A Former Drug Kingpin Shares His Secrets | Informer
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2021
- We hear from the former head of an organisation that trafficked and sold drugs and cigarettes to the tune of millions of dollars in profit.
He was in criminal life for nearly thirty years, having been brought in at the age of 11. He reveals how he made and sold ecstasy to all sorts of customers before getting into the illegal cigarettes business, which saw him taking in hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash every day.
Informer is a series where we hear the anonymised confessions and insights of people on the inside of different industries, institutions and events.
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Please do more of this kinda content, Vice. This stuff is fascinating and seems like more of your original content.
The og vice news
Yea and leave the comments open cause the last couple videos I wanted to see what people were saying
yes i’m obsessed with these videos
America is such a drug obsessed culture
This is literally what my sister has told me in a sense not exact but very similar, I kinda blew her off and said she made bad choices but now I just feel for her
vice are slowly returning back to their roots, soon bros.
Slow and steady bois....slow and steady lol
@I need more constructive outlets that would be cool. Get instant alerts to their news coverages. Maybe a day to 3 days early access to certain pieces before they hit CZcams or whatever. Discount on merchandise. I'd sign up for a reasonable price of course. Like no more than $8 a month. Maybe $10 but ehhhhh
@I need more constructive outlets do you work for Vice? 👀
@I need more constructive outlets vice literally does have a TV channel you can get as part of a subscription bundle
@I need more constructive outlets Do not give them ideas,they already rake in over half a billion per year,they don't need anymore and it really does not cost much (which is very little) to make decent content.
damn 10 minutes ago, im used to seeing 7 years ago
I thought this was filmed years ago until I read your comment
@@TheVisualLobe well it was filmed years ago, but they just realised it.
@@bananakawan1320 gotcha , thanks for the clarification
@@bananakawan1320 ohh
Facts🤣
I love this series, so much insider information and stories being told!
I sometimes doubt it’s authenticity
The cocaine banker one was 100 percent bullshit
Yea a lot of cap in these videos
@@user-re4mw3ne3l It’s overdramatized because they gotta make money😂 but usually they’re based on true stories
Lol like this is real
Dirty money is fun until your are caught facing 25 to 45 years in jail for multiple criminal offenses ,deciding whether to snitch for a softer sentence or to rot in prison. Detectives tend to use pictures of your loved ones to break you to talk eventually.
DRUGS ARE NOT CRIMINAL OFFENCE. They are against the govs, "criminal laws and criminal acts", as opposed to our creators, el ohims, good and just laws and directives built right into the heart and mind of evry man woman and child .. The govs are the criminals (their criminal laws and acts strip away ALL of our creators given rights, and nullify THE law.) , By their own admission..
And if you remove the govs/ money from the equation, wouldn be no violence associated with the drug trade..
The govs are the big dawg criminals. They do NOT stop crime, they create it. And the criminals are protected in their activities (folks aint allowed to defend themselves.)..
Then after the lil dogs commit their "criminal" acts,, the big dawgs come in, arrest the lil dawg, put him in a cage and collect the spoils..
The govs are strait up criminals who create and enforce "criminal laws and criminal acts ".. The cops are their criminal thug enforcers. Biggest and baddest of all the criminal gangs..
AND ONLY YAHSHUA THE CHRIST CAN PUT A END TO THIS FINAL EARTH AND WORLDWIDE ROMAN BEAST KINGDOM, CHRISTENDOM. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT. HE IS FIXIN TO.
25 to 45 in the UK 🇬🇧 Hahaha Hahaha 😆 😂 🤣 😄 😅
deciding to snitch must never be a option
@@aaronwalker8847 Amen homie 👍🏾
Yeah that’s true. That’s why 69 snitched. He did it so he wouldn’t want to be in prison for almost 50 years
He's on that South Korean skin regime
LMAO
Hes a jabawalkee ..😂😂😂🤣🤣
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VICE is slowly turning me into Tony Montana
They’ve been grooming us for years
What are you saying?! 😂😂😂
Drugs should be legal.Being illegal doesn't work
@@CA-ly7my what’s the way?
