WEBVTT - Episode 3 - Love Is Easy 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:02.639 You know, in terms of hard of the situation, because 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.480 now when you're in that life, it's like you live 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.280 by the gun and you got by the gun at 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.159 that point. Like in Chicago to Chicago, the tones of 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.720 Chicago are more aggressive, you know what I'm saying. So 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.079 then that would be like to be there and be 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.720 Somebody said, man, when you think about our journey and 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:40.120 the streets in Chicago mean I've got to st. Jackson 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.280 and I'm Charlie Webster and this is surviving ol Chapol. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:55.720 It's once you brought down the drug wall. Just twenty 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.640 years old, identical twins Pete and Jay Flores had built 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.200 a trafficking empire in Chicago. They were shipping thousands of 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.840 kilos every month to different parts of the country and 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.760 raking in millions. And get this, they were only just 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.240 getting started. But to be able to give you the story, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.559 if you the twins really are the real story behind 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.920 the headlines, there's two important people we need to introduce 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.600 you to. What makes the story is so crazy is 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.240 that the twins both end up married to daughters of cops. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.280 Talk about playing with fire. Jay's wife Fell definitely had 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.679 a profile back then despite having a police officer for 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.840 a father. She has a backstory that it's not all 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.840 that different to Jay's. Even I know about back in 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:50.560 the day, but I didn't know her full story. I 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:56.200 started off by being a mule. They got caught Mexico. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.880 Then they dropped the gas take and these the dra 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.800 They put me in front of the judge and lass 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.840 than seventy two hours and they said to me in 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:14.440 ten years. I just wanted to get out of his desperate. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.800 Mexican prison is the hardest probably prison that I've ever seen. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.799 The windows are have bars, there's like no glass, and 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.680 bunks are coming in and cats are walking around, and 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.360 I remember there was just a ton of cats, and 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.600 I think that they had so many cats there because 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:51.720 of past control, so there weren't rats. M The prison 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.240 was hard. I mean, the floors were subment It's like 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:00.720 you're in the third world country and and I was 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:05.160 just so scared. I remember the embassy coming down to 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.880 see me. They come out to see you if you're 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:13.000 a US citizen, and they just checked them. You're like, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.840 are you okay? Did anybody hurt you? Okay? We just 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.200 have to check and make sure that nothing happened to 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:25.359 you physically, you have no bruises. You're good. We'll see 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.160 you next year. And I'm like, wait, wait, don't leave me. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.280 What do you mean, Like you can't leave me. You 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.760 can't leave me here just taking a shower. The guards 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.000 they'll be walking by and like looking at you, like 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:42.800 it was just so degrading. I was dating somebody at 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:48.720 the time and he was dealing with the car. Tell 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.600 they're obviously corrupt. And they said they were going to 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.560 pay the judge because he was going to get me 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.640 out of there. We're gonna pay the judge, We're gonna 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.640 pay the warden, We're gonna pay everybody. You're gonna come home. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.240 I was so young, it was a baby. It was 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:19.520 like nineteen years old. He got this fake birth certificate 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.640 from California. They said I was a minor, so they 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:33.039 transferred me from the prison two Julidle Correction Center. When 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:38.640 I get there, it's like worse than the penitentiary. With 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.719 a bunch of kids. They're like, come from the streets. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.960 We slept on cement beds, just blocks the cement with 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.760 like a mat almost like a workout, Matt. It's all 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:59.160 we stepped on. We ate beans with their hands, no 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:04.040 silverware for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and we drank water 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:10.440 from the tap which is really contaminated. I remember we 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:16.240 had those shoes. They didn't want you to run. I 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.640 felt I'd rather go back into my ten years than 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.120 be in this place right here. I just wanted to 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.240 get out. I was desperate. What I did was I 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.960 kind of talk all the other kids, tell them like 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.520 we need to run, Like there's four guards here, we 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.640 can get away because I knew that I can outrun 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.599 them even if I didn't have any shoes on. And 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.719 I remember them telling on me. So the rest of 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.480 my time, it's like every time that they took me 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.599 to school and took me to church, I would have 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:57.080 to walk out what two guards holding me. So my 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.240 attorney comes to visit me, and he's like, I have 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:03.680 good news and have bad news, and I'm like, what 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.479 is it. The good news is everyone's been paid off, 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.760 but the bad news is it's gonna take some time. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.680 And I told him, wait, I can't be here, I 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.479 can't do this anymore. So he comes up with this 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.440 plan and he sets up this legal calm, the twelve. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:33.320 I told my attorney that he needs to call and 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.080 then he needs to cough when he rolls up to 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:41.120 the front. I'll never forget. It was December twelve, the 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.800 day of the Virgin Mary, and I remember every day 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.680 getting on my knees and praying to her to please, please, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.760 please let me come home to my knees blood. I 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:59.440 cried every day. I didn't know what to do. I 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.120 ended up trying to break my leg because for them 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.480 to take me to make a phone call, they had 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.520 to take me upstairs into the warden's office. And so 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.280 sure enough they came to get me, and I just 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.120 took my ankle and I remember just slamming against the 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:23.280 cement badge and it was like huge and it was swollen, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.800 and they had to call the doctor to see it. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.960 I knew that they couldn't take me up the stairs 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.000 because they couldn't walk. So here comes the two guards. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:39.400 Jet always walk with me everywhere I go. They take 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:44.560 me to my phone call, and then the front door 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.800 was right there, and I would just always look it's 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:57.160 like right there. All of a sudden, my attorney starts 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:03.720 coughing on the phone. Yeah, just all this fo kiss 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:12.160 and I'm screaming my name in Spanish. All the guards 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:17.160 are like bad, and I'm running. You can't even run 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.600 on these rocks with the broken ankle, and I dive 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:37.200 into this car and let me take off. In the car, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:42.959 it starts breaking down, like not even like four blocks away, 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.360 and all of a sudden, I'm pushing the guy, pushing 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.079 him like let me out, let me out, like I'm 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.880 ready to take off on them, like I want nothing 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.440 to do with these people that are picking me up, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:52.800 Like I just want to get away because I didn't 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:59.640 want to get caught. I'm pushing a guy trying to 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.840 like get out the car, and all of a sudden, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.800 he turns around, takes his glasses off in his hat 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.520 and it's my attorney, and I couldn't believe he did that, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:23.199 and he broke me out. They had set up these checkpoints. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.480 They were checking the borders because they didn't want me 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.559 to cross back to the other side. So I remember 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.079 I had to stay there for like a week and hide. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.440 I ended up going with the family. They paid them off, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.559 and I crossed over the borders, said I was a 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:53.200 US citizen. Mexico was not the last time Val would 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.680 see the inside of a jail cell. Years later, she 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.040 spent five months in a US federal prison af the 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.440 refusing to wear a wire on her then husband Rudy 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:14.640 Kato Ranko, my second husband, Cato. I was in love 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:20.240 with him. There was nothing that I wouldn't do for him. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.160 I went to prison for him again. In the US, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:30.600 the Feds pick me up because he's like this huge 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:38.040 target for the government. He's the king pen Latin King. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.600 He ran the city. Everybody knew his name, everybody was 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:46.840 afraid of him. He was aggressive, but at the same time, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:52.440 he was the most charismatic person, and he had two 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:57.440 sides to him. I would see him like turn into 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:06.080 a monster at any given time he ran into somebody 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.079 from another game, Like he would jump out the car 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.040 and just started shooting at people randomly. I would be 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.439 in the car and he would like literally take this 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.440 gun and like over my ear, like across me and 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.920 just start shooting at people. And my ears used to 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:31.120 be just crazy. I've never seen nothing like that, and 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:35.439 to the point where I would be scared. And it 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.000 took a lot for me to get nervous or for 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.480 me to be afraid. But with Cato, it felt like 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:51.000 nobody could touch him, and he had power Kato was 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.320 a big deal. He ran the Latin Kings in Chicago 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.480 and was known as King Kato. Kato and the twins 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.000 were close. They feel met through that older brother, Almando, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.480 who was active in the Latin Kings. I don't think 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.240 there was anyone closer to Kate after vow who cared 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.079 then remember that, in fact, Kato is the very reason 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:18.120 Jane met Val in the first place. Men had a 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:25.280 club fifteen years old, and when I saw I was like, wow, Like, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.319 who the fuck is that like? And I instantly put 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.640 it together because I had heard people talking about her. