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Game of Crimes

62: Part 2: DEA Agent Lenny Athas - From Manuel Noriega to The Boobie Boys

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 108 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

We're flying sub-tree top level and we see a blue turp, we land, we find the stash.

0:19.7

We find it.

0:20.7

So the other guys, and it's myself, the other agent, the informant, and eight cops, and

0:27.1

the helicopters will take off and leave us there.

0:29.4

We were there all night, and at about quarter to 10, one of the centuries empties a magazine

0:33.6

in his glee and then incoming, and I'm thinking, why the hell aren't you selling shoes?

0:41.4

But that was the anniversary of my party.

0:44.3

Come say goodbye to the nearly dearly departed, and it was one year later.

0:47.7

Welcome to Game of Crimes.

0:59.4

You get past the FBI, talking about the case, this guy's still talking, so continue on

1:14.1

from there.

1:15.1

You know, tell us about getting the guy.

1:16.9

We got a bunch of search warrants, and I had this one trailer that they used to talk

1:22.7

about, and I listened to it later, and I didn't catch it at the time, because I used to come

1:27.6

in, even if I wasn't working as a monitor, I'd listen to all the calls, because it was

1:31.0

my case.

1:32.0

And he says, well, you know, if you got to go in there and some eyes there, just say you

1:35.0

got to use the bathroom.

1:36.0

That didn't mean anything to me at the time, and it was a trailer.

1:38.6

So we ended up doing our search warrants, and we accumulated enough evidence.

1:43.1

We did a search warrant at the main target's house down in the state he was living in.

1:49.5

And we got a cane gun, it was a walking cane that was actually a 12 gauge shotgun.

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