Smoke Screen: Puppy Kingpin

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4.4 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Pet store owners tell buyers their puppies come from reputable breeders and humane kennels. But verifying that is challenging, because the dogs are often supplied by brokers who act as middlemen between the shops and shady puppy mills. Jolyn Noethe is a broker who allegedly engineered a multi-million dollar scheme to launder puppies and deceive buyers throughout the country about where their new pets actually came from. In the new season of “Smoke Screen” from Neon Hum, “Puppy Kingpin” pulls apart the scheme to circumvent laws against trafficking animals from puppy mills to unsuspecting consumers. Host Alex Schuman introduces us to the advocates, pet owners and prosecutors trying to shut down a racket that rewards cruelty and deception.

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Riders on after show right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime
0:06.0	media.
0:07.0	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders on.
0:23.5	Crime Riders on is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop
0:27.6	culture, other podcasts.
0:29.7	And on this episode, how do dogs from puppy mills keep winding up in pet stores?
0:35.3	Through a complicated shell game breeders used to hide the dog's origins.
0:40.0	We're talking about the newest season of smoke screen, puppy, kingpin.
0:45.0	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of the
0:49.8	These Are Their Stories podcast.
0:51.4	My husband and love of my life, Kevin Flynn.
0:53.3	Hello Kevin.
0:54.3	Hello Rebecca.
0:55.3	Also with us as private investigator certified pet detective resident cat lady and author
1:00.7	of dead on deadline, my friend and co podcaster, Laura Bricker.
1:04.2	Hello Laura.
1:05.2	Hello Rebecca.
1:06.2	And finally, our resident doubting Thomas, author of the city trilogy, host of strange
1:11.3	arrivals and our Patreon deep dive book club podcast, fellow cat person, Toby ball.
1:17.1	Hello Toby.
1:18.1	Hello Rebecca.
1:19.1	We forget that Toby has three cats.
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