Honor Among Thieves | True Crime & Crime Stories

Honor Among Thieves is a raw and unfiltered true crime podcast that dives deep into the worlds of crime, prison life, and redemption. Hosted by **Nelson Rodriguez Jr.—an ex-con and reformed fraudster—**the show pulls back the curtain on stories most people never hear. Each week, Nelson sits down with drug kingpins, ex-cons, mobsters, scammers, crime victims, prison guards, federal agents, and gangsters to share the untold truth of the criminal underworld. From daring scams and shocking betrayals to the harsh realities of federal and state prison, every episode uncovers the grit, chaos, and human side of life on both sides of the law. Some episodes focus on prison survival and insider stories, others on criminal empires and hustles, and many on both worlds colliding—but all are united by one theme: the thin line between loyalty, betrayal, and redemption. 👉 Subscribe now to hear authentic, first-hand stories of crime and prison,

Honor Among Thieves | True Crime & Crime Stories is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 89 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  I Supplied The 80s Drug Kingpins | My Life In The Cuban Cartel

  Sep 27, 20262h 51m

  Marcos Santibanez joins Nelson Rodriguez Jr. on Honor Among Thieves Podcast to recount building Miami’s Cuban Cartel and supplying major drug dealers through his Colombian connections. From growing up in Hialeah to cocaine deals in New York and Puerto Rico, Marcos shares his account of rising through Miami’s underworld and building a distribution network that moved hundreds of kilos.In this true crime interview, Marcos describes a 500-kilo cocaine shipment, the money laundering he says financed businesses and construction projects, and the luxury lifestyle that came with the drug trade. He also recounts friends getting arrested, his growing paranoia, and an unexpected turn: after handling enormous quantities of cocaine, he was arrested in Oklahoma over just seven grams.The conversation also explores the personal consequences behind the money: losing family, his mother’s pleas to quit, and returning to dealing after attempting to walk away. Marcos reflects on addiction, loyalty, faith, and the difficulty of leaving a life built around cocaine and fast money. Subscribe to Honor Among Thieves Podcast for more true-crime interviews, federal prison stories, organized crime history, drug-trafficking cases, and raw conversations about consequences and redemption. This episode is presented for documentary, journalistic, and educational purposes. It does not promote or glorify illegal drug use, drug trafficking, identity fraud, or other criminal activity. Chapters 00:00 Marcos Santibanez: Inside Miami’s Cuban Cartel04:10 Growing Up in Cuba, Hialeah, and Carol City12:51 New York Drug Deals and 13 Kilos of H22:58 Cocaine Connections in Puerto Rico37:44 Building the Cuban Cartel in Miami43:31 Drug Money, Luxury Living, and a $12,000 Parrot47:54 Five Colombian Suppliers and a Growing Drug Network55:52 Moving Money Through a Miami Beauty Salon1:07:15 Cocaine Use, Paranoia, and Life as a Drug Dealer1:17:44 Supplying Drug Dealers in St. Petersburg and Atlanta1:29:26 Money, Power, and Miami Nightlife1:38:08 Laundering Drug Money Through Construction1:49:02 Living in Oklahoma While Still Dealing in Miami1:54:14 The Cocaine Package That Led to His Arrest2:01:53 Arrested for Seven Grams: Jail and Release on Bond2:12:37 Returning to Cocaine Dealing After Jail2:25:57 The IRS, Business Partners, and Losing His Money2:35:42 Informants Inside Miami Nightclubs2:42:03 A Police Search Finds a Hidden Car Compartment2:48:23 For This Reason: His Book and Redemption Have an unbelievable story? Apply to be a guest: https://www.honoramongthievespodcast.com/guest Get Your Merch https://shop.honoramongthievespodcast.com/products/the-world-is-mine-unisex-t-shirt Become an Honor Among Thieves Patreon Member Join The Underworld https://www.patreon.com/cw/honoramongthieves?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Links Nelson on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/montanatheprophet/ Marcos on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/19RSkJ8ekN/ Sponsors Nord VPN https://bit.ly/honorvpn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  How I Became a DEA Informant to Avoid 25 Years in Prison

