Career Ending Shot to Face - California Parole Agent
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Happy 4th of July everyone!! Since this is a very busy holiday week I decided to post an interview I did way back in 2018. I worked side by side with Miguel and finally got the courage to ask him to be a guest on the podcast I had just started. He was more than happy to do it and his episode became one of the most popular episodes for the podcast. I hope you enjoy it! God bless you guys and God bless America!
In this episode Steve talks to retired State Parole Agent Miguel Lopez. Miguel started his career in the jails and ended up on the fugitive apprehension team. Miguel has had some intense experiences including being shot in the face while searching for a bad guy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Things Police See, first-hand accounts with your host, Steve Gold. |
| 0:09.4 | Hey guys, welcome to episode number three. In this episode, I interview retired California parole agent McGill Lopez. |
| 0:17.5 | McGill went from state prison guard to parole agent to ending up on a fugitive apprehension team for the state. |
| 0:24.6 | Some great stories. Very interesting interview. I learned a lot during this interview. I didn't know |
| 0:29.2 | too much about this branch of law enforcement. Very cool stuff. I think you guys are going to really |
| 0:34.1 | love it. I want to say thank you to everybody who's been listening to the podcast and downloading and everybody who left a rating and a review. That's a huge help. |
| 0:41.4 | If you haven't done that and you enjoy the podcast, please go ahead and subscribe, rate and then leave a |
| 0:47.1 | written review. That is so awesome. If you can do that, really appreciate it, if you're a law |
| 0:51.3 | enforcement officer and you want to get a hold of the podcast or you want to get a hold of me and maybe even come on the show or if you just have some |
| 0:57.1 | comments or anything you want to add or anybody really, you don't have to be in law enforcement. |
| 1:01.6 | You can, anybody can write to this email and ask me a question. It's things police see at |
| 1:07.6 | gmail.com. So that's things police see at gmail.com. Go that's Things PoliceC at Gmail.com. |
| 1:11.7 | Go ahead and write to me there. |
| 1:13.7 | Without further ado, here's my interview with retired parole agent, Miguel Lopez. |
| 1:18.8 | How you doing, Miguel? |
| 1:20.3 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:22.2 | Excellent. |
| 1:22.8 | You work for the state for how long? |
| 1:26.1 | I see, 02 to about 15, it's about 15, 2015. So yeah, 13 years. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm excited for this interview because I don't have so much knowledge about what goes on with parole. |
| 1:38.8 | I know I worked with them a little bit back in Massachusetts when I was a cop there. |
| 1:43.0 | And you were part of a team that I got to see the Massachusetts counterpart in action. |
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