Episode 80: DEA Agent + Supervisor Leonardo Silva

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Jeff is joined today by DEA Agent Leo Silva. For nearly 20 years, Leo worked on the Southern border in Texas building cases and ultimately arresting some of the most powerful cartel syndicates in Mexican history. He told the story of his career eventually becoming a supervisor in Monterrey Mexico and together we discussed the Gulf Cartel and subsequently the violent reign of terror of Los Zetas all the way to his retirement in 2015. Follow Leo on Twitter @@LXSilva1 We hope you enjoy the show, please leave us a deserving rating and review! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE and please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @sitdowncrimepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a crime history podcast presented by MoreSchoolSports.
0:17.6	Here's your host, Jeff Nadu.
0:22.1	What's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of the Sit Down, a crime history
0:27.2	podcast.
0:28.2	I'm your host, Jeff Nadu and as always, we are presented by bar stool sports.
0:33.5	As always, make sure you go, give us a follow on Twitter, at Sit Down, crime pod, check
0:38.4	us out on YouTube as well, just by searching the Sit Down, a crime history podcast.
0:42.3	We are back with another great episode and you know what we do here.
0:47.0	We never go into full length intros.
0:49.6	We just get right in to the subject at hand.
0:52.6	And over the last, I don't know, three or four weeks we have been entrenched with the
0:57.4	mafia.
0:58.4	Today, we go a little bit different way and do an interview with really, I got to say,
1:04.0	this is one of my favorite pieces of content I've ever done.
1:08.2	We've dipped our toes a bit into the world of drug cartels and today, we're going to
1:12.9	dip them in a little bit more.
1:14.5	I have an individual that for nearly 20 years was a member of the DEA, he was not only
1:20.0	an agent, but subsequently would become a supervisory agent in Monterey, Mexico running
1:26.5	an entire office.
1:27.7	We're going to speak to Leonardo Leo Silva and Leon, I had a terrific conversation really
1:33.0	about the beginning of his life.
1:34.5	What else have we got him in into wanting to be a DE agent?
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