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'Its called the past because its the past' This man is a prophet!
Or the opposite of a prophet, an historian?
Prophets see the future not the past, but I get your point
“The thing about the old days? Well they the old days.” - Slim Charles
Drug Kingpin: when I say profit I mean every dime
And the present is called the present because every day is a gift
Didn’t realize Darren Till did 23 years in jail, looks great for his age
He definitely has that Liverpool cockney accent.
🤣🤣🤣
haha
sounds more like Shaun Atwood
He's still my little girl
The problem with this series is that their identities aren’t as hidden as this channel suggests it is, they’re giving personal details of their lives that not only people who know them could id them, but any intelligence agency worth being in the biz could figure it out; you can tell their body type and their voices are not disguised at all
take what they say with a pinch though , no way to verify if its the truth.
Could easily be an actor parroting the real
It's not all about hiding their identity though. I think Vice is smart enough to realize that. It's more about the format and style of the series. Look at their older interviews with gang members, etc, they're completely masked up and voice changed
@@haberdasherrykr8886 I think it is only that as his legs are inside the chair clear sign of underconfidence!
at 4:42 you can see they list their questions in a google doc, who knows what else they might store there so it's not secure at all
He felt dignified in having a job. Can’t said he’s right. Having a job is indeed something important. I hope he could have find better opportunities in life.
There's a 89.5% chance these people are not real in all these videos in this format
@@Lolp821 There's a 96.78% chance you're pulling this number out of your ass, and make the number very specific to make it look more credible.
Ralph Außerbauer obviously he was joking by being overly specific but they do seem fake ngl, he’s really got a fake moncler coat on lol
@@Lolp821 Similar to many documentaries, there'll be some exaggeration to make things more 'sexy'!
@@Lolp821 can people like you just no believe in anything in private
The editing is completely underated! It's so good!
I wish these episodes were longer they are soooo interesting 😩
Please read the comments vice. We love these kind of videos. Your other videos are interesting as well. But don’t forget where it all started!
where did it start?
@@MisterL2_yt lines of coke at work
Oh we sure will read the comments for you!-Vice
This is crazy. I always see videos of people with guns pretending to be gangsters- real gangsters are people like this. Smart people who went down the wrong path; did bad things and regretted it. You can tell that this guy has logical and critical thinking skills. It takes intelligence to make that type of money.
Y’all please report these bots
Your comment makes no sense. You just contradicted your point by saying real gangsters arw smart people going down the wrong path. If you’re going down the wrong path, you’re not smart. We all have choices to make. They made the idiotic decision to go down this path so they are not smart.
@@TheMarkoPoloProgram intelligent people don't have to be moral people, and intelligent people also make mistakes my boy, point is real killers don't show it and egotistical stupid gangsters who wave around guns on insta will never be on this guys level
He is right, with all the technology that you know about and more importantly what you don’t know law enforcement has access to, it’s a losing game doing illegal things, best to use your clever to start a legit business.
The technology game works for both sides. With encrypted communication, money and darknet shops you can basically run the business in homeoffice from anywhere.
@@torben82sf Yeah, not worth the risk though. Best to enjoy the fruits of your labor without paranoia thinking at any minute the party will end with guys kicking in your door at 4am. Many of these people are intelligent, best to stay legit and enjoy your success without the fear.
@@LouieTzepher Sadly there are plenty of young people not seeing any perspective to get something from the cake the legal way (getting a good education & job, whatever). And mostly, they are propably right in that assessment and take the other pill...
@@torben82sf stupid ***t, the nsa cracked the darknet encryption years ago. even bitcoin is not save
Nowadays it seems like dealers in the UK are more concerned about the cameras than the police. CCTV is something else
Love these informer episodes!!
PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE ! So interesting just learning and hearing about all these things are just intriguing
They are completely fake lol
Get a hobby stop being a drone and believing this
I bet you think covid is real 🤣
I love these types of videos...really interesting...I've been jail for selling drugs but not at the level this guy was
What secrets were shared exactly? He just said he had tons of drugs, money and women and hurt people. That's hardly a secret.
he said that if youre not big in the drug world you cant make it
He didn't share any secret, he just spewed a bunch of cliches about the lifestyle and bragged about how tough and big time he was. He sounds deeply insecure about himself, I doubt he really was as big as he says he was.
If you want a better perspective about organized crime. There are better videos that are already available on youtube. Salvatore "Sammy The Bull" Gravano, or Michael Franzese have their own channels. They were the American mafia.
Not sure why UK criminals have to act so tough all the time. This type of behavior would get them killed in the US. They are lucky guns are not flooding their streets. Being humble is necessary if you are involved in that lifestyle in the US.
@Dave , he wasn't a kingpin. He sounded like he had a few runners. A real kingpin would own many legit businesses, have corrupt cops who worked for him. Etc. El chapo would be a kingpin. This guy is a wannabe tough guy and wannabe kingpin.
If you aspire to be a crime lord. You have some type of immature and insecurity internally. Majority of people born into a life of crime only want to get out of it because they know it is dangerous. This guy sounds like a goofy who partied all the time, and never had real danger while being a drug dealer. If he grew up in the US. He would of lost 5 to 6 friends to gun violence before the age of 15.
@@YTStopCensoringFreedomOfspeech funny how you say he brags about it and is not humble and your nickname is literally Reformed Ex-DrugTrafficker and you brag about how it is so much tougher in the US than the UK lmao
@@sonochinosadame4276 His own hypocrisy flew over his head.
i love these informer series! please more of this
As an American who’s watched a lot of British television. In two seconds I knew this guy was from Liverpool
how did know that?
Correct
As an African Liverpool fan, i instantly caught on that too, Thanks to Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Trent's accents, . . . .
You know he real when he said "we sold cigarettes".
Do you have any idea how much money is involved in smuggling cigarettes?
thanks for exciting stuff. keep it up first
This series is seriously addictive - these people's stories are INCREDIBLE :-O WOW!!!
Their stories are incredible but they're bottom-tier people who don't deserve to walking the earth.
@@offender0 Wow, dramatic much?
@@keyland_ Not really. They're people who're selling/dealing drugs which ruin many peoples lives and even kill people due to cutting drugs with fatal substances and/or overdoses. They don't care about the people they sell the drugs to or what they do with them (regardless how much lipservice they pay), they're only concerned with how much money they're making off of other peoples misery.
Regardless of how 'reformed' these people appear to be, they should have been cast into a bottomless pit.
They're scum to society.
0:00 They see me rollin they hating
Looking at the scar on his neck, he's lucky his head isn't rolling.
Heads will roll.
If you click on your 0:00 it does NOTHING
Please continue this segment
The background music is really good!
Can’t really describe why, but it’s calming and mysterious at the same time.
really interesting
I find it amazing how they go from being drug dealers to drug makers just by buying a tablet machine from Belgium. Like how did they even obtain the recipes for ecstasy? It’s not as if you can just find cookbooks or download recipes from where ever. Also pill press machines are heavily regulated? But apparently you can just go to Belgium and they hand em out to whoever?
Belgium is known for its ecstacy production and huge export, especially 'De Kempen' , most of the decent pills you find all around Europe come from Belgium. With that in mind it's the most logical place to find like-minded 'big fish' who can help you getting your foot in the game. Of course industrial grade pill pressing machines are heavily regulated, the only way to acquire one would be to know someone with a pharmaceutical license and a very reputable career.
Also, you can VERY EASILY find recipes for every type of drug on the dark web, it's like a 2 minute search at most. You can find detailed instructions there for every type of crime, from petty theft to making ecstacy to disolving a body. It's a pretty mental place.
@@jasper374 mostly the Netherlands tbh but Belgium big too
You can easily download recipes, at least you could (this was before the dark web was popular so I'd imagine it's even easier now).
