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The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Cartel Smuggler Speaks On Trafficking TONS, Surviving BRUTAL Mexican Prison

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3563 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Johnny interviews JC of the  @wrongtostrong  network on YouTube about growing up as a gangbanger in Chicago, trafficking pot for a Mexican Cartel and spending 4 years in a brutal Mexican prison, getting released and starting his own interstate pot empire, serving time in the Feds in America, and finally-- changing his life and becoming a legitimate businessman. Subscribe to JC's page! https://www.youtube.com/@UC-oR-qYEcpN1LocXRm0dHSQ FB: https://www.facebook.com/wrongtostrong Support our sponsors! manscaped.com/products/performance-package PROMO CODE: CONNECT hellomood.co PROMO CODE: CONNECT20, CONNECTFREE Support the Patreon: patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Welcome back to The Connect. My name is Johnny Mitchell, and today's guest is a man who

0:05.0

goes by J.C. You might have seen his YouTube channel wrong to strong. This guy's a former gangbanger

0:11.3

from the streets of Southside Chicago. He sends me to 26th Street, you know, a little village,

0:16.0

just a gang infested area, but I rolled with all the older guys because I was willing to get my hands dirty.

0:22.6

His family is from Mexico and when he was a teenager, he became a drug runner and a pot smuggler for a Mexican cartel.

0:30.6

La Familia Michoacan, this is back in the early 90s.

0:33.6

The first trip, they made me check into the hotel in downtown Apatzingan and I couldn't

0:40.3

leave.

0:41.3

You know, I had to stay there until the car was ready.

0:44.3

It was like a dream come true because like I started seeing all the trucks with rims and sounds

0:49.3

and you could tell it was like narco world.

0:52.3

Eventually he got caught and ended up spending four years in a brutal Mexican prison

0:58.0

before getting released and transferred to the U.S.

1:01.0

I got stabbed on the first day.

1:02.0

I walked in, I had, you know, I looked at an American.

1:05.0

I had Jordan outfit on.

1:07.0

They seen that I was American.

1:08.0

They asked me for my shoes.

1:09.0

I still thought I was tough. They stabbed me for my shoes. I still thought I was tough.

1:11.7

They stabbed me, took my shoes.

1:13.6

He went back and forth to prison. He made millions of dollars trafficking Mexican pot for the

1:19.3

cartel all over the country. This guy made me look like a nickel and dimer.

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