.080 able to use racketeering rico laws they're able to get people at the lower level to snitch on

00:51:44.160 people on the higher levels to protect themselves so when you're doing drop-offs like this what you

00:51:49.260 do is you drop the product off somewhere that's you know somewhat secure person goes picks it up and

00:51:54.940 then payment is made or whatever it may be like that but typically you want to make sure that uh

00:52:00.700 the transaction can be conducted with both parties not putting themselves in a compromising situation

00:52:08.460 where they can be arrested or apprehended by law enforcement

00:52:14.160 inside scabu checked a bag at the counter

00:52:20.260 yes zo g14 says mafia is not gone yes we know they're not gone but they're not nearly as powerful

00:52:26.680 as they were in the 70s my friend

00:52:27.780 he passed the ticket to an agent posing as a buyer who then retrieved the bag

00:52:34.960 and the police are standing guard there to make sure that the that the drugs don't get ripped

00:52:43.240 okay so basically they're getting paid a significant amount of money to basically just chill with the

00:52:48.040 cruiser there make sure the drugs don't get stolen make sure you know scabu gets whatever the hell he

00:52:52.760 needs whether he's getting paid or he's getting drugs whatever it is they're making sure that the

00:52:56.460 facilitation of the transaction occurs safely okay williams and davis watched as each transaction went

00:53:03.100 down thank you moesha campbell hundred dollar uh super chat they were promised a thousand dollars for

00:53:10.200 every kilo of cocaine they protected a thousand dollars per kilo protected in 1993 guys again i want

00:53:17.960 you guys to see and now we know that the new orleans police department didn't get paid shit back then

00:53:22.700 okay so one thousand dollars all right

00:53:25.820 is the equivalent to uh one thousand dollars in 1993 is equivalent to no that's what the fuck that's

00:53:36.280 oh from 1993 that's not right oh yeah yeah almost two thousand dollars today sorry my bad guys had a

00:53:45.020 brain fart there so almost double guys and that's per kilo per kilo so let's say it was five kilos these

00:53:52.000 guys make damn near ten thousand dollars okay so just sit there and let the transaction occur

00:53:56.500 so that's quite a bit of money remember guys the salary for a new orleans police officer back then

00:54:01.500 was sixteen thousand six hundred forty dollars that's 32 grand today so they're making almost

00:54:07.720 one-third of their yearly salary just from watching five kilos of cocaine get exchanged

00:54:12.180 crazy crazy crazy so this is why corruption was rampant back then

00:54:19.000 for them the deals meant easy money

00:54:23.500 davis and williams met scaboo behind stores and alleyways for the protection payoffs

00:54:32.660 the fbi and now this is the fbi is monitoring every single meeting this is how it goes guys

00:54:39.260 whenever you have an informant and they go meet with criminals you're recording every single

00:54:42.980 interaction you're there on surveillance you're watching it you're making sure you can identify

00:54:46.520 other um people etc i recorded every word this was not during the crack era guys this was in 1993

00:54:54.280 this was going on operation shattered shield occurred it was taken over it was going down in 93 94

00:55:00.080 gradually operation shattered shield was building a solid case against police corruption

00:55:09.940 do you know what a bird was going for back then this is five star sports betting five bucks

00:55:15.920 i don't know what a kilo was going for back then like i mean cocaine cocaine prices guys range

00:55:21.060 uh and fluctuate dramatically depending on where you are in the united states i know a kilo

00:55:25.660 cocaine when i was in laredo texas was around 20 to 30 thousand dollars you know depending on

00:55:32.420 how the market was um and then if you got it up to like chicago or new york city you know it would

00:55:36.940 obviously balloon up to 50 60k per kilo right and then on top of that you can go ahead and cut it

00:55:41.400 down you know cut one kilo down and double your money so this is why the drug game is so profitable

00:55:46.680 because you can literally what you know dilute the dilute the quality of the drugs to make more money

00:55:51.220 recordings continued into the spring of 1994 once agents were sure davis and williams were solidly on

00:55:59.360 board the fbi prepared to expand the investigation all right so now the fbi is ready to expand this bad

00:56:05.400 boy because you can only do so much with one informant you got two dirty cops identified

00:56:09.220 let's see how we expand this case

00:56:11.320 with still more cocaine to go williams and davis would need to recruit more dirty cops

00:56:18.940 federal agents fit to snare everyone like i told you guys before public corruption cases

00:56:25.200 are huge so if they're able to find one dirty cop they're going to go ahead and see

00:56:29.400 and identify as many of them as they can and prolong the investigation to make sure they get every single

00:56:34.140 dirty police officer the u.s attorney's office loves public corruption cases like this because

00:56:38.340 they're sexy they know it's going to hit the news they know it's going to get lead to indictments

00:56:41.720 it's going to lead to lengthy sentences it's going to lead to press releases going to lead to a bunch

00:56:45.440 of different things so if you can uh nab dirty cops man it's it's it's a big w for uh for the u.s

00:56:51.900 attorney's office so they're always going to take those kinds of cases they're very sexy u.s

00:56:54.740 attorney's office um a lot of the time are cloud chasers so yeah

00:57:00.360 but agents knew the officers may become suspicious of scaboo's rapidly growing drug business

00:57:16.000 they needed to bring in a big time dealer someone whose status is a kingpin would explain the larger

00:57:22.580 shipments oh it did it again all right uh did it did they kill the stream again god damn it let me see

00:57:35.220 here

00:57:35.860 yo is it uh still on twitch guys are we still on twitch all right guys come on over to twitch

00:57:53.220 come over to twitch guys

00:57:56.740 yeah come on over to twitch guys

00:58:05.220 come on over to twitch i'll give it a minute and wait for y'all to come on twitch i knew this was

00:58:10.860 probably going to happen so come on over to twitch my ninjas come on over to twitch okay uh i think

00:58:22.040 we're still live on twitch so let me go ahead and view this thing on twitch i think i'm still live let's

00:58:27.920 see oh yeah we're still live on twitch so oh youtube is back back on youtube god damn it man

00:58:39.200 all right well fuck it all right we're back up on youtube so i think what i got to do guys is just

00:58:43.460 stop it for a little bit and give some more commentary i think that's honestly what it comes

00:58:47.000 down to so um so let's keep going you know i ain't going nowhere gentlemen we're gonna keep doing

00:58:55.380 this bad boy the show goes on all right this is my home they're gonna need a fucking wrecking ball

00:59:04.760 to take me out of here all right let's keep going guys we're back baby

00:59:10.780 okay so now they're gonna introduce an undercover agent guys all right so let's go back you guys

00:59:18.060 might have missed that a little bit here so now we're gonna go ahead and introduce

00:59:23.340 a big time dealer someone whose status is a king for you to explain the larger shipments

00:59:29.360 you like some sure okay uh let's see here yeah come on guys you can check me out on twitch or on

00:59:38.920 youtube either or man i mean we're back now so we're good money let's keep going

00:59:42.380 hadn't called on one one jackson agent trained specific working undercover so they brought in

00:59:51.500 special agent juan jackson okay guys who specifically does um undercover cases um and

00:59:58.080 they're gonna introduce him in a certain light and you guys are gonna see right now drug kingpin

01:00:02.980 from from up in the east coast at that time i was in new york city and i've been contacted

01:00:07.900 uh to come down and that's one right now so this documentary is a little bit older he was still on

01:00:12.000 the job guys when they did this documentary so that's him right now uh and then the twitch link

01:00:18.280 guys here i'll pin the twitch link for y'all right now uh give me one second

01:00:22.440 i'll pin it for y'all in the chat

01:00:25.960 oh youtube done

01:00:28.820 come on over to twitch then my ninjas

01:00:33.040 come on over to twitch

01:00:37.700 okay

01:00:40.500 come on over to twitch

01:00:43.280 i'm trying to pin this bad boy will it let me

01:00:49.620 yeah there you go yeah just go you uh oh no wrong one hold on

01:00:54.820 it's twitch.tv slash fresh and fit podcast there we go that's it right there guys i'll

01:00:59.900 wait for y'all to come on over to twitch

01:01:01.520 yeah i don't know youtube is acting lame i know i know i know guys i know it sucks

01:01:08.260 so what's your thoughts on this so far uh jay uh while we wait for the people to pile in on on

01:01:13.220 twitch um i mean aside from the fact that it keeps stopping

01:01:17.800 yeah that kind of sucks no um no it's interesting and it's interesting to hear your take on it

01:01:24.660 obviously i haven't seen um any of these videos before but it's interesting to hear it from your

01:01:31.220 perspective of somebody that that did this line of work so yeah cool um what's your thoughts so far

01:01:38.180 on uh the crazy corruption i mean it's crazy yeah it's okay guys come on over to come on over to

01:01:45.220 twitch man just come on over to twitch

01:01:47.860 okay guys it will be fine i'm gonna post a link in twitch right now come to twitch

01:01:57.780 it's twitch.tv

01:02:02.340 okay slash uh fresh and fit podcast

01:02:10.420 now go ahead and pin that for y'all too

01:02:17.380 oh well i'm on my fresh and fit account give me one sec guys thanks for bearing with me here guys

01:02:24.260 come on over to youtube oh i think we're back up now we're back up on youtube again but yeah just

01:02:32.660 go over to twitch guys come on over to twitch that way you'll be you won't have any issues because i

01:02:36.500 already know when i um when i do this is going to be an issue twitch.tv slash fresh and fit

01:02:43.540 podcast

01:02:47.780 okay and i'll pin it for y'all

01:02:51.300 all right we're back on youtube but i already know they're going to keep they're going to keep

01:02:53.780 doing this probably

01:02:56.660 so come on over to twitch guys i see 482 of you guys here on youtube might want to go to twitch

01:03:04.980 all right uh let's see here because what i'll probably do is i'll probably have to edit this

01:03:10.180 bad boy and then put on youtube for y'all as like a separate thing but anyway all right

01:03:16.260 so they introduced the southern undercover agent juan jackson okay guys because they want to scale

01:03:20.100 up the drug cut the drug uh the drug game so let's keep going um to just uh be interviewed and go over

01:03:30.180 the actual case a lot of times they'll they'll be looking for a certain person height weight you know

01:03:36.420 color or whatever bam so you got it they want agents that fit a certain uh mold so we're going

01:03:42.420 to go ahead and play this portion of vice where they introduce undercover special agent juan jackson um

01:03:55.860 right here

01:04:01.860 but authorities still lacked the smoking gun needed to file any charges

01:04:05.380 so five months into the investigation they upped their game and called in a pro

01:04:10.740 so five months is the case obviously they're only able to do so much with scaboo right

01:04:15.300 it was important to bring in a deep undercover because to use a local agent was it was too risky

01:04:20.500 so now that's one of the a usa's that was prosecuting this case we brought in juan jackson to pose as

01:04:26.740 this big time dope dealer from miami bam so this happens in may 1994 they introduced juan jackson aka jj

01:04:35.780 we wanted to introduce jj to sammy and lynn personally and so we all met at the hilton hotel

