S19 Ep76: The Plastic Magician: How To Turn A Mountain Of Marijuana & Cocaine Into A Pile Of Credit Card Fraud Millions! w/Ronnie Baker
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
Ronnie Baker was born in Miami Beach, raised in the Bronx, and baptised into crime at an early age! Ronnie started by selling pot to stock broker on the NYSE as they all wen to work together! He graduated to bigger amounts of weight before being drafted to Vietnam where he figured out how to really bankroll himself, to the tune of 26,500 dollars! It didn't last long as Ronnie was injured n bttle and came back home, where he continued to ply his trade, eventually attracting bigger attention, and one of the craziest stories you'll hear on True Crime Tuesday this year!
On Today's program, Ronnie Baker will detail that story plus how he met the man named Arthur Hoyos, who had ripped off American Express to the tune of eight MILLION DOLLARS! It gets crazier from there!
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Find out more about Ronnie here: https://theplasticmagician.weebly.com/
PLUS AN ALL NEW DUMB CRIMES AND STUPID CRIMINALS W/ TRAVIS THORPE!
Check out the life-like body that was not a "lifeless" body, that Tim and Travis were talking about in the last story of DCSC here: https://thesmokinggun.com/documents/funny/abandoned-texas-doll-749230
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| 0:00.0 | and Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.0 | We have a very unusual story for you today and an entertaining one at that. Now I'll tell you folks |
| 0:35.8 | there's different type of crimes out there you know typically on this program |
| 0:40.2 | you get the murderous crimes you get the drug smuggling crimes but we're going to |
| 0:45.2 | talk about a different kind of crime today we're going to talk about the type of |
| 0:47.9 | crime that some people would say is a victimless crime, but it's not. |
| 0:52.7 | We're gonna talk today about the plastic magician. |
| 0:57.0 | We're gonna talk today to Ronnie Baker. |
| 0:59.6 | We're not gonna get too much into a story |
| 1:01.0 | because I wanna get the story from the man himself. |
| 1:03.4 | We're going to go back to the Vietnam era. |
| 1:05.8 | We're going to talk to a man who originally started with drugs. |
| 1:09.9 | Started drug smuggling, which, you know, in that respect is a different type of crime, but then |
| 1:18.3 | figured out a way to switch his focus. And we'll get this story from him himself. |
| 1:25.3 | From there, this story gets bizarre. |
| 1:29.6 | He started innocently enough. |
| 1:31.8 | You know, you start a little bit here a little bit there. But then he |
| 1:35.3 | meets up with the drug lord and Nick gets out of control folks. I can't do this story justice. Our guest, |
| 1:41.6 | Ronnie Baker, can do this so much more. |
| 1:46.8 | We'll put it this way. |
| 1:47.7 | Ronnie grew up in Miami Beach. |
| 1:49.5 | He then was raised in the Bronx since the age of five. |
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