WEBVTT - Episode 12 - Escape 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.400 The hardest thing I had to do was to face 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.360 my father. Was that the last time he spoke to 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.000 your father? That was the last time I seen him. Meant, 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.920 I don't think we even left. Was like a headship 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.200 kind of the silence, and he stood there, sitting there 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.360 in the dark when he just walked away. I don't 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.400 remember that. When we were in a way to train 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.200 or something and we were driving away from my subdivision, 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.880 I seen him driving on the street. I was able 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.519 to see him. He didn't see me, but I was 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.960 able to see him. He was going one way and 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.200 I was going to the other. In retrospect, I felt 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:52.159 like that was the lifehouse leaning to what I was 0:00:52.200 --> 0:01:13.760 going was when he was literally cool the other way. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.200 I'm Curtis Saint Jackson, and this is surviving our topo. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:35.200 It's once you brought down the drug lie. I think 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.280 we've all experienced these situations in life, maybe not to 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.399 this extreme, but where everything is pulling you in one 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.399 direction in your heart, you feel like you need to 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.160 go in another direction, so you do what's right for you. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.960 Peter and Jay's father was their mentor in life. He 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.840 taught him everything they knew about the drug trade. And 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.880 how not to get caught someone you're supposed to love. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.040 Unconditioning now telling you that trying to do things the 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:03.000 right way is actually the wrong thing. For most kids, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.880 spending times with their dad is playing ball on the weekend, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.520 But for the Flores twins, it was doing drug rounds 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.480 across the Mexican border, packaging weed and the gas tanks 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.080 and unintentionally being a cover story to distract authorities from 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.359 suspicious activities. After wrestling with it for twenty years, they 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.680 were finally in a position where they had a chance 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.560 to write a new path for the Flora. Is now 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.399 two weeks after the top of recording, and we get 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.200 a car to Sunday. Our attorney wants a thought to 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.840 us at early right ten eleven the morning around there. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.359 He said, you know, the US attorney wants to talk 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.480 to you. He said, he wants you guys to train 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.480 yourself in today. I won't even go looking into it, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:59.920 like wow, reality just hit us. Huh what I remember 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.840 our attorney like he was more than our attorney, so 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.080 I was he was like he was family. And I 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.480 remember he sat there quiet and he was like, guys, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.119 maybe you guys don't have to do this. I want 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.960 you guys to think about this. I remember, they're like, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.120 it's too late for that. We talked to the d 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:29.080 A and he said, you know, guys, it's time. We 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.040 can't risk you guys anymore, and all this would be 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.400 for nothing if something happens to you guys, and we 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:40.280 want you guys to train your stuff into hours two hours. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.800 Then he gave you two hours nights And I said, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.760 what about our family whatever, they're like guys like you 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.840 guys got to get them out of there. And basically 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:53.240 that wasn't the problem. We were like fucking like you know, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.000 we were upset like that, we were not being told 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.200 these things that were like last minute, we're the ones 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.680 in the middle, Like we're the ones there, Like what 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:06.000 then do you mean two hours? Like what's your plan? Like, oh, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:12.560 we can't tell you anything. I remember he also said, guys, 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.880 there's a lot of people here betting that you guys 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:23.000 are not going to do it. This has never been done. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.240 They didn't even believe what they had. They didn't believe 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.880 that we're gonna change your life. They didn't believe we're 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.560 gonna turn ourselves in. I was confused, I was lost, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.760 I was like now I was actually taking it in. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.599 I wasn't concerned about nothing else but about my well, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:45.320 my kids. One of the hardest things I've ever had 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:52.200 to endure in my life, Like that hurt me. That 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.960 I could replain my mind over and over again, and 0:04:55.080 --> 0:05:03.720 I did for twelve years, was actually like saying goodbye 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.799 to my family. The day I treat myself, I felt 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.600 like I was abandoning the oka. I was supposed to 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.240 be doing something good, right and I'm walking. I'm leaving 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:23.479 them harm's way. I went and I told, Wow, it's time. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.680 They asked me to turn myself in. I don't think 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:33.080 I understood. I think that was more in shock. We 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.560 never knew how long it was gonna last, but we 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:41.200 didn't think it would come that fast. We had no 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.919 exit plan. I didn't know what we were supposed to do, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:53.479 and I just wanted to like survival mode two hours, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.960 like oh my god. We had cameras all around the house. