Juanico was very good for me after I was shot. I was there for three years. Once I was officially released back on full duty, I requested to be transferred back to Miami and to a drug squad. All the undercover work that I did was, it wasn't public knowledge. And I did that for 15 years, you know, and I got to be very good at it. You talked about my injury. What a perfect cover.

My arm at the time, you know, my injury was stressed,

was all bent and swollen and gnarly,

and I couldn't bend my fingers into a fist.

So whenever I went to meet people,

I mean, they looked at this guy,

I said, oh, who is this guy with this claw hand?

Welcome to episode 394 of FBI case file review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog,

and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today, we get to speak to once again

retired agent Ed Morales, who served in the FBI for 25 years. In this episode, he reviews several true stories from his 15-plus years

of undercover work using the alias Lalo. Ed recounts his assignments posing as a notorious drug trafficker,

transporter, and money laundering in Miami, El Paso,

Tucson, and other areas along the southwest border between Mexico and the U.S.

Ed, aka Lalo, managed several warehouses in Miami and expanded to operate a transportation business and later

a trucking company. The quantity of drugs he reportedly moved made him highly sought after by the

cartels and law enforcement. Ed and his wife, Liz Morales, who is also a retired FBI agent, are the authors of Lalo,

undercover tales of money, drugs, and lies, a book based on the many true stories about Ed's

undercover adventures. During his career, Ed Morales gained experience as a street agent, supervisor, and manager

in a wide range of investigative and administrative areas, as well as extensive work as a

primary undercover agent in scores of high-level and high-risk narcotics, criminal, and national

security investigations.

...