01:04:41.700 in new orleans in a hotel room now this is a big deal that they meet at this hotel room so let's go

01:04:46.340 back to the original doc and we're gonna i'll talk about that meeting in in uh the hotel room in a

01:04:50.580 second um to infiltrate or get into a certain group known as jj the agent would act as scaboo's cocaine

01:04:58.740 supplier proposing use new orleans as a hub to store and distribute his product nationwide

01:05:05.300 i was now that's very important guys the informant and the undercover agent have to come to a store

01:05:10.100 together a high level drug dealer um i played that role and i had ties where my operation

01:05:17.540 uh was in both miami and in new york city so obviously very believable we know that miami

01:05:25.860 and new york city are two huge drug corridors in the united states so it would make sense that you

01:05:32.420 know he would be a higher level drug trafficker that's supplying scaboo so basically the undercover

01:05:38.660 agent is putting himself higher than the informant hey the informant gets the drugs from me so now this

01:05:44.900 is going to force the police officers to deal with the undercover agent okay get him more involved

01:05:50.260 with the arrival of jj shattered shield is about to grow from a minor drug business to a booming

01:05:56.100 enterprise

01:06:00.660 jackson was one of the fbi's best undercover agents he was smart and experienced so they put one of their

01:06:07.940 top undercover guys on this case guys uh for obvious reasons i mean anytime you got public corruption dirty

01:06:13.300 cops whatever the stakes are extremely high so you're going to go ahead and recruit some of the

01:06:16.740 best uh undercovers for a case like this because there's no room for error man you can't this one

01:06:20.900 up okay so the informant has been dealing with these dirty cops for five months so he's built an

01:06:25.620 enormous amount of trust so now he's going to be able to come in and introduce the undercover which

01:06:30.420 is very common in federal investigations where an informant makes an introduction of an undercover

01:06:35.460 agent and then the undercover agent starts to assume more of the criminal responsibility to

01:06:40.340 alleviate the informant of some of that stress okay

01:06:46.500 but his life would be in the hands of the informant scaboo who had no training

01:06:53.060 jackson needed to build complete trust with scaboo or they'd both be dead

01:06:58.740 guys i can't speak about how important it is for the informant and undercover agent to be on the same

01:07:04.820 page bro it is life or death a lot of the times especially when you're in a high-stakes situation

01:07:11.380 like this when i had my personal case when i had my cases in laredo i was doing an investigation where

01:07:16.100 we were buying guns off of uh cartel dudes and cartel associates and um my my undercover agent was

01:07:24.660 introduced by an informant and that informant had to build rapport with these guys for months before i

01:07:31.460 can introduce the undercover agent and the undercover cover agent came in as a dude that travels all

01:07:36.020 over the place and buys procures firearms for you know for people in mexico because it's very

01:07:41.140 difficult to get guns in mexico so and there's obviously a war going on a lot of the guns that

01:07:44.820 end up in mexico are guns that are purchased in south texas california whatever it is so we basically

01:07:50.740 have like a kind of like a gun running operation where we were purchasing firearms from dudes in south

01:07:55.860 texas and you know under the guys that we work for cartel people in nueva laredo and we were only

01:08:02.340 able to do that because the the informant had done a really good job of building rapport with these guys

01:08:07.620 he had bought done several transactions with them everything went off with it without a hitch they

01:08:11.060 never made us on surveillance or whatever else like that so those trusts so when he comes and

01:08:14.340 introduces the informant yo this is my guy he got a lot of money he wants to buy guns it's going to be

01:08:18.580 a seamless transition which is why this process is critical to the success of the investigation

01:08:24.020 the informant because he lives that world is probably the for me anyway the most important

01:08:31.060 because he himself has been there he's been around these people if he's not believable it's not going

01:08:34.980 to work and i think that was the big thing for me down there was to make sure that uh we were going

01:08:41.620 to be believable jackson and skebu rehearsed their roles again and again preparing for the real test

01:08:48.260 with davis and williams jackson federal agent from the north and skebu was southern who had dealt drugs

01:08:58.100 all his life had to forge a common history so now they're coming with a cover story meeting up hey

01:09:04.340 what did you do and now they're going to start to kind of build a story so that when they're around

01:09:08.740 these criminals they're going to be able to be seamless their story would be that they had met

01:09:15.940 in the army after their stint was up they'd kept in touch okay they hashed and rehashed details of

01:09:24.580 their friendship habits fake memories that they'd have to know cold and when to say them

01:09:32.100 they were dealing with criminals who could run thorough background checks and so this is another thing

01:09:37.060 this is a very unique situation because they're dealing with police officers guys so when you're

01:09:41.460 an undercover agent right and you're dealing with uh police officers this this could be very dangerous

01:09:46.820 because now they can kind of go ahead and identify who the hell you are do background check all that

01:09:51.460 shit so you got to make sure that you're really on point because these guys have the ability to go

01:09:56.180 ahead and run your information okay we're free to use deadly force we knew that whatever we had we had to

01:10:04.580 keep it simple but we had to make sure that we remembered certain things the biggest thing i thought

01:10:10.020 that helped us was my initials my nickname so no matter how many times they would ask him what's his name

01:10:19.700 he believably said because he only knew jj

01:10:26.180 in april the fbi was ready to introduce jj into the operation

01:10:30.100 he arrived at a hotel carrying what was supposed to be a drug payment of one hundred thousand dollars

01:10:39.300 for the first time williams and davis caught a glimpse of the big time dealer so so this is

01:10:45.300 critical guys this is uh the first intro so basically the police officers are kind of watching

01:10:50.260 a drop here of money of a hundred thousand dollars suspected of u.s currency so they're gonna go ahead

01:10:56.100 and uh this is important you know you got to walk the talk you got to you know talk the talk and walk

01:11:01.860 the walk so this is a moment of truth here their perceptions would be critical the first encounter

01:11:08.500 was in the sheridan hotel they were going to stand at a distance and just observe it was another test to

01:11:15.460 see if they were willing to do what they were going to do hey i don't know how it's going to work they

01:11:19.460 could arrest me right now take me off and you know i'm down you know because we'll be drug money so uh it

01:11:25.300 was a test scaboo told the cops about jj and his plan to use new orleans as a transport hub for his

01:11:33.220 cocaine business davis and williams carefully studied jj's every move

01:11:40.900 jackson was so this is important as well guys that he has to have a believable story

01:11:45.220 that he's trying to use nor new orleans as a how do i say this as as a as a transit location so

01:11:51.700 there's major drug hubs all over the united states guys and um you know places like san antonio houston

01:11:59.380 atlanta uh you know miami florida new york city uh los angeles phoenix these are all major cities

01:12:06.900 where drugs typically go and are held for a period of time some of the drugs are taken out right and

01:12:11.300 distributed and then on uh then another portion of the drugs is continued to is being moved right

01:12:16.180 okay is going to continuously be moved throughout the united states so uh so it's very believable

01:12:22.020 to say yo i need new orleans as a staging location essentially which we're going to get into that

01:12:26.340 here in a second but that's that's the line that they're trying to sell to the police officers here

01:12:30.660 creating his character before their eyes

01:12:35.540 it would become his full-time identity and it would have to hold up under scrutiny

01:12:40.180 everything depended on what the cops thought they had seen and if they believed the cash exchange was

01:12:48.180 genuine the plan worked the cops were convinced that jj was the real deal bam so they got him okay now

01:13:02.100 the police actually think this dude is a real drug uh big level drug kingpin from uh miami slash new york

01:13:08.020 gotcha bitch the fbi was now poised to take operation shattered shield to the next level

01:13:19.940 by the spring of 1994 the fbi's operation shattered sheet targeting new orleans police officers involved

01:13:27.140 in the city's drug trade was in place so now so let's do a quick little recap on the investigation how

01:13:33.540 it went through because we've had some interruptions and everything else like that so i'll let you guys

01:13:39.220 know what's been going on for some of you guys that are joining us late 1993 the fbi gets word that

01:13:44.260 the new orleans police department is filled with corrupt police officers that are ripping off dealers

01:13:48.260 stealing from dealers extorting dealers and um other issues of corruption uh an informant is getting

01:13:54.580 extorted by a police officer aka officer williams for ten thousand dollars on christmas eve of 1993.

01:13:59.860 so what happens is that uh that drug dealer goes ahead and calls the fbi public corruption group

01:14:04.900 and says hey this police officer he wants ten thousand dollars for me i don't have the money

01:14:09.060 help me so the agent meets with that informant they wire him up they send him to go meet that police

01:14:13.540 officer the informant doesn't have ten thousand dollars but he does have three thousand dollars

01:14:17.300 they record the meeting the informant gives the three thousand dollars to williams and williams says

01:14:21.540 okay you know what just pay me on other occasions so the fbi is able to set up other meetings okay

01:14:26.100 with this dirty police officer and this informant where he pays them three thousand dollars on each

01:14:30.580 meeting during one of the meetings the police officer williams brings his co-conspirator aka

01:14:35.300 officer len davis okay len davis goes ahead and uh starts you know kind of to lead the situation

01:14:43.060 and he becomes the main dirty cop okay from williams and they accept bribery payment and not well yeah

01:14:48.900 it is kind of bribery but they're also accepting drug payments to basically watch the informant go ahead

01:14:53.380 and drop make drop-offs they're paying them money for extortion all this stuff okay and the fbi is

01:14:58.820 recording each of these meetings with len and williams however the uh fbi and the u.s attorney's

01:15:05.060 office is more interested in uh identifying other members that are uh corrupt in this police organization

01:15:10.980 norland's police department so what do they do they introduce an undercover agent posing as a high

01:15:15.220 level drug trafficker from miami and new york that deals in high volumes of cocaine and high volumes of

01:15:20.820 u.s currency why well they want to scale up the drug operation to do what to force len davis and

01:15:26.340 williams to hire and recruit other dirty police officers to protect this drug trafficking organization

01:15:32.820 and operation that is operating out of new orleans louisiana and facilitate the safe transportation

01:15:38.340 uh of drugs from an interstate uh uh from an interstate perspective okay so now introduce jj fbi

01:15:47.540 special agent undercover he's now uh successfully dropped off a hundred thousand dollars to the

01:15:52.980 informant the police officers see this they're like okay this guy's the real deal now

01:15:58.180 it's time for the fbi to really take this case to the next level all right so that's where we are

01:16:02.980 right now hope you guys enjoyed that recap like the video if you're on youtube the stream is still

01:16:07.060 down over there oh it's back up now on youtube we're back up on youtube so i gotta turn it out for

01:16:13.060 a little bit and explain things and then they let me fucking go back on youtube but don't worry what's

01:16:17.060 gonna happen guys after this is i'm gonna go ahead and post this on youtube i'm gonna clean it up a

01:16:22.020 little bit and put it on youtube for y'all so yeah i don't know why they're with the youtube stream

01:16:27.700 but don't worry i'll put this back up uh there for y'all so uh let's go ahead and continue playing this bad

01:16:33.460 boy posing as a drug kingpin named jj undercover special agent juan jackson worked with scabu the