  Sep 24, 20262h 15m

  Former South Florida drug smuggler Ken Behr returns to Honor Among Thieves Podcast to explain how he became a DEA confidential informant. Facing up to 25 years in prison after a marijuana bust, Ken recounts his decision to cooperate and the two years he spent working undercover while trying to stay in his young daughter’s life. In this Part 2 interview with Nelson Rodriguez Jr., Ken shares stories of recorded drug deals, paid informants, undercover sting operations and asset seizures. He describes a close call in Jamaica, a $100,000 payout he says he witnessed another informant receive, and his role in an investigation involving a proposed 10,000-kilo cocaine deal linked to Canadian organized crime. The conversation also explores the pressure of a RICO case, the personal cost of becoming an informant, and the operations that still trouble Ken decades later. He reflects on receiving probation, raising his children and leaving drug trafficking behind in this firsthand true crime account of cooperation, consequences and second chances. Subscribe to Honor Among Thieves Podcast for more true-crime interviews, federal prison stories, organized crime history, drug-trafficking cases, and raw conversations about consequences and redemption. This episode is presented for documentary, journalistic, and educational purposes. It does not promote or glorify illegal drug use, drug trafficking, identity fraud, or other criminal activity. Chapters 00:00 Ken Behr: Drug Smuggler Turned DEA Informant 05:01 The Marijuana Bust That Led to a RICO Case 09:22 How a One-Pound Bust Exposed a Smuggling Network 17:35 Facing 25 Years: Pressure to Become an Informant 27:52 Why Drug Smugglers End Up Broke 37:18 How Ken Was Recruited as a DEA Informant 41:12 Paid DEA Informants and a $100,000 Payout 44:03 Meeting His DEA Handler: Code Name Kilo Bravo 50:23 Inside Ken’s First DEA Drug Sting 1:01:32 Wearing a Wire for a West Palm Beach Drug Bust 1:11:12 The Recording Equipment Ken Used for the DEA 1:22:09 Undercover in Jamaica: Ken’s Emergency Extraction 1:31:10 The 200-Kilo Hashish Sting in Fort Lauderdale 1:36:21 The Personal Cost of Becoming a DEA Informant 1:43:05 Canadian Mob: The Proposed 10,000-Kilo Cocaine Deal 1:52:09 DEA Cooperation and the Pressure to Name Names 1:59:46 Ken Behr on the War on Drugs 2:05:23 Leaving Drug Smuggling Behind: Ken’s Lessons 2:09:32 Ken Behr’s Book, Podcast, Crime Nightly and Redemption Have an unbelievable story? Apply to be a guest: https://www.honoramongthievespodcast.com/guest Get Your Merch https://shop.honoramongthievespodcast.com/products/the-world-is-mine-unisex-t-shirt Become an Honor Among Thieves Patreon Member Join The Underworld https://www.patreon.com/cw/honoramongthieves?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Links Nelson on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/montanatheprophet/ Ken on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kenbehr?igsh=YXM2cWVic3k2djVn Crime Nightly https://www.instagram.com/crimenightly?igsh=MWtkbDIya3FiaGZwZw== https://onestepovertheline.com/ Sponsors Nord VPN https://bit.ly/honorvpn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  I Flooded Miami With 50,000 Ecstasy Pills: My Life in the Underworld

  Sep 20, 20261h 16m

  Former Miami drug dealer Westchester Stevie, an original member of the Miami Westchester Boys, gives a firsthand account of his rise through Miami’s nightclub drug trade. He explains how he went from selling small bags as a teenager to operating a 450-pound pill press, turning 25,000 ecstasy pills into 50,000 and beginning a 15-year drug run supplying street dealers, bars, restaurants and nightclubs across Miami. Stevie recounts moving bricks, throwing a box of kilos from his car while escaping federal agents and fleeing to Disney World after federal agents raided his home. Following a two-year federal investigation, he turned himself in, received a 12-year sentence and ultimately served nearly seven years in federal prison. Now working as a successful car salesman, Westchester Stevie reflects on the Westchester Boys, Miami’s cocaine and ecstasy eras, the consequences of fast money and how prison permanently changed his life. This episode of Honor Among Thieves Podcast offers a raw look inside Miami crime, drug trafficking, federal prison and one man’s journey away from the streets. Subscribe to Honor Among Thieves Podcast for more true-crime interviews, federal prison stories, organized crime history, drug-trafficking cases, and raw conversations about consequences and redemption. This episode is presented for documentary, journalistic, and educational purposes. It does not promote or glorify illegal drug use, drug trafficking, identity fraud, or other criminal activity. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:52 Origins of Miami’s Westchester Boys 05:54 Scarface and Miami’s Fast-Money Era 10:06 The Wildest Westchester Boys Street Brawl 13:56 Building Miami’s Ecstasy Pill Operation 19:34 From 1,000 to 25,000 Ecstasy Pills 24:24 The Collapse of Miami’s Ecstasy Era 30:00 From Ecstasy to a 15-Year Cocaine Run 35:28 Escaping Police With Kilos of Cocaine 40:24 Surrendering and a 12-Year Federal Sentence 42:09 FDC Miami, Gustavo Falcon and a Prison Brawl 46:48 FCI Oakdale and the Prison Cellphone Business 49:47 FCI Bastrop: Cartel Drones and Prison Gangs 52:53 Refusing a Mandatory Prison Head Tattoo 56:36 From Drug Dealer to Successful Car Salesman 1:01:38 Miami Grow Houses and a 450-Plant Police Raid 1:07:11 Aggravated Assault and Boot Camp at 18 1:09:34 His Warning to Young Drug Dealers 1:11:42 Legacy, Redemption and Faith After Prison Have an unbelievable story? Apply to be a guest: https://www.honoramongthievespodcast.com/guest Get Your Merch https://shop.honoramongthievespodcast.com/products/the-world-is-mine-unisex-t-shirt Become an Honor Among Thieves Patreon Member Join The Underworld https://www.patreon.com/cw/honoramongthieves?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Links Nelson on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/montanatheprophet/ Stevie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stevenangelet?stkn=bjBiaHlnamUzcnN4 Sponsors Nord VPN https://bit.ly/honorvpn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  The Drug Dealing Stripper That Was On The First 48 And Did 13 Years In Prison

