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Game of Crimes

139: Part 2: Jeffrey James Higgins and DEA Tales from Afghanistan

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Higgins has attracted action wherever he has worked, from being involved in a shooting during training as a deputy sheriff in Hillsboro County, Florida, to opening up the first DEA office in Afghanistan to tackling a suicide bomber. He had so many stories that we decided to make this a four-part series.

Jeff is also an accomplished author. His latest book, The Forever Game, is available everywhere you buy books. Check out his website here. And if you happen to be in Alexandria, Virginia, make sure to stop by Elaine’s Restaurant.

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Well tell everybody a lot of people we know what it is tell everybody who

0:14.0

OPR is and why that is such an important set of acronyms so it's the office of

0:18.4

professional responsibility it's basically DEA's federal internal affairs unit, right?

0:23.4

So I'm down there with the DEA stuff on,

0:26.3

in violation, doing trying to help,

0:29.0

but so is this guy, by the way, right?

0:31.0

So he's a investigator.

0:32.0

So he looks at me and I look at him and there's just this moment between

0:34.7

us and he looks at me and says, you didn't see me and I didn't see you.

0:38.9

There you go. You know, and we both go're and we're again carrying body parts out of the

0:43.9

rubble but that's who DA hires you know just people who who want to do the right thing and I mean

0:50.9

law enforcement around the countries like that to us and it wasn't just

0:54.4

law enforcement by the way like over those days when we were digging there were

0:57.8

lines of people like like electricians and contractors and people who threw

1:02.3

their tools in their truck and drove from all over people from Ohio people from the middle of the country

1:07.2

drove to the world trade center to help I mean is the most touching thing I ever saw I talked about

1:11.6

hundreds of people lined up waiting to

1:13.6

get into the site just to try to help. And this was a nasty site, right? I mean there's

1:17.5

their heavy metals in the air and I mean it was nasty and I'm and the people came to help

1:22.2

because that's what Americans do.

1:24.0

Yep.

1:25.0

Did you develop any long-term effects out of that?

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