01:16:42.500 drug dealer turned fbi informed scabu rented a hotel room for jj to meet officers len davis and sammy

01:16:52.100 williams for the first time okay so this is a big meeting right now guys um when you do meetings like

01:16:57.700 this undercover meets with with the with your uh undercover agents and the bad guys it's extremely

01:17:03.620 dangerous because you don't know what's going to happen you don't know what could be said you don't

01:17:07.380 know if they're armed you don't know what the hell's going on now in this case you're with two police

01:17:11.140 officers which is wild because you already know that they're going to have guns you already know

01:17:15.700 that they're going to be on high alert you already know that they're going to be more susceptible to

01:17:18.660 law enforcement tactics uh they're going to be smarter than your average criminal criminal okay now i

01:17:24.180 actually have footage of this meeting in the hotel i'm going to play that for y'all right now and you

01:17:29.220 guys are going to see uh jj just being a really good undercover agent here okay this is the actual

01:17:35.140 footage from the uh hotel meeting okay uh in 94 i think they met okay at the hilton in new orleans

01:17:44.900 louisiana all right so let's get this bad boy going and if you guys are watching on youtube go ahead and uh

01:17:50.020 man they keep killing the stream on youtube this is hilarious all right

01:17:54.660 we wanted to introduce jj to sammy and lynn personally and so they all met at the hilton

01:18:00.260 hotel in new orleans in a hotel room when lynn and sammy showed up so there's sammy williams and

01:18:05.140 there's len davis the two corrupt police officers as soon as they came in jj proposed to them that

01:18:10.660 they all stripped down so that everybody could see that nobody was wired i'm gonna just leave

01:18:14.900 y'all think on the phone here absolutely i'm gonna let you look at whoever you want before you're gone

01:18:18.180 all right but don't do the same thing and so very smart hey i'm not wearing a wire i don't know if

01:18:24.580 y'all are the police but i want you guys to strip down i'm going to strip down so everybody did

01:18:28.820 jj gave him an opportunity to search the room to see if there was any bugs wires whatever in the

01:18:36.020 room which the officers did very ballsy for him to do that by the way tell them hey go ahead and search

01:18:40.500 the room the room was well monitored with recording devices and cameras the fbi did a phenomenal job in this

01:18:56.980 case and yeah i'm actually impressed this is 1993 so you know you're not going to have like the best

01:19:01.540 equipment back then and here's your boy uh stan hatton again guys you can see he's a little bit

01:19:05.300 older now uh the documentary i was showing you guys before was from 98 this this one i think is

01:19:09.540 like 2016 2017 so you can see he's a little bit older and once they had done this search they sat down

01:19:14.500 and they had a conversation juan jackson presented that he wanted to use new orleans as a transshipment

01:19:20.500 point for cocaine typically going west to houston

01:19:23.300 why because houston like i told you guys before is a huge drug hub uh in the united states so new

01:19:31.140 orleans is obviously going to be a typical stopping point because um uh interstate highway 10 guys

01:19:38.340 connects houston and uh and new orleans and i'll show you guys this real quick on a map uh new orleans right

01:19:49.620 and i've broken this down before you guys before how drug trafficking works in the united

01:19:52.980 states would you guys if you want to see it you can go ahead and uh check it out on um

01:19:57.060 my other video uh on brianna taylor but you guys can see interstate highway 10 okay so you go here

01:20:04.820 right the drugs come in right through mexico typically all right and you got you know these major highways

01:20:12.500 one big route guys i can break down for y'all right now is enter from nueve laredo okay where the cartel

01:20:16.980 del noreste is goes in uh into united states right here through laredo all right this is where i used to be

01:20:21.540 when i was stationed as an agent goes up into into highway uh 35 interstate highway 35 okay and keep

01:20:27.140 in mind guys united states odd numbers mean north south even numbers means east west okay so it gets

01:20:34.820 up here to san antonio which is critical why because san antonio has this magical highway right here

01:20:41.140 interstate highway 10 interstate highway 10 guys okay takes you from los angeles right you can see

01:20:49.300 it right here highway 10 all the way to jacksonville okay so if you're a drug trafficker you got one

01:20:57.620 highway that takes you all across the united states gets you wherever the hell you need to go so

01:21:02.980 the drugs typically come in through mexico into united states a lot of times through south texas

01:21:07.620 and then goes or it comes from miami right in this case it's coming from miami because remember jj's

01:21:13.300 posing to be a miami drug trafficker comes in from miami and he needs to get it to where it's a houston

01:21:17.700 right well look at what's in the middle of houston and miami new orleans okay and look which highway

01:21:25.060 connects the two interstate highway 10 okay so 10 also goes through houston

01:21:35.140 all right so this makes sense from a drug trafficking perspective miami you take 95 bam

01:21:45.460 all the way up to jacksonville or you could take 75 whatever you want to do and then bam you can get

01:21:50.340 across on 10 and then 10 will take you to new orleans and then eventually right here to houston which is a

01:21:57.060 huge drug hub in the united states because houston gets drugs not only

01:22:05.140 from mexico but also from miami okay so like the video because you guys are

01:22:14.180 who breaks down cases down to this level man i used to do this this is what i used to do

01:22:19.540 okay you ain't gonna find another youtuber or content creator out there that breaks this stuff down to

01:22:24.580 this level of detail uh let's see here so let's go back to um the undercover meeting with jj and these

01:22:31.300 guys using new orleans as a transcriptment location it's like a spot where i hold something

01:22:35.540 around he wanted a secure location security 24 7. all we want to do is bring something man sit down for

01:22:42.740 a while all right i was talking about warehouses before we might have one we might need another

01:22:48.500 he wanted the cops to um guard in this case a warehouse for now that's a big deal the fact that

01:22:55.220 he wants them to guard a warehouse and you guys are going to see why that's very important here in

01:22:58.340 a second or between two and four days every single month while the coke was being temporarily stored

01:23:05.220 there anything within the city limits while we're working it can be done look at that lynn davis man

01:23:13.700 calling the shots it's also critical in this conversation as per the u.s attorney's office

01:23:17.860 that they wanted to get a clearly established on tape that we weren't just talking about dope but

01:23:22.660 they wanted it on tape that they were talking about cocaine and so jj very skillfully maneuvered

01:23:27.700 now you guys are probably trying to like asking well yo why is it so important that it's cocaine well

01:23:31.300 the reason why it's so important guys to establish that it's cocaine is because there's different

01:23:34.580 sentencing guidelines depending on the drug that you're trafficking so for example you're going to

01:23:38.660 get more time right for dealing with like methamphetamine and heroin than you will for like marijuana

01:23:44.900 okay so um it's very important uh to identify what type of drug is being uh involved in the drug

01:23:54.020 trafficking conspiracy so in this case they're talking about cocaine which uh you're going to

01:23:59.860 see here in the meeting it comes up over the conversation and jj never actually said cocaine

01:24:04.820 but lynn davis did you could be a hundred percent legit it could be someone you deal with

01:24:09.700 that we're not familiar with that might be into here you're not knowing and then we were using words

01:24:13.700 like cocaine and then you got bam gotcha bitch that's a big deal that's a lot that's that's fantastic

01:24:21.220 evidence on the part of the fbi to be able to get him to say that because now we've established what

01:24:26.980 my friends oh knowledge knowledge is a critical element when it comes to federal drug trafficking laws

01:24:33.540 and i'll tell you guys how it's important let's say someone comes into united states on a truck

01:24:37.860 right smuggling 100 kilos of cocaine on a uh you know in the back of his tractor trailer well when

01:24:42.420 he gets caught by customs and they call over the you know the homeland security agents right because

01:24:46.260 i've done this myself you need to establish that that truck driver knew that there was cocaine in

01:24:50.820 the back of his truck you need they need to have knowledge right for the conspiracy to actually stick

01:24:56.180 so in this case they're able to establish that len davis not only knows that he's protecting a

01:25:01.220 warehouse but more importantly he's protecting a warehouse that is storing cocaine that made it

01:25:08.420 very clear and we were talking about a cocaine protection operation we pretty much left it up

01:25:13.940 to stan hadden and his squad uh to develop the evidence because jj the undercover the dope dealer

01:25:20.580 demanded 24 7 security len davis and sammy williams could not have done that all by themselves see that

01:25:27.620 guys that right there my friends extremely intelligent to say i need 24 7 security on the

01:25:33.860 warehouse for my drugs why is that important because it's going to force len davis and williams to

01:25:40.500 recruit other police officers okay that are uh potentially dirty to watch the warehouse okay but we're

01:25:49.220 gonna run into a little issue here in a second for that amount of time which meant they would have had

01:25:53.700 to recruit and bring in other corrupt officers to man those details all right

01:26:07.940 at the end of 1993 the fbi was tipped off to possible police corruption in the new orleans police

01:26:12.660 department by a local drug dealer with his help they monitored patrolmen len davis and sammy williams

01:26:17.380 for five months before they decided to send in an undercover bam after recording the two partners

01:26:24.020 talking about moving and selling large amounts of cocaine the feds hatched a plan to try and catch the

01:26:28.420 cops in the act all right so this is the warehouse strategy right now we're going to run into a little

01:26:32.900 bit of an issue with the warehouse strategy i'm going to fast forward here on this one right

01:26:38.100 because now let's see here uh they bought jj's uh act uh they

01:26:51.780 jj and scaboo met davis and williams for a walkthrough okay so now they're showing them the warehouse okay

01:26:57.860 jj and scaboo and i'm going to go ahead and play this guys at a faster speed i think that might

01:27:08.100 help us with this uh copyright issue okay so

01:27:14.500 would meet with len davis and sammy williams at the warehouse for what we call the pre-deal meet

01:27:17.700 so they met for the pre-deal meet there at that meeting they would discuss when the dope was coming

01:27:20.340 in how long it was going to stay in in town and how much money jj was going to pay for the officers

01:27:23.780 to guard the dope once inside davis told jj that he had half a dozen more officers lined up to guard

01:27:28.660 the cocaine shows okay so he tells them i got six other cops that can do this all right which that's

01:27:33.620 huge because now they're going to potentially be able to indict more police officers that are involved

01:27:37.220 in corruption all right uh do we have any so what are your thoughts on this so far j while i

01:27:41.300 catch up on these chats um no it's just it's it's crazy to see that something like this like went on

01:27:50.900 you know um it's interesting okay yeah uh she was half asleep guys i had to say something yeah

01:28:05.220 they would work in 10-hour shift uniform police outside guarding payloads of cocaine inside so

01:28:10.500 work 10-hour shifts uh operating payload can you guys hear um the i i know i got it sped up let

01:28:16.980 me know if you guys can you guys still hear the narrator clearly and everything else like that give me

01:28:20.100 ones in the chat you guys can still hear them clearly play it a little bit here so we don't

01:28:24.340 get hit with the oh they still took the stream down it is what it is and you know we'll just play at

01:28:28.500 regular speed they're still taking it down anyway so all right let's keep going up to a quarter of a

01:28:35.940 million dollars worth in each letter at that june meeting came the first big payments from jj more than

