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158: Part 2: Tom Golden - US Secret Service to DEA Special Agent, and more...

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Murph interviews his old friend and colleague, Tom Golden. The briefly talk about Tommy’s time in the Uniform Division of the US Secret Service, and his transition to becoming a DEA Special Agent. Tom and Murph worked together as young Agents in Miami in the late 1980s, and they have some great adventures together, especially the one when Tom and another agent hid in the FL Everglades for hours waiting for a clandestine load of 400 kilograms of cocaine to arrive. After 30 years of being a federal Agent, Tom continued his public service as a Police Chief, a Municipal Court Judge, and now a member of the Civil Service Commission.

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0:00.0

You're going to. Yeah, so we were just getting ready to tell me about an old informant. We won't mention his name here, but remember he was from LA.A. Lower Alabama. Right, right, right. You guys, you

0:26.8

stacked them up though, man. I mean you had us hustling there for a couple of months

0:31.4

with that guy. You're going to give credit to Kenny Peterson because I was working with him at that time and like I said nobody

0:37.3

wanted to work with Kenny but man he had he had the this is a guy that he put jail for years ago for moving quiludes across the border from Mexico in the United States

0:47.8

Oh, no kidding. Yeah, and I told him I said so kitty how did you get this And he said, I told him when you're out of prison and you're off probation, if you want to work, call me.

0:58.0

Wow! We hold this guy did. He was a Crop Duster pilot down in Lower Alabama, knew he could make money as informant.

1:05.2

He had a, he only, he had his crop dusting business, so that's a special plane that does that,

1:10.1

but he had a twin engine.

1:12.1

I can't remember what kind of plane it was.

1:16.0

Wow.

1:18.0

Yeah, he pulled all the seats out.

1:20.0

We invested in bladder tanks to hold extra fuel.

1:23.4

If you remember, he was doing all those,

1:25.6

the undercover meetings at the hotels.

1:28.0

I remember.

1:29.0

He was rolling.

1:31.6

He was fronting himself out there. But do you remember when he was rolling he was fronting his self out there but do you remember when he would leave the hotel and and Kevin O'Brien went to pay the bill that time what happened?

1:40.0

No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't So what this guy did is he took all the little mini liquor bottles out of the refrigerator

1:47.7

in a hotel room.

1:48.7

He took him and put on his plane.

1:50.9

And so when Kevin got there to pay his bill because the

1:53.4

informants long gone, he got stuck with like a $700 bill. So we eventually got that

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