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:44.120 He looked expensive. You know, I'm at a club. Shouldn't 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.760 even be at the club. It's actually over, I think, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.240 I don't remember the Kado and all his friends roll 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.200 up and they don't want to let him in the 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.040 club because they know who he is that they're not 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:04.080 gonna let him and bangs on the window. Twin go 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.760 call that girl over there and tell her to come outside, 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.360 and I'm like, we're in the club, what girl you 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.880 you know? But as I was saying, I turned and look, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:18.680 I knew exactly who he was talking about. I remember 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:24.080 I went over and I tapped it excuse me, and 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.480 she looked like yeah. I'm like, Kaid was calling you. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.720 He's outside. He said, he wants you to go outside. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.959 And she's like, huh, the kid who wants you to 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.600 go outside? Why doesn't he come in. I'm like, day 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.720 didn't let him in. She's like, how did you get in? 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.960 And she looked annoyed. She decided she walked out, and 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.320 I just kind of glanced at him, like wow. I 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:50.080 really really liked him as a person, and every time 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.120 he would come around, I would just get very happy. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.680 I felt some type of connection. I don't know what 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.560 that was, like some type of chemistry, but not in 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.720 a bad way, just because you know, I was married. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.640 I was married to Kato. You know, I love my husband, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.400 very faithful to him. But I just loved you as 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.120 a friend so much that I would try to like 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.360 cook him up with like all the baddest girlfriends that 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.800 I had. Kato had a giant tattoo across his chest 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.880 declaring his love for vow with the words destined Forever 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.560 my Queen Valerie. He had been convicted of attempted murder 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.360 and was also deeply involved in the music industry. He 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:37.040 was close with DMX, Fat Joe Busta Rhymes, and Kanye West. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:44.400 Katle was murdered. That was pregnant time. I was devastating. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.720 It was the hardest day that I had ever got through, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.600 especially just a relationship that I had of a kiddle. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.520 He was my everything. Kato was shot and killed sitting 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.600 in a barber's chair getting his hair cut. In fact, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.400 it was actually in the middle of watching the two 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.160 thousand and three NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:23.680 and the New Jersey Nets. His death was a contract killing, 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.960 ordered after he allegedly stole a hundred and fifty kilos 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:33.120 of cocaine from the Cineloa cartel. Notorious killer and boss 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.520 of the Four Corner Hustlers gang Lebart romance Span was 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.160 recently convicted of hiring the hitman Squeaky Simmons to gun 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:47.160 Cato down. After he died, DMX released a tribute song 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:56.480 Ao Kato, which featured vow when Kip a week he 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.560 depended on me, so we were together every be Probably 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.480 after that, I just felt this connection with Jail, was 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.160 so in love with him, and I just didn't care. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.120 I didn't care what people said. I didn't care if 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.400 people knew. I didn't care what they were going to think. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.960 When Jen will come around, like my face will light up. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:25.360 And I just felt his positive energy. As much as 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.200 he was there for me, I wanted to be there 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.440 for him. I fell in love with him. I never 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:40.480 loved somebody the way that I loved Jay. Nobody. Her 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:45.040 connection is so strong, and I think that he knows 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:50.320 everything about me, my good qualities, my bad qualities. There's 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:57.280 nothing that he doesn't know about me. He brought me 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.800 back when Candle did passed away. I felt like I 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.040 could fill her shes and then I realized, like, no 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.280 what any of this stuff. I just want to be 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:09.960 with Ja. I just want to, you know, be his 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:15.119 wife and he had his children, and just be with him. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:19.040 I guess there's just on spoken kla that you had 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:24.320 to rate, like a year at least when something casses 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.600 the way of a while, what you're like. And I 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:34.720 fell in love with Jay instantly. At first, everyone thought 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.280 the twins were behind Kato's death. The way their business 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.320 started dominating the streets of Chicago and their growing connections 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.760 to the Cineloa cartel didn't help the rumors, but it 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.119 was the way Jay and Val were inseparable in the 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.119 immediate aftermath of Kato's death. That really got the gossip 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:58.920 train going. When I was with Jay, You're in Chicago, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.399 and I know that Jay and Peter were having a 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:06.680 lot of issues because me and Jay were together. It 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.840 caused a lot of problems. That you two go together, 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.320 it caused a lot of problems. It's just even for 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:18.359 their business. I felt like that's it. I just wanted 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:23.720 to live a normal life, and I just felt like Jay. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.400 I wanted to change him. And I think that every 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.800 woman that falls in love with somebody, they think that 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.159 they can change the person they're in love with, and 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.600 they can convince them to do something differently. I knew 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.399 that this life was nothing but tragedy and devastation, and 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.320 that they were either going to go to prison for 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:40.879 the rest of your life or they're gonna end up 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:45.480 dead like Cato, and I didn't want that for them. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.320 I tried, and I tried, and I tried to convince 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.600 Jay all the time, and I know that him and 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:56.040 Peter fought over it, Peter being really upset at me 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.560 because I didn't happened to fall in love with somebody. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:04.679 He didn't prove what they affected affected so much of 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:11.200 our lives. They also looking in I feel like you 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.639 should is that you should? You're making the magic. They 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.040 could create a problem, and they created a prompt just 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.680 passed away, but like you're putting your hard in the 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:25.240 wrong place. Peter was wearing a bulletproof vest. It created 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.560 a lot in their business, especially what they were doing. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.359 There was already so many risks that were happening, and 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.800 then with this they felt like Peter, I understand, his 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.480 business was in business and they nurtured this thing, they 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:41.919 grew it, they scaled it. It was something that like 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:47.840 that was his empire and Valcay with a lot of bags. Yeah, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.280 I came in with a lot of baggage. And for 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:54.680 me to come in and for me to come in 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.800 and like, you know, kind of jeopardize what they had 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.399 going on was like you didn't want that extra you know, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.320 risk and and that that danger, especially not in that city. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.960 The relationship with my brother, Valerie made the whole city 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.480 to start talking talking, talking, talking tired. I think that 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.040 we're Valerate and who she was can when a lot 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.000 of people talking about her with that like or like 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.560 intrigue or whatever. The cases that would make people be 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.680 in her business and they feel like my brothers and 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.280 were able to kind of be lokey for the nobody's 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.159 you know, in our own trickle in the cocaine, but 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:37.880 to have like maybe the phone light up and every 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:42.479 time they're talking to twin, you know, because of my 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:51.399 brothers were vow. Now it became like an issue. M 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.320 Apparently being attracted to the child of a cop was 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:20.040 something that seemed to run in the family. One of 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.760 the officers of the local gang units had a daughter 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:29.560 named vv that Pete was definitely interested in. I didn't 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.840 imagine that Peter and Jr. Were selling drugs are and 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.680 a way to being who they who they became, no way. 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.360 I just thought that they were just fun and and 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.360 we would go out and it would go to parties 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.880 and to the lake and and it was just being 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:52.200 kids together. We met at fifteen fifteen, sixteen years old, 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:58.480 so we didn't get together until we were Yeah, so 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.960 we were friends. I knew her dad before I knew 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:07.600 her because like in a gang union, and he patrolled 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:12.520 the neighborhood and everyone knew him. He patrolled the area 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.960 and we had our own encounters without you know, like 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.000 being part of the team that readed her at home 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:24.240 where Peter came from. That neighborhood, my dad patrolled there, 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:26.800 so that's where my dad would go and risk his 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:31.480 life every day for so you know, being from the neighborhood, 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:38.960 my father didn't want me affiliating with anyone. When I 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:40.920 first seen I thought she was like the most beautiful 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:48.240 woman in the world. I submerged myself into this big world, 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:51.040 even in Chicago. I means people think that it just 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:55.040 happened in Mexico, but in Chicago, the world was really 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:59.400 really big already when I was around that, I've seen 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:02.639 that it was maybe too big for me, and I 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:08.800 couldn't see myself living that life with him. But I 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:11.760 definitely knew that the people that I was already choosing 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:15.119 before him weren't good enough for me either. So I 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:19.200 think that's where my heart was like torn, Like Okay, 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:22.400 so I have this great guy who is the perfect 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:25.399 man for me, but his life was not what I wanted. 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.399 And during that time, I was going to school to 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.560 be a core reporter. I was in college, I was 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:35.520 working in a transportation business, so I had my own life. 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.080 I lived a totally opposite life like he was up 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:41.560 all night and I had to sleep at eight o'clock 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.679 because my day started five in the morning. So his 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.399 life was totally different than mine, and I felt like 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:50.440 we weren't going to be able to live that life again. 