So, so Gallo keeps getting closer and closer to it. And as he gets up to the road block, he tries to go around it. And it's February and you're snowing around. So he's going around it, but he's slipping a little bit. And one of the troopers standing out front just jacks the shell in the shotgun and shoots two shots in the rated and blows the rated rated.

Or rated or up in his Cadillac. So naturally he gets out when the helicopter sees the gun battle going on or what he thinks is a gun battle. We've told him to look out for surveillance. He sees this guy get out of a car. Two cars behind him with four tags on it. He's got a great big cowboy hat on. So the helicopters trying to get hold of this guy said, Hey, look out there's a guy coming up on you. And they can get hold of everyone because they're out of the car. So he actually takes the prop wash from the helicopter. Scoots the guy back in the car and shuts the door.

The car with a skid on the helicopter. And that's the way we go. That is that is next level shit, man. So they take Gallo, they drag me out of the car and stuff. And and you know, there's this whole crowd of people they're sitting watching this because they're stuck in this traffic jam. And they think that it that a. It's like a movie. It's like we're holding a movie here.

They were jumping out of the helicopter. Well, the one of the troopers that was there said that the guy that was behind him was watching all this. He goes, Oh my God. And they saw him put him in handcuffs and stuff and goes, Oh my God. He said, What did that guy do? And he's had just turned around looked at him and had big water tuned the back ends about and spit on ground. He goes, Speed and welcome to Game of Cribs.

So he said, Well, what do you need to work with? That's why I need to lose one other person. So he gave me a guy to work with name Ricky Brown. And he said, work with him. And he's what else you need? I said, I need a car that's not traceable because back in those days, all of our undercut.

Of course, if you ran the tag came back to an undercover name, but the owner was West Virginia State police. And, and, you know, wait a minute, wait a minute.

I see, I see, you know, highly trained investigator. I see a flaw in the undercover scheme.

He's changed a lot is I began to climb the ranks a little bit. A lot of things changed as far as the undercover guys went, but I told him, you know, and I said, look, if you, if you check the inspection sticker, if you look at the little sticker on the tag, any that it all comes back like the inspection sticker comes back to the inspection station zero one.

Well, you know, that's the state police inspection station in Charleston where they inspect all of the cruiser that so.

So I said, I need a clean car and he said, well, how do you do that? And I said, give me some money. I'll go out and buy one and use car dealership here. I said, you know, I don't need a sports car. I just, so anyway, he agreed to all that.

I did all that. And, and, oh, no, no, no, don't, don't bypass the car because this factor is into a story later. Tell us about the car you got.

I got a car. It's called a cordoba and a Chrysler cordoba. Tell us about the roof in the Chrysler cordoba.

Well, at one time it was probably pretty nice when it came off the assembly line, but after it sits in the, in the weather for a while, all the glue comes off of it.

And so to see out front window, you drive with one hand and you have to hold the roof off with the other. And I don't care what kind of glue you put on and I tried tape glue.

Everything I could think of, but yeah, I guess Jeff Sandy told you that story.

But anyway, he was alone. Yeah, he not only told us that story. He thought the first time he met you drove up and that thing.

He thought he was about to get robbed. He thought he was going to be rolled out at a stadium somewhere.

I don't know if he told you not. He said, well, how do I recognize it? I said, don't worry about it. I'll recognize you.

So yeah, he was too on the record exactly what he said.

Hold up. I said, hey, are you the fed? He goes, uh, yeah, I said come get in the car. So he came over, got in the car. And I remember it was hard to carry on the conversation because he was using both hands to hold up the headliner on the car.

But I can also imagine somebody calling 911, somebody calling 911. I think some guys being robbed. The one guy's driving the other guy's got his hands in the air.

But you know, nobody would ever suspect you being a trooper because a trooper wouldn't let their car get in that car. Oh, no, you know, and that's it. That's it.

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