231: Part 2: Lew Rice – From the streets to the top – a DEA life 🔥
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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In the second part of this powerful episode of Game of Crimes, Lew Rice, a retired DEA Special Agent and senior leader, discusses his life of service, sacrifice, and what it truly means to wear the badge.
Lew takes listeners inside his distinguished DEA career, which began on the gritty streets of New York City and led to overseas assignments, major leadership roles, and ultimately becoming Special Agent in Charge in New York—the pinnacle of his lifelong dream. He explains why the spirit and energy of New York law enforcement are unmatched, forged by intensity, brotherhood, and an unwavering commitment to the mission.
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| 0:00.0 | The guy grabbed my pocket, like, kind of violently. |
| 0:03.6 | That kind of, like, pissed me off. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm saying, I'm going to give you everything. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm not fighting it because I already had my strategy in my head. |
| 0:11.0 | And as he did that, I moved back. |
| 0:14.5 | And, you know, the streets were uneven. |
| 0:17.0 | And as I'm moving back, I fell over. |
| 0:19.7 | And the guy jumped on top of me at the corner of my eye. |
| 0:23.5 | And then I could see a guy come back. And I'm describing this now, but everything happens in |
| 0:29.7 | seconds, right? So I see a guy leave, see one guy come back. I'm on the ground. His buddy's on top of me. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm trying to get my gun now from out of my waist to get a good shot at this guy. |
| 0:43.3 | And when I saw the guy come back, I said, I got a fire. |
| 0:46.4 | So I just kept firing and got this guy off me. |
| 0:50.8 | And the guy that was coming back, he ain't coming back no more. |
| 0:53.4 | He's running away. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey gang, welcome back to part two of this week's episode of Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm going to continue on with the legendary Lou Rice, retired DEA special agent who made it all the way up to the special agent charge of the New York field division, which for us back in those days was the biggest field division. |
| 1:24.9 | It probably still is, But Lou, welcome back. |
| 1:28.2 | Thank you so much for giving us your time again, brother. |
| 2:03.0 | Thank you, Murph. Good to be back with you, always. I tell you, well, man, we had a blast yesterday talking about your time in New York, and that's as far as we got in your career because you had so many cool things going on up there. You know, I didn't tell you this yesterday, but, but when I was a young guy, I, you know, I watched Serpico, I read the book. I read all the, the law enforcement books in South. I mean, I wanted to be a cop since I was like 10 years old when I had my first running with cops. And I thought, man, I got, I would love to go up and be a city officer in New York City. And now that I've been up there and gotten to meet some of the guys and there's some retired New York cops here |
| 2:07.3 | that I go have lunch with every once in a while in Orlando, and they tell me stories. I'm thinking, |
| 2:11.8 | there's no way this redneck hill or Billy would ever survive up there. No, you would have. |
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