147: Judy Tyler and Jack Saltarelli – Meth Lab Fugitive
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
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🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Judy Tyler reviews her hunt for fugitive Jack Saltarelli, who was fleeing a 20-year sentence for distribution of methamphetamine in Mississippi and his subsequent cooperation in her taking down a farmhouse meth lab in the Pocono mountains. The drug raid resulted in the arrest of nine individuals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 147 of FBI Retired Case Follow Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by |
| 0:14.8 | true crime FBI cases. Today we get to speak to retired agent Judy Tyler who |
| 0:21.7 | served with the FBI for 31 years. |
| 0:25.0 | In this episode, she reviews her hunt for fugitive Jack Saltarelli, who was fleeing a 20-year |
| 0:32.0 | sentence for distribution of methamphetamine in Mississippi, and she talks about his subsequent cooperation in the takedown of a farmhouse meth lab in the Pocono Mountains |
| 0:45.2 | resulting in the arrest of nine individuals. We also get to speak to, yes, Jack |
| 0:52.3 | Saltorelli and And he talks openly about selling meth in |
| 0:57.0 | Mississippi and getting that 20-year sentence. He talks about several attempted |
| 1:02.4 | hits on his life and his need to take care of his son. |
| 1:07.0 | All of those things added up to him wanting to cooperate with Judy and the FBI in the take down of a criminal enterprise |
| 1:17.5 | operating meth labs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. |
| 1:22.3 | Jack is writing his memoir and I'm telling you he has lots of |
| 1:26.8 | stories to tell. He talks a little bit about his hard-knock life in |
| 1:32.4 | Philadelphia where he started running away from home at |
| 1:35.2 | eight years old. |
| 1:36.6 | He talks about the significant time he spent in prison at Holmesburg, |
| 1:41.2 | Louisburg, and Tara Hote in Indiana. However, his story has a happy ending and he shares |
| 1:50.0 | the 28 years that he has been ironically chasing criminals around the country as a bail recovery agent and bounty hunter. |
| 1:59.2 | This is an interview with two amazing people and I can't wait for you to hear it. Just a few |
| 2:05.1 | quick things before we get to the interview. First of all this is my last |
| 2:09.9 | podcast episode for the year. I'll be back on January 10th with a whole new |
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