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🗓️ 21 April 2022
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During his time at DEA, Eric Kolbinsky was involved in major operations, including arresting Luis Navia from Episode 23. He began as a city cop in Durham, NC and went to the Border Patrol where his primary patrol vehicle was a horse. After joining DEA Eric worked several assignments in Colombia and across the United States, a couple of which ended up in riots. Get the inside story of some of the biggest operations at DEA.
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0:00.0 | Eric Kolbinski tells us how long it took to get Luis Naviyah to admit his true identity. |
0:17.8 | So they were threatening to cut him up and then that with the fact that I guess I've |
0:23.2 | any call back and talk to the twins or hadn't he'd already talked to him I guess or whatever, |
0:28.5 | I even convinced Luis that the twins were going to abandon us still since somebody in here to kill |
0:33.7 | us. They're not going to get us out, you know, we're done. And so then, you know, he said, okay, |
0:39.4 | you got me. How long did that take from beginning to end till he finally acquiesces? |
0:44.6 | Yeah, man, man, it's sad. I don't know, maybe 10 minutes. |
0:48.0 | Oh, wow. There you go. I think I was already here, but it's more than my persuasion that did |
0:56.3 | anything. Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
1:19.1 | They needed somebody to accompany or to go with a customs agent at Houston. He was |
1:24.6 | bringing a trigger fish in and they weren't going to let the customs guy run around Venezuela by himself. |
1:35.1 | Because a secret service used to use that a lot too. And it has nothing to do with sheep, |
1:40.0 | Trotter. It's technology. Or fish. A trigger fish is a device that's used to locate cell phones. |
1:50.1 | You pick up the signal and through triangulation, et cetera, and also it can intercept the calls. |
1:56.4 | Yeah, the modern version of those are called the stingrays, the cell rights violators. |
2:00.0 | Yeah. Yeah. And so we were sent over there to monitor that group that Luis was part of, |
2:09.5 | in particular, Ivan De La Vega, who was the main transport. He was the guy that brought |
2:17.6 | Lewis into this deal. And so we were up on, well, on Ivan. And then we got up on Lewis's cell |
2:28.6 | phone as well as a result of being up on Ivan. So where are you on the bubble net phone at, |
2:34.7 | in Venezuela or in the US? In Venezuela. No, in Venezuela. We were over there because we were, |
2:38.4 | you know, actively, you know, at one point wearing the same damn hotel as you know. |
2:44.0 | So this is back when Venezuela still got along with the United States. |
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