Dope

Every time we take some off the streets, we feel like we're saving lives.

Police come and they get close, and they want to study your movements.

They will try to take you down.

It looks like t's a large storage yard with RVs.

Confirmed.

I'm not in college, know what I'm saying? I'm not working the nine to five.

So, motherfucker, I get up and treat this shit like a job

because I want some place to get money.

If you choose to live this lifestyle, know what you doing.

Don't get into it if you don't know, the rules and the outcomes

because there's repercussions to this.

The risk of something going wrong is a lot higher...

This motherfucker come in that brick, you know, come in that package,

you know what you getting, man. You cut that motherfucker wide open.

My shit's wrapped up, man. It's wrapped up really well.

At a stash house outside the city,

El Capitan has just taken delivery of two kilos of cocaine

from a Mexican cartel.

The money's in cocaine, man.

Quadruple your money sometimes, man. You get it, you gotta get it pure,

you know?

Broken down and sold on the streets of Oakland,

it'll be worth more than $60,000.

America's cup of coffee, man.

That shit don't see no race, no color, nothing.

Mexican girls love cocaine.

White girls love it, too.

Chinese, black girls...

Shit, everybody love that motherfucker.

And that means El Capitan's product...

is always in demand.

All the big weight shipments

where everybody is fucking too scared to drive.

Not me, motherfucker. I drive.

Put a lot of coke in this RV, man.

Like a pizza man will go deliver pizzas.

You know what I'm saying? Make my route through the day.

Same type of shit. Just I'm dealing coke,

he's dealing pizza.

At least twice a week,

El Capitan risks his freedom to run two kilos of coke into Oakland.

Looks like you're on a family vacation.

Who's gonna pull over a guy in an RV with his family?

As a distributor ,

he buys at $25,000 a key,

and sells it wholesale to dealers at a markup.

Give it to these dudes for like 27.

So you making a couple thousand dollars profit every time you see these people.

Are there any signs of the vehicle?

Negative.

Local sheriffs have intel on vehicles bringing drugs into Oakland.

They rotate quite often, the vehicles that we see out there.

There's a blue work truck associated. A white work truck.

Main one seemed to be an RV...

that we didn't see, I don't think, in the last day, but it comes and goes.

The driver inside was an unknown male. We couldn't identify him.

But there are thousands of RVs registered in the city.

To try to identify the man in the RV,

the cops head towards an area they suspect he supplies with coke.

Hey, this is Gonzo. I'm in the area .

Copy.

International Boulevard runs through

the heart of East Oakland from downtown.

It's notorious for drug dealing.

There we go.

These are my undercover glasses.

They look a little less...

police officer-like than my clear glasses.

All this Oakley gear.

Duane Fisher is one of several undercover officers,

working surveillance for Detective Lucha.

You have a couple north on International

and a couple south on Saint Andrew.

We're going to try and set up so that we get what we call eyes on the...

target location where we know this individual operates from.

And try to identify him coming into the area.

Fisher gets as close as he dares

to where the dealers are working.

Yeah, I'm sitting here.

So, we just have to keep an eye on if anything moves.

It's kind of a real hot area here

so it's kind of hard to set up.

Seems like there's people all over watching.

You know lots of groups, lots of different gangs in these areas.

Right now we got somebody walking up...

on our right side...

who could be a lookout.

We just don't know.

Things could turn ugly if the dealers

think their distributor is under threat.

It does make me nervous 'cause I've been...

shot at before here in Oakland.

That wasn't good.

I think that was a lookout.

Definitely notice that we don't belong. They don't know us.

I guess I lost eyes on him somehow.

Anybody got eyes on him?

Here we got a guy...

Scared the piss out of me.

As he rode by on his bike he had his right hand stuffed deep into his pocket,

which very easily could've been concealing a gun.

And what vehicle is our number one in right now?

Right now he's in the white, full-size Chevy truck.

Another undercover officer has seen one of the vehicles

previously linked o the RV. The white truck.

Hey, Fish, see if you can roll by him

and I'll take your spot for a second

and see what he's getting into.

Think he might be getting into another vehicle.

He is wearing a black shirt with yellow writing on it and a red hat.

Copy that. Moving now.

It could be a buyer and it could lead them to the RV itself.

If that vehicle moves a significant distance...

I would like to see if we can do a takeaway on it.

Let's let Fish and Gonz go with it.

Six, Paul, Victor, David.

He's been interacting with the... at the end of the liquor store,

coming and going.

We now are sitting real close. We have eyes on the...

GMC right there.

We're probably way too close.

Best place to hide is in plain view,

so stick with it.

And here's target. Red hat, black shirt, blue jeans.

He's entered the passenger side of the GMC. The primer truck.

They're just sitting there.

Yeah, we just got made by... yeah.

He was looking pretty hard at me.

He knows... I've been sitting here for a while.

It looks like Fisher's been spotted.

Primer truck is moving now.

Primer truck is northbound 52 towards I.

He's that way. He's headed east.

Yep. Straight that way.

He's stopped and looks like he's doing some counter possibly.

- Did you see which way he went? - He...

Affirm he waited for us to catch up to him

watched us go by and then pulled a u-ey.

Dove down 51st. Took it back towards International.

Yeah, he's gotta be past International now on southbound direction.

You got him?

Negative.

He was way ahead of me.

It was either 50th or 51st by the time he dove, I couldn't tell.

They've lost him.

When he seen me flip around he noticed that because...

he made a couple of turns and then pulled to the side of the road

to see if he's seeing the same vehicles following him.

White, full-size Ford truck.

Suddenly, the white pickup reappears.

Yeah, unit right there, He's gonna be pulling in right behind you

on Vicksburg.

He's right behind me.

Here we go.

Affirm. I need you to drive South Pearson to International.

I knew we'd find that truck. I knew it.

So I'm checking where our guy is seated.

Oh, wait.

I got some... looks like...

Oh, these are bindles, for sale.

Hey, I got a baggy with a bunch of bindles here.

Looks like we're gonna have a good 10-15.

If the cops can flip this dealer ,

he may give them their real target.

The distributor in the RV.

The people that deal on the streets

in the grand scheme are pretty expendable.

So what we'll... We'll give him the option if you're willing to work with us

and maybe help us develop information

that gets us to the source of where they purchase their narcotics from.

They're very willing to just tell us something.

Try to mitigate their punishment they're gonna receive.

Here we go.

Shit. This shit's nonstop. It's very much needed

out here in the streets, man.

Unaware of the police operation,

El Capitan has made it to his first drop.

My street dealers, man.

Top of the line people, man. No bottom feeders.

Man, I've been doing this shit for 20 years, man.

Got no time to waste with no kids.

Since I know what I want and I want the best in the town,

I get it from the best.

Ambrosia has been working the streets of Oakland

for a very long time.

A lot of guys are intimidated by me,

you know, because my swag is like as cool as theirs.

They intimidated that a female can move as fast as them,

as smooth as them and have as many women as them.

I'm a one stop shop.

You can come to me for everything. You can come to me

if you can't get your dick hard and you need a girl to help you.

You can come to me for bachelor parties, birthday parties.

I even do kids' jumpers. I'm telling you I'm all about the money.

And Ambrosia's biggest earner is the cocaine she buys from El Capitan.

We call it girl because it's just powder.

And then, this is what you do.

Just add some cut to it, so it stretch it.

I'm good at this. I've been doing it for a long time.

My mom sold drugs, so what's gonna happen?