01:28:45.700 ten thousand dollars so he pays them ten thousand dollars right to kick this thing off which again

01:28:52.820 let's go ahead and pull up our uh our uh god damn where the hell is this thing

01:29:01.700 right here we go our inflation little calculator ten thousand dollars back then

01:29:07.940 probably around twenty thousand yep nineteen thousand six hundred forty seven thousand dollars

01:29:15.620 four forty seven dollars forty seven sorry nineteen thousand six hundred forty seven dollars

01:29:21.620 so let's uh go back

01:29:24.980 which again is more than their yearly salary god damn it

01:29:29.220 everything is going smooth

01:29:30.420 cut down or almost as much as their yearly salary sorry they're only getting paid 16k

01:29:35.060 back then in 93. but one aspect of the warehouse plan bothered assistant u.s attorney al winters

01:29:40.820 okay so here's the issue with the warehouse plan that's actually very important that the prosecutor is

01:29:44.660 going to bring up okay guys and the vice documentary didn't talk about this but i think it's very

01:29:49.140 important for you guys to see this remember how i told you guys knowledge is very important so let's go

01:29:53.380 ahead and uh break this down basically what we told the agents unless we had evidence irrefutable

01:30:00.980 evidence that these people knew they were guarding cocaine we couldn't prosecute it

01:30:07.780 that's huge they need to know guard outside the warehouse they could later claim they didn't know

01:30:12.260 that drugs were inside i think having some sort of video or hadn't had to find a way to prove davis's

01:30:18.180 recruits saw the drugs on tape or maybe even see his team mulled over ways to bring the drugs into

01:30:26.340 plain view so now that makes it very difficult because now the fbi has to prove that the cops that

01:30:32.420 are guarding the thing actually know that it's drug because they have plausible deniability all they

01:30:36.260 can say is yo len davis recruited me to watch these drugs bro like it's not me like i don't know

01:30:40.820 what you're talking about it was just a police detail you know which police details are 100 legal guys

01:30:45.060 okay said okabo goes question what's the benefit of being an informant uh you triggered my trap card

01:30:50.580 you don't have to go to jail you get paid you know or or you you have served significantly less

01:30:55.060 times there's a lot of uh benefits to being an informant there's people that are career informants

01:30:58.900 bro that make quite a bit of money doing the uh providing information to the government so

01:31:08.100 the officers would have to be recorded seeing and discussing the shipment

01:31:11.700 shipments were delivered to the warehouse one weekend every month according to schedule

01:31:19.060 all right so i think i'm gonna kill that have to kill the youtube stream here guys because uh they

01:31:23.540 keep um they keep shutting it down yeah so all right i'm uh i'm gonna shut the youtube stream down

01:31:30.340 we're dead on youtube guys

01:31:31.380 we going on youtube we straight we twitch now so come on over to twitch

01:31:45.380 then in mid-july the fbi sent a shipment that the guards didn't expect

01:32:05.140 with one load already in the warehouse an fbi agent dressed as a courier brought another shipment

01:32:10.580 the driver shot the guard cops by unloading the cocaine in plain sight

01:32:19.780 this was too overt for len davis's cream they didn't want to see drugs at all

01:32:26.420 so obviously this is putting them in a very scary position you know what i mean because now they're

01:32:31.700 like yo fuck like are we gonna um you know are we gonna get in trouble with this shit like what's going

01:32:36.260 on you know like these guys are over here because they know that some bullshits going on but they

01:32:40.740 don't know exactly what's going on so uh so obviously they're very scared they didn't want the vehicles

01:32:51.060 outside the warehouse unloading drugs and stuff where the officers could actually see it quickly

01:32:56.420 the cops called sammy williams on a cell phone jj had given him williams called jj and jj and scaboo

01:33:03.220 race to the warehouse come here jj responded like a hot-headed drug dealer i was arguing with

01:33:14.900 this guy now we were actually screaming at each other this is good acting though this is good

01:33:18.180 acting they're trying to really sell it like yo what the fuck are you doing what are you doing

01:33:22.500 we you know you know where are you whatever and he's observing because the police officer calling

01:33:28.740 lynn telling him all what's going on and how this doesn't look good to the cops this whole drug

01:33:36.100 operation is starting to look dangerously unprofessional concerned the driver made another call

01:33:45.300 so the undercover agent and the informant are arguing with another undercover agent that

01:33:59.780 you know overtly was moving drugs into the warehouse and the cops are like what the

01:34:02.820 is going on why the hell are we seeing this like yo you guys are putting us in a bad spot because now

01:34:07.700 we actually don't have that plausible deniability anymore god damn it which is exactly what the feds

01:34:13.140 wants sammy williams arrived to straighten out the problem okay okay see what i gotta deal with

01:34:24.020 jj explained it was the driver's school he asked that the cops escort the van to the city limits right

01:34:33.140 despite the risk the episode worked it showed that the cops knew what was inside the warehouse

01:34:39.460 right what's going on to the edge of town all right and it was all video just let him go

01:34:46.020 so now he's telling them hey just escort this dope dealer to the edge of town you know whatever so

01:34:54.900 and uh don't worry guys um yeah youtube took it down but it's cool we'll be straight yeah i don't think

01:34:59.940 i got a strike the episode just got a warning so uh i'll i'll talk with my youtube guy and get it

01:35:05.380 handled but for now we're gonna keep going the show goes on baby we're gonna keep breaking this

01:35:09.860 thing down yo give me uh we're live on twitch right now go ahead and give me one to the chat if you

01:35:13.780 guys are enjoying this man uh give me one to the chat see how y'all okay cool cool cool are you guys

01:35:21.460 enjoying this insight okay awesome awesome awesome i'm glad you guys are enjoying this bad boy so

01:35:25.940 the show goes on this is my home they're gonna need a fucking room keep on his doubts for the cops

01:35:37.540 either jj was an amateur or he was part of a stink either way they'd be watching him more closely now

01:35:49.140 shattered shield wore on into the summer as all of new orleans baked about a hundred degrees

01:35:55.220 in august guarding the warehouse proved hard duty the cops complained of the wear and tear on their

01:36:02.100 engines from running the air conditioning all day in the heat they wanted a vehicle that was more

01:36:07.620 comfortable that could also endure the long hours perhaps a van the officers asked len davis to provide

01:36:14.660 one and davis brought their request to jj this is fucking crazy what you guys are about to see right now

01:36:22.660 so this literally bro is like the opportunity of a lifetime okay just like like if i was the case

01:36:29.300 agent here i would just be like you guys are going to see what happens here in a second for the

01:36:35.300 investigation it was a huge break the sweaty cops had just handed the fbi a golden opportunity

01:36:43.140 it was a stroke of luck one day lynn uh approached me and said that the officers were complaining

01:36:49.540 that uh they're running their cars in air condition the cars are starting to overheat you

01:36:53.860 know they're burning gas you know on and on and on once we were able to rent the van and and and put the

01:36:59.780 listening device inside we were able to hear a lot more conversations the fbi quickly filed the

01:37:07.380 paperwork to get court authorized wiretaps for the van

01:37:13.060 technicians carefully installed state-of-the-art microphones

01:37:16.020 so again they had to go ahead and get paperwork done for title three right to go ahead and be able

01:37:23.460 to wiretap the vans but at this point obviously they had a bunch of communication they've uh with

01:37:28.900 the dirty police officers they're able to establish yo we need to wiretap this van because not only

01:37:33.620 are we going to be able to get you know evidence but we're also going to be able to you know get

01:37:38.420 protection of the undercover agents see what these guys are plotting and you guys are going to see

01:37:41.780 here it's going to get even crazier here in a second but they're going to be able to collect a

01:37:46.500 whole bunch of evidence as far as what the hell the police officers are talking about while they're

01:37:52.340 sitting in the van protecting the drugs and is going to be able to prove knowledge okay which we

01:37:56.900 talked about before is extremely important they had to yield top sound quality for months with no maintenance

01:38:03.380 the van was a perfect trojan horse for getting inside information i picked this out myself the shiny

01:38:16.260 new van made the officers suspicious they wondered if anyone could have tempered with it

01:38:22.740 it ain't nothing wrong they wanted to know exactly where davis had gotten the vehicle

01:38:26.580 i've never seen this vehicle before because jj had so completely won davis's trust davis told the

01:38:33.060 cops that he himself had rented the van he vouched telling you it's okay that calmed their fears i

01:38:40.100 picked it out myself okay this is the importance guys of having good undercover agents and informants

01:38:46.340 when you are uh so embedded into the criminal organization where your target starts to go ahead

01:38:53.140 and vouch for you as the undercover agent or the informant that's huge because obviously the

01:38:58.340 police now are are skeptical like bro what the hell like you you got this van out of nowhere brand new

01:39:04.660 like yeah yeah you know you do realize we're kind of doing some illegal here like come on man so he's

01:39:10.740 able to say no no no bro i know this is lit it's gonna work whatever it may be and why is he saying

01:39:15.220 that well obviously he wants to continue to get paid right these guys were making a killing guarding

01:39:19.940 these drugs they're making five thousand dollars a day guys okay which once again just to let you

01:39:24.180 guys know let's go ahead and look at that inflation calculator right five thousand dollars

01:39:29.700 all right is the equivalent to nine thousand eight hundred twenty three dollars today so imagine

01:39:36.100 okay ten thousand right 10k well five five thousand dollars in 19 uh five five times 30 right

01:39:44.020 and because they were doing this at 24 7 right so 5 000 times 30 150k per month okay so 150k per month

01:40:01.380 damn near 300 000 hours a month to guard drugs crazy crazy all right and they're splitting it amongst

01:40:09.060 all these dirty police officers

01:40:14.020 the fbi would soon learn just how ruthless davis guarded his interests

01:40:29.620 after three months of shattered shield more and more new orleans cops came under the fbi's investigation

01:40:38.980 len davis and undercover agent jj met offers to discuss drug shipments and payoffs

01:40:44.020 for police protection

01:40:47.220 davis made frequent threats

01:40:50.660 they'll tell you we run this city we do whatever we want to do that's what uh the dirty cops from

01:40:56.420 baltimore the gun trace task force also were saying we run this city they let me know that very many

01:41:01.620 times if they feel like they want to shut it down they'll shut it down but davis liked the money

01:41:08.420 jj knew that as long as the money flowed he would never shut the operation

01:41:14.260 the house davis called the shots for the other officers he recruited and set the schedules using

01:41:20.740 his cell phone full of success so this guy but he complained about his bill

01:41:29.780 so jj offered davis a new cell phone free of charge

01:41:37.380 another one the offers him a phone as well gotcha

01:41:41.620 now they can go ahead and wiretap that as well because they know that phone is going to be used

01:41:45.940 for illicit activity okay so that'll be an easy title three affidavit to write up

01:41:51.620 because it's gonna he's buying him a phone to facilitate the drug trafficking mind you guys

01:41:55.780 a cell phone in 1993 was like a big status symbol that was a big deal okay people weren't

01:42:01.140 running around with cell phones in 1993 they were very difficult to procure

