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Listen or discretion is advised. imperative entertainment. picture. For the better part of a year, Eldon Kidd and Tim Burson had teamed up and made a living by passing people over the border from Tijuana to San Diego. They were good at it and getting better every day. But all of that was about to change for Tim anyway.

We were at the beach.

I had the hood up on my van and I was working on the engine

I was doing some kind of maintenance

and a guy came up and said, you know,

how much to pass?

And I said, well,, how much to pass?

And I said, well, this is a solo brinka or Los Angeles.

The brinka is the jump.

The word means jump.

So if you just go over the border and you dump them off,

that's cheaper than if you're taking them into Los Angeles

it's more money to do that. So all sudden handcuffs on my wrist got handcuffed to the

steering wheel and it was a police officer it was was a Mexican police officer. I'm thinking I'm fucked.

You know, really, it's like, this is it, you know? So when I got to the police station, I was

hand-caught behind my back.

Then a couple more officers came.

I got punched in the stomach.

I had a nice pair of sunglasses on those, got slapped off my face.

They asked where my companion was.

Cus a Campanero. And I said I don't have one. They're asking me questions and I don't speak

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