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Best Case Worst Case

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Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Take a deep dive with a veteran DEA agent into the world of New Orleans, drug trafficking, and drug cartels.

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0:00.0

They go through all the usual stuff. They denied a canine dog, came out and alerted on the car.

0:09.6

Eventually one of the guys started to walk raiding.

0:12.8

When you said these guys agreed to do a control sale, right?

0:16.8

I've been feeling you skipped over a lot of really intense negotiations there.

0:22.0

The DEA seemed to hit houses with warrants and for the most dangerous kind of people,

0:28.4

that can be and always is a very high risk situation.

0:36.9

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worc case. This is Jim Clemente,

0:40.0

Retired FBI Profiler, former New York City prosecutor and right-of-reducer of CVS's

0:44.0

criminal minds. And with me today is...

0:46.4

Hi everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor.

0:50.4

Jim, we are still social distancing, which I suspect you are happy about socially distancing

0:56.9

for me, but we're also physically distancing in fact we're across the country.

1:00.9

Isn't it everybody, Francie? Isn't everybody?

1:03.5

No, Jim.

1:05.0

Okay, just thought I'd ask. And with us today we have a very special guest.

1:09.6

Hi, my name is James Skip Sewell, I'm CWL and I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana.

1:15.6

I'm a former police officer down in New Orleans, a former US martial in New Orleans.

1:20.9

And I spent about 27 years with a drug enforcement administration as a special agent,

1:25.1

and then as a supervisor with them I retired in 2017. And then I went to work for the

1:30.1

district attorney's here in St. Hamoney Parish as a felony major crime investigator.

1:35.4

I am completely retired now at this point.

1:37.6

Jim, you're outnumbered. Two seveners to one New Yorker.

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