62: Part 1: DEA Agent Lenny Athas - From Manuel Noriega to The Boobie Boys
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Lenny Athas started his law enforcement career as a Maryland State Trooper. One call changed his direction which led him to the DEA. Lenny followed the money trail for Manuel Noriega after he had been removed from power, going to far-away countries in search of his illicit cash. Another case in Miami led to the arrest of several members of The Boobie Boys, a gang so violent that when they were arrested the murder rate in Miami Dade dropped.
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| 0:00.0 | When did the narcotics bug hit? When did you decide I like working dope? Probably the real |
| 0:18.1 | kicker was and I won't go into any names or too much detail. But there was a couple |
| 0:24.9 | days that worked in one of the courts that I frequented and they were really nice. |
| 0:27.8 | There were clerks and stuff and they were related. And one day I was there, I had a case and I was |
| 0:33.4 | waiting for the proceedings to begin. And one lady got a phone call from one of her children |
| 0:40.1 | said, couldn't wake up the other child. So they asked me if I could give her a ride and I said, |
| 0:44.4 | well, to whom she didn't have a car. I said, well, certainly as long as the judge let's, |
| 0:48.9 | you know, it says it's okay. So I want to see the judge. He said, yeah. So we get in the car. |
| 0:52.4 | And I'm not thinking anything. This child was 15 or 16, I guess. And on the way up, |
| 1:00.3 | this clerk asked me, well, is there any type of drug that could cause this? Of course I had to say, |
| 1:06.3 | yeah. Well, I think my, my child's using drugs. So I called for an ambulance to meet us there. |
| 1:12.5 | And it was, and then we went code three, license iron. And we got there and an ambulance crew |
| 1:16.9 | was standing on the porch and with very somber looks on her face. Make a long story short, |
| 1:23.2 | I took her home, find her daughter dead from a drug overdose. Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:47.3 | You know, it is, it is amazing, Steve, that I'm sitting up straight for this podcast, |
| 1:56.3 | because it, we, you know, we said we're going to talk about it. We'll get into it in a minute |
| 2:00.6 | about travel, hell schedule, you know, and flights being canceled. But in the meantime, |
| 2:04.7 | we are excited to be back. This is going to be episode 62 of the greatest podcast show on Earth, |
| 2:11.0 | Game of Crimes. I am Morgan Wright. I am your host, the host with the most hair, obviously. |
| 2:16.2 | Literally here with my partner in crime. Hey, it's Murf, everybody. Welcome back. Thanks for joining |
| 2:21.5 | us. Welcome, welcome, welcome back. Hey, guys, and I got to tell you to just keep the reviews |
| 2:26.2 | coming in. Steve and I will tell you our episode with Natasha is the comments are just snowballing. |
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