WEBVTT - The Narco-Baron and The Rubber-Faced Man 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.320 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.079 Elizabeth do Thearon Burnette. I love it when you're here, me, 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.080 I love it when I'm here too. I've been wandering around. 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:12.360 I got this question in my head, and your only 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.200 prison I know who can answer that question is no. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:16.720 Do you know what's ridiculous? Yes? 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:18.520 I do know it's ridiculous. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.759 What is it? Elizabeth? It's here, I'm ridiculous. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.920 The iconic track suit? What do you love track suits? 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.520 You we legitimately you wear Adidas tracksuits all the time. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.599 All the time. You're wearing half of one. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.720 Half of one now, okay, just the top half, tolf 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:36.920 nothing underneath. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.400 I'm not porky normal Okay. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.599 So you know who else makes an iconic tracksuit? Give 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.360 me who else used to the coke sportis. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:49.519 Juicy Coto? There? 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.159 It is there? It is? They had like the the 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:59.560 lore ones? Right, yes, so they have not really, although 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:00.160 she should. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.960 Be about Ben Affleck Is he doing one? 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:02.160 Now? 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.959 They have a limited edition set and it's a one 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.360 hundred and sixty nine dollars track. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.319 Suit okay, and it's it's a lot for tracks, a. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:17.240 Tomato red color, too red, and it has the Diamante 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.080 detailing the custom crystal Dimante, like where it says it 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.000 across your your rump, okay, juicy, sure, although this time 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.720 it doesn't say juicy. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.000 That's what I'm paying for, Elizabeth. It says juicy or 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.959 oh juicy okay, next level Okay, yeah, rebooted it. I 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:32.759 got it, and you. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.600 Know it's a mashup. You know it's across is it? 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.480 Did it have to be? Yes? But we just stop here. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.960 It's so good, so far, so good. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:39.920 You know who they're working with. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.920 No, I don't want to Red Robin. No. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.960 There, it's the Red Robin Juicy couture mashup. You can 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.800 only buy them on the Red Robin Instagram shop one 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.640 hundred and sixty nine dollars. As I said, No, all 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.160 sales are final, no returns or exchanging. You know why, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.240 because you'll never buy another. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.080 You took it. They're like here, that's it. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:09.880 That's the juicier juicy on the caboose and then up 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:16.120 on the breastical area it says red Robin in rhinestone, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.320 and I want all tracking information. I think it also 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.440 has that on their hip. They're not very good about 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.799 showing like full pictures of these tracks. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:26.240 Shore the button the chesticles. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.839 Yeah, and it says juicier on the back. I think 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.960 to whatever. And so anyway, I want a full list 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.360 of everyone who purchases this and that's going to be 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:35.919 my special watch list. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.360 It's your list, but just watching them on these little 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.359 Google How did. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.160 You hear about the newsletter? Do you get read it? 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.160 What do you We have the most amazing network. People 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.680 who have dudes who you know, They clew us in, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.320 they let us know. This one came off of Instagram. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.200 I think it us Yeah, and it came from esther faith. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.880 She wanted She wanted to know what our budget was 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.359 because she wanted Dave. She said, look, I screencapped this. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.800 What's the budget for Dave to take this one and 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.160 get both of them a set? I bet Elizabeth would 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.720 say she hates it but actually love it. Yeah, I 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.000 told you I love cozy. This is probably cozy. Although 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.799 I feel like I like breathable fabrics. I don't really 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.840 wear synthetics, and I feel like that would make me 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.799 feel like I was gonna choke to death. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.520 I trade mine for a ride to Stockton. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.800 I think you get a free ride to Stockton when 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.560 you you know that's where they do it for the clubs. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.560 Of course, you know I'm going to do it for. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.760 The club Okay, and I'm done. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.800 Well, that's ridiculous. It's also ridiculous. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.320 Tell me, it's. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.240 Gonna take me longer in a second. Yeah, do it, Elizabeth. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:59.360 This is the story of your people. Oh yeah, special investigators. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.080 Like that could be a lot of group. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.240 I left that for you to fill in, Like, what 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.800 kind of my people? Okay? It's nineteen eighty three, right, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.480 and one of the most wanted men in Europe was 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.840 a thirty five year old millionaire playboy, a Danish actor, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.080 a man known as a master of disguises. They called 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:21.000 him the rubber Faced Man. Yes, my people right. His 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.760 criminal co ringleader and mastermind was a wealthy son of 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.760 the Royal Navy. Oh yes. And both men were brought 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.480 down by your people, a bunch of nosy Welsh lobster 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:33.719 men and farmers wives. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:50.200 Oh yes, oh my goodness, yes, enjoy. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.440 This is This is a ridiculous crime A podcast about 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:05.520 absurd and outrageous capers, heist and cons. It's always ninety 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:12.000 nine percent murder free, ay and ridiculous. Yes, yes it is. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.200 Now this Elizabeth is the story of the drug baron 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.560 as I'm calling him and the rubber face man. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.400 Wait, you're going to tell a story about drug. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.640 I know, right, I was shocking. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.560 I never heard such a thing. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.440 I swear to god. I was not looking for a 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.599 drug story. I was looking for a story of like 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.320 about like a master of disguise, and I found the 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.120 rubber face man and I was so excited. I was like, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.520 what's he doing? They're like drug smuggling. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.200 I was like, you heard the word and you're like, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.280 oh well. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.040 It's this one's more than just cocaine. And Pablo Escobar 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.280 will make no more appearances after me saying his name 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.680 right now, Okay, that's it, Okay, okay. So the co 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:51.320 rigging leaders were two men. Soren berg Arnbach he's the Dane, yeah, 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.840 and Robin Boswell, the brit Now Boswell's you might have 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.480 you know guessed the Englishman. Okay. So he's from London 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.200 and for a living he was quote the master kind 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.360 of the drugs ring in London proper. He was known 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.720 to be quote ingenious, intelligent and determined. Could you get 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:07.560 a little picture of him? 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:08.000 Not really? 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.719 Okay? Now Boswell, son of a wealthy English family. As 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.720 I told you, his father royal Navy officer. Okay, right, 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.280 so he's you know, you would imagine some level of 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:21.360 discipline and upright for right, Yes, exactly. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:25.279 A lot of whistles now for school and coats for days. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.680 Nice sharp look, but the callers turned up, popped up 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.760 whistle like Dylan Thomas over here. Now you gotta make 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.960 a poetic anyway, this cabbing. He attended the ultra exclusive 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.080 Marlborough School. You know, it's like one of the private schools. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.680 Like them roll the cigarette. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.919 Yeah, they teach him to roll smokes. So after that 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:46.880 he went to university and he was really good at 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:48.840 rolling smoke, so he said, why don't you study biology? 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.320 So he did, and then after graduation he went off 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.160 to see the world. Because he's rich. He's like, I'm 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.120 gonna go and mess about, and so he goes and 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.880 you know, he travels widely, extensively. Then he comes back 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.720 he's like, oh, that was amazing, world changing. I'm gonna 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.960 go settle down buys a place in notting Hill. Wow. No, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.640 but at that time notting Hill was basically London's hate Ashburys, 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.760 right nineteen eighty three, Well, this is the seventies. Okay, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.480 this point for late sixties early. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.559 That's like a cool little place to must be nice 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.920 to go and travel the world and come back and 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:22.520 buy a place. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.360 Buy a place. Yeah, not just that, but one in 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.200 a known drug scene. Or you're like, oh, I can 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.440 hang out with all my friends. I don't have to 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.920 go anywhere. They can come right here, they're down the street. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.400 So basically my point is this is before Julia Roberts 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.600 and Hugh Grant, before they made it such a you know, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.600 popular scene with their movie of the same name, so 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:44.280 apparently fake CD right CD drugs. Anyway, Boswell he had 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.480 the demeanor of the ultra wealthy in the UK, so 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.440 he was like kind of slumming it and sleezing it. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.760 But also he had the worst of that demeanor of 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.800 the ultra wealthy in the UK, as in he was haughty, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.560 had no lips, not not not physically stood demeanor Elizabeth 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.280 hat He quote, was evidently used to having his own way. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.880 So he was a spoiled brat right. Yeah, he was tall, slim, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.600 rather fine boned. He wasn't a rough and rugged athlete, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.400 so you weren't gonna like catch him winning respect on 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.600 the football pitch. This was somebody who was quote an 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:16.680 accomplished yachtsman. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:17.240 Right. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.040 So he was someone of a you know, an outdoorsman, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.559 I guess, and he quote lacked nothing in poise. He 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.320 starting to get a little picture of him, maybe. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.040 Him underpants the Lady diapers. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.040 What I don't I'm unfamiliar with this product. Is that 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.360 a mashup? I don't know this one. But basically this guy, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.480 he's a rich kid from old money. He likes boats, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.360 he likes acting superior to others. He wouldn't be much 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:41.880 in a fight, but he would pay someone to beat 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.000 you up, right, Okay, so that's Robin Boswell. Yeah, now 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.360 there's co conspirator. Sore In berg Arnbach. He was known 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.160 as the rubber face man, right, our Danish master of disguise. Now, 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.439 as a young man berg Arnbach he had been an actor, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.280 but by the time he's thirty five, he was like 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.760 he's like now, basically a knock about playboy. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:08:59.200 Okay. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.679 Now, when I say knock about playboy, Elizabeth, I mean 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.920 this cat bought himself a castle near the Italian port 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.240 city of Genoa. He also owned a palatial villa in Switzerland. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.040 Dude was living clean. Wait what Yeah, he was also 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.839 one of Europe's most wanted drug smugglers, so that's how 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.319 he was paying for this. It's not like and he'd 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.160 been on the run for a decade. That's his nickname, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.720 the Master of Disguise. That was not from his acting days. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.920 So oh, I thought maybe he was like an early 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.760 Jim Carrey rubber faced man. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.840 No, it was more like he wore rubber face masks 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.600 and you had to get on a boat and get 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:32.120 the hell out of it. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.280 But he just would like make a crazy face trying 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:35.200 to get through customs. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.480 Just try to hold it, like are you part dinosaurs? 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.040 Yeah, they're like oh yeah, like you. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.040 Know your old man mask. You scare me with the 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.400 the full face mask. Imagine that it was done. Well, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.400 that's not horrifying anyway. So the rubber Face Man that's 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.040 his nickname, right, doesn't that sound like a nineteen thirties 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.360 horror film, like one of the comedy duo, Like like, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.080 what is it a Abbin Costello meet the rubber face Man. Anyway, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:03.760 back to our Danish arco trafficker, sorenberg Arnbach. He'd personally 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.720 seen the dangers of illicit drug use right, this cat 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.479 had lost a brother to a heroin. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.079 Overdose and he goes around selling drugs. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.240 Didn't stop him at all. He goes smuggling. He's like, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.880 you know, it hurt my family's probably hurt other families. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.640 But I love castles. Yeah, that's why he became a 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:25.640 narco baron Elizabeth. Also, he also loved yachts he happened 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.280 to be. And I when I say yachts, I don't 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.920 mean like big boats, I mean like I want you 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.160 to picture him on a ship, right, a ship that 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.800 was quote bigger but otherwise identical version of the Danish 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.840 royal yacht with an onboard chef who hosted Denmark's most 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.240 popular televised cookery program. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.080 So he's not like guy Fiery yes on his boat. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.400 Just poaling around with him like doing blows. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.760 So like the yeah, the equivalent, the Santa Roso equivalent 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.840 is like a tug boat with Guy Fieri behind the grill. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.120 Be a tug boat of this boat. They are cute. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.240 So Sorenberg he wanted that kind of life, right, So 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.440 this typically only comes from crime or great talent. He 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.240 did not have great talent, so he went with crime. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.000 Now that's how you afford a castle in Italy. So 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.400 the Danage authorities they catch up to this cat because 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.040 he's not necessarily good at it. Berg Armbach has to 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.040 go on the run. And as I told you, that 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.559 lasted for a decade. So it means he also ran 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.480 into trouble with the Swiss, because you know, Europe was 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.760 pretty much the Interpol kind of like red notice, like 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.280 oh like, oh you're in trouble in Italy, you're in 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.360 trouble over here too, right, So it means he loses 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.960 access to his palatial villa. He had to give up 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.880 living in his Italian castle near Genoa. Life of a 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.600 wanted Man, Elizabeth, it sucks. He goes fully on the lamb, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.560 stayed outside the law ten years. Where would you go 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.439 if you had to give up everything and you have money, right, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.280 so you can pick something? Where would you go? 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:48.960 Where would I go? 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:50.319 You got to live with the life on the lamb. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.240 You don't want to get caught. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:52.839 I don't want to get caught. If you go to 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.960 to a rural of an area, everyone's suspicious of you. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:57.839 Well, here, I'll give you, give you some time to think. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.319 Here's my answer. I would go and hide out by 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.120 becoming a cop in a small town in Florida, because 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.200 who would ever think to look for me amongst a 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:06.840 bunch of cops. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.880 That's a really really good plan for. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.200 You, totally brilliant. And I gotta be in Florida's kind 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:13.680 of nice me. I pick a time with good fishing. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.280 Who knows. Okay, what about you? I can I can 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.199 surf in the morning, go be a cop in the afternoon. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.240 I don't know. I guess I have to stick in 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.360 the United States so I don't stand out too much. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:22.040 That's my problem. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.400 Yeah, and I have money. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:25.800 Mm hmm, I don't know. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.840 I go somewhere where everyone's really eccentric and wants to 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:36.679 be left alone. Bus in the Yeah, the Marine headlands, 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.520 they're notorious for. Like they in Billinas. They take the 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.200 signs down, like the way finding signs to tell you, 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.520 like Billinas is here. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.800 This iss and this is the name with the row. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.440 They take it down, and like it's very rarely do 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.880 properties come on the market. And so I, you know, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:53.959 i'd buy my way in there. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.760 Doren't you worry that those people might be a little 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:56.960 suspicious of an outsider? 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.840 Not when I have a meeting in town and I 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.280 gather them together and I tell them what I'm doing 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:05.000 and why they decided to run them over, and then 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.440 they decided to protect Look, I'm on the run. I 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.000 walk in with my crew of like wolves and bears 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.000 and assorted dogs, and I'm like, look, guys. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.800 I'll pay all your house all your house taxes for 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.760 a year if you guys just let me join the community. Cool. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:22.040 Cool exactly, by the way, call me Regina so Berg Armback. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.960 He decides I'm going to go live the life of 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.440 a divorced dad. He decides to live on a boat. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.640 He's like, yeah, he get not some stinky thirty foot 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.320 sailboat in the Marina Elizabeth, though. He lives on an 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.520 enormous yacht that's bigger than the Royal Danish yacht right, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.600 So of course he would eventually get caught on that. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.640 So he's like, Okay, this isn't gonna last. I need 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.559 to go somewhere deep. I need to take this boat 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.880 life onto land. So where does he go? I need 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.160 to go somewhere somewhere, Like I said, I'm going to 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.000 hide where no one would look. He decided to relocate 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.560 to Wales, a fishing village in Wales. It's like, who 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.320 would ever look for me, a Danish drug smuggler in 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.319 a tiny fishing village in Wales. So he picked a 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.160 county in the southwest of Wales, a place called Pembrokeshire. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.960 Maybe he's pronouncing that incorrectly, Pembrokeshire. There you go. Now, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.960 the rubber faced man thought he could hold up there, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.520 and I said, hide out in a rural coastal out 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.880 of the way Welsh town. And you know, he just 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.559 keep right on drug smuggling, the heroine and the hash 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.480 and the bales of marijuana that he'd been moving. That 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.080 was also part of his plan. He wasn't going to 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:19.960 give up his business. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:20.320 Okay. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.800 So for a partner he picked Robin Boswell. Smart choice, right, Boswell, 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:25.680 He's a. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.360 He'll fit right in in a Welsh fishing. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.640 Vas English Elizabeth. He knows this stuff. He's rich exactly. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.160 But this guy's like, it'll work. What's an Englishman to 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.640 a Welshman? They're probably practice. Yeah, he misses the boat 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:39.160 on that one. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:39.600 Wow. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.680 So, according to the book Drug War by Peter Welsh, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.800 no relation to the country, Robin Boswell quote never gave 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.880 his name over phone lines used false identities when dealing 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.640 with strangers, held at least eight passports. He kept his 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.400 possessions under aliases or in the names of friends, and 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.480 anyone trying to trace him came up against a bewildering 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:03.240 morass of shell comp and he's accommodation offices, hotels, shops 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.280 and not existent addresses. So this guys they call him, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.600 is the nowhere Man. Yeah, that's Robin Boswell, the rich Englishman. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.880 He's a made basically erased himself from record, okay, which 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.040 isn't easy when you're rich. But he manages it, you know, 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.640 because he's he's dedicated, like I really want to get 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.920 into crime. Now he's got his buddy who's on the run, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.840 who's looking to stay out of the sights of the authorities. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.680 He's like, that guy is figuring it out. I'm gonna 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.840 go partner with him. Yeah, it seems like, you know, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.920 that's a great choice, right, No, because on the show, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.000 but Boswell he was a man of a particular habit, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.280 and that habit was not getting caught. As I told you, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.080 he had family money to shield his activities. He used 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.680 old money tactics like shell companies for a layer of protection. Yeah, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.520 he's keen to invest in massive profits into his real 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.160 estate portfolio. Always smart when you're a criminal on the make. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.440 So not only did he buy a place in notting Hill, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.080 he also bought a whole block of apartment buildings. He 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.720 also owned a twenty six bedroom building near some place 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.920 called Guilford. It's an English town in Surrey. Now, the 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.720 last time I spoke on English geography, I made a mistake, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.240 and how I referenced Surrey a right, so maya culper Batania. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.320 All right, so let me get this one all the 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.240 way right. Guilford in west Surrey is in English town Elizabeth. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.920 It's roughly twenty seven miles south and west of London. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.440 The name of the town, it's speculated, derives from the 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.320 local river way and a crossing of that river. The 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.000 river Way Elizabeth continues on to join the River Thames, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.280 which runs through the quaint center of Guildford. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:24.720 Wow. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.120 Yeah, fun fact, yo, producer, Dave. You're a man Alfred 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:32.360 the Great. He mentioned Guildford in his will. Whoa last Kingdom? Shoutout? 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.920 Ughtred son of Utred Robin Boswell owned a stately twenty 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.240 six room building in lovely Guildford, yes. The building wasn't 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.720 in downtown, it wasn't an apartment building. Nope. It was 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.480 set on acres, the kind of acres that feature gardens 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.040 and surrounding woods. He probably had like a maze, built 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.760 a super tall hedgeho, just like yes, yeah, do you 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.880 know how much he paid for that spot? Five dollars 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.880 practically back to the drug war the book by Welsh, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.520 Boswell bought the palatial home for and I quote two 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.680 hundred and fifty thousand pounds in cash, a yacht, dinghies 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:12.040 and a numerous vehicles. I'm assuming the original owner wasn't 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.080 some landed Englishman like the fourth orl of Yardstick upon 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.000 Acorns or whatever. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.560 Well maybe and they hit hard times like yeah, I'll 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:18.879 take a. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.679 Yeah, I'll take a boat. I want to go over 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.360 to France or whatever. It's good point. So the policeman 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.600 who eventually chased down the international drug smugglers he described 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.160 Boswell quote as an almost unknown quantity on the fringe 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.760 of a number of drug smuggling operations, but never in 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.159 the net. So this dude he'd brushed up against the 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.240 police then their attention in particular a number of times. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.520 And there was this one time, he was suspected of 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.600 smuggling in a one million pounds and that's sterling of 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.960 hash in from Katmandu and Nepal. Oh they're like, oh, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.880 we think it's him, but they somehow let this one 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.840 million pounds worth of hash slip through their fingers. Anyway, 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.159 there was Taco Boswell being also quote a client of 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.960 Lebanon's in miss Jafar Klan, so he was like in 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.560 deep right, apparently in the hash trade. But none of 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.040 this talk leads to an investigation or a bust. By 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.120 the end of the seventies, the dude draws attention because 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.680 he has more than one passport. They find that kind 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.919 of suspicious, right, so, plus his banking records also a 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.160 little hinky. In nineteen seventy six, dude raised his eyebrows 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.720 when he converted a half billion dollars in Canadian dollars 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.640 aka loonies and had the bank give him converted him 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.080 out in Swiss francs. They're like, why do you want 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:27.640 this in England? He was like, I don't worry about 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.880 that now. The real suspicious part is how he went 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.000 to a series of different banks and then attempted to 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.000 deflect attention you know, he obviously did the opposite. He 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.359 caught attention, so no criminal charges came of any of that. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:39.640 Right. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.359 What saved him is that the drugs he smuggled mostly 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.800 went to North America. So the English were like, what 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.000 does it matter really, let them meet their souls or whatever. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.280 So one day around nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy nine, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.360 he gets involved with Soren berg Arnbach, the rubber face Man. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.640 Now they would go on to make a fabulously wealthy 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.640 life together and then ruin each other lives. Yeah, let's 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.400 take a little break, Elizabeth, and after some ads, we'll 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.840 talk about more about the drug baron and the rubber 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:29.720 faced Man. And we're back high. He's still wearing the 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:34.960 same pants. Well whatever, you remember when I mentioned what'd 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.280 you call it? Pembrokeshire. Pembrokeshire, Yeah, okay, in the south 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.639 east coast of Wales. Yes, there's a spot called Seal Bay. Okay, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.760 that's where our story takes place. Boswell, the drug baron 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.120 and berg Arnbach, the rubber faced Man, the Danish master 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.320 of disguise. Right, so they go into business together. They 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.680 come up with a scheme to import drugs into the 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:54.919 rough and rugged Welsh coast because that way, you know, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.199 burg Arnbach can continue working. Yeah, so they engineer a 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.480 hell of a smuggling hole. They use two beaches in 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:02.160 Seal Bay. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:02.840 Right. 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.480 One beach they drop all kinds of time, and they 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.240 just plundered and spent money to dig into the earth 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:11.560 just past the high water line, right and they dig 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.280 in at the mouth of a cave, and then they 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.159 dig straight down and they hollow out this huge cavern. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.800 It's underground chamber. The walls they line with fiberglass. The 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.480 chamber was hidden from view by the natural elements, obviously 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.840 because it's basically just a cave on the rugged coast. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.920 Who would look there. And it's also it's this coast 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.480 is pockmarked with caves. So on the other beach they 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.359 hid a small navy of dinghies and inflatable Zodiac style boats. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.640 So this is so they can make runs to faery 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.240 drugs from yachts and small ships that come right and 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.520 then they take them back to their pirate cave. Now, Elizabeth, 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.480 you know I love that show Black Sales. I know 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.199 you You'll come into like rc Headquarridors and I'll be 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.880 watching another episode and you or one of the interns 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.160 gives me that annoyed look when you hear that intro 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.800 song piping to Live and you're like, again, huh, Well, 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.360 I want you to know I learned a lot from 0:20:59.359 --> 0:20:59.680 that show. 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:00.919 I know you probably have. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.040 For instance, I know that if you're going to hide 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.560 things in a cave, there are inherent risks with that. 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.200 I would imagine maybe it work brilliantly. No, don't get 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.320 me wrong, it can. Obviously if you plan to bring 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.160 boats close to shore, there's gonna be problems with that 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.399 part of it, right r under the cover of darkness. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.280 That also adds an element if you're there to offload goods, 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.400 another element of danger because you don't want to lose 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.359 your goods. But if you got a hardy crew, it 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.200 can be done. Pirates did it back in the day. 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:24.520 Yeah. 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.120 But also you talked about the high water mark. That's 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:28.880 like an average high water mark. 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.760 There you go. Sea is not consistent. No, no, the 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.520 sea is a harsh doun forgiving mistresses. Yeah, and she 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.360 will turn on you when you least expect it. Never 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:39.919 turned your back on the ocean. In nineteen eighty two, 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.960 in the autumn month of November, a ship smuggling bales 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:47.560 of pot came in to offload some some contraband. Right now, 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.720 some of the marijuana gets lost in the rough seas. 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.720 Forty kilows of pot gets lost. That's about eighty eight 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:57.000 pounds of jazz cabbage just washing onto the coast of Wales. 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.880 Oh boy, now you see Elizabeth. As the sea taketh away, 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.760 so doth the sea giveth somewhere else down the coast? 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:05.040 Right, this is like those Garfield phones. 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.359 Yeah, wash totally, the rubber duckies and the Pacific on 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.639 the Oregon coast. Yeah, this the pot equally buoyant, and 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:15.080 so like rubber duckies bobs along and the bales wash 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.440 ashore in a place called Newport, Okay, right, The locals 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.000 confused by this sudden gift of eighty eight pounds of 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.920 pot from the sea. So the local authorities are called 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:25.359 to look into this, like, what's going on? 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:25.600 Is it? 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:25.800 You know? 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:28.320 Is it the French? What's going on? So one month later, 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.360 Boswell he deposits three quarters of a million pounds sterling 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:34.399 into a bank on the Isle of Man. He just 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.040 walks into the bank with two suitcases and inside the 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:43.080 two suitcases is seven hundred and fifty seven thousands, never suspicious, yeah, 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.280 in notes in cash right, So boswell, he's been now 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:49.160 making some small mistakes. Yeah yeah, right, he's getting sloppy, 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.760 he's losing bales of pot, he's walking in with briefcases 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.280 of cash. So it was only a matter of time 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.640 until the drug baron and his buddy, the rubber face 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:58.959 man were both doing something that they had not been 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:01.600 doing for a decade, which she's getting caught. Yeah all right. 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.000 So it wasn't exactly their fault though when it did 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.919 start to go wrong, it was their men. You see. 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:08.960 They had brought their men with them to this small 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.159 Welsh fishing village. 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:10.840 Yeah. 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.359 Well imagine how some hard men who are used to 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.040 international drug smuggling are doing down at the pub, right, 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:19.879 and this town has like four thousand people. Oh it's small, 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.800 it's small, small, right, yeah, yeah, it has like it's 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:24.959 separated down to the fishing village part and then up 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:27.479 the road, a really steep road is the new modern 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:29.280 section of towns. They have any money, you live on 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:31.040 the hill, and everybody who works in the water and 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:31.560 around the. 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.119 Water, everybody knows everybody exactly. 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:35.080 Oh my gosh. 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:35.440 Yeah. 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.320 So in June nineteen eighty three, local police were alerted 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:40.240 after a bunch of men were described by the locals 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.040 as quote a gang, and they kept dropping big bills 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:44.760 in the local pub. And by big bills, I mean 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:47.120 fifty pound notes. They're like, who's got all the money 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:47.479 over there? 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:48.200 Usually? 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.680 Yeah, exactly. So Sue Warner, that was a young woman 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:54.240 at the time. She lived on the family farm near Newport, 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:56.720 and she recalled how quote, there were guys staying in 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.600 Dinah's Cross and spending an awful lot of money paying 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.160 for drinks with fifty pound notes, and lots of partying 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:05.040 going on, lots of money and nice big cars. People 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:07.320 just started to put things together. Now, I know that's 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:09.680 not a Welsh accent. I can't do a Welsh accent, right, So, yeah, 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.080 I'm not going to Elizabeth. You spent considerable time in Scotland. 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:15.040 I've never been to Scotland, but I have been to 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:17.400 England and I've spent some time in Wales. Yeah, I'm 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.119 guessing that based on your time in Scotland, you like me, 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:23.720 aren't surprised that these locals were suspicious of outsiders. Not 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:25.560 in the least, right, I mean, this is like it's 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:26.760 par for the course from what I. 