01:42:04.500 one more way the fbi could record the cops knowing involvement in drug trafficking

01:42:08.900 the wires the fbi had planted in the warehouse van were paying off one night two guards on the

01:42:20.100 graveyard shift brought prostitutes to the van these niggas they got hookers

01:42:26.100 oh man l l l new orleans l department that's what we should call this bro god damn all right so but

01:42:41.940 this let's see they'll see what the fbi does here they're able to use this and turn it around and

01:42:45.620 make it into a good thing the wires picked up everything even the cops sexual indiscretions

01:42:50.660 when jenkins heard this she immediately phoned jj

01:42:57.620 so the agent that's monitoring the wire calls the undercover agent see what he does here

01:43:01.940 the situation was a chance to catch the cops off balance

01:43:07.780 jj called davis to complain and to see what they get on tape

01:43:12.980 he told davis he had checked out the warehouse and found that the cops weren't protecting it

01:43:17.380 we can't have this jj wasn't paying cops to have sex he ordered davis to straighten things out

01:43:25.620 now this is really good stuff because i remember when i had my wiretap guys you're listening to the

01:43:29.940 phone real time you can hear all the crazy so you're able to make things kind of happen based

01:43:35.620 off what you hear okay so they hear that and they're like all right let's add this like uh let's

01:43:41.700 do this audible make this happen so we can stimulate some more potential evidence to occur on the case

01:43:46.820 so he calls len and says yo your guys are smashing in the in the car i saw them they're not doing

01:43:51.540 their jobs they're not protecting the dope like they're supposed to so obviously len the head of

01:43:55.540 the operation what does he do he drives over there in fury and you guys gonna see what happens

01:44:02.020 davis arrived in a fury

01:44:06.340 his henchmen were threatening to ruin his whole operation

01:44:09.060 how y'all doing in there open the door

01:44:12.100 lynn was upset lynn was a businessman through through lynn wanted it to work exactly one way

01:44:18.260 and he was really upset that i was upset and uh he got up he got up he came out there and

01:44:26.980 and just kicked everybody out jj's call brought davis down on him hard

01:44:32.020 them but the episode triggered deep suspicions among the dirty cops

01:44:41.780 hooker's just leaving like oh man

01:44:48.260 damn it we didn't get paid they now felt sure that jj was the problem and believed they could run the

01:44:55.540 operation better themselves they discussed ways to kill jj oh so now they're mad because he snitched

01:45:04.340 them out they want to kill jj now their plans alarmed agent karen jenkins when i heard those

01:45:13.060 conversations were they were threatening to do harm to our undercover agent it sent a chill down my spine

01:45:21.540 it scared me um before i came to new orleans so i had worked with jj in another office so i knew him

01:45:27.540 personally and i was very concerned despite the threats to his life jj was resolute keeping the

01:45:34.820 cops engaged with plans to further expand the operation now normally you know if you get a

01:45:40.180 threat on the undercover agent's life that's kind of like the case agent and the undercover got to have

01:45:44.740 a discussion and be like hey do you still want to go this is very dangerous blah blah blah obviously at

01:45:50.020 this point he's invested he's probably they've been doing this investigation now for several

01:45:53.380 months now it's august almost or september so they've been going now for all the better part of a year

01:45:58.660 right and jj met these has been has been going for about four months he got introduced to them in april

01:46:02.740 and of 93 so you know like a trooper he's like no we're gonna keep going you know i'm not worried

01:46:09.620 he promised davis that the largest shipment would arrive before christmas

01:46:13.140 after that he would move the deliveries to another part of the city

01:46:23.380 all the time jj had to draw out more evidence on tape without making davis suspicious

01:46:30.340 he was very careful he watched everything he paid attention to everything i said

01:46:35.940 there were conversations where we talked he's obviously very shaky cocaine he would count the

01:46:42.900 times i used he would tell me jet you said cocaine five times that's crazy yeah you said kilos five

01:46:49.460 times crazy so i had to be careful guilty conscience at the same time hadn't and his team had to defuse

01:46:56.980 another plot they overheard the cops were threatening to kill the couriers and steal the cocaine so they

01:47:02.820 got two problems they got some police officers because remember guys the van is wired they can

01:47:07.300 hear all their conversations so and they can hear the telephone conversations will end davis and

01:47:11.700 everything else like that so not only are they hearing that they want to kill the undercover agent jj

01:47:16.980 right the drug kingpin from miami they also want to kill the fbi undercovers that are posing as

01:47:21.940 drug couriers that are bringing the drugs to the warehouse they want to kill them and steal the drugs holy

01:47:27.140 man oh and this is obviously extremely dangerous because you got armed police officers there that

01:47:32.980 you know are corrupt that you know are already ripping off drug dealers they're they don't know

01:47:36.660 that these guys are undercover fbi agents they could just go and said hey kill this dude take the kilos

01:47:40.500 of coke we can sell that shit make way more money so this is two different fires that the bureau is

01:47:46.180 dealing with right now simultaneously okay and it's going to get even better here but wait there's more

01:47:52.100 the agents scrambled delivery times and mapped new routes to and from the warehouse to keep the cops

01:47:59.940 off balance with so many dirty cops the fbi couldn't make a clean sweep from the outside alone

01:48:08.740 agents would need someone powerful in the police force to be a strong ally despite the danger of leaks

01:48:15.780 they decided to seek help from within the new orleans police department

01:48:24.900 okay now this is risky guys anytime you're investigating a corrupt police department or any

01:48:28.580 type of like internal investigation like this um you know involving that agency that you're investigating

01:48:34.260 uh is always risky but typically the highest levels the chiefs you know the second guy in command

01:48:39.460 sometimes they'll be involved in investigations like this with their internal affairs

01:48:42.660 october 1994 brought fresh changes to new orleans in a new police chief richard pennington

01:48:51.540 so how do you like our first pennington was an outsider from washington dc

01:48:55.620 hired in the hopes of reforming the crescent city's crooked police force

01:49:02.340 the fbi invited the new chief for a meeting

01:49:04.740 this is not all good then hadn't introduced jj he informed pennington that operation shattered shield

01:49:15.140 was uncovering corruption deep in the force that he was about to head

01:49:20.580 his cooperation would be critical for the success of operation shattered shield

01:49:24.660 on the streets of new orleans davis and williams were still on active duty cruising their territory

01:49:34.580 so you know they're still doing their thing they're still you know

01:49:38.580 you know doing their corrupt police that corrupt police do so you guys are going to see here in a

01:49:43.140 second len davis had a long list of public complaints against him

01:49:48.500 during their rounds one night that october davis and sammy williams patrolled the desire housing project

01:50:00.100 seeing the pair of cops approach two youths took flight

01:50:04.500 williams chased one teenager down bludgeoned him and left him bleeding in the street so he beat the

01:50:10.420 shit out of a kid at that moment kim groves the victim's aunt decided the police had terrorized

01:50:17.780 their neighborhood long enough

01:50:25.300 the next day groves a 32 year old mother of three so this woman watches her nephew get his

01:50:30.420 ass whooped by those two cops it wasn't len len davis was there but he didn't actually beat up

01:50:36.260 the kid it was his partner um williams that beat him up filed a complaint against len davis and his

01:50:42.740 partner so she files a complaint that's going to go directly to who internal affairs guys and who

01:50:49.140 doesn't want internal affairs involved len davis because he's got a whole sophisticated drug trafficking

01:50:54.340 operation going on that he has a bunch of cops working on so the last thing he needs is a

01:51:00.100 a fucking internal affairs investigation against him she cited the pair for police violence

01:51:09.620 an officer alerted davis about the complaint

01:51:17.940 assistant u.s attorney mike mcmahon saw the report she reported not only sammy williams who did the

01:51:25.780 actual brutality but len davis as well who had nothing to do with that pistol whipping and at

01:51:33.220 that point len davis became enraged for davis so he was mad as hell and this woman knew who len davis was

01:51:42.020 like everyone in the area knew him so she reported him and the other guy just because len davis was

01:51:46.740 there even though he didn't beat the dude's ass but he was pissed groves complaint came at the worst

01:51:51.060 possible time it would bring unwanted attention just as the new police chief was coming on board

01:51:57.460 so that's two different things we got a new police chief right so he can get in trouble for this

01:52:01.140 shit and he's running a drug trafficking operation so it's like fuck that i don't want internal affairs

01:52:06.980 looking at my ass right now i know what i'm gonna do len davis vowed to get revenge oh shit the same day

01:52:17.380 that kim groves filed her complaint richard pennington was sworn in as new orleans new chief of police

01:52:25.460 that marked the start of shattered shield's final phase the shift from an fbi effort to a partnership

01:52:32.180 with a city desperate to clean house

01:52:38.740 that very night agent jenkins recorded several conversations that would show just how rotten some

01:52:44.260 of the city's men in blue had become the first call was cryptic this shit's about to get crazy

01:52:55.780 hours after pennington was sworn in len davis made a call on his cell phone

01:53:05.300 he gave an order to an unknown man need you to do a 30

01:53:08.660 the fbi taped the con he said i need you to do a 30 for me but because davis spoke in modified police

01:53:16.660 code agents didn't know what it meant

01:53:23.620 while they attempted to decipher it agents recorded a second more disturbing call

01:53:27.940 this time the unknown man called davis

01:53:36.900 as they spoke a police dis mind you they got his phone wired up so they hear all this

01:53:40.980 that's what they're talking about and they're talking about the victim's name kim groves oh

01:53:49.060 shit murder in the front news he cried rockabye it was the triumphant cry of a killer when he

01:53:58.020 later heard it the call shocked assistant u.s attorney mike mcmahon as soon as he now i actually have

01:54:04.340 the recordings here for y'all instead of uh you know actually we'll say see what the usa says then i'll

01:54:10.260 play it after confirm the name of kim groves davis shut off the radio and then on the um the wiretap

01:54:17.300 conversation uh over the cell phone just exalted in a primal scream of delight that indeed kim groves

01:54:27.620 was dead god damn when agents were so viewed the tapes and checked the phone so mind you guys remember

01:54:36.100 they're you know the fbi just so you guys know what's going on here right because you guys are

01:54:39.300 probably a little confused a murder what the so while they're while they're monitoring the phones

01:54:44.820 and everything else like that keep in mind that they're watching the drug house and they're making

01:54:48.180 sure their undercovers don't get killed okay or get robbed so that was the fbi's focus at the time

01:54:53.460 because they had a drug investigation going on but at the same time they didn't know what len davis was

01:54:58.420 planning this hit and they didn't know what the hell he was saying because he was using coded language to uh

01:55:03.780 go ahead and set up this murder so it wasn't after until after the murder happened that they were

01:55:08.660 able to go back to the videotape decipher what the hell he was saying and put it together and say oh

01:55:13.380 this dude ordered a hit okay they discovered that the man who spoke to davis was paul hardy

01:55:22.580 so the guy that did the hit was this dude named paul hardy so we're gonna go ahead guys and give you

