meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Game of Crimes

164: Part 2: Matt Addington – From college soccer star to adventurous DEA agent to successful corporate executive

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Murph brings in his old friend Matt Addington, a retired DEA agent who was a college soccer star.  They share humorous and outrageous stories, and highlight the challenges and dangers faced by law enforcement, the importance of teamwork, and the impact of DEA's operations on drug cartels worldwide.  Matt discusses his DEA career in multiple locations, including south FL, Op. Snow Cap, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, other locales, and with the CIA.  Going into his life-after-DEA, Matt offers valuable advice for those in government service transitioning into the corporate world, along with the importance of adaptability, continuous learning, and the value of experience gained in government service. 

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

All right, we're back. And we got Matt has finished solving all the drug problems in

0:19.0

Bolivia and Peru and Central America. I mean, you're just out there kicking

0:21.9

ass and taking names, weren't your brother?

0:23.3

Trying.

0:25.3

Sometimes.

0:26.3

It's just so exciting but next up you decide that well that's not enough so I think I'll go live

0:32.1

in the overseas environment right?

0:34.0

I was excited to get to Bogota I really wanted to go to Bogota and I was blessed again in my career to get that assignment and of course you go in there and there's

0:45.1

teams there's rivalries going on which I thought was kind of funny which I'm

0:48.6

sure you were aware of you had the Mediene group and you had the Calli group and now things had shifted when I come in they had shifted from your time right and your

0:58.4

Incredible success of getting Pablo and all of that and now it's on to the Cali cartel.

1:05.0

So the remnants of the Medell investigations, they're still ongoing, right?

1:10.1

There's just because you're killing Pablo was one of the greatest events in our history of DEA, the investigations don't stop.

1:17.1

Right, right? So there's the Medi-In group still cleaning up and then we come in and Chris Feistel and Dave Mitchell had be and Jerry Salome and Tim

1:26.5

Ormick just an array of just incredible people that studs who had all been there, you know, and I came in and so we were in the

1:35.8

process now. I step in and here we are we're trying to hunt down the

1:39.0

communications director of the Cali cartel. There's still major Cali cartel players to be grabbed and stuff. And so we're going back and forth from Cali. We're going on on Sunday. We're flying out and then we're staying until Thursday or Friday

1:52.8

and then flying back in the weekend, Friday, Saturday,

1:55.4

Sunday, back in Bogota.

1:57.5

So because we couldn't, when I first got there,

1:59.6

we couldn't stay there.

2:00.4

There was still way too much heat

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Game of Crimes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Game of Crimes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.