Rich Laferrere was a simple dispatcher and driver for a transportation company in a small Connecticut town. Before too long he found himself putting those skills to use smuggling pot all across the eastern seaboard. This new found business eventually scaled to the point of having connects across the country and eventually landing him in the spot as the top logistics person in the US for the most notorious crime family in Canada. He was making millions, powerful and respected...until one day it all came crashing down and he was face to face with the federal government. Today he consults with the DEA and lives a prosperous life running his own business, a far cry from his days as a smuggling kingpin!
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0:00 - Intro
1:44 - Growing Up In Small Town Connecticut
5:23 - Introduced to Dealing
10:59 - Living with a dealer in the 80s
16:22 - Getting introduced to pot in Connecticut
21:59 - Transitioning from Dealer to Trafficker
28:03 - Trucking from New York City
33:14 - A Risky Situation in Houston
39:03 - The Houston Operation
44:29 - The Logistics of Transporting
49:47 - The Importance of Friendship and Trust
55:15 - The Car Hauler Story
1:00:46 - Transporting from California to the East Coast
1:06:19 - The Market for Distribution
1:11:44 - The Warehouse Deal
1:17:05 - The Canadian Cartel Smuggling Operation
1:22:48 - Transporting Across the Border
1:28:20 - Making Money Delivering Cash
1:33:43 - Rich’s Smuggling Techniques
1:39:25 - The Risks of the Drug Trade
1:44:57 - Handling Money for the Canadian Mob
1:50:31 - From Bricky to Hauling 100 lbs
1:55:43 - The Importance of Cargo Insurance
2:00:51 - A new income stream in the drug trade
2:06:22 - The Border Backyard
2:11:34 - Stories of Smuggling and Cartels
2:16:52 - Money, Overhead, and Moving Product
2:22:20 - Smuggling Money and Getting on the Fed's Radar
2:27:49 - A Series of Unfortunate Events
2:33:47 - A Suspicious Trip to New York City
2:38:49 - A Narrow Escape
2:43:46 - The End Of The Line