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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. It's a summer evening in 1984 in Compton, a neighborhood in the South Central Area of Los Angeles.

A pickup truck speeds through the

sweltering streets. Inside 19-year-old Eric Wright

bobs his head in time with the music on the radio as he chats with the

driver his older cousin Horace Butler.

Horace is a well-known local drug dealer, and Eric is one of his most trusted runners,

responsible for delivering drugs to customers, but that's not why Horace has picked him up today. In fact,

Eric has no idea where Horace is taking him until they arrive at their

destination, a boarded-up house with an overgrown front yard.

Horace and Eric get out of the truck and walk through the tall grass and tangled weeds toward the abandoned property.

But Horace doesn't go inside.

Instead he tells Eric to keep a lookout while he ducks along the side of the house.

When he comes back, a moment or two later,

he has a furtive look on his face and a paper grocery bag in his hands. The two young men then hurried back to Horace's

truck. Once they're back in the vehicle, Horace hands over the bag to Eric. As he accelerates

down the street, Horace tells Eric to look inside.

The bag contains several bundles of cash bound with rubber bands.

It must be tens of thousands of dollars.

Horace tells Eric he's going to drive him home and ask if he wouldn't mind keeping an eye on the money for a little while.

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