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.479 We had to get the security footage out. We have 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.320 to get an anything with their name on it out. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.479 When we leave, the cartel is going to come and 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.480 they're gonna go through our whole house and they're gonna 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.720 try to find us anything that had her name on it. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.039 Just trying to get my son's per certificates and papers 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.480 and like trying to find everything that was just important. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.159 I'm worried about them finding us and papers and like 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.560 anything with their name addresses back in the States, like Chico. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.800 I can lead them to anything. Yes, pictures. I was 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.279 grabbing all the frames off the walls and just ripping 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.599 the pictures out of the frames because I didn't want 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:41.560 them to have pictures of us. Everyone like, what the 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.919 fuck is going on? Who is everyone? Like? The work is? 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:52.360 What were you saying? And they said, boss man, she 0:06:53.680 --> 0:07:00.080 wants She says she'd leave me what she's my and 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.640 she wouldn't be okay, sick. Why she's thinking something? Who 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.760 knows to leave her? And they're seeing her like practically 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.600 tear the house up, and they're like trying to help 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.600 her anything, and just like okay, like I remember tone 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.280 of go bring bring the car. She wants to leave. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.360 I'm not even concentrating on that journey. I'm not even 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.400 like I'm not there with her. You know, I actually 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.640 had my son, you known people carrying him. Like I'm 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:31.160 anything I'm doing, I'm trying to spend those last precious moments. Listen. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:40.000 It was just chaotic. Yeah, we have babies. I remember 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.320 Peter and the coming over the house. I'll think it 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:50.960 right next door and they're there with my niece and 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.280 and they was sitting there in shock, and I'm just 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.120 like running around the house, just running through the house. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.320 And I'm looking at her like why is she so calm? 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.360 Why is she not doing what I'm doing. They're gonna 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:10.600 fucking find us. Why is she just sitting there? And 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.080 like I'm going to every chore, every piece of paper, 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:19.040 I'm taking like every picture, every video tape from the 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.520 security footage, ripping everything on the walls. I'm just acting crazy, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.960 just like where's the kids, burth certificates? How do we 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.080 even cross the border? Our kids were like born in Mexico, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:38.920 and we didn't know how we were going to get 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:46.839 our kids across the border and venn that they stage. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.680 We knew that we all be killed. I just didn't 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:57.440 even take in that Jay's leaving in two hours. It 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.280 was just I wasn't crying. I was just running around 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:06.319 the house and I didn't even take it in. I 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:12.040 felt like I didn't been the last two hours of 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.560 my husband. I think it was like maybe ten minutes 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.760 saying goodbye. It's all, thank God, because I was just 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:29.800 so busy trying to think, trying to make sure that 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:36.960 we're gonna be okay. What did you say to each 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.800 other in the ten minutes that you had together. I 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.880 think we said much. I just we're not in at 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.839 each other. And just that's when the tears just didn't 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:54.000 stop coming down. Think I could talk our son. He 0:09:54.240 --> 0:10:01.240 was two years old, and he knew something was wrong. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:06.040 He was Jay shadow. He followed Jay around like everybody 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.439 with every time they saw Jay, like they knew that 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:15.400 they're going to see her son with him, and they 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.760 would make a joke and call him a mom because 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.400 they My son just wanted to be with him. Everywhere. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.680 He'd be in the bathroom, my son will be sitting 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.640 there reading him to come out at the door. And 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.240 if Jay would try going anywhere, like he was just 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:37.000 tied to his leg. And he said something was wrong 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.439 because he was just seeing me running, running running, and 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.120 Jake crying and Peter crying and baby crying, and he 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.959 was just looking around and I just didn't understand what 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:54.760 was happening. I remember carrying my kids and my baby. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.560 He was only two months old, and he was just staring. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.400 Did you say anything to him? And I was just whispering. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.560 I was just whispering to him, like I remember saying, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.480 like I love you guys, and I'm sorry. And I 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.640 had been whispering to them in the air when I 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.599 would put him to bed because I already knew, like 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:19.280 I I would I just apologize and that and I 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.120 knew myself was going to be the one that was 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:27.280 gonna affected the most. And you know, just able to 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:34.000 take the moment and just it was weird, like, yeah, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.720 I am thinking I'm doing something for them. I know, Mary, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.160 I guess it's like as a parent, I think that 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.720 when you always struggle when you think you're doing something 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.640 good for them, that they that's gonna make them suffer 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.320 a little bit, but it's the best thing for him. