Dominican Drug Lord Adam Diaz Exposes Secrets Of His Cocaine Smuggling Empire (Part 2)

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Johnny Mitchell

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In this PART 2 episode, Dominican kingpin Adam Diaz sits down for a wild, unfiltered conversation about his rise from the streets of New York to the top levels of the cocaine trade. He talks about building major operations in Brooklyn, working with powerful Colombian connections, and moving massive amounts of cocaine through mules, warehouses, and import businesses. Adam also opens up about prison, trying to go legit after getting out, why he got pulled back into the game, and how his second federal case finally brought everything down. From the Medellín-era drug world to front corporations, heroin deals, close calls with police, and losing millions in property, this is a firsthand story about ambition, power, risk, and the cost of living that life. Topics covered in this interview: -Growing up between the Dominican Republic and New York -Becoming a major cocaine supplier in NYC -Colombian cartel connections -Drug smuggling through luggage and import businesses -Life after prison and failed attempts to go legit -Heroin trafficking in the late 1990s -Federal investigations, informants, and arrest -Deportation and life today Go Support Adam! https://kingofbrooklyn.weebly.com/ Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow 00:00 Smuggling Cocaine: Early Operations 01:40 Rise in New York's Drug Trade 02:56 Adam's Background and Life in the US 05:00 Becoming a Kingpin & Building Operations 10:12 Prison, Parole, and Reentry 13:39 Getting Back Into the Game 17:52 Partnerships with Medellin Cartel 21:02 New Logistics: Miami to New York 24:33 Innovating Smuggling Tactics 27:09 Launching Shell Companies and Corporations 32:08 Securing Documents and Going International 36:54 Banana & Malanga Shipments: Sophisticated Operations 43:27 Importing and Moving Massive Loads 47:40 Warehouses, Distributors, and the Bronx Connection 51:02 Manpower and Money: Running the Smuggling Business 54:44 Handling Distribution, Losses, and Risks 01:01:29 Who Buys the Coke? Managing Customers 01:06:05 Heroin, Laptops, and Market Expansion 01:11:27 How the Feds Finally Got Adam 01:17:03 Avoiding Law Enforcement and Getting Lucky 01:26:45 Second Indictment, Sentencing, and Prison 01:35:08 Deportation and Life After Prison 01:38:13 Reflections on Life and Legacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	He says, we got a problem bringing cocaine from Miami to New York.
0:04.5	So I gave him my suggestions.
0:07.3	And it worked.
0:08.4	I built a corporation.
0:09.4	It's called Icy Garcia Corporation.
0:11.5	I had my team there that would fill up the containers with green bananas.
0:18.8	How many kilos are in a...
0:20.0	Usually, a container contains 1,200 or 1,800 boxes.
0:24.6	Out of that, 800 boxes contain cocaine.
0:27.6	Two kilos of a piece.
0:28.6	So you got about a ton and a half?
0:30.6	Yeah, but sometimes you send three containers in a day.
0:33.6	Okay, now that's four tons of cocaine.
0:36.6	Do you think you've moved 200,000 bricks
0:38.3	since you started when you were 17? Way more than that. This is Adam Diaz, the former Dominican
0:44.5	drug kingpin who ran a cocaine empire out of his Brooklyn bodegas during the 1980s. After doing a
0:50.7	short prison stretch in the feds in the early 1990s, Adam got out and went on an even bigger run.
0:56.8	This time establishing an import operation that brought in thousands of kilos a week from South America into New York City.
1:04.2	Adam reveals the complex logistics involved in smuggling cocaine bricks hidden inside of legal shipments of bananas, and how he had teams of dock workers who would unload the cargo after it arrived on the waterfront ports in New York City, specifically Hunts Point in the Bronx.
1:20.9	This is a fascinating insider look at the way that global drug trafficking operates in the modern world through legal cargo and legal
1:29.5	points of entry. This is Apex drug smuggling, with hundreds of millions of dollars going into
1:35.4	Adam's pocket. Ladies and gentlemen, part two of his saga, it's Dominican Poppy Adam Diaz,
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