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:28.920 Spend a small town in the United States, I can 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:32.520 tell you like, yeah, outsiders come in and then radar 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:33.040 goes up. 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:34.679 What do you think they started doing next? Once the 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:35.359 radar goes. 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:38.919 Up, i'd keeping track of them. What would you do? 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:42.320 They start surveiling them, right, So they start snooping on 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:45.359 an Elizabeth style and suite. Back to Sue Warner, our 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:48.040 young local farm girl. So one night my dad decided 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:50.240 to camp up on the cliff top with neighbors. They 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:52.440 found two men sleeping close to the side of where 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:55.200 the gang we're planning on keeping the drugs, and then 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:58.120 things started to unravel. So now the cutting man camping 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:00.359 on the hilltop watching them off low drugs. 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:02.840 Especially because it's not just like who's this new family, 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:03.879 they're a little weird. 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:07.199 This is like, yeah, who look rough and yeah they 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:09.200 don't wear like sweaters and we've. 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:11.399 All seen those kind of like Jason State the movies. 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:13.440 You don't want to shoot out in the main town 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:16.400 with the cars driving over sidewalks and the whatnots. 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:19.160 Don't need to keep that to yourself. Take that back 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:19.680 to Guilford. 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:20.840 Yeah, we don't do that here. 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.200 So okay, these land lovers were not the only ones 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:27.320 who were suspicious. The fishermen and the lobstermen who worked 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:28.359 the craggy coastline. 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:28.840 Oh yeah. 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:32.040 They started watching these yachts and these boats coming close 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:35.159 to the shore and offload something into smaller dinghies and 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:37.920 then these the zodiac style inflatable boats. Right, so they 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:40.200 get nervous these guys are trying to like poach their catch. 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:40.640 Yeah. 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:43.800 They're like, wait, we're got competition, right, is it the French? Anyway, 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:47.400 So they contact the local authorities and they're worried about 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:49.240 these men who are working at night and they think 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:51.080 they're trying to their poachers, right, So they tell the 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:53.080 cops you got to watch these guys. And then some 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:55.879 of the lobstermen handle ourselves. So they go down and 0:25:55.880 --> 0:25:58.400 they confront the men on the beaches who are offloading 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:00.800 the bales of pot. Wow, man, what are you doing 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:01.359 in Wales? 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:01.600 Right? 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:04.359 And so the drug smugglers they're like, oh, oh, calm down, no, 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:06.520 well we're not from here. They're like, yeah, we know. 0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:09.240 What are you doing. They're like, we're filming a documentary, 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:12.320 you know, a nature movie. Everybody loves nature movies, right, 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:14.639 they tell them, Yeah, our movie is about seals and 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:16.960 whales and stuff in the ocean. And we're gon, we're 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:20.800 planning on filming in Greenland, so we're practicing off loading 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:23.680 and loading up equipment for the documentary. We take to 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:25.240 get really good at this because we're gonna be in 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:28.879 a rural place. And the guys were like, uh huh yeah. 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:32.240 So basically the local fishermen, the lobstermen, hey, like they're like, 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:34.439 that's a festering pack of lies. I'm not buying a 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:36.280 single bit of that. Like, trust me, mate, I'm a fisherman. 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:39.960 I know when something is fiscally unsound. Now you thought 0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:42.639 I would say fishy, didn't you know, Elizabeth. Fisherman know 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:44.879 how to be fiscally sound. They have to be if 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:47.840 they're gonna make it. And a documentary crew practicing for 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:51.600 months to offload equipment is hinky and not fiscally sound. 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:55.760 So anyway, the locals they go to their dified powe's 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:59.639 maybe pronouncing that incorrectly, apologies Welsh, but it's d y 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:05.000 fowys okay, that place their police department, and reported what 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:06.639 all they'd seen, right, and what the men on the 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:09.040 beaches and the boats in the yachts were actually doing 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:11.720 was to prepare the pirate code for a major load 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:14.080 that was coming in on a consignment sale. It wasn't 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:17.040 even their dope a huge day. They're gonna like, oh, 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:19.040 we got this thick, great thing running in Wales. Just 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:21.239 give us your big load and we'll offload it for you. 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:26.320 And the connect. Yeah, high stakes deal entered DCI Don 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:31.280 Evans of Diffid Poe's Police. Now. DCI Evans led the investigation, 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:35.720 which was dubbed Operation Seal Bay. Really imaginative, took title 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:38.000 right anyway, the cops they get to work. And he 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:40.600 wasn't alone, Elizabeth. You see, he didn't call in some 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:44.320 crack team of investigators. He didn't establish some war room 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:47.280 to catch these drug smugglers. Nope, not him. Instead, he 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:51.520 knew he had all the local amateur talent he needed. Yeah, 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:54.879 your people, Norsey busy bodies who say things like I 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:56.200 just want to take a look and see what they're 0:27:56.200 --> 0:27:59.520 doing over there. Yes, right, your people. So DC I 0:27:59.560 --> 0:28:03.800 haven't seen knew with my special army of special investigators, 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:05.639 I can get this task done. So we went out 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:08.000 and he spoke with them and DCI Don Evans. He 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:11.639 told the press, quote, these villains totally underestimated the local 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:14.280 people and how observant they were, and all we took 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:17.600 five hundred and forty statements from people living in the area. 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.320 There's like thirty eight hundred people, so I'm pretty much 0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:22.920 every seventh person's like, oh my got something. So many 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:25.760 people are children, so obviously you discount the children to 0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:28.359 people who are like house bound, they don't leave, they 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.840 don't have Almost every adult had something to say anyway. 0:28:31.880 --> 0:28:33.880 So the police they follow the clues from the five 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:36.840 hundred and forty witness statements, they determine a zone of 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:39.160 interest to investigate. They're like, oh, pretty much centered around 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:41.239 these two beaches. Then the cops go out and they 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:43.760 walk the coastline, searching through the sand the pebbles for 0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:46.480 signs to drug smugglers. They also have like people with them, 0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:49.160 But you were like, no, right over here, look right there, right, 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:52.080 there's this one farmer. He leads a pair of officers 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:54.400 over to the mouth of a cave and he wanted 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:55.960 to show them what he'd found. He's like, no, no, but 0:28:56.000 --> 0:28:58.000 you got to see what I found. It's very importantright 0:28:58.040 --> 0:28:59.720 he drags him over there. He picks up a stone 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:02.000 and tosses into the cave. They're like, what are you doing, 0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:04.320 old man? And all of a sudden, it doesn't make 0:29:04.320 --> 0:29:06.640 the expected sound. Anybody would think that a stone going 0:29:06.680 --> 0:29:09.360 into a cave would make. Instead, you hear this really large, 0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:13.280 hollow sounding metal tung kind of like yeah. They're like, 0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:15.560 wait a minute. And even the police are curious, so 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:18.480 they investigate the ground. They part's pushing around, They push 0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:21.360 back sand, they move pebbles and everything out of their way. Boom, 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:23.760 they find something. What if they find Elizabeth a hatch 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:26.920 like a submarine kind of hatch, right, the cops they 0:29:26.920 --> 0:29:29.080 twist the handle and they open the hatch. They can't 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:31.640 see the bottom. Farmer grabs another stone. He's like, gosh, 0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:35.480 this chucks it in there. Boom once again. It takes 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:37.000 a while to hit the bottom of When it does, 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:38.760 their rings, they're like wait a minute. They go down, 0:29:38.960 --> 0:29:42.920 they climb in. It's an enormous subterranean chamber. The police 0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:45.239 climb in and find all sorts of stuff in this 0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:49.680 hidden drug smuggling bunker. DCI don Evan said quote, it 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:52.000 had obviously been a long time to build it was 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:55.120 held up with timber and totally lined with fiberglass. Resin 0:29:55.280 --> 0:29:57.440 would have taken ages to dig out the sand and 0:29:57.520 --> 0:30:00.080 rock and build, and they would have had brought all 0:30:00.080 --> 0:30:01.240 the materials in by boat. 0:30:02.000 --> 0:30:02.560 Wow. 