234: Part 1: Untold Stories of Fighting Cartels & Crime with Sheriff Mark Lamb

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Murph sits down with one of America's most recognized law enforcement figures, retired Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb. Go behind the badge as he reveals the gritty reality of policing, his personal journey from business to the front lines of crime, and the untold stories of taking down criminals.

Mark and Murph dive deep into border crime, the psychology of policing, and how Mark balanced raising five children wile fighting a war on crime.

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0:00.0	I remember the first hot tone I ever heard was a call where a dad had found a 20-year-old
0:05.8	with 14-year-old daughter.
0:07.2	We zip over to the house.
0:08.8	The dad had kid had got into a fight and the guy runs out the back.
0:12.2	So we are now searching for the guy.
0:14.0	I'm out there armed with a flashlight and courage walking around in the desert.
0:17.5	I see an old abandoned travel trailer.
0:20.2	Inside of it was a bunch of trash and
0:22.3	debris. And I look inside and amongst all that trash and debris, I see what I think is a quarter
0:28.2	size of skin. And so they go in there and they move all the stuff and sure enough, he's there. And they
0:33.4	grab him. They tase him. They put him in cuffs. And I went home that morning and I woke my
0:37.7	wife up and I said, honey, I'm going to be a cop. I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now
0:44.1	host of the Game of Crimes podcast. If you've seen the Netflix series Narcos, then you know my story.
0:50.8	I now bring you stories of heroism and bravery from our law enforcement and military heroes and occasionally from the criminals that they faced.
1:00.0	Welcome to Game of Crimes.
1:14.4	Hello, everybody.
1:18.0	Welcome back to this week's episode of Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning.
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