I imagine the people selling the tablet machines gave the recipes too
I think he was buying MDMA powder and pressing it into pills
these are by far ur best videos to watch
Please, keep uploading these types of informer videos.
Did well keeping whatever hand tattoos will give him away hidden!
CZcams is recommending things like this to me since I changed my name
That last comment is so wise...that's what these youngins need to listen to!!
Would you be able to do a video on Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose?
When I was in high school I sold single cigarettes for a dollar to all the smokers...fun times
Damn when is your Vice interview coming up Pablo Escobar? 😬😜
Send this man to vice interview NOW
@@IloveGorgeousGeorge 😂😂😂
The movie Layer Cake starring Daniel Craig comes to mind. It's about a gangster who sees himself as a clean-cut professional dealing with sloppy, violent drug dealers
Went from talking about problem with drugs to spitting life facts
Is it just me or is there just something thoroughly unlikeable about this guy? Seems to excuse his behaviour by just shrugging his shoulders and saying 'thats just how it is innit'
Yeah, it seems he’s making light out of a business that ruins so many lives and doesn’t even feel sorry. But like he said, he can’t take back what he did. But he could of at least acted remorseful.
@@evasivedirectoryt but that’s the thing, you can feel remorse but he put it how it is. When you sell hard drugs on corners and make people move it for you, you have little to no remorse. usually when you get that big you care less about anybody. just a fact when your letting people catch charges for you and get killed
He's one of a certain kind, someone who went into it bcause it's what he grew up with, who had the right temperament ie cold enough to commit gratuitous violence when it benefitted him and selfish enough to maintain his motivation. Those are the qualities which make a good drug dealer And yes, I agree, there's nothing to like about people like him.
@@evasivedirectoryt Although I kinda agree, the fact that he only feel remorseful because he finally have someone to look after... dude seem like have no moral to himself
@@evasivedirectoryt yea totally not like people take drugs because they want... it is what it is...
What a high quality video
I use to deal a bit of hard drugs like Dauladid & fentanyl but I've cleaned up my life from that lifestyle & pray all drug dealers wake up & realize how many families & life's they are literally ripping apart & destroying!!
Drugs been around since the beginnning of time. Our caveman ancestors used it , romans, greeks, Assyrians , egyptians, ect. Many worst drugs out there are funded by private pharmaceutical companies and its legal. Anyways drugs is part of human life just people abuse it due thier problems in life, emptiness and abused they suffered in the world. So if you want to stop people from abusing it go to the root of the problem. Battle depression and human suffering .cause thats why people abuse it.
theyre the suppliers the people doing it need to stop lol
@@LegendJ0e4 exactly, society loves putting the blame on the wrong people
Did exactly the same life
Glad another lad got out of the mix
Vice be like “ don’t worry. We know what you enjoy”
He had a great carreer since the broker period
I'm from the UK too. Looks like I've missed out on that Shotter lifestyle. No drugs money or women in my world ...
I used to do coke almost every day for 2 months in London，I really missed the old days haha.
Epic interview
yeah truly epic... if u cant hear a single word, cuz idiots in production cudnt make normal mic placement or make subtiteles cuz that "kingpin" speaks like Kenny from South Park... "hthblgtjhhth fokein gigufhgfjt hrblrdrt fokein hrblrlldlr fokein"... all i cud hear...
Great to see them interviewing Aitch
This is guy knows how fo talk without moving his mouth and he also dont ever have to worry about getting a haircut
Yeah that guy lived so much things 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I assume this is legit but imagine how easy it would be for them to pump out these type content if they just hired a good voice actor and a fast editor 😂😂😂
They could even have the real thing write the script and the actor read it. I wouldn't be surprised if a good number of felon confession vids on CZcams in general are that.
Not surprised he got caught… he’s got such distinctive features!
Wise words. What’s in the past, it’s in the past. #Respek
Thanks for letting me in and I feel so delighted after telling the truth. Thank you so much Vice.