01:55:26.180 guys a little bit of insight as to who paul hardy is okay

01:55:41.460 notice that his friend len davis had started to hang around with a violent crack dealer named paul hardy

01:55:47.300 i remember len having a barbecue at his house that's when i believe that len davis wires was cross

01:55:53.540 and a person would say well what do you mean his wires was cross he was a little different

01:55:56.820 then and invited some of us over and uh and i went over and paul was there

01:56:08.660 paul hardy and i we grew up together we grew up together in the calico project we played basketball

01:56:12.260 together we played play football together you know everybody knew paul we were trained got the gold teeth

01:56:18.180 too had to be dope dealers right when drugs came along it kind of like it changes your values right

01:56:24.580 there's laws right it's that you live by and you break those laws you get executed it's a normal way

01:56:29.620 of living when you're in the dope game it was common knowledge yes he's a drug dealer yes he's violent

01:56:35.620 he had been arrested for some various homicides but he always was able to get off people were afraid

01:56:41.860 to testify against hardy he walked on two homicides two murders uh in state court here because of

01:56:47.860 witness intimidation so here this dude beat two murders okay mr gold teeth over here beat two

01:56:53.060 murders in the state and no one could do and no one wanted to testify against him everyone was terrified

01:56:56.900 this guy is len davis's right-hand man but with davis and williams by his side paul hardy seemed to be

01:57:03.780 above the law len davis protected paul hardy they were tight they would ask len if there was any

01:57:09.860 police protection in the area when they wanted to go shoot up somebody they had a very close

01:57:15.300 street level relationship you would not want to wrong paul hardy because you'd end up dead

01:57:24.740 you know now you're starting to see you know len and paul together and again i didn't really know

01:57:28.580 but i heard of his reputation him wanting to mix with len be around a lot of cops and len wanting

01:57:33.380 to mix with him to me i thought was like it was just a little odd you know that they became friends

01:57:37.620 like that well i'm sure not the police no more they lost me a long time ago so he's talking to

01:57:44.580 him i'm sure not the police no more they lost me a long time ago this is golden evidence right here

01:57:57.300 but things were strictly business at fbi headquarters they had their sights set on one

01:58:01.220 then we kind of stood down a little bit we breathed a sigh of relief and decided okay you know

01:58:05.140 things are okay for now but more drama was brewing the day before okay so this is going to illustrate

01:58:10.340 the shooting as well from another perspective guys a little bit more detail for 32 year old local kim

01:58:15.940 groves and a relative filed a civil complaint against sammy williams and len davis for beating their nephew

01:58:20.980 on the street kim at the time was a mother of three uh two daughters and a son kim groves had witnessed

01:58:28.580 the brutality committed by sammy williams she was in the crowd a complaint was made to the then

01:58:35.620 internal affairs division of the nopd accusing both sammy williams and len davis who had nothing to

01:58:42.580 do he didn't touch the kid and that infuriated davis it's my understanding that her motivation for

01:58:47.220 making the complaint was that she knew that len davis was a bad guy she didn't like him anyway

01:58:51.860 and because he was there she used that as an opportunity to make a complaint against him

01:58:55.300 yeah so she didn't like him already so and he was there she was like it

01:58:58.580 talked to the commander at ied when he gets up he's looking for something to come down

01:59:03.220 okay you know things are a complaint was mediated davis like him anyway

01:59:09.220 she talked to the commander ied and he say he tired of hearing my name and been wanting to get me so

01:59:13.300 he's knows he's gonna get in trouble when davis was a power figure in the community and you did not

01:59:20.900 complain about len davis while they were on patrol a car with kim groves pulled on the side of the

01:59:29.060 police unit it was a marked unit the bitch got in the car the niggas are telling you about and uh

01:59:33.380 they might have been going up to ied when i saw them because they come they got this right it's not

01:59:37.220 ied a it's probably iad internal affairs division speeding up outside of us so they can look at us

01:59:43.940 she pulled up on him pointing back and forth and then that caused davis to call paul hardy the hit

01:59:51.220 man to say when they get up he's looking for something to come down all of the words something

01:59:56.500 will be coming most likely see so this is what he told paul hardy to do so the fbi remember they're

02:00:01.940 listening to this real time but they don't know what the hell this means because they're more focused

02:00:05.220 on their drug investigation not knowing that this dude len davis is planning a murder for hire essentially

02:00:14.900 at the time we were not aware of it that this meant go kill her

02:00:33.620 so he's describing her look he he's doing some mind simultaneously guys so what he's doing is he's

02:00:38.020 at her area looking for her telling the hitman what she's wearing okay paul hardy's the hitman

02:00:44.180 so this is crazy he's in his police car

02:00:49.140 ordering hits

02:00:49.940 on october 13th at 10 50 p.m kim groves was executed on a new orleans street corner

02:01:03.380 so this is after the hit is done okay guys so he goes what's up and he goes shabaka which is

02:01:08.100 probably code word for we did the job and he goes i know i'm listening uh right now so the

02:01:14.820 murder comes out on the radio and he's saying they're conining it right now putting it out

02:01:20.180 looking like a 30.

02:01:26.180 30 is uh police jargon for murder guys

02:01:29.940 let's see his reaction after the police dispatcher tells him kim groves

02:01:41.300 crazy

02:01:51.700 fucking screaming on that bad boy rockabye oh my god heartless heartless

02:02:00.900 so we'll go back to the original documentary here so uh your boy this is your boy paul hardy coming

02:02:05.220 up and you know land that thing go davis had asked hardy for a 30. a police code normally

02:02:13.940 used to report a homicide police code for homicide but that night a 30. used it as an order for the

02:02:22.180 murder of kim groves

02:02:23.460 he shot her in the head with a nine millimeter which i'll show you guys the indictment here in a

02:02:35.060 second with that document uh which is basically right here see i prepared baby i got everything

02:02:41.300 ready to go man what other fucking what other podcast has all this so this is the indictment

02:02:48.580 that i got they got him for for a violation of conspiracy against civil rights guys len davis

02:02:51.940 paul hardy and then the third conspirator damon cowsey okay uh on october 13 1994 in eastern

02:02:57.300 district of louisiana defendant len davis who was then employed as an officer with the new

02:03:00.260 orleans police department and defense paul hardy a.k.a.p and damon cowsey did will will

02:03:04.340 willfully combine conspire and agree with each other and with other person with others known

02:03:08.660 and unknown to the grand jury to injure oppress threaten and intimidate kim mary groves a person

02:03:13.220 in the state of louisiana in the free exercise and enjoyment of the rights and privileges secured

02:03:18.020 to her by the constitution and laws of the united states which include one the right to not

02:03:21.540 be deprived of liberty without due process of law that is the right to be free from the use

02:03:26.020 of unreasonable force by one acting under color of law and that defendants len davis paul hardy

02:03:30.740 and damon cowsey were acting under color of laws of the state of louisiana at all times relevant to

02:03:37.140 this indictment sheesh all right because he was a police officer doing this okay so here are the

02:03:44.580 overt acts before you know i keep going into this thing basically after learning that kim marie groves had

02:03:48.820 filed civil rights complaint against him defendant len davis contacted defendant paul hardy a.k.p on

02:03:53.140 several occasions honor about october 13 1994 to arrange the murder of kim marie groves honor

02:03:57.940 about october 13 1994 defendant len davis contact defendant damon cowsey to arrange a meeting whereby

02:04:02.660 defendant len davis would identify kim marie groves to the defendants paul hardy and damon cowsey see

02:04:07.540 that's when he was describing i remember with uh with the pants and everything else like that thereby

02:04:12.020 facilitating the murder of kim marie groves okay uh honor about october 13 1994 defendant len davis while

02:04:18.500 on duty and while using his official police car conducted surveillance on of kim marie groves

02:04:23.700 for the purpose of reporting gross physical description and location to the defendant paul

02:04:28.100 hardy aka p okay so let's go back to the documentary here real fast

02:04:38.020 with the help of two accomplices hardy acted quick cold and for just 300 300 bucks

02:04:48.500 this is better way over a bridge hardy threw the barrel of the gun into the canal

02:04:56.500 all right why did he throw the barrel of the gun into the canal the reason why he did that guys is

02:04:59.780 because when you shoot a firearm okay it gives you a it gives the bullet fragments a certain uh how do

02:05:06.260 i say this distinct pattern okay think of it as like a fingerprint so when a fire when a bullet is

02:05:11.700 fired outside of a firearm that firearm creates a distinct uh pattern on that bullet okay so that you can

02:05:18.500 identify if the shot fired came from that firearm so if he gets rid of the barrel they won't be able

02:05:24.020 to you know fully identify if that was the gun that was used in the murder it makes it more difficult

02:05:28.740 can you still identify if that gun was the murder weapon absolutely but it does make it a little bit

02:05:32.820 harder uh for forensic analysts to do so which is why he threw it outside of the window i mean he should

02:05:37.620 just threw the whole gun out there but you know you know stupid criminals gonna do stupid right so stupid

02:05:42.900 and handed the body of the gun to an accomplice for safety and that accomplice we know is damon uh

02:05:52.580 is uh what's it called what's the name again it's uh uh what's that guy's name damon cowsey is the uh associate

02:06:11.700 poppin

02:06:16.300 the fbi realized davis's role in the murder agents grew more concerned for jayj's safety

02:06:24.340 jay met with davis soon afterward he looked carefully for signs that davis was anxious or upset

02:06:31.940 he saw none

02:06:34.420 so the fbi figures out after the fact that he was involved in ordering a hit so they go and meet up

02:06:38.100 to see his demeanor after the murder of kim grove seemed to have relaxed davis

02:06:43.940 j.j still had to play his part the role of a drug lord though uneasy he was careful not to

02:06:50.180 talk about the murder i wanted to ask a lot of questions about it i couldn't

02:06:57.540 only thing i'd ask him was anything different happening since the last time i was here he said

02:07:02.420 no and we went on just like nothing ever happened is he a cold-blooded killer

02:07:08.660 i could probably do you in a minute yeah having seen what davis and his cops could do

02:07:13.940 j.j had every reason to believe that he could be next he was unaware that they were already

02:07:20.900 planning ways to kill him days after len davis ordered the murder of kim groves the fbi learned

02:07:29.860 of more threats by davis's men so shit's getting crazy now a new orleans police officer assisting

02:07:36.980 an operation shattered shield received an anonymous threat so they had an officer helping them out on

02:07:42.660 this investigation and uh he gets a threatening note

02:07:50.660 this is what happens when you tell on your own and what do they do it came with kim groves obituary holy

02:08:00.660 shit

02:08:06.500 more evidence

02:08:07.140 the message was clear death would come to those who talked

02:08:15.220 that day stan hadden learned of still more threats against j.j and the other agents

02:08:26.660 agent jenkins had recorded five cops at the warehouse plotting to kill the couriers and j.j

02:08:31.780 and then they would steal the cocaine and sell it themselves

02:08:40.660 hadden had no choice the fbi had to wrap up the operation before it was too late

02:08:45.620 but once we realized that uh the lives of our undercover agents were at serious risk

