Danny is the direct connection to the Tijuana cartel.

So he eventually took me over.

Sorry, my friends, these guys need to put these bags over your head.

The doors fly open and they snatch the bags off.

The old man starts to negotiate with me.

The old man's a man, my old man.

He wanted to send me, I think it was between eight to ten tons a week.

Then I started listening to more conversations about the white.

Donald Wayne Tompkins is a former drug kingpin from Detroit, Michigan.

He was raised in the slums and started working in crack houses during the boom of the 1980s.

He continued working his way up until he eventually got plugged in with Mexican cartels.

He was one of the key American distributors for the Juarez cartel and then eventually the

Sinaloa cartel. He's been on ranches in Sinaloa with Mayo Zimbada, shared drinks with Chapo,

and shaken hands with Mexican five-star generals. He eventually spent a decade in federal prison.

He's now an author and a podcaster.

Go check out his book El Primo, the Black Hand of the Sinaloa Cartel.

And for a bonus episode with Donald, where he exposes never before told secrets about Chapo,

as well as his cooperation with the DEA against Mexican politicians

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I give you Kingpin Donald Wayne Tompkins, aka El Primo, right here on The Connect with Johnny

Mitchell. They sent us like 2,500 pounds. Got rid of that in like three days. They started sending like about two to three metric tons. The lows basically came to a stop. I'm going to go to see the Lord. I'm about to cut a deal. We get in a car with Chief. Chief slammed on the brakes and grabbed my leg. They setting you up. Something's gonna come through to take you out. That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think, I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped 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.

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