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Best Case Worst Case

152 | An Accidental Drug Mule part 2

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of Tim Clemente's story of how a school teaching geologist became the go-to mule for South American drug cartels

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0:00.0

They didn't want to have the responsibility of having a guy like him out free.

0:08.8

I thought he was going to run away and do bad things again.

0:11.0

One assumes the FBI isn't all that eager to hand over a half a million dollars to a drug dealer.

0:17.5

So he came to the airport, who was in his carry-on, and as he's walking through the airport,

0:23.9

here comes a cop with a canine and he is sweating bullets.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worst Case.

0:38.9

This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler former Neo-City prosecutor and writer producer

0:43.5

on CBS's Criminal Minds. With me today in the studio is...

0:46.5

Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor Jim.

0:49.7

We're back. We're still in the studio together.

0:52.1

And we once again have wrangled one of our favorite guests back into the studio and he is...

0:58.6

Tim Clemente. Tim Clemente. We're so happy and let me tell you Tim,

1:02.8

dropping half of an episode with you in it has generated nearly a revolt

1:09.4

among StarFans online, yes.

1:11.3

Well, we had a tight timetable the other day and hopefully we have enough time today to finish the story.

1:15.6

I hope so.

1:16.5

Well, we were in the midst of talking about a crazy guy who somehow fell into, I don't know,

1:23.1

the hands of cartel leaders and Central American warlords and so forth.

1:28.9

And so where were we?

1:31.0

Well, we were talking about Ronald Eugene Jackson, aka Ron Jackson,

1:35.6

and Ron was getting out of prison and finishing up his halfway house time and the Department

1:41.9

of Probation, Pearl and Atlanta refused to allow him to cooperate with the FBI.

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