02:08:52.980 then we had to react to it we had to do something the fbi needed to move up their plans for the big

02:08:58.340 shipment j.j had promised to davis a cocaine shipment so large that it would require a half

02:09:03.940 dozen more cops to bargain but hadn't needed a location unfamiliar to the cops a place where the

02:09:10.100 fbi could mobilize quickly so they're gonna set up they're setting up the takedown now he and his

02:09:16.100 team scouted the mardi gras truck stop on elysian fields avenue the spot had good highway access

02:09:23.460 it also posed little risk to the public in the event of a shootout

02:09:28.340 the cocaine would arrive on an 18-wheel then be loaded into cars and escorted by the cops out of the

02:09:34.340 city every detail had to be mapped out yeah doing an operation like this is

02:09:39.860 fucking crazy man the plan would require the coordination of 85 agents positioned strategically

02:09:47.220 along the routes 85 agents man this is what it takes to do these kinds of big investigations guys

02:09:52.260 i've done cases like this man it is a nightmare you know because you're doing massive surveillance

02:09:57.140 and on this case they're you know surveilling dirty police officers okay because the police

02:10:02.020 officers are supposed to be watching the drugs and the agents are watching the dirty officers watching

02:10:05.860 the drugs so it is fucking a crazy effort man when davis put out the word about a huge november 18th

02:10:17.860 shipment he enticed new recruits

02:10:19.860 as a load of cocaine worth a quarter of a million dollars arrived davis williams and their crew stood

02:10:32.580 ready as protection

02:10:38.020 agents posing as drivers moved the ship

02:10:40.260 from the command center hadden and jenkins kept watch of the whole operation

02:10:48.580 there were hundreds so a command center guys is typically uh when you have a big operation where

02:10:52.660 you have so many moving parts where you know you got undercover agents you got surveillance units you got

02:10:56.660 air units whatever assets you may have you have a command center and in the command center typically

02:11:01.300 is the case agent the co-case agent the supervisor um people that are uh you know intimately involved with

02:11:07.300 the investigation that understand the facts of the case and they're the ones calling the shots

02:11:10.980 they're the ones on the radios hey i need you to follow this guy i need you to follow this guy

02:11:14.180 etc etc because since they know the facts and circumstances of the case they tell all the

02:11:18.260 other agents who don't know the case right what they need to do okay because um they're the ones

02:11:23.540 directing the case and also sometimes the u.s attorney's on board uh also at the command center

02:11:27.540 seeing what the hell's going on because they're the ones that are going to be prosecuting it

02:11:30.100 so they're going to be also be involved to see what the hell's going on because at the end of the

02:11:33.540 day uh the prosecutor needs all the facts to build an uh effective case against the criminals okay

02:11:40.020 so that's what a command center is of ways the truck stop scenario could go wrong

02:11:47.540 with the undercover agents lives on the line there was no margin for error

02:11:53.780 the cocaine was divided in two levels

02:11:58.020 williams escorted one davis followed the other

02:12:03.540 they shepherded the couriers to the edge of town shielding them from other drug gangs and from the

02:12:13.220 law to make it easier for our surveillance we had one of the courier cars go to the east and one go to

02:12:20.740 the west because we had two complete surveillance teams operating simultaneously and we didn't want

02:12:25.220 the two to get crossed up with each other smart so you separate it the operation went off without a hitch

02:12:31.380 six additional cops were videotaped in the act of drug trafficking the fbi was about to enter the

02:12:37.700 last phase of shattered shield which that's huge that's great evidence you know what i'm saying

02:12:41.300 you're able to basically identify these other officers that are basically transporting drugs

02:12:45.940 arresting the corrupt cops who would kill anyone who opposed them

02:12:49.860 after the big truck stop operation fbi agents moved quickly on the murder of kim groves

02:13:02.260 they searched the house of the hitman paul hardy so they go ahead and search paul hardy's house

02:13:07.220 right and look at what they find actually you know what i'll go ahead and play the video first and

02:13:12.980 then we'll uh and then i'll read the document for y'all there agents found an unauthorized copy of a

02:13:22.500 guide to police codes oh why is the drug trafficker that beat two murder cases walking around with a uh

02:13:31.060 an unauthorized copy of police codes not openly available to the public where did he get that

02:13:36.420 you know that is the real question here where did he get that

02:13:45.940 the same codes that davis used when he ordered groves murder

02:13:50.500 another search at the home of one of hardy's accomplices so he did another search

02:14:03.220 oh nine millimeter hand bam they find the gun at one of uh hardy's boys house

02:14:08.900 which is where right here in the indictment

02:14:14.340 honor box over 13th at the 10.01 pm defendant len davis ordered defendant paul hardy to get that

02:14:19.060 whore thereby ordering the murder of kim mary groves defendant paul hardy uh agreed to kill uh

02:14:25.380 kim mary groves and stayed in response all right i'm on my way honored by october 13 1994 at 10 55

02:14:30.580 pm defendant paul hardy akp shot kim groves in the head with a nine millimeter firearm which resulted in

02:14:35.620 her death defendant damon cowsey did conceal the nine millimeter firearm used to kill kim marie groves

02:14:42.100 by hiding the firearm in a chest of a drawer of drawer of drawers in his bedroom located at 3930 florida

02:14:50.580 avenue apartment b new orleans louisiana you know what just for fun let's go ahead and look this bad

02:14:55.460 boy up the where where did the fbi exactly find this thing so we're gonna go ahead and use our friend

02:15:00.980 google maps okay and the address is 39 i know you guys really enjoy this stuff so let's type in

02:15:10.340 this address to see where the hell it's actually at uh okay 39 uh 30 florida avenue

02:15:26.100 bam

02:15:28.820 the fuck okay let me just let me go back

02:15:31.700 all right bear with me here guys sorry 3930

02:15:45.060 florida avenue new orleans louisiana okay

02:15:53.700 oh yeah it's the hood okay so they might have knocked it over but this is this is uh this is what

02:16:00.420 what it is now as of 2014 this is probably it right here oh

02:16:05.140 shit doesn't look too friendly yeah that's it looks like it right there

02:16:13.460 he is in the trap all right

02:16:18.180 uh my bad okay let's go back to it

02:16:21.700 the two investigations shattered shield and the murder were closing at the same time

02:16:36.180 so they basically put off the the corruption case a little bit so that they can go ahead

02:16:41.540 and solve the murder as well guys and they detail this uh here

02:16:45.300 i remember it like it was yesterday i was home on a saturday i got a call from federal prosecutors

02:16:53.380 who tim groves was murdered after filing a civil complaint against the undercover operation going

02:16:58.660 so that we could try and convict all of the officers that were involved

02:17:02.100 the fbi believed they had recorded evidence of davis ordering paul hardy to kill groves one night

02:17:06.500 during a 10-month sting operation into police corruption at the nopd

02:17:10.420 we already had all the evidence we needed to try and convict all of the officers that were involved

02:17:13.780 in guarding the warehouse but management wanted to keep the undercover operation going so that we

02:17:19.780 could perhaps get additional incriminating information about the actual murder of kim groves

02:17:24.340 and that was a smart move but the feds needed a murder weapon to indisputably tie davis to the crime

02:17:31.540 two weeks later on november 2nd 1994 while searching the home of one of hardy's right hand men

02:17:36.660 the fbi who we know who he is his name is damon cowsey right because we actually got the tour

02:17:40.820 court documents right here this clown they searched damon cowsey's house and we know

02:17:46.020 it was at 3930 florida avenue located what they were looking for we found what proved to be the

02:17:53.140 weapon that was actually used in the murder of kim gross bam there you go guys they got it

02:17:57.300 right there my friends that's it after nearly a year of investigations and hundreds of thousands

02:18:05.540 of dollars in taxpayer money len davis and paul hardy were arrested and charged with murder

02:18:10.980 so they arrested them first for the murder i learned of the murder and damon cowsey so three

02:18:15.940 there were three conspirators in that so now this dirty cop right d's who was also involved in this

02:18:21.380 protecting the drugs he's also involved so let's uh get his perspective on what happened of kim groves

02:18:27.460 when everybody else did another police officer said something about hey d do you did you hear what

02:18:33.140 happened i said no what happened he said the feds had just arrested lynn davis for conspiracy to commit

02:18:39.700 murder and that more was going to come out on the 12 o'clock news and i'm calling lynn on that cell phone

02:18:45.700 and then the phone just kept going to voicemail so he's fucking terrified he finds out that

02:18:50.500 the guy that recruited him to do this drug protection just got arrested for murder so he's

02:18:55.700 like oh and paul hardy as well and he knows paul hardy remember he was at the barbecue so he knew who

02:19:00.100 this drug trafficking uh murderer was right and obviously len davis is his friend so he's going

02:19:07.140 nuts because he's trying to call len on the cell phone that they used to do the you know the drug

02:19:11.140 conspiracy and he's not answering so it's like oh and then the news is going to come out on the news so

02:19:16.100 his fucking butthole is like uh oh lord and uh i got very nervous at the same time i'm getting paged

02:19:24.900 from the fifth district police station oh so now hit the fifth district is calling him as well and

02:19:30.260 guys for some of you young boys out there you might not know what a page is this is back when beepers

02:19:33.620 were a thing okay this is 1994 at this point you know they didn't have cell phones like that they

02:19:37.460 had beepers of course he had a cell phone because he was a drug trafficker but the pd didn't have that

02:19:41.780 kind of money so they were just using a beeper with his ass so then i called the police station

02:19:46.980 and that's when they told me that i was due for a meeting at the police station oh i get there as

02:19:53.300 soon as i turned in to to go into the room all i see is all the other guys standing there all of

02:20:00.500 them are handcuffed and the federal agent tells me adam deez uh you've been indicted for conspiracy

02:20:05.940 you know you're under arrest bam they say that i was you know engaged in the conversation

02:20:12.580 about killing federal agents and to this day 25 years later that's just not true it just it just

02:20:18.420 it's just not true critics say even by new orleans standards the latest police scandal is shocking

02:20:24.180 nine officers behind bars indicted on federal drug charges adam deez and eight other officers were

02:20:29.700 indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and the use of firearms while drug trafficking

02:20:33.940 from when they arrested bam and these are all the officers you know uh that were arrested damn

02:20:41.700 crazy uh so we'll go back to their original documentary

02:20:50.980 believe his face believe his face

02:20:55.460 so they arrest len davis for davis's partner sammy williams and then they also get his partner sammy

02:21:00.740 williams agents would use a different approach hadn't wanted to flip williams to the prosecution

02:21:07.460 side when you flip someone guys you basically turn him into an informant or a cooperator with

02:21:13.380 the government so he wants to flip him against who len davis who is the main mastermind behind this

02:21:19.380 drug uh drug conspiracy at that point it worked and they decided okay let's uh you guys are going to

02:21:28.500 see why it worked here in a second imagine being day uh you know this um not davis um williams

02:21:35.460 after you just got arrested for corruption and then this happens to you throw another curveball and

02:21:39.140 then it says bring wine so they brought me into the door and i introduced myself especially to juan

02:21:44.660 jackson the fbi you can see the the color leave his face

02:21:49.860 it works sammy is not the one that did the hit guys len davis was the one that did the hit don't

02:22:06.500 forget samuel williams was just his partner team had no time to lose before news of davis and williams

02:22:14.980 arrests could spread they had to deliver the rest of the gang to justice dozens of armed men in uniform

02:22:22.980 the strategy we were to employ was to arrest lynn davis on december the 5th and then on december

02:22:29.220 the 6th we had all of these officers appear before a federal grand jury and then on december 7th the

02:22:34.980 grand jury ordered all these officers to come to the fbi office to give handwriting exemplars

02:22:39.620 so this is a little bit of a discrepancy here because on one side they're saying some of them

02:22:46.260 got arrested at the fifth district and then some of them are getting arrested here at the fbi office

02:22:49.940 so they probably did two different operations here uh where some of them came to the to the fbi office

02:22:55.460 to provide handwriting exemplars so they wouldn't suspect anything and then the other portion would

02:23:00.260 uh you know show up at the fifth district

02:23:01.860 glenn davis's recruits arrived at the fbi's office to give handwriting samples for analysis together

02:23:09.860 with 60 fellow officers

02:23:14.580 and not all 60 were obviously corrupt so they made it so that way they wouldn't suspect anything

02:23:19.140 they just asked a whole bunch of them and they put the crooked ones in that 60.

