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Game of Crimes

38: Part 1: Jimmy Capra - 21 Tons of Cocaine and 12 Million in Cash

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Capra was a relatively new DEA agent when he caught the case of a lifetime. At first some of the other agents in his office didn’t believe him on the size and scope of the drug trafficking organization he was working. But Jimmy kept working it. He reached out to his law enforcement partners in Los Angeles County and put together a team of officers who tracked every lead, conducted hours upon hours of surveillance, and searched thousands of records for the one clue to break things wide open. It paid off. They got 21 tons of cocaine and 12 million in cash from an organization linked to the Cali and Medellin cartels. This was the largest seizure of cocaine in US history at the time. 





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0:00.0

Jimmy Capra talks about an early crisis of confidence he had.

0:17.0

Next thing I get a call from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, and they said, hey,

0:20.8

we're de-conflict and looks like we're targeting the same guy.

0:24.8

We'll come and meet you.

0:26.4

So now I'm like, okay.

0:27.9

So I meet this sergeant, and then forget sergeant Ed Huffman.

0:32.1

I'd wind up being one of my close friends who lost them to cancer a few years ago.

0:36.4

And we're sitting out there, and I tell him, I see him, I said, well, sergeant, I said,

0:40.0

this is, and I am like, I feel like I'm back in a military.

0:43.0

This is what I got.

0:44.0

This is what I have.

0:45.0

This is this, that, the other thing.

0:46.0

And he's asking me a million questions, um, um, this is exactly-

0:49.5

Yeah, an open book.

0:50.5

You're an open book.

0:51.5

I'm just everything.

0:52.8

And then he had, and he was such a, he was such a phenomenal guy, a great mentor, uh,

1:00.8

you know, he looks at me and he asked me a few more questions.

1:04.1

And I remember looking at him and said, sorry, can I tell you something?

1:06.2

He just looks at me.

1:07.2

Yeah, Jimmy, what's up?

1:08.2

I go, and I said, this is exactly what I said.

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