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:03.880 So yeah, like you're building. 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:06.280 When you were talking about fiberglass earlier, I was like, 0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:08.440 did they just like bring a camper shell and like 0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:10.640 shove it in a cave and. 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:13.160 Force it into the earth. Now? No, they dug a 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:17.080 huge cave hole for themselves under a cave and then wow, 0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.400 plastered it all in. Essentially. Now that the police they go, 0:30:20.520 --> 0:30:22.800 they find all the equipment that you would need for 0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:25.400 a modern professional drug smuggling operation. 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:25.800 Right. 0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:29.320 For instance, the cops discovered quote a gargantuan inflatable that 0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:32.480 could carry twenty four men and six tons of equipment, 0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:35.600 powered by a two hundred and thirty five horsepower outboard motor. 0:30:35.680 --> 0:30:36.160 Wow. 0:30:36.320 --> 0:30:38.120 The chamber was large enough that an average sized man 0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:41.120 could stand up at full extension comfortably. Yeah. And since 0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:43.440 this is nineteen eighty three, the local Welsh police did 0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:48.200 not immediately assume this was international drug smuggling. Instead, they're like, IRA, right, 0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:51.240 this is IRA, this is a weapons cash right, So 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:52.960 they assumed with all these you know, this would be 0:30:53.000 --> 0:30:55.640 a brilliant place to launch an attack on the English 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:58.360 coast side, so no one would see it coming from 0:30:58.360 --> 0:31:02.360 whales anyway. They did notice though, some cops like, wait, 0:31:02.360 --> 0:31:04.440 what remember the eighty eight pounds of pot that washed 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:06.840 up down the shorty thing? They might be related. And 0:31:06.840 --> 0:31:09.160 somebody's like, that's a good point. Wait to go, dcibob 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:12.000 now all the reports of offloading of larger boats and 0:31:12.080 --> 0:31:14.240 yachts and so forth. It filters in and they go, okay, 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:18.560 bounce that against the IRA gun running. Okay, probably drugs, 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:20.320 and they give up on the IRA gun running right, 0:31:20.360 --> 0:31:23.680 and the police investigate. And then as they're investigating that 0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:25.520 big load that I told you before that they were 0:31:25.520 --> 0:31:29.200 planning for, it comes in and uh the one when 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:31.959 it arrives. It arrives on a seventy five foot fishing 0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:35.480 trawler named Minnow Okay and Elizabeth. On that night, the 0:31:35.520 --> 0:31:38.640 seas were stormy and pitched the ocean angry like an 0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:41.960 irishman who's been mistaken for an Englishman. Now in those 0:31:42.080 --> 0:31:46.640 dangerous and storm rexes came this fishing trawler. No fisherman 0:31:46.720 --> 0:31:48.600 in his right mind would be out there in those 0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:51.680 waters at night, right, So that alone makes it suspicious. 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:51.880 Right. 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:53.720 Then they get close to the rocky stars that like, 0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:55.880 are they an idiot or is this like a criminal 0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:58.440 And they're like, it's definitely criminals because they also I 0:31:58.440 --> 0:32:01.680 forgot to mention Hurricane four winds. Oh god, yeah, like 0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:03.800 this pushing the boat around like a child's toy. Right, 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:06.080 So the drug smugglers are fighting against the sea, fighting 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.240 against the winds, trying to deliver their load to shore. 0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:12.440 They've got eighty bales of pot loaded onto two zodiac 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:14.719 style boats. That's what they meant. That's the progress they 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:18.440 managed before things go afoul. The ropes tying the boats 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:20.760 to the fishing trawler they give way in the storm. 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:23.800 The sea's iron froth takes the boats, flips them. The 0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:26.200 heavily overloaded with pot, right, so it's easy to flip, 0:32:26.240 --> 0:32:29.640 yea flip. Now they've got eighty bales of pot sprinkle 0:32:29.680 --> 0:32:33.360 into the ocean. Oh that's just it's like rubber duckies, 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:36.840 just imagine. Anyway, So along with all this snoop spinach, 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:40.000 the spugglers also watched a couple of them overseas, right, 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:41.880 So now we got people in the water so the 0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:43.760 police are like, oh, crime, I need do we need 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:46.520 to save them, but we're under cover. We can't go 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:48.440 and save them. It'll blow our cover, right, So they're 0:32:48.440 --> 0:32:50.920 trying to decide what they should do. They decide, we 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:54.440 got to reveal our investigations. So the cops watching this beach, 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:56.560 they rush out. They decide to do the right thing. 0:32:57.040 --> 0:33:00.000 Dci Ron Davies, he was on a twelve hour shift 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:01.440 out there in the cold and the wet and the 0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:04.320 dark of that night. He remembers the decision that they 0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:06.560 tried to make about should we save the drug smugglers 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:11.240 or not? And I quote when the Dinghies broke free, 0:33:11.280 --> 0:33:13.720 we had to break cover and rescue the gang members 0:33:13.760 --> 0:33:15.960 that were in the sea. When rescued, both were in 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:18.160 a poor condition and there's no doubt in my mind 0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:20.720 that they were left to drown. The crew of the 0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:23.520 boat made no attempt whatsoever to rescue them. They were 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:26.400 regarded as being expendable. Yeah, so the police were like, 0:33:26.440 --> 0:33:29.160 we can't have that, all right, let's go save the underlings. 0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:31.600 Who wants to grab some henchmen? So they go out 0:33:31.640 --> 0:33:34.040 there and then a couple other beachcombing cops they grab 0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:36.520 a couple of guys who get washed ashore. All in all, 0:33:36.680 --> 0:33:38.920 the cops now they also try to run and gun 0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:41.640 and grab the actual boat. Maybe we can catch the minnow. 0:33:41.760 --> 0:33:41.920 Right. 0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:45.440 Also, they go racing off to London because they've been 0:33:45.440 --> 0:33:47.520 told by the guys they capture some names. So the 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:50.440 cops just start scattering trying to take these leads and 0:33:50.480 --> 0:33:51.240 do whatever they can. 0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:51.600 Right. 0:33:51.920 --> 0:33:54.120 So, as I told you, the minnow is starting to 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:55.960 get away as the cops are headed to London to 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:57.560 grab people who are in homes who don't know what's 0:33:57.560 --> 0:33:59.240 gonna happen. Because they don't have cell phones, they can't 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:02.400 be warned. Right. They also have to call to the RAF. 0:34:02.440 --> 0:34:06.080 They're like, launch a helicopter. Yeah. The refs like, oh blimey, 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:08.480 let's do it, right, So they send out helicopter to 0:34:08.560 --> 0:34:10.240 chase this fishing trawler, the minnow. 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:13.440 The minnow wasn't that the Gilligan's Island? 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:15.279 Yes, this is a French one because it ends in 0:34:15.320 --> 0:34:22.280 a year, Yes, exactly. They launch a sea king helicopter. 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:25.560 It's a big helicopter, doesn't matter, and so yeah, imagine a. 0:34:25.520 --> 0:34:27.760 Big long day in the visual. 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:31.160 So it's given chase, right, The fishing trawler. Imagine like 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:33.840 a big seventy five foot like a boat you t 0:34:34.000 --> 0:34:36.080 off the coast of Alaska, right, okay, okay, So that 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:38.319 thing's just hauland as fast as it can, but it 0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:41.040 can't go that fast. But it manages to slip away 0:34:41.040 --> 0:34:43.000 in the night because it's that foggy and dark the 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:47.480 helicopter cannot. Finally, weather's absolutely terrible. It does manage to 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:49.880 get spotted the next day at Cork Harbor in Ireland, 0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:53.359 so power over, it went that way, okay, exactly. So 0:34:53.480 --> 0:34:56.360 the same night though, Robin Boswell doesn't know any of 0:34:56.360 --> 0:34:59.399 this is going down, and so he gets arrested when 0:34:59.400 --> 0:35:01.799 he when he does see cops coming for him, he 0:35:01.840 --> 0:35:04.080 tries to make a run for it, or so it seems, 0:35:04.080 --> 0:35:06.319 because two young boys and their mother spotted him and 0:35:06.320 --> 0:35:08.280 they phoned the police. So he's like out in the town, 0:35:08.360 --> 0:35:12.160 like walking along. The cops a catch up to him easily. 0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:14.919 See. I'm like a mind where everyone should just mind 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:17.839 their own business, except for you know, their times when 0:35:18.000 --> 0:35:20.640 under discretion you realize, no, I can't mind my own business. 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:22.960 Well you just you keep saying it your own business. 0:35:23.000 --> 0:35:25.520 This town is their business business. There you go. So 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:29.959 they're minding their own anyway, DCI Evans. He recalled how, quote, 0:35:30.000 --> 0:35:33.120 Robin Boswell was arrested, a man who gave us seventeen 0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:36.400 false names and addresses. He was a mystery man and 0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:39.640 clearly not up to any good. It transpired after arresting 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:42.440 Boswell that he wasn't going to tell us anything. So 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:45.040 these poor cops, they're up against her, right. So, of course, 0:35:45.080 --> 0:35:47.200 to a veteran cop like DCI Evans, this is no 0:35:47.360 --> 0:35:49.439 real big surprise. But he was kind of hoping maybe 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:50.719 they'd be you know, forthright. 0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:51.240 Yeah. 0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:53.319 However, as he put it later on, but what was 0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:57.280 unique he was wearing walking boots with specs of fiberglass resin. 