223: Part 2: Dutch McAlpin – Inside the Cartels – Undercover survival

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Murph continues with undercover expert Dutch McAlpin to pull back the curtain on one of the most dangerous jobs in law enforcement—going undercover inside violent criminal networks. Dutch shares raw, unfiltered stories from high-risk operations, including tense encounters with cartels, organized crime groups, and traffickers who wouldn’t hesitate to kill an undercover agent caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Steve and Dutch dive deep into the mindset and adaptability required to survive undercover work, emphasizing why integrity is the foundation of public trust and why every operation—big or small—carries massive stakes. They discuss the personal costs of a law-enforcement life, the strain on families, and the quiet battles that don’t make headlines.

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0:00.0	As soon as I walk in, I hear it click.
0:01.6	They locked it.
0:02.3	I was like, gosh, man, I ain't getting out of here.
0:04.0	This don't look good.
0:04.9	You know, I've got a guy behind me with the door locked.
0:06.6	I got a guy standing over here.
0:08.0	I can see the carotid artery's neck beat and bounces, boom, boom, boom.
0:11.1	And I'm like, oh, and on the table, there's a Tupperware container with a red lid and there's shards of crystal meth.
0:17.5	I'm not kidding.
0:18.0	They're nine, ten inches long.
0:20.2	And they're bigger round as my wrist.
0:21.7	They're massive.
0:22.5	That's the best dope I'm not kidding. They're nine, 10 inches long. And they're big around as my wrist. They're massive. I've, that's the best dope I ever seen.
0:20.9	Hey, look at you guys.
0:39.2	You came back for part two this week, didn't you? Because you want to hear more stories coming out of Nebraska.
0:41.2	From our guest this week is Dutch McAlpin, 20 plus years in law enforcement.
0:45.5	And by the way, welcome back to the Game of Crimes.
0:51.2	I guess I mentioned it started with that. But I think you know where you are. I am honored that you come back on these shows. And today is going to be much better than yesterday because we were just getting started. So Dutch is now, he's still in the National Guard. He's been a deputy sheriff. He started out of his jail and he becomes a deputy sheriff.
0:52.7	And now he's with the city police department, which is a suburb of Omaha.
1:11.8	So you're talking, I think, 100, 100, 10-man department plus the metro city task forces you talked a little about yesterday.
1:15.4	And then I think there's this thing called federal task forces, right?
1:23.1	But before we touch on that, how did you decide that you wanted to try undercover?
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