Montana Narcotics Agent: Wild Undercover Ops & Other Intense Police Stories
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Dive into gripping real-life stories from the front lines of law enforcement in this powerful episode of Things Police See Podcast with host Steve Gould (Ole Gingerface). Guest Cameron Pavlicek, an active Montana narcotics investigator, Afghanistan war veteran, former president of the Montana Narcotics Officers Association, and founder of Yellowstone Narcotics training company, shares intense, bizarre, and eye-opening experiences. Hear about a chilling first homicide call in freezing Montana conditions, using a baby as collateral in a meth deal gone wild, a 36-hour armed standoff ending in tragedy, creative undercover social media operations catfishing drug dealers online (posing as women to bust perps), bizarre encounters with a schizophrenic man carrying a stolen 100-pound welded California sculpture, and much more. Perfect for fans of true police stories, narcotics investigations, undercover ops, body cam breakdowns, and rural policing in the American West. Don't miss these raw, unfiltered cop tales from the Big Sky State!
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| 0:00.0 | This is things police see. First and accounts with your host, Steve Gold. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the podcast. It interviews active and retired police officers, both their most intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous moments on the jorb. |
| 0:16.1 | It is I, old gingerface. I saved it there. I almost screwed up the intro, but alas, I completed it. So, |
| 0:22.1 | uh, uh, kudos to me. Guys, thank you for being here. Thank you for joining me. As always, |
| 0:27.1 | uh, so happy to have you. Thank you for, um, a lot of crossover listeners coming over and vice versa for |
| 0:32.6 | the sergeant Steve YouTube channel. Um, it's taken off. There's like 55,000 subs there already and more joining |
| 0:41.8 | every day. I'm really kind of shocked and excited about it. And I absolutely, my favorite comment is when |
| 0:47.6 | someone comes with a podcast and it's like, hey, I was on Sergeant Steve. And then I linked over to |
| 0:53.1 | your podcast and I love the podcast. So it's actually really working out well. So if you haven't checked out the Sergeant Steve's channel, check it out on YouTube, give it a subscribe and a like and all that good stuff. It's basically just body cam, me doing body cam breakdowns. I know there's a lot of channels out there like that, but this one happens to be the best one ever invented. So |
| 1:10.9 | check it out. Thank you for the support on both the projects I have going on right now. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm excited for the guest today. He's a Western man. Might wear a cowboy hat. Not sure. |
| 1:23.8 | Going to ask him. I don't think he's wearing one right now. I'm looking over at him in the |
| 1:27.2 | green room. Let's see here. He's an active narcotics agent for the state of Montana. He's got |
| 1:32.9 | 15 years on the job, past president of the Montana Narcotics Officers Association, founder of |
| 1:39.7 | Yellowstone Narcotics, a law enforcement training company and Afghanistan War veteran. Let's bring on |
| 1:46.7 | the great Cameron Pavlasek. Yeah, Pavlicek. Yep. Bablicek. Damn it. That's like, we did so much |
| 1:55.6 | talking before we came on. And that was like, I got to ask him how to pronounce Pavlach. Got it. I'll |
| 1:59.9 | never screw it up again. So again so sir it's all right |
| 2:02.0 | thank you for being here man yeah thanks for having me excited to be here it's it's my pleasure |
| 2:07.3 | and you said you you checked out the show before and you kind of decided like maybe you'll you'll come on |
| 2:12.8 | wasn't recommended to you anything no it's uh's actually I kind of felt maybe I didn't really |
| 2:18.7 | belong here because you've had so many big guests on the show who've done a lot of crazy |
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