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.719 It's ironic that I'm sitting here and um with this 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.120 the man of my dreams, and he's plotting the streets 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.560 of Chicago with drugs, and then my dad, I see 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.879 him and he's putting on his uniform and he's risking 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:15.960 his life every day. Yeah, and during that time, he 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:17.880 would leave a roles in my car every day. So 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:20.199 when I would go to work, I would, you know, 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:23.520 take my little roles in my little office cubicle. When 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:25.680 I was going to school, I take my roles with me, 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:28.520 so you know, I was always reminded that he was there. 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:49.720 It was exciting to walk around and feel like I 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:53.280 just think that, No, Chicago's a big gangster like world. 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:56.119 Like let me talk about al Capone in those days, 0:24:56.680 --> 0:25:00.480 in that era provision and he we are in the 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:04.560 eral crack cocaine and cocaine, you know, and to be 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:08.560 at that height, you know, to be making minutes of 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:13.199 thousand a month. We were selling the drugs like that. 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:19.199 Since two thousand, two thousand one, I could probably do 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:22.160 it like someone else that's like career in twenty years 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:26.120 in a month. Yeah, because we started off like even 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.040 back in two thousands, like we're moving a thousand kids 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:34.200 a month. They hundred kid a little month. How much 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:37.480 does that quate to in my name? We're either making 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:43.440 two and a halveen and dollars a month. And at 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:47.600 the same time we're growing into different you know cities, 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:50.560 like I told you we started hitting the road to 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:52.720 Milwaukee was one of the first places we went to. 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:58.840 You know, it's in Minnesota to Ohio. I remember like 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:04.320 sending fifty keys to Columbus and thinking, I made an 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:06.560 extra five thousands a killo on me tune and fifty 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:11.840 in twelve days. I could do that twice a month 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:18.600 just with fifty kilos. Yeah. Later on we went we 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:23.439 expanded to Washington, d C. We can make ten dollars 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:26.960 a key from one part of the country to the 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:30.320 other part of the country. So we sent a hundred kilos. 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:35.520 We're making a million dollars and we were so like 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:38.480 happy about it. But those of us who aren't in 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:42.119 the game. Key is another word for kilo. You'll hear 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:46.920 the Twins use it a lot. We're also losing all 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:49.920 the money. I always used to say, Well, one thing 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:52.840 is for sure is that I lost way more than 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:55.359 your average, your most successful jobs that has ever made. 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:59.760 I lost it. I had to pay, you know, and 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:01.159 the I said, it was a fun time to have, 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:04.919 you know, apartments downtown and you know, in cars and 0:27:05.359 --> 0:27:07.560 going out to the club and going out to eat, 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:17.600 and we had a dinner. The builty amounts like twenty dollars, right, 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:21.959 So today I see, But at that time, I was like, 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:25.159 I just didn't understand the way it looked from the outside. 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:29.119 Inn Like you stupid punk, we're spending twentys and the dinner. 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:43.040 You think it's okay, Like I see it that my 0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:45.800 brother Nad we probably easily pushed over a hundred thirty 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:53.080 hundred forty tons, since I'm not bragging tons of companion. 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.679 But understand the part where it says I saw BOS 0:27:57.640 --> 0:28:05.640 delete that ship. I want that you told my absolute 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:08.520 ground level battle. They let us to this ship through 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.639 so all the way to the top of it perstructed. 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:28.119 Business was well, let's say, booming for the Twins. But 0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:31.680 in August of two thousand and three, things began to unravel. 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:36.040 Pete quickly realized in the worst possible way that when 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:39.400 you have that kind of money, people start paying attention. 0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:46.280 I'll never forget the thing because it's such a so 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:51.440 my experience, you know, cho's built to be kidnapped, no 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:56.760 one to be sitting there in you know, titled to 0:28:56.800 --> 0:29:05.880 the chairman, surrounded by plastic thing. Really that morning that 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:09.720 was mean, say, by one of our buildings where we 0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:14.760 had our bikes, our choppers, part cycles. It was a 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:17.560 beautiful day every day it was sunny, and we're just 0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:22.400 take it right downtown. Once I get there, it was 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:26.000 like I had a coff from one of one of 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:29.120 my customers, and I'm like, let me go take care 0:29:29.120 --> 0:29:30.520 of that first. You guys go ahead. I'll meet up 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:34.800 with you later, but I'm just gonna head downtown. When 0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:37.560 I first pulled around the block, I had seen a 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:43.200 green Crown Victoria, like a cop looking car, part like 0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:47.120 around the corner of the building. That struck me as odd. 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:50.720 So when I come around the block, around the building, 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:53.560 I'm making my little around, I see a blazer seemed 0:29:53.600 --> 0:29:57.160 like like in a corner with tints like I could 0:29:57.200 --> 0:29:59.000 see like it was a perfect set up in a 0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:01.360 perfect spot where it could see the building and see 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:04.680 the rods, you know. So it struck me so weird 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:06.600