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:59.319 And just just taking a little moment where I was 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:04.640 just holding tighten, you know, that was important to me. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.959 I wasn't even thinking about prison and I was just 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.760 thinking more like I wasn't going to be there. That's 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.840 all I could think of. You know, the Government's calling 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:20.079 and back and forth. It's just they were kind of 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.360 like pressing this a little bit like you guys gonna 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.599 have to meet, you know, and at this time and 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.719 I don't tell anybody to make sure you guys, and 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.160 how they were more worried about that bringing the recordings 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.400 with you. Did you still feel that you were doing 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:39.439 the right thing in that moment? I don't know. I 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.120 do know this that when it was time for me 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:48.719 to go and I say goodbye to so now we 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:58.719 were tears and right say goodbye to my work is 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:03.959 over there with us, m h by. Someone let me go, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:11.839 tellus that was struck. You kind of get him off me. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:22.520 And I remember just be emotional, just jumping truck. I 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:33.559 can't hear my sun screaming dad. When I took the truck, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:38.200 like I questioned it to people, talk away from val 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:44.080 leave from there, you know. And in no time did 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:50.439 she say, like you know, don't you know? I think 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.280 we said to each other, it's gonna be all right, right, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.480 I'm kinda gonna do this. You're gonna be fine. We're 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:03.160 gonna like h m, we're gonna be find We're gonna 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:08.280 get to this. It was something it was it didn't 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.559 feel right. It just it just didn't feel right. It 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:21.680 just it just awful wrong. And I wasn't saying nothing, no, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:27.080 It's just nodding no, it's just nodding my head back 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.840 and forth, like I just wanted to say no, don't go, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:36.720 but I didn't. I was just nodding. I just didn't 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:45.000 feel right. My son hat his scream, like his cry, 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:51.400 like like we've never heard that from him, We've never 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:58.160 heard that from him. And then Peter were there and 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:05.480 they were just like blasting on in tears because I 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:11.560 guess it was like a cry of like pain and suffering. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.080 He was hanging on the door and I was like 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.840 he was trying to open the door, trying to get 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.160 wait from the door because I didn't want the people 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:29.320 outside to know that they're dead left because like I 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:36.200 didn't want them to report in fact there was something 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:41.320 going on in the house because there was always security 0:15:41.400 --> 0:16:00.280 around and I didn't know who to trust. H h. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:06.080 That day they had started to raid these houses that 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.960 we're in l A, these stash houses and all these 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.200 things were already in motion. Can I remember getting that 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.000 call from like one of our associates saying, job, they 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.440 just hit the houses in l A. And I was like, ship, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:27.240 I was still there in Mexico, still like clean up 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.920 our pictures, like taking this stuff that we didn't want 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:34.040 to leave behind. It was so difficult to be thinking 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.440 about all the stuff I had unfinished, you know, and 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.960 like that I wouldn't have to leave viv and the kids, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:44.360 my baby and our family there, and that we didn't 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:48.040 really have that plan set up and mente that like 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.440 it was like in our minds but not like that moment, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:17:01.160 and I was sad. Man, it was hard. It was hard. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.080 Why do you think you didn't have that plan even 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.480 though you knews come in. I didn't want to have 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.480 a plan. I wanted to like continue a lie to 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.520 myself and not feel that was will be taken away 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.800 from the people I love most. A so sad and 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.200 I remember I couldn't even hope back my tears that 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.080 one of the last things I did was change my 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:28.399 daughter's diaper, and I can still imagine that they're like 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.000 laying it down in that guests bedroom to change the 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.359 diapend I could still like see blurry from the tears 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.840 of her life that I heard so bad to leave Viana. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:48.119 It's just a terrible, terrible day for our family, just 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.520 trying to reassure everyone day, I don't think you're gonna 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.960 be good. Yeah, the conversation with my dad, and you 0:17:55.040 --> 0:18:01.720 will never forget just so much, you know, I think 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.520 for like trying to motivate me, keep me positive about 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.720 something that sheep I was dealing with so much on 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.359 her own. But it was hard because nobody was telling me, okay, 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:17.639 you know, like you're doing the right thing. You know, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:22.720 everybody seemed to be against it. What else dealing with 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:29.000 It's so hard, you know, she seeing her seen the baby, 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.440 like giving it back to bit. It was so hard. