Narcoworld: Dope Stories (Narcoworld : Dope Stories)

Our product is the best shit in town. You know why?

Because it's fire.

Right now, it's bigger than Starbucks.

Put your hands up!

We got a runner!

Methamphetamines is our number one narcotic problem.

So, when we do this, it makes a difference.

We're stick up kids. If we know you got drugs,

then we're gonna do everything to get to what you got.

Here, look at my hand.

To start with,

the first sign of quality is the way it looks.

This is the kitchen.

But I'm the cook.

A lot of people around here like to call it dope,

glass, shards,

crystal, crank.

To me, it all means money.

I cook the best shit.

Bluey cooks crystal meth for a Phoenix-based gang

using an array of flasks, funnels,

and toxic chemicals.

This is only one of the kitchens.

Yeah.

These ones...

I can get rid of them for ten a key.

Right here.

That's where the real money happens.

When a batch of Bluey's crystal is ready,

the gang moves it to a stash house closer to market.

Our product is the best shit in town. You know why?

'Cause it's fire.

I don't know what the cook puts in it, but he puts some magic in it.

The cook is more important than the killer in this business.

Chico is a local kingpin

with links to the Sinaloa Cartel.

I work for my own organization here.

I send my money back to the big dogs, that's all you're gonna get.

The cook

provides a backup to the regular shipments he gets from Mexico.

We can't rely on the big shipments all the time.

They get busted all the time,

so we gotta find other ways to make it.

That's where the cook comes in.

Let's say we lose a shipment.

Okay. Well, we're not gonna wait for them.

We gotta make our own.

I'm gonna keep making money while I wait on a shipment.

This is about a quarter key.

Break it down

four ways.

Sell 'em at $7,500 a piece.

That's about...

$30,000 in a month in the end.

Cook gets ten G's. I stay with 20 G's.

Add that up and I'm making about a quarter mil a year

just off this little shit right here.

With so much cash at stake,

protection is never far away.

This one right here, this is a good weapon.

Take anything out.

This one here,

a 9 millimeter.

That's a good luck charm.

Angel takes his job seriously.

That's a bad boy.

AK-47.

This right here does damage.

This is no joke.

Wanna see what a body looks like

after you've used one of these on somebody?

It ain't a pretty sight.

You gotta protect the money.

Anybody... competition,

newcomers, old rivals.

You gotta keep it safe, gotta keep our money coming.

Gotta make sure nobody fucks with that.

Kill or be killed.

I'm the one walking away.

Phoenix lies at the heart of one of America's biggest metro areas.

Its road network makes it a perfect distribution hub.

One of the city's drug markets lies northwest of downtown.

Dealers call it "The blade."

Hey, come back here!

The high demand for meth

means that every day's a payday for The Blade's dealers.

Today, I got, uh...

probably now just a little less than a half ounce.

I'm about to weigh out some twenties, what I call "grammers."

Which is...

somewhere right around a gram. You're never on point.

Everybody else around here charges probably about...

25 to 30 bucks per gram.

I do it just a solid $20. I'm the cheapest in town.

They're gonna come back to me regardless. I can give 'em a half gram for $20 bucks,

I guarantee they're gonna come to me before they go down the road.

Normally, I pick up anywhere from a half pound to a pound,

and I usually make about ten grand off of a pound.

My stuff's always good, solid.

You do a shot of this shit, your eyes are gonna fucking be bouncing back and forth.

You're gonna have to fucking lay back.

You ain't gonna be able to hold yourself up.

You're gonna be sitting there just tripping for about ten minutes,

then you're gonna get up with the biggest rush you've ever had,

and you're gonna love it and go for a speed race.

We call it white boy dope around here.

It's kind of like not normal having a lot of...

E-Zee's first customer of the night is Heather.

I'm kind of a functional addict.

I own my own business. I have a day job.

I'm educated.

I did all that and I did it all, the whole time, using crystal meth.

That's not something that I'm proud of.

It's what I know, it's what gets me up in the morning and gets my day going.

What I have right here is 0.2 of a gram on top of the beer can.

Eighteen is the first time I did crystal meth.

That's twenty years ago.

After doing it so long, smoking, I just wasn't getting high anymore.

And so, I have to inject it to get high.

This is a different high, it's more intense.

The first time I used it, it was very euphoric.

Kind of feel like, you know, Superwoman.

You can go conquer the world.

I guess a lot of addicts will always chase their first high.

You never get that high again.

So that's gonna soak it up, and then I'm gonna...

get it on there with the syringe.

And tie it off to keep it tight.

It feels really euphoric.Um...

I get a tingle in the back of the throat,

my heart rate's elevated,

my body feels kind of warm.

And, um...

it's good.

It feels good.

A Homeland Security Team is fixing to raid a house in Tucson,

one hundred miles South of Phoenix.

It's part of a strategy to choke off the Phoenix supply line.

We've been investigating a drug trafficking organization that...

primarily deals in methamphetamine sales.

And we have information that they are heavily armed,

they've been known to have some semi-automatic and automatic weapons.

Therefore we're gonna use the Homeland Security Special Response Team.

You guys are going to hold up there,

and then the breachers can come out and we'll catch you coming out the back.

We use them in more of our high-risk operations.

They just have more tools on the tool belt,

which becomes useful in a situation like this.

So, we're heading into a pretty tight-knit neighborhood,

so the houses are one right on top of each other.

So, we're always worried about the neighbors reacting or...

individuals who we haven't identified

who may be running protection for this organization.

They might create a distraction, there might be gunfire down the street.

They try to draw us away from the scene.

It's gonna be this house here, this white one, directly in front of us.

Do you copy? SRT is making entry.

Police! Search warrant! Come to the door!

Police!

The team's inside the residence.

Yeah, 10-4.

We do have one in custody.

The agents secure the property and quickly discover drugs.

There's packaged marijuana all over the house.

Definitely lots of weed paraphernalia all over the place.

If meth was stashed here,

it's gone now.

But the agents make a further discovery.

See this over here?

It's like an arsenal in there.

Yeah, there's AK, SKS.

Those are all gun boxes.

There's tons of ammo, tons of gun cases.

This time, the team got the drop on the bad guys

before things could turn ugly.

Definitely some unique weapons that we found in one of the rooms.

Nickel-plated AK, nickel-plated Uzi,

there's a flamethrower.

All this firepower was meant to protect something valuable.

To Special Agent Rede, it all points to one source.

Given our proximity to the border, we're only 50 miles away,

it's very likely that all the illegal contraband that we found in here,

any of the narcotics or the drugs, all originated in Mexico.

You just can't beat the prices of Mexico.

It's a lot cheaper,

there's plenty of supply to meet the demand.

It's just the nature of the beast.

Chico's operation, meanwhile, remains secure.

We use 12 houses. We don't stay in one house.

Let's say the fucking narcs are outside watching us.

Guess what? We'll go do business out of the other house.

That's what keeps us out of the radar.

Keep moving, switch cars, switch houses. You just gotta keep doing it.

He's waiting on his next shipment from his contacts in Mexico,