0:35:57.520 --> 0:36:01.680 So now boom, they've connected ron CSI Yeah, exactly. Oops, 0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:04.480 the fibers gave me away. As d c I Evans 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:07.080 puts it, quote, we thought that's what we needed to 0:36:07.080 --> 0:36:09.000 link him to the bunker at the cave. Right, So 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:12.000 now they've got d c I Evans. Now, however, he 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.520 was still denying Boswell, still denying that he was the 0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:17.000 man they were looking for, so instead he insisted he 0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:19.719 was an innocent property developer who happened to be out 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:24.040 on a walk looking for new investments on a rainy, stormy. 0:36:23.680 --> 0:36:27.000 Night, because you want to see it under its worst 0:36:27.040 --> 0:36:27.960 condition exactly. 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:29.920 I want to see if there's any rain damage that's 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:32.360 happening right now. So the cops were like, that's a 0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:35.680 cute story. You have any others. So his co conspirator, Elizabeth, 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:38.000 the rubber face man, what's up with him? He's still 0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:40.759 on the run right soon, Well, let's take a little 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:43.000 break and after that I'll tell you about sorenberg on 0:36:43.120 --> 0:37:07.480 bach Ak, our master of disguise, Elizabeth. Yes, Saren, we're back. Hi. 0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:10.279 I promised you a manhunt. Yes you did. Yeah, you're 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:13.040 ready to get stupid? Where? Yes? Where is the rubber 0:37:13.080 --> 0:37:17.399 face man? Okay, are you really really ready? Ready? 0:37:17.480 --> 0:37:18.240 I'm ready ready. 0:37:18.440 --> 0:37:20.959 No, if you're that ready, I'd like you to close 0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:25.839 your up a clue. I'd like you to picture it. Ike, Elizabeth, 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:29.920 you are a body an English copper Johnny Law and 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:32.160 the Land of Lords and Ladies. You're a member of 0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:35.160 the Flying Squad. Oh my god, ess DC I Dutton 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.840 to investigate as part of a multi agency task forse 0:37:39.880 --> 0:37:42.040 the Flying Squad send out their best, which is you. 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:45.200 At the moment, you're near the Welsh coastal town of Fishguard. 0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:47.960 It's a brisk night, A stiff wind chops at the 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:51.160 waves and blows a cold, wet breeze on shore. A 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:53.359 storm is a bruin. You can tell you're a good 0:37:53.360 --> 0:37:56.480 detective now. In Welsh the town is called Abergwan, which 0:37:56.520 --> 0:37:58.880 means the mouth of the River Gwan. It's a tiny hamlet, 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:01.040 a fishing village situation in a deep v in the 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:03.640 hills that runs down to the coast. There's not much 0:38:03.680 --> 0:38:06.480 to this town. Their main business district is called High Street. 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:09.000 There's a parish church and that's about it. There are 0:38:09.080 --> 0:38:11.839 thirty two hundred souls that call Fishguard home. You've learned 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:13.600 from the locals that there was a nineteen fifty five 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:15.960 film version of Moby Dick' darring Gregory Peck that was 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:19.400 shot in Fishguard. Huh right, the lo cow. It's idyllic 0:38:19.400 --> 0:38:21.920 if you want to imitate New England or you know, 0:38:22.040 --> 0:38:25.000 show the reality of the rough and royal coast of Wales. Anyway, 0:38:25.160 --> 0:38:27.960 a manhunt is under way. You are a crack member 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:29.640 of the Flying Squad, sent out here, as I told you, 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:32.200 from London, and you always find you're a man You're 0:38:32.239 --> 0:38:34.200 like Tommy Lee Jones and the Fugitive, only you have 0:38:34.239 --> 0:38:37.319 an English accent, and unlike mister Tommy Lee Jones, you 0:38:37.360 --> 0:38:41.120 do care. Your police radio crackles and sounds. A pair 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:43.719 of bobbies has spotted a man with a rocksack heading 0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:45.839 out of town. You huff it. You run, your feet 0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:48.520 slap at cobblestones as you race against the wind, which 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:51.200 is now growing quite lusty. Then you see something, or 0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:54.920 rather someone, walking along a fence. You spy the stranger 0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:57.840 with the rocksack. You call out to them. You there stop. 0:38:58.360 --> 0:39:01.680 The stranger is the rubber face man, Sorenberg on a bach. 0:39:01.920 --> 0:39:04.319 He looks back, takes one good eye full of you, 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:07.640 and then turns and sprints in the other direction. Berg 0:39:07.760 --> 0:39:10.360 Armbach is in good shape for a middle aged drug smuggler. 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:13.720 He tosses his rucksack, hops a low fence and sprints 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:16.480 across the fields. You radio in his position and his 0:39:16.520 --> 0:39:19.800 direction of escape. Then you hop the low fence, splash 0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:22.440 down in a mess of fresh mud. You regain your 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:25.160 footing and chase after the rubber face man. He's running 0:39:25.160 --> 0:39:27.920 at full speed. He approaches the edge of the farmer's field. 0:39:28.719 --> 0:39:31.759 There's a line of hedges. Standing low and squat like 0:39:31.800 --> 0:39:35.120 a thick leafy fence. The rubber face man heads for 0:39:35.160 --> 0:39:38.120 the hedges. When he draws closer, he spies the barbed 0:39:38.120 --> 0:39:41.360 wire fence that runs along the hedges. At full stride, 0:39:41.400 --> 0:39:44.120 the rubber face Man leaps up and over the hedgerow 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:47.840 and the barbed wire fence. You are also at full pace, 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:50.880 charging after him. The rubber face Man disappears over the hedges. 0:39:50.920 --> 0:39:53.080 You lose sight of him in a moment. You're at 0:39:53.080 --> 0:39:55.279 the hedges. You pull up, though uncertain if you want 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:57.640 to go leaping into the unknown. You look over the 0:39:57.680 --> 0:40:00.279 hedges and thank god you did. You spy on the 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:03.680 other side a sheer drop seventy feet straight down into 0:40:03.719 --> 0:40:04.320 a quarry. 0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:05.240 Oh. 0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:07.920 Then you hear some dirt and soil ship pebbles come loose. 0:40:08.040 --> 0:40:10.239 That's followed but grunts and the sound of a man 0:40:10.320 --> 0:40:13.399 desperate not to die hill. He shouts. You look over, 0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:16.399 and you spy the rubber face man hanging there off 0:40:16.400 --> 0:40:19.239 the side of the cliff, clutching at a thick exposed 0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:22.879 tree root. The cliff face runs below him. You tell 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:24.800 them to stay calm and you'll radio back to the 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:27.160 other coppers and the man hunt. You tell them where 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:30.040 you are and who you've got trap Hanging above the quarry. 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:33.839 The tree root is strong, but not strong enough. As 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:35.880 you direct the cops to the bottom of the quarry, 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:39.120 you hear the snap. Your head spins fast, and you 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:41.080 catch sight of the rubber face Man as he falls 0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:44.080 and plummets into the quarry. Luckily for him, he hits 0:40:44.120 --> 0:40:47.320 the sloping cliff face and he bounces and rolls harmlessly 0:40:47.360 --> 0:40:49.720 down the quarry wall until he comes to a rest 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:52.799 at the bottom of the old quarry. Waiting officers rush 0:40:52.840 --> 0:40:56.280 over and arrest him. Nice work, DCI Dutt't hey, once again, 0:40:56.360 --> 0:40:59.560 you got your man. DCI Pickles would be so proud. Yes, 0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:04.520 now this arrest ends sorenberg Arnbox eleven year run as 0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:05.279 a wanted man. 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:05.920 Wow. 0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:09.239 After the cops, yeah, nabbed old rubber face Man. They 0:41:09.280 --> 0:41:12.360 search his backpack, or as the British press would call it, 0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:14.719 a rucksack, and they I have to admit, that's a 0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:17.080 much more fun word, rucksack. I'm like, I want to 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:19.440 call it. I don't want to be pretentious. Americans were like, 0:41:19.480 --> 0:41:21.920 who are you trying to be? Burnette feel like I'm 0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:24.759 being me. It's rucksack like the Germans taught it to me. 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:28.760 Is that cooler anyway? So the cops they go tearing 0:41:28.840 --> 0:41:31.319 through dude's rucksack and they open up and they find 0:41:31.320 --> 0:41:33.520 a short band radio. The cops were like, oh, this 0:41:33.600 --> 0:41:35.120 looks like fun. You want to see if it works. 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:37.200 Come on, Nigel, and they go on up and they 0:41:37.200 --> 0:41:39.080 climb to the highest hill in the area and they 0:41:39.120 --> 0:41:41.200 set up the short band radio. They flip it on, 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:46.359 they listen, nothing, They listen some more more nothing. They 0:41:46.440 --> 0:41:49.160 keep listening though, because they're British, and finally, after a 0:41:49.200 --> 0:41:52.640 few hours of plucky determination, the radio does indeed crackle 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:55.839 to life. Back to DCI Evans, the radio equipment came 0:41:55.880 --> 0:41:58.239 to life in the words mother, mother, I want to 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:00.240 come in and to get the dirt off my hands 0:42:00.320 --> 0:42:03.120 were heard. That communication was enough. We knew there was 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:05.080 a vessel out in the bay wanting to come in 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:07.240 and to get rid of the drugs that were on board. 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:10.200 So now the cops they searched the horizon of the seat. 0:42:10.400 --> 0:42:12.399 There's a boat out there. Yeah, So they're like they're 0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:14.560 scanning it like like someone walking the Widow's walk. 0:42:14.640 --> 0:42:17.920 Right, Well, if you're like, I'm sorry, but if you're 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:22.239 the if you're going to come up with code, the 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:24.680 kid is like, mother, but like no, like you're not 0:42:24.719 --> 0:42:26.920 going to listen to a radio and hear that. You 0:42:26.920 --> 0:42:28.960 have to say something like, you know, I got like, 0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:33.800 however much fish, all this mackerel whatever, fresh load of 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:38.760 Oh yeah, you know, speak the language of the people. 0:42:38.920 --> 0:42:41.680 Mother. I want to come in, get the dirt off 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:42.120 my hands. 0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:44.879 Oh yeah, that's what kids radio their moms all the time, 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:50.120 Crackley radio. She's all come in over like a. 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:54.480 Whiskey soak voice to come in. So dark and stormy 0:42:54.480 --> 0:42:57.040 and foggy as that night was and where they were, 0:42:57.040 --> 0:42:59.399 they could not see the boat on the horizon right now, 0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:03.279 Quincy deadly. Not long after this one thousand pounds of 0:43:03.440 --> 0:43:09.640 primo Lebanese hash washed up on the sandy beaches of Scandinavia. 