02:23:25.220 since the drug ring involved no written records and so many officers provided writing samples

02:23:30.580 the crooked cops suspected nothing like the others before it the fbi's ruse worked

02:23:41.300 one by one more than a dozen dirty cops of new orleans were arrested

02:23:48.580 that was a safe way to do it because obviously all these officers were armed and they were facing

02:23:52.900 very serious charges and and that was a way to do it to avoid any potential for any bloodshed or any

02:23:59.060 unwanted uh uh resistance by the officers in court the fbi's recordings built a solid case against

02:24:07.700 the officers are you aware we have hours the videos and audio tapes spoke louder than the code words

02:24:13.460 and erased all doubts the jurors might have had so let's go ahead and talk about the trial because len

02:24:18.020 davis actually ended up taking this to trial guys the murder he took to trial i think he pled guilty to

02:24:22.340 the drug charges but let's go ahead and talk about the trial arrested me you know life changes i knew

02:24:30.420 it for these and eight other and where's uh here's your boy samuel williams right here by the way this

02:24:36.420 is the guy that ended up cooperating uh with the government against len davis the main guy officers

02:24:41.860 were indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and the use of firearms while drug trafficking

02:24:46.260 from when they arrested me you know life changes i knew it forever you know i went from

02:24:52.180 you know putting handcuffs on people to having handcuffs put on me these was held in jail for

02:24:57.220 two years awaiting his trial before pleading guilty and accepting a deal off and there's the indictment

02:25:01.380 right here well actually this is a uh is this an information here uh uh commission of a drug yeah

02:25:06.980 misprison of felony and use of a communication facility and the commission of a drug felony yeah so

02:25:10.900 basically that's using a phone uh yeah second superseding bill of information okay so it's not an

02:25:15.380 indictment it's information information guys is basically uh when the prosecutor themselves

02:25:20.180 issues a charging uh it's a formal charge done by the prosecutor so heard by prosecutors

02:25:26.340 so he gave me an 84 month sentence you know and i served five years in 10 months

02:25:33.380 but there was no plea deal for fellow officer len davis

02:25:37.460 in april 1996 davis went to trial for the murder of kim groves and what do i tell you guys when you go

02:25:42.660 to trial if you lose it's not going to be a good look for you so he pled guilty to the drug stuff

02:25:46.420 but he didn't want he fought the murder charge okay which i showed you guys the indictment this is what

02:25:50.420 they were getting him with here okay this is what he was died for um 18 usc 242 241 okay violation of

02:25:58.340 a conspiracy against civil rights right which led to murder and uh matter of fact here you guys go this

02:26:05.140 is his actual case docket right here yo like the goddamn video well no sorry we're not on youtube never mind

02:26:10.180 but make sure to subscribe to my youtube channel fed 1811 because i ain't nobody going to have all

02:26:14.900 this information for you guys so this is what they actually charged him with violation of civil rights

02:26:18.500 violation of civil rights and aiding and abetting right and then uh violation of civil rights of

02:26:23.060 conspiracy against civil rights murder right so he ended up getting uh these all dismissed okay but

02:26:30.260 he ended up getting convicted of these two all right uh and let's see here and then you got richard reeves

02:26:36.020 these are all the other um cases that were involved in this situation so he goes to trial right

02:26:43.380 i have recordings that we played at trial of conversations between lynn davis and paul hardy

02:26:47.460 the hit man when len told paul hardy and this is one of the u.s attorneys uh as well uh yeah guys

02:26:53.460 it's quick little break here do me a favor go ahead and subscribe to my youtube channel uh fed1811 on

02:26:58.740 there i'm going to re-upload this video uh on there so uh check me out over there man you know what i want to

02:27:04.420 do i talk about when they get dumped he's looking for something to come down he also complained about

02:27:09.860 being a cop complained that uh nobody appreciated the cops anymore so they're playing this all at

02:27:15.300 trial guys this makes len look really bad playing all this in trial police are gone it ain't my fault

02:27:20.340 that ain't gone the last words that the jury heard out of len davis's mouth were

02:27:26.820 oh shit fucking mic drop

02:27:32.660 fucking mic drop that's in our case

02:27:37.060 on april 26th 1996 len davis was convicted of directing paul hardy to murder kim groves

02:27:42.660 as well as witness stampering and the jury recommended the death sentence

02:27:49.140 on the day of kim groves murder a new police superintendent was sworn in within months richard

02:27:53.780 pennington announced new policies to stamp out corruption in the department the public will be

02:27:58.100 protected from bad tops our presence will be felt by citizens and criminals the shattered shield

02:28:03.540 prosecution was the most significant case handled by the department of justice in memory in in new

02:28:09.460 orleans it prompted reforms in the department the politicians were not going to do on their own

02:28:15.380 in the past three years more than 100 police officers have been suspended fired arrested or

02:28:18.980 convicted of a wide variety of serious crimes ranging from bribery to murder there's still corruption

02:28:30.500 even after the davis case uh cops have been prosecuted again for corrupt activities

02:28:35.220 but i certainly uh pray that we'll never have a case as terrible uh as shattered shield yeah that was

02:28:42.820 crazy man uh agent karen jenkins knew the evidence was strong he was a a poor uh uh cop and didn't

02:28:55.540 have a lot of training but he was trying oh yeah so this is a poor so here's his defense guys when he

02:29:00.020 was at trial this is what len davis tried to say at trial before he got convicted but the officer said

02:29:04.740 they were able to see for themselves what they were doing because of the videos that we had that wasn't me

02:29:10.020 it could have been anybody as prosecutor al winters had predicted early in the investigation davis tried

02:29:17.380 to talk his way out of it police officers know what that is it's a homicide even after all the

02:29:23.460 safeguards we took davis's defense at the trial was that he was conducting his own undercover operation

02:29:29.380 that uh it was not really done according to the book but you know he was a a poor uh cop and didn't

02:29:37.300 have a lot of training but he was trying to conduct his own undercover operation

02:29:46.260 bro l man

02:29:53.780 davis never admitted any wrongdoing he didn't need to the audio and videotape spoke for themselves

02:30:01.220 we were going faced with the prospect of convicting those sworn to protect them the citizens of the

02:30:07.700 jury listened intently the tapes were were chilling and as those tapes that's the same bald prosecutor

02:30:15.940 from before if you guys notice tapes were played uh the courtroom was as silent as as a cathedral

02:30:23.940 has the jury reached the verdict yes your honor we have will the defendant please stand

02:30:32.100 the jury deliberated just 15 minutes 15 minutes

02:30:36.260 we jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and hereby sentence

02:30:41.860 len davis was sentenced to death with his role in kim grove's murder god later commuted to life

02:30:53.860 i think he's still actually guys i think he's still on uh death death row because here he is right here

02:30:59.220 guys at u.s bureau of prisons okay this is how you look up an inmate by the way go on usbop.gov you

02:31:04.980 can put their name in here we go boom len davis blackmail here he is right here uh he's at the usp terry

02:31:10.820 hot i think this is indiana or illinois and you guys can see right there death sentence still

02:31:16.100 paul hardy though ended up getting um a life in prison because i because they said that he had

02:31:23.700 mental instabilities yeah indiana bam so that's where he is right now guys being held which is a

02:31:29.220 high security urus penitentiary so crazy crazy stuff

02:31:38.820 in two other trials davis and his co-conspirators received 18 convictions for drug trafficking

02:31:44.020 15 officers were headed for prison

02:31:52.180 because he cooperated with prosecutors sammy williams was sentenced to just five years

02:31:57.700 he would never again wear a badge you have irrevocably stained that uniform you once wore

02:32:04.660 but i must reluctantly recognize that other crimes can only be solved with cooperation of people like you

02:32:11.060 court dismissed he got away last time for the business other guy adam's case brought a long

02:32:18.580 hard look in the mirror bam so there you go guys that is operation shattered shield my friends uh

02:32:25.940 really good stuff right there uh if you guys really you guys want me to do more cases like

02:32:36.420 that where i break down um documentaries because i could do it it's just that as you guys could see

02:32:41.780 it's like crazy because it's like you know with the copyright and everything else like that um the fbi

02:32:47.540 file documentaries are really good um but i don't know man i might have to do them like somewhere else

02:32:53.060 because youtube is is having issues with that so i might have to do it where i do a part of it on

02:32:57.380 youtube and then you guys got to come on over to patreon or some but uh but yeah i hope you guys enjoyed

02:33:02.100 that bad boy um cool so i'm gonna find a way to get this thing up on youtube for y'all but that man

02:33:08.260 i hope you guys enjoyed the stream uh and yeah catch us tomorrow for money monday love you guys uh jay

02:33:13.860 you got anything you want to say to people final thoughts or anything like that

02:33:15.940 really i don't know just give you a final word here um no it was it was interesting um it's

02:33:25.860 crazy to think about the people that are supposed to protect and uh serve the community doing something

02:33:32.500 so outlandish yeah you know when you're supposed to feel safe but yeah yeah it's wild uh yeah guys

02:33:40.580 and for some of you guys that are wondering she's italian i know some of you guys were like what's her

02:33:43.940 i am a little bit persian though too oh you are saying that you mean iranian pers doesn't exist

02:33:48.660 anymore uh but anyway guys yo we'll catch you guys uh tomorrow for money monday man love y'all

02:33:54.340 uh and yeah i'll figure out the situation with youtube and fit and i'll find a way to do these

02:33:58.740 breakdowns with you guys i know you guys really enjoyed this bad boy so i'll catch you guys later peace

The Debrief With MyronGainesX - October 16, 2022

Former Fed Explains Biggest Dirty Cop Bust EVER! Operation Shattered Shield

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