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.400 And then like thinking like I'm trying to tell my brother, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:35.919 come on, it's you know, we're gonna have to get 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.400 ready to going. Remember here my little nephew christ so bad, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:44.600 like he just felt something. What was the last thing 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.240 you said to reach other. I don't think that we 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.240 even talked as much, you know, I don't think that 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:55.919 the tears allowed us to two let her, let us 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.800 say our goodbyes. I didn't want to say goodbye to 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.920 It was scary to think that, you know that, And 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:10.720 I can't like losing her my family and everything and 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.600 just trying to you know, scary toll known from for 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:27.920 me and my brother as well, you know, and I'm 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.119 looking at it to them, she was always worth it. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.879 I'm glad that. I'm glad I did it for her. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.520 Glad it was her, Like she's the only person that 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.960 would have probably ever I have been able to get 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.560 me into something crazy like that. But walking away from 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.600 my supposed to be terrible. I mean, like I said, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:52.600 like drowning emotional feelings and how would happen? And honestly, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.760 I could tell you right now that I was always 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.320 leaving her behind. She was in the front of everything, 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:04.520 you know, like she was like not behind me, but 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.320 more in front of me and my future. You know. 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.760 That's what I was searching for, like like I'm gonna 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.120 go face these nightmare to like beet with her again. Yeah, 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.120 but when you concerned that you got in that car 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.520 with the agents and then what if somebody found out 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.440 and it was all that because they weren't protected. Yeah, 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:30.960 I was upset that they didn't have like an escape 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.800 plan with my family. They just only concerned was get 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.399 the two witnesses that and there was no like exit 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.480 strategy for none of us sat there. I remember thinking 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:45.080 like them, like they look go now like don't wait, 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.440 go now, Like you know, I'm saying, go down the 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.960 plane and go. It was a bunch of us and 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.959 then I mean there was no flights. I mean they 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.639 told us the same day. We see this, you like 0:20:57.720 --> 0:20:59.880 thinking about we left food on the table. Yeah, we're 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.560 at everything in the ever our clothes, every piece of 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.200 garments and clothes and all kinds of stuff. We just 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.920 left everything. I took my baby and her diaper bag, 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.240 and I was just like sitting on a sofa, like 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.680 just we left our dream home, you know, lost without him. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.800 I didn't even know. I'm like, I just I just 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:22.760 wanted to get the heart out of there. I just 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:24.399 wanted to get out of there. And it was just 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.040 so many of us, and everyone's like scrambling around, and 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.440 I'm just sitting there just with my one little diaper 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:32.919 bag and just saying, They're like, let's get out of here. 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:44.040 We come to the trap to any things? Did you 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:51.680 guys mean the recorders? I guess, And we were emotional, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:56.520 It's okay, we're doing the right thing. And they started 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:06.600 trying towards the airport. How many kinds of just too 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:13.600 And we go to airport and we went on to 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.040 like the private side where the private planes are in. 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:20.680 There's a hangar and the military has a checkpoint and 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.320 they access to school down. They don't want to know 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:28.000 what to see us, and they showed the diplomatic ideas 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:32.920 and they let us in. And we drove into this 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:39.440 like hangar where there's an officer. I don't want he 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.160 was military what it was, but he was actually there. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:46.280 We stood in the truck, but they got off and 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.639 they had the lights off, and I remember they were 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:54.400 looking at the federal police and they're hiding from them. 0:22:56.920 --> 0:22:58.720 It said, told me that didn't trust them me and 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.960 they're hiding from their actually driving buyer walking by it. 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:05.600 You know, there's a live federal police and they're focusing 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:08.840 on there's one plane. There was kind of big one booze, 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:19.920 probably planing and driving buyer walking by it. You know, 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:23.480 there's a live federal police and they're focusing on there's 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.600 one plane. There was kind of big one booze probably 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:32.480 plane and wearing the dark and the hangar. We stood 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:36.359 there for like a long time, probably now we're in 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:41.040 a half and then between them just calling bounces, have 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:45.960 you left it? Have you left it? It's those type 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:50.359 of conversations are you okay? And she would be like 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:54.480 they're asking for you, and I ask you for you. