184: Part 1 - Brent Cartwright: Undercover Cop’s Darkest Mission: Shot & Fighting for Survival

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Step inside the world of true crime, law enforcement, and survival with Murph in the Morning, the host of the Game of Crimes Podcast. In this gripping episode, Brent Cartwright, a former U.S. Army veteran and undercover narcotics officer with the Kansas City Police Department, shares his harrowing experiences working deep undercover in the most dangerous criminal operations.

From life-threatening encounters to the adrenaline-fueled world of drug busts, Brent recounts the dangers of infiltrating violent gangs and cartels, surviving multiple armed confrontations, and the mental and emotional toll of life in law enforcement. He takes us inside the moment he was shot in the line of duty, the hospital battle for survival, and his fight against PTSD and mental health stigma in high-risk professions.

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0:00.0	So when you're dealing with people that at $50 means everything to them and you're going to buy 50 bucks worth of meth,
0:06.4	that highly likelihood of them ripping you off, robbing you, setting you up just over 50 bucks.
0:12.2	You wouldn't even imagine like 60 bucks worth of weed.
0:14.4	But man, there's so much violence around weed.
0:16.4	And it's just weed that people say.
0:17.9	But we've had two homicides over weed here in Kansas City recently.
0:21.7	It was all Snapchat deals where they show up and it's like, well, it's 60 bucks.
0:25.7	Like, what can go wrong? And then they have robbing the kid and getting a struggle over the gun and getting killed.
0:47.3	Yeah. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the next episode of Game of Crimes with Murf in the morning. So glad you came back to join us again. Got an outstanding guest for you here, somebody that was introduced to by a friend, just finished
0:54.5	reading his book that hasn't come out yet.
0:57.1	We're going to tell you all about it, though.
0:59.6	And let me tell you, I'm already getting goosebumps talking about this because of what this man
1:03.0	has been through, serving his fellow man, serving his community, and serving his country.
1:07.1	Our guest today is a former U.S. Army veteran who we're going to talk a little bit about
1:13.1	that, but I'm going to tell you right now, he did so good and basic, he got an opportunity to go
1:16.5	to West Point. And what did he do? Oh, thank you. We're going to find out why. And then as if
1:23.9	the Army wasn't enough, he decided to become a police officer in Kansas City, Missouri.
1:28.8	And he had to retire before his 20 years is up. And that's the crux of our story today.
1:33.9	I want to go any further into that. I do want to say he's got a book coming out. This episode is
1:39.1	being released on February 17th. His book came out on Amazon on February 15th, two days ago. The name of the book
1:46.0	is undercover junkie. Highly, highly recommend you pick that book up. At the end of the show,
1:52.0	and you'll probably hear me talk about his book more about this as we go along because you know how I am.
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