#157. British Army Boss To Cocaine Kingpin - Rich Jones

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

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5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Rich Jones is a man whose life journey took him from the structured discipline of the army to the perilous world of the drug trade.

Rich reveals the events that led him down a path of crime and how he used his skill set to evade police while distributing drugs. We delve into the choices, circumstances, and challenges that shaped Richard's life, as he talks us through his transformation from the battlefield to the drug underworld.

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0:00.0	The trap of drugs is not other people keeping it, you keep it and you keep yourself in it.
0:05.0	Yourself by your own greed.
0:07.0	How did you go from the army to become a drug kingpin?
0:12.0	As I started seeing the world was changing.
0:15.0	When I went to Army in 88, the rave scene was really just bubbling up at that stage.
0:19.0	I was given a pill. Yeah.
0:22.3	That changed my life completely.
0:25.5	And I think I got sucked into it.
0:27.3	One of the guys were going to sort the pills out.
0:30.8	So I was then going from doing a thousand bills up to maybe four or five thousand pills a week.
0:33.2	So I then started to look at expanding the business.
0:37.8	At the time, there was an arrest went off, which meant I lost four kilos of cocaine,
0:38.6	which was on tick.
0:40.3	And that was on tick.
0:41.7	That was on tick, yeah.
0:43.8	And he said, oh, we've got away, you can bring it,
0:44.6	you can pay it off.
0:45.2	And so what's that?
0:46.4	Do you want to start bringing it over?
0:47.8	I don't like working with these people.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:48.7	These are erratic.
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