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:59.560 I want to turn jail with the Chiel by time 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:06.440 I'm going to meet someone in so helpless. So I 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:08.680 started having a little bit anger, Like I'm having anger 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.159 because I'm sitting this bulletproof truck with them and our 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:14.879 family is over there, like this is for them, me 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:19.919 being in dangerous one thing. And I was disappointed myself. 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:25.000 I was I was angry. It's just like nerve wracking. 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:29.440 Like I think I'm always how mentally strong, I just 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:32.600 can't even so many thoughts and many things coming to 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:37.920 my my mind, and our phones are ringing ringing. A 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:41.000 couple of cousin is calling because they just had rated 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:45.000 one of them their stash houses in l A and 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:48.399 they'd like, Kate, check on your guys. They just hit 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:54.879 one of the houses. No, it's us that was getting 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:59.000 as upset because we're still in Mexico. They had started 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:02.240 like an operation that was the first house to hit 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:08.960 that go to so many houses I think in Mexico, 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:15.160 and we're still sitting in Mexico. I wasn't don't stop ringing. 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:19.840 We literally get bad or they don't stop ringing. We 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:23.080 weren't even paying attention to you know. I had people 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:31.200 that are calling me like those our antec and it's okay, No, 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:33.959 she's she's all right, and she's upset, she's don't be right, 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:39.680 she's packing up a car. Leave her leaver. Are you 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:42.400 sure you want me to go ahead? No? No, no leaving, 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:51.080 just making fit up. That was just the worst night, Marcus, 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.320 the worst night might could think of, and the worst price. 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:56.639 I felt like we were doing it. We were doing it, 0:25:56.800 --> 0:26:02.000 we were the cause. And it took a few hours. 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:10.680 And I remember a big plane lands and I guess 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:14.800 that was a plane that we weren't going. The drivers 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:20.240 up to the plane and there's a dry whatever you do, 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:22.639 don't look anywhere, just go straight into a plane. Just 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:26.159 they didn't want to know one to see us. The 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:30.080 plane is like a cargo plane or something, because I 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:34.200 remember has the seats this way like on a bench, 0:26:34.320 --> 0:26:38.200 like a bench, and I remember like it was dark 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:41.280 like that. It was really dark inside the plane was dark. 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:44.840 So when I go, I'm the hank of nothing like 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:49.600 going on the plane and there's like twelve fourteen marshals 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:55.280 and agents and that they have guns on them. They 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:57.360 have like rifles and they have guns down and turn 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:01.280 the plane and they're like, hey guys, okay, you know, 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:07.560 just talking to agent. They're more like operational mode. When 0:27:07.640 --> 0:27:10.360 we get down, we sit down and just where where 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:13.639 our phones? You know, our bag of phones and we 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:16.840 should have our bag of phones. And I didn't take 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:27.080 time for us to fly out of that. When j 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:32.880 and Pa laughed, It's like I just all I could 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:36.879 remember was just seeing their faces. They just look so lost. 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:45.120 I just sparked something in me because I knew he knew, 0:27:45.200 --> 0:27:50.879 like there was just no plan for us. I couldn't 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:54.040 get their faces, like the image of their faces out 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:58.520 of my head because they're just the defeated and I 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:03.280 knew that they were just only worried about us getting 0:28:03.320 --> 0:28:10.240 out safely. At that point, people are coming to the house. 0:28:11.960 --> 0:28:17.479 M hmm. They're knocking on the door. They were asking 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:21.520 from Shaye and Peter. These are the same people that 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:27.440 would be at my house every day, always there, everywhere 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:32.719 they went. We couldn't move around the city freely at 0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:37.560 that time. They had to keep tabs on them always, 0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:41.920 and like I just didn't know what to say, and 0:28:43.080 --> 0:28:46.200 the cloud was ticking, and I'm just I'm trying to 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:49.600 get everyone together and trying to get all the stuff 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:54.720 in the car. When asking me what's wrong, what's wrong, 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:59.880 and I'm like leaving. He said, you're taking a kid. 0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:04.080 So I'm like, I'm leaving him. He's cheating on me. 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:07.280 And he's like, it's not true. We would never do 0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:15.480 that too. Don't take the kids like this, and are 0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:20.320 you going? And I'm like, baby, come with me, Baby, 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:22.560 come on, and I'm trying to cut on the show. 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:27.440 I need you to come with me. I'm so free 0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:31.240 because I'm like, what are we gonna say? Like why 0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:34.680 are we both leaving at the same time I would 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:38.440 be leaving with all the kids. I didn't know what 0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:41.040 to say. And I'm just like, maybe let's go. You're 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:45.840 coming with me, And she's like a lot. She's like 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:49.000 looking at me and she's just like frozen. She's not 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:52.960 saying anything like come on me, but the babies in 0:29:53.000 --> 0:29:58.200 the car. Come on. I got in my car and 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.680 she gets in her car and like just follow me. 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:05.720 And we're loading bags in the car and she's just 0:30:05.880 --> 0:30:09.280 looking at me and she's scared. She's just nodding her 0:30:09.360 --> 0:30:12.280