Stonks☝️😎
Vice is back
Feels like a change in pace when the voice isn't altered
Guys a certified legend, this one was the most nuts to watch
Do you realize that a guy doing what he was doing, most probably, had to kill people for business/survival.
He's a modern day barbarian, if you cross him on the street and you have something of value to him he will steal and kill if necessary.
These people have no soul.
Yeah he’s such a legend for killing people over money
@@andreafionda542 damn right he is
nah hes just antisocial
$425,000 a day??? Might have to get into the business
You guys need to turn that volume up.
I always wondered y they called it the past. Makes perfect sense now
5:25 "It's called the past because it's the past"
The truth with narcotics is that it looks tempting, as it for granted leads to gold, but very few earn real money worth the hassle and the risks. Once going really big, there will come a bust and even if the profit looks great there and then, it won't last for a long time in far most cases. We often see/hear the sunshine-stories, but visit Holland and South America - how big % is rich by drugs? Less than 1%?
Aye what’s the music to this vids I like it
Yes VICE yes
Casually throws out one of the biggest fines ever
This is great, thanks! I finally got some more money from my mom. I hope to meet a couple hookups online. I should be in the drug game by Christmas!
This is by the far the best story thus far! He sounds like he had a blast fuckit he was from the hood n he done good nice x
Keep these informers safer don’t show chairs it’s shows what kind don’t show cameras it shows what models change their clothes everyone is watching change the way they sit or walk they are saying to much of who they are keep these ppl safe it’s gonna save lives in the end
"it's called the past because it's the past". Galaxy brain right here.
Last time I was this early I had to apologise and get a towel for her face.
Broke the internet with that zinger, bro
Bruh lmao
MORE OF THESE
As a youngster he felt he was "Somebody" becoming a drug dealer - how do we get young people to experience the same feeling without becoming criminals?
sir i present,Video Games
Just saying, if they could go to police and be like "Hey one of my customers took product and refuses to pay me" they wouldn't HAVE to resort to violence to maintain their business.
I need this guy's skin regimen. Just saying.
This is definitely the way to go #thetrendisin #trendy #theivery #stealingshit #everyonesdoingit
guy has matured a lot!
Sadly 😥 alot of youth in the UK 🇬🇧 are going down this line in selling drugs.
What else are they going to do when they live in a world where you can get a degree and end up working in McDonald's. Drugs make you constant money and lots of it, tax free money.
hmmm no notification for this? what's happening youtube
Now this is a title I would click on fym
Love the dudes jacket haha
A Money Heist mask would be sick
Gonna have so many 13 year olds trying to become druglords now XD
Vice, can you link the site in which you purchased the latex mask
That’s John burton seen him on a podcast talking about this
We deserve a movie from this guy
yes continue funding more rats
@@freedadrive better than funding the illegal activities that led to him snitching 🤷♂️
I am wondering how do vice convence this guys to tell their story on camera .
That jacket is clean af
Wow, this guy is a smart G
This guys on billy moores podcast.😆
What the f ! Dad ?!?
wow i would really want to meet this guy. seems like this guy is not afraid of dying, but welcoming death.
10k a day? Where do i sign up
Gotta Love that accent ❤️
hes been killed... or near dead? wow, hes in good shape!
John Burton. I recognise that voice instantly.
Es ist grauenvoll und grausam,wir müssen das stoppen ,was der Mensch den Tieren antut ist unverzeilich mein Herz ist gebrochen meine Seele schreit😭💔
Still in a Monclear jacket.... everyone can have one with a normal 9 too 5
When I saw the walk, heard the talk, I thought it was the "banker" they interviewed a few years ago (not saying that wasn't real, but still, switch up apparel Vice. So, you know, it doesn't look like a cameo)
His name is John burton from Liverpool juice bomb John is his nickname
@@roddypatterson1168 Sounds alot like Darren till
The human heart and the human brain each have their own memories.
1331East innis Ave.Juantis and Mariah got that good pack. No sickness no pain no death no harm Give my mans some love yo