A Truck Driver Reveals How He Trafficked BILLIONS In Drugs Across North America | The Connect

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

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🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Rich Laferrere was a simple dispatcher and driver for a transportation company in a small Connecticut town. Before too long he found himself putting those skills to use smuggling pot all across the eastern seaboard. This new found business eventually scaled to the point of having connects across the country and eventually landing him in the spot as the top logistics person in the US for the most notorious crime family in Canada. He was making millions, powerful and respected...until one day it all came crashing down and he was face to face with the federal government. Today he consults with the DEA and lives a prosperous life running his own business, a far cry from his days as a smuggling kingpin! Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mc4qAxpztC6D20wzeS91C Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The first place we go to is a cartel house.
0:03.8	We pull in, immediately behind me, a car pulls in and blocks us in.
0:09.8	I've probably got 40 plus thousand on me in my front pocket.
0:13.7	And things aren't going well now.
0:15.4	One guy brushes up against me, and another guy goes over to the girls and tells them to get out.
0:20.4	That's when I knew.
0:21.7	What's up, guys?
0:22.3	On today's episode, we have a man named Rich the Transporter.
0:25.5	He's one of the biggest smugglers we've ever talked to on this show.
0:29.1	He trafficked untold amounts in a 20-year run.
0:32.9	He started off as a small-time dealer from rural Connecticut and worked his way up to eventually become the exclusive
0:38.9	distributor and logistics person for the Montreal Mafia. He was the number one guy in the U.S.
0:47.1	for the biggest Canadian mafia. His stories are wild. He's now fully legit. He runs a successful
0:53.3	legal transportation company,
0:56.0	and he consults with the DEA. If you want to hear about his almost decade of informing,
1:01.9	go over to the Patreon. Patreon.com slash The Connect show. This episode will blow your mind.
1:08.5	Let's get into it. You've got Rich the Transporter right here on the
1:11.8	Connect with Johnny Mitchell. Now I am in charge of receiving everything coming in, collecting all
1:17.3	the money, storing it, separating it, banking it, distributing it. I'm the transporter.
1:22.9	That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was
1:27.2	driving like my life depended on. And then I parked the car, popped start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving
1:27.7	like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, hopped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank, it's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive. Rich.
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