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DEA Agent Reveals Truth About The World's Most Violent Gangs | Wesley Tabor Sr.

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Wesley Tabor Sr. grew up poor in a broken home, raised by a single mom who later married a convicted felon. Instead of following that path, Wesley became a cop and eventually joined the DEA, where he built a successful 23-year career fighting cartels, gangs, and drug traffickers. In this powerful interview, Wesley reveals how cartels smuggle drugs into the United States, the rise of violent gangs like MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and the Mexican Mafia, and why he believes there’s no real justice in America’s system. He also opens up about the DUI crash that nearly paralyzed him and almost ended his career, along with unbelievable stories from decades on the frontlines of the war on drugs. This is an unfiltered look into the dangerous world of organized crime, cartel trafficking, and the failures of the justice system—from someone who lived it every day. #DEA #Cartels #DrugTrafficking #MS13 #MexicanMafia #TrueCrimePodcast #TrendeAragua #organizedcrime Thank you to PRIZEPICKS for sponsoring this episode: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/IANBICK and use code IANBICK and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Connect with Wesley Tabor Sr.: https://infiltrateamerica.com/ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Use code LOCKEDIN for 20% OFF Wooooo Energy Buy Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00 Opening: Torture Methods & Dangerous Gangs 01:00 Meet Wesley Tabor: Story & DEA Career 05:00 Childhood, Poverty, and Finding Purpose 12:00 Joining Law Enforcement: Early Experiences 18:00 Family Influence & Compassion in Policing 23:00 Brush With Death: Surviving a Devastating Crash 36:00 Fighting for Justice after the Accident 48:00 Joining the DEA: Motivation & First Steps 54:00 Drug Interdiction: Highways & Big Seizures 01:03:00 DEA Operations Inside and Outside the U.S. 01:16:00 How Drugs Are Smuggled: Boats, Logistics, and Cartels 01:34:00 From Border to Heartland: Drug Distribution Networks 01:43:00 Corruption in Law Enforcement: Inside Stories 02:01:00 Gang Proliferation & MS-13, Mexican Mafia, & Prisons 02:09:00 Evolution and Tracking of Gangs in America 02:17:00 Modern Gangs, Human Trafficking, and the Border 02:21:00 Struggles, Politics, and Bureaucracy in the Job 02:32:00 High-Stress Ops, Retirement, and Adjusting to Normal Life 02:38:00 Reflections: Career Lessons and Closing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Cs apply. Exclus vehicles. The way they torture you in Venezuela is a little bit unique other parts of the world. They'll tie you up and they'll expixiate you with a bag. And then when you go to breathe, they spray bug spray in the bag. So you're breathing the bug spray and then they exfixiate you again and they'll do that for days.

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Who do you think is the most dangerous?

1:45.0

I would say probably Mexican mafia.

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What's the number one method that the bug spray and then they exphyxiate you again and they'll do that for days. Who do you think is the most dangerous?

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I would say probably Mexican mafia.

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What's the number one method that drugs are getting into the country?

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Wesley Tabor Sr. grew up poor, raised by a single mom who later married a convicted felon.

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Instead of following that path, Wesley became a cop and then joined the DEA,

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where he built a 23-year career taking on some of the most dangerous gangs and cartels in the world.

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Along the way, a devastating DUI crash nearly left him paralyzed and almost ended his career.

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