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Retired federal agent who handled high profile investigations that included outlaw motorcycle gangs, organized crime, & murder for hire, was an undercover operative with the ATF for 26 years, instructor for law enforcement officers, author of the Amazon highly rated book- Storefront Sting: AN ATF Agent’s Life Undercover. He took over 1000 crime guns, millions of dollars in illegal drugs off the streets, and 350 violent criminals in prison. 

Football and UC work then leads to a bank job that made him realize that was not the career for him

His A-ha moment that led him to law enforcement work

Private Investigating & training life like

How he handled befriending, betrayal & taking one’s freedom

How he learned about guns and the best gun he ever saw

Storefronts are established & street theater

Tactic used to get criminals to turn over their information

Why Operation Statesboro Blues haunted him

Dealing with his cover being blown with Operation Pulaski & how it went to another level

His last day undercover, the ATF brotherhood, & the addiction of this line of work

The phrase- Stop Borrowing Trouble from Your Future

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Extra 5

Working for the Puerto Rico Task Force

Murder for hire cases

Ray Kahn importance to the operations

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