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:13.279 Oh that's so interesting, all the currents that would take 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:13.920 right Yeah, I. 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:15.600 Thought you'd dig that. So the cops assumed that the 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:17.960 smugglers must have just dumped their load of a gold 0:43:18.000 --> 0:43:20.560 hash at sea. Now that they had their two masterminds 0:43:20.600 --> 0:43:23.200 and their mini underlings and associates the local police, they 0:43:23.200 --> 0:43:25.440 follow the threads of this network, right, they go, this 0:43:25.480 --> 0:43:28.279 has got to go lots of places. The connection they 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:32.240 spanned from this tiny Welsh like fishing village, they connect 0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:35.360 to London, then over to France, to Denmark, to Spain. 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:38.239 They start going around the international real quick, right. As 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:40.880 one local detective put it, it was a coup for 0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:42.920 the smallest police force in the country to take on 0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:44.439 the biggest drug gang at the time. 0:43:44.600 --> 0:43:45.200 Wow. 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:48.799 So Operation Seal Bay phenomenal success. Waiting go guys, good 0:43:48.880 --> 0:43:50.879 for them. Now, as the cops chase leads, they also 0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:53.080 followed the money trail, right, and this led them back 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:54.800 to the Isle of Man And I remember how I 0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:57.600 told you Boswell walked into that bank with the two suitcases. Correct, 0:43:57.760 --> 0:43:59.800 Remember how memorable that was? Yes, it was for the 0:43:59.800 --> 0:44:02.239 p at the bank too, imagine. So they went to 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:04.279 the bank staff and DCI Evans is like, hey, yeah, 0:44:04.320 --> 0:44:06.040 so you guys have anything strange you want to tell 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:07.880 us about. We've been following bank records and they all 0:44:07.960 --> 0:44:10.520 lead to your bank. And as he put it, quote, 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:12.319 we asked the bank manager why he didn't think of 0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:14.719 reporting it to the authorities, and his face reddened and 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:17.719 he said, mister Evans, it's not unusual for people to 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:21.240 come in carrying a shopping bag with fifty pounds in cash. 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:22.919 Oh, then i'm the cops. I'm like, well, I'm gonna 0:44:22.920 --> 0:44:25.040 set up shop out here, right, it's happening. 0:44:25.120 --> 0:44:29.040 Well, Nigel, you're staying here. Eventually, the cops they get 0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:31.719 all their charges in order. Boswell gets charged with conspiring 0:44:31.760 --> 0:44:34.799 to import large quantities of Class B drugs. During his 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:37.719 arrest period, police kept finding heidi holes of cash. While 0:44:37.719 --> 0:44:39.320 they were going through all the stuff. They found money 0:44:39.320 --> 0:44:42.760 buried under gardens and drugs hidden in smaller underground chambers. 0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:45.320 They also seized lots of his cars. They grabbed a 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:48.720 rolls Royce, a ranger over, a Ferrari, his wife's portia, 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:51.640 his cars, his boats for that matter as well. They 0:44:51.640 --> 0:44:55.120 often had hidden smuggler compartments. Right, So this was all 0:44:55.120 --> 0:44:57.839 brought up during his lengthy trial in nineteen eighty eight, 0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:00.239 and Boswell he had a ready answer for him, like, 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:04.000 I know this looks suspicious, guys, but let me explain, 0:45:04.280 --> 0:45:07.280 And he said, and I quote, Look, I'm a wealthy Englishman, 0:45:07.360 --> 0:45:09.000 so of course I'm also a bit of an eccentric. 0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:11.360 The reason why my boats and cars all have smuggler 0:45:11.400 --> 0:45:15.120 compartments is I was trying to hide Nazi gold. Wait, what, 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:16.880 that's not a direct quote. I made that up. Oh 0:45:17.800 --> 0:45:20.719 that was his plan. He went in and he said, 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:23.640 basically went in doubt, Elizabeth. If you're a certain age 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:25.360 of England, you're like, oh, it's muddy the waters with 0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:27.520 some Nazi gold. People will believe it. It's kind of 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:30.520 like we have in the in California, like Spanish gold. 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:33.200 So they have Nazi goldis everywhere on this coast and 0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:36.000 everyone's like, oh yeah, I totally get that. Boswell. He 0:45:36.040 --> 0:45:38.120 claimed that he'd hired all these men and dug all 0:45:38.120 --> 0:45:40.600 these holes and built the secret chamber and had ships 0:45:40.600 --> 0:45:43.720 offloading trial runs for when he finally found the gold. 0:45:43.719 --> 0:45:46.799 He was searching for unsunk in Nazi U boats from 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:49.000 World War Two, right, and you see old chap. But 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:50.680 the reason I kept to so hush hush it because 0:45:50.680 --> 0:45:52.720 the notts a gold player may not have been legal 0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:57.359 to scavenge. Come on, obviously, you know it's all been 0:45:57.360 --> 0:46:01.200 a terrible misunderstanding drugs. Now, the judge and jury in 0:46:01.239 --> 0:46:03.160 the Crown Court, they listened to his side of the story, 0:46:03.160 --> 0:46:05.799 and then they unanimously decided to not listen to a 0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:08.120 single word he was saying. All right, the judge, mister 0:46:08.360 --> 0:46:11.919 Justice Mars Jones, can I pause for a second to say, hot, damn, 0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:14.960 that's the name and a half, mister Justice Mars Jones. 0:46:15.040 --> 0:46:17.960 Mars Mars like as in the planet mister just me. 0:46:18.000 --> 0:46:19.680 He sounds like he's a black man and he's got 0:46:19.680 --> 0:46:24.640 like one of those white wigs on, mister Justice Boss Jones. Now, okay, 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:28.200 back to it. Justice Mars Jones ruled in almost record 0:46:28.200 --> 0:46:32.080 speed guilty. Then he told Boswell, you also have lots 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.239 of money, of which I have no general power to 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:37.320 deprive you. Only wish I could, now, my man, mister 0:46:37.520 --> 0:46:40.840 Justice Males Jones, he sentenced the ring leader Boswell to 0:46:41.040 --> 0:46:43.560 ten years in prison. Oh he was thirty seven at 0:46:43.560 --> 0:46:45.279 the time, gonna miss out on some of the best 0:46:45.360 --> 0:46:47.400 years of his life. Now was co ring leader, the 0:46:47.400 --> 0:46:50.840 man on the run, the rubber faced man aka sorenberg Arnbach. 0:46:51.040 --> 0:46:53.799 He gets jailed to eight years. Okay, yep, finally caught 0:46:53.840 --> 0:46:56.080 Boom and now Boswell, of course, being a true old 0:46:56.120 --> 0:46:58.040 money britt, what does he do. He appeals the rule, 0:46:58.760 --> 0:47:00.719 expecting it to go his way, always gets his way. 0:47:00.719 --> 0:47:04.960 Elizabeth of course, after his appeals court trial, the court determined, quote, 0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:08.799 the mind boggles at what might have been happening in 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:11.920 that lonely places the months and years rolled by if 0:47:11.920 --> 0:47:15.520 this conspiracy had not been uncovered. So they basically has 0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:19.720 the original prosecution stated, and I quote, these greedy schemes 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:23.080 were brought to light because of the neighborliness or nosiness 0:47:23.080 --> 0:47:27.279 of local people, the interest and curiosity shown by decent people. Yes, 0:47:27.280 --> 0:47:30.880 aka your people, Elizabeth, Yes, nosy lobstermen and fishermen and 0:47:30.920 --> 0:47:34.360 farmers daughters. Yes, So there you go, Elizabeth. What is 0:47:34.400 --> 0:47:35.879 your ridiculous takeaway from this tale? 0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:40.040 My ridiculous takeaway is, if you are going to smuggle 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:43.319 something out of Lebanon, it should be white gold. And 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:44.640 by that I mean tomb. 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:47.760 Could you imagine garlic spread? 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:52.040 Yeah, like how much beauty be sharing in the world. 0:47:52.040 --> 0:47:53.400 Of course, Lebanese tombs. 0:47:53.440 --> 0:47:56.719 I don't think that's technically illegal, No, but you know, 0:47:56.880 --> 0:47:57.440 I don't. 0:47:57.239 --> 0:47:59.920 Really need to smuggle it with all sorts of exercise 0:48:00.120 --> 0:48:04.160 taxes and who knows, and you know whatever. That's my 0:48:04.360 --> 0:48:07.479 ridiculous takeaways there, And what is your ridiculous Are. 0:48:07.360 --> 0:48:12.040 You feeling all right? Yeah? Okay to give me a second. 0:48:14.320 --> 0:48:17.200 It feels really nice. Feel heard if you listened to 0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:21.960 hang my ridiculous take away, Elizabeth, the rubber Face man 0:48:22.040 --> 0:48:24.560 really disappointed me because he's got this great name. You 0:48:24.600 --> 0:48:26.120 think he's gonna do stuff, and all he does is 0:48:26.160 --> 0:48:27.399 just nothing. He's like, got I got a plan. I'm 0:48:27.400 --> 0:48:31.040 gonna hide out my buddy, and my buddy's gonna rubber face. 0:48:31.400 --> 0:48:33.839 Come on, rubber face man, when you try to get away, 0:48:33.840 --> 0:48:35.080 you just try to walk out of town. 0:48:35.200 --> 0:48:37.799 Yeah, he's just like he's a disappointment. 0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:38.120 Right. 0:48:38.160 --> 0:48:42.239 I'm a developer. Yeah that's a ticket mother. Okay, So 0:48:42.600 --> 0:48:44.080 I got a question for you. Yeah, you have in 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:46.960 the mood for a talk back? Yes, Producer Dave hit it. 0:48:49.160 --> 0:48:52.600 Oh my god. 0:48:55.880 --> 0:48:56.120 I w. 0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:04.160 Hi Elizabeth and Zarin. My name is Rachel. I'm from 0:49:04.200 --> 0:49:07.759 Fort Worth, Texas. I love your podcast. I think y'all 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:11.920 have such a great report together. You're so funny, Elizabeth. 0:49:12.080 --> 0:49:14.440 I found a mash up today while I was walking 0:49:14.480 --> 0:49:19.560 in Target. It's Native Times Girl Scout cookies. Do you 0:49:19.680 --> 0:49:23.160 order it body wash, shampoo, et cetera? That smells like 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:26.680 Girl Scout cookies? I found it highly ridiculous. 0:49:26.760 --> 0:49:27.200 I love it. 0:49:27.239 --> 0:49:30.560 If you feature it. Bye girl, I'm gonna let you 0:49:30.560 --> 0:49:34.680 do it per gross. 0:49:36.239 --> 0:49:37.759 There you go. That's how I feel. 0:49:37.520 --> 0:49:39.879 Every time to be on the receiving. 0:49:41.520 --> 0:49:43.400 You're just like, why is that pile of mess in 0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:43.759 my lab? 0:49:43.960 --> 0:49:46.640 I like to be the mischief maker, the mischief taker. 0:49:47.719 --> 0:49:50.840 There you go. Girls just too sweet. 0:49:50.840 --> 0:49:52.399 I don't like sweet scents like that. 0:49:52.800 --> 0:49:54.280 No, I want to smell like butter. 0:49:55.000 --> 0:49:59.520 I want to smell like an angel's sneeze. 0:50:00.880 --> 0:50:03.680 Well you can find us smelling sweet like angel sneeze 0:50:03.680 --> 0:50:06.759 is online always a Ridiculous Crime on Twitter, Instagram and 0:50:06.840 --> 0:50:09.399 all the other socials. Maybe who knows. Good luck trying 0:50:09.400 --> 0:50:11.120 to find us. We have a website though. You can 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:14.239 find us at ridiculous Crime dot com. Go there, hit 0:50:14.280 --> 0:50:16.080 it up. 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