Episode 160: Warren Flagg – Pet Cemetery Scam
FBI Retired Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Warren Flagg reviews a pet cemetery scam he investigated where burial grounds containing up to 250,000 carcasses of deceased dogs and cats were discovered in the woods behind a pet memorial park. The subjects, a father and son, were convicted of mail fraud based on the premiums they collected to individually bury or cremate pets when they instead dumped them into mass cremations and burials.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 160 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the |
| 0:16.6 | FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. |
| 0:24.9 | Today we get to speak to retired agent Warren Flag, who served in the FBI as an agent for |
| 0:31.9 | 22 years and an additional five years as a fingerprint clerk and as a FBI |
| 0:39.8 | headquarters tour guide. During his agent career, Warren worked primarily white-collar crime cases in the New York Division. In this episode, he reviews a Pet Cemetery scam where burial grounds containing up to 250,000 carcasses of dead dogs and cats |
| 1:00.9 | were discovered in the woods behind a pet memorial park. |
| 1:05.0 | The subjects, a father and son, were convicted of male fraud based on the fact that |
| 1:11.0 | they collected premiums to individually bury and |
| 1:15.2 | cremate pets to the outrage of pet owners all around the world. |
| 1:21.5 | It was learned that the pets were instead tossed into mass |
| 1:26.1 | cremations and mass burials following his retirement Warren formed |
| 1:32.4 | Flagman, Inc. a private investigative and film consulting firm. |
| 1:37.0 | Over the past 20 years, he has worked as a technical advisor on TV shows and in films with actors such as Woody |
| 1:46.8 | Harrelson and with writers such as the writers for the Showtime series |
| 1:51.6 | Sleep or Cell. |
| 1:53.0 | Warren can be contacted via his website, Flagman Inc. |
| 1:58.0 | Now this really was an unbelievable case. |
| 2:03.0 | Warren and I as pet owners are not going to go into any gory details so you don't have to be afraid of that. |
| 2:10.0 | We actually had a few laughs during the case review. But before we get to the |
| 2:15.0 | interview, just have a couple of things I want to say. First of all, I have |
| 2:19.4 | finally put a shop on my website. so if you're interested in getting any FBI retired case |
| 2:27.0 | file review swag such as buttons and stickers especially with that new eavesdrop on the FBI logo, they're now available for you to purchase. |
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