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216: Pt 3: Owen Hanson – Cartel smuggling to prison to redemption, a true miracle!!

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Owen Hansen's incredible life story is one of ambition, downfall, and redemption. Once a successful entrepreneur, Owen’s pursuit of wealth and status led him into the dangerous world of drug smuggling, cartel debt, and international money laundering.

Owen reveals the innovative methods he used to smuggle cocaine, the high-stakes risks of laundering money, and the moment his empire began to collapse. His brutal honesty about the arrest that changed his life gives listeners a raw, unfiltered look into the devastating consequences of living on the wrong side of the law.

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0:00.0

Everyone thought I got busted for this drugs, and they're like, okay, he got taken down for this drug

0:04.6

operation. It was on the golf course. I had just arranged a five-kilo deal because Al Wilson said,

0:10.1

hey, we would like to start sending some product to Australia. Can you drop off some kilos?

0:15.4

That was that buy they needed. They wanted to show the drugs. So I fell for it. Did I fall for it? Listen, I was already

0:22.5

knee-deep. I said, yeah, we can get whatever you want. I had one of my workers drop off five

0:26.8

kilos in San Diego. It was all under surveillance. And I knew it was off. Something felt off. The deal

0:32.8

went too smoothly. You know, the cash was given. They said, do you want to piggyback on our load? We'll allow you to put a couple kilos on and we'll send some to Australia because we know you're doing that. So the whole thing, like, how do they put this all together? They knew. I knew. Whether I wanted to admit it or not back then, I was seeing myself in that, that six by eight cell, I knew these guys knew all along. And I knew, like, this this was it I was just playing the game and I was ready to just get out of that life

0:57.9

Hey guys welcome back. You know I don't do this to you very often,

1:15.6

but that's how good this story is. It's the part three interview of Owen Hansen,

1:20.8

former member of the USC National, two national championship football teams, went to college on a soccer scholarship, became an

1:29.3

entrepreneur and a business that I fought against for most of my life.

1:32.7

Volleyball scholarship.

1:33.5

What did I say?

1:35.0

You said soccer.

1:36.2

Sorry.

1:37.3

I meant to say volleyball because all my kids played soccer, but it was a volleyball scholarship here.

1:43.9

If you've listened to the two parts, if you haven't listened to the two parts, please go back and listen to those because what we're getting ready to talk about is not going to make a whole lot of sense.

1:51.3

But we've got this young man.

1:53.4

He's been doing business here in the United States.

1:56.0

He's been doing business in Mexico.

1:57.9

He's been doing business in Costa Rica, in Australia, other countries of the world,

2:03.0

all over the United States. And where we are now, he is in debt $4 million to a Mexican

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