I Made $5K a Week Selling Crack ----- Then Went To Federal Prison | Bigfacehead

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Bigfacehead grew up in the streets of Hartford, CT, surrounded by poverty and pain. With his father behind bars and no clear path forward, he dropped out of school at 16 and turned to the drug game — making $5,000 a week selling crack. But that fast money came with a price. At just 20 years old, Bigfacehead was caught in a sweeping federal RICO case and sentenced to 60 months in federal prison. In this interview, he shares what life was really like on the streets, how the feds built their case, and what prison was like for him. #PrisonStory #FederalPrison #StreetLife #HartfordCT #RICOCase #DrugGame #RedemptionStory #LockedInPodcast Connect with Bigfacehead: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BDHWWBxtL/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigfacehead?igsh=MTQ0bGN6czBuY2owYw== Snapchat: @bigfacehead YouTube: ⁠ http://youtube.com/@BIGFACEHEADMUSIC Twitter: @bigfacehead Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Get 50% off the Magic Mind offer here: https://www.magicmind.com/IANB50. #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformance Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00:00 Street Dreams and Federal Nightmares: The Jonas Nelson Story 00:05:38 Discovering Personal Faith and Beliefs 00:11:57 Life Lessons from a Protective Mother 00:18:02 Reflections on Selling Drugs and Street Life 00:24:29 First Encounter with Federal Agents 00:30:27 Undercover Surveillance and Phone Tapping 00:36:24 Arrest Over Alleged Car Theft 00:42:28 Navigating Legal Challenges: Probation Violation and Safety Valve 00:48:33 Arrival and First Impressions in Prison 00:54:29 Incarceration Experiences and Challenges 01:02:48 Preparing for Life After Prison 01:06:30 Meeting Mobb Deep: A Connection from Prison 01:12:26 Building Lasting Connections in Prison 01:18:37 Guiding Kids Away from Bad Choices 01:24:45 Teen Entrepreneurial Journey 01:32:55 Reflections on Past Mistakes and Financial Growth 01:37:00 Future Music Releases and Projects Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They blitzers. They pull me out of the cars like in November. They searching me for hours.
0:05.6	Hours. They search him, search me. He got it on and he got it on. Search him. Searching my legs.
0:10.8	Making me bend. They folding me up doing all type of crazy shit to me like I'm playing Twister.
0:16.5	Trying to make the shit fall out because they know I got it.
0:19.0	By the time he was 16, Jonas Nelson had dropped out of school and was making $5,000 a week selling crack on the streets of Hartford.
0:26.4	With his father in prison and poverty all around him, the fast life felt like the only way out until it all came crashing down.
0:33.6	At just 20 years old, he was hit with a federal RICO case and sentenced to five years in prison.
0:39.2	This is the raw story of how street dreams turned into a federal nightmare.
0:45.9	Jonas, welcome to Lockton, straight from Connecticut.
0:49.0	Yeah, what's up, man?
0:49.8	We love the Connecticut residents that come on the show.
0:53.1	We were just talking about how they're underrated those stories.
0:55.9	Yeah, that's the fact.
0:57.2	Where in Connecticut are you from?
0:58.7	Hartford.
0:59.3	Hartford.
0:59.8	Okay.
0:59.9	You grew up there?
1:01.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:01.8	Hartford, Connecticut born and raised my whole life.
1:03.8	What was that like growing up there?
1:05.3	You know, regularhood shit, poverty, gangs, money money prostitution cook it I mean I'm crooked I'm crooked I'm
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