  Sep 17, 20263h 7m

  Former Stripper turned drug dealer Danielle Sachs reveals how painkiller addiction pulled her into fake prescriptions, pharmacy fraud and Florida’s pill-mill economy. In this unfiltered Honor Among Thieves Podcast interview, Danielle explains how she sold prescription pills from Miami and Palm Beach to Kentucky, landed on Gainesville’s Most Wanted list and eventually became involved in a murder case featured on A&E’s The First 48. After her arrest was captured by The First 48, Danielle spent nearly four years in county jail before receiving a 15-year sentence and serving 13 years in Florida state prison. She breaks down Florida’s principal law, life inside a women’s prison and the dangerous prison-contraband economy that continued her cycle of criminal behavior. Danielle also shares the moment confinement forced her to confront who she had become, how faith transformed the final years of her sentence and how she rebuilt her life after prison. This is a raw true-crime story about prescription drug dealing, opioid addiction, murder, women’s prison, prison contraband, redemption and second chances. Subscribe to Honor Among Thieves Podcast for more true-crime interviews, federal prison stories, organized crime history, drug-trafficking cases, and raw conversations about consequences and redemption. This episode is presented for documentary, journalistic, and educational purposes. It does not promote or glorify illegal drug use, drug trafficking, identity fraud, or other criminal activity. Chapters 00:00 Intro 06:18 Rebellion, Running Away and Early Trouble 18:17 Stripping at With a Fake ID 26:09 The Fake Prescription Drug Operation 34:22 Landing on Gainesville’s Most Wanted 40:11 Drug Court and Florida’s Pill-Mill Era 42:42 Selling Florida Pain Pills in Kentucky 57:27 Rehab, Sobriety and the Halfway House 1:05:40 Relapsing Into Prescription Drug Dealing 1:27:31 Cocaine, Pills and a Total Downward Spiral 1:32:29 The Night That Became a Murder Case 1:59:27 Homicide Detectives Close In 2:05:31 Arrested on Camera for The First 48 2:09:07 Bonded Out and Going on the Run 2:14:03 Captured on a First-Degree Murder Charge 2:22:33 County Jail and a Forbidden Relationship 2:31:39 Building a Drug Operation Behind Bars 2:37:57 Smuggling Contraband Through Prison Visitation 2:44:41 Confinement and a Spiritual Turning Point 2:52:44 Life After Prison and Danielle’s New Mission 2:59:05 Danielle’s Message About Second Chances 3:01:32 Redemption Have an unbelievable story? Apply to be a guest: https://www.honoramongthievespodcast.com/guest Get Your Merch https://shop.honoramongthievespodcast.com/products/the-world-is-mine-unisex-t-shirt Become an Honor Among Thieves Patreon Member Join The Underworld https://www.patreon.com/cw/honoramongthieves?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Links Nelson on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/montanatheprophet/ Danielle on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/butterflyfreee7?stkn=M3R6ZHhzOHFhcWwz Sponsors Nord VPN https://bit.ly/honorvpn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Barry Seal's Son: The Truth About My Father’s $1 Million Smuggling Flights

  Sep 13, 20261h 33m

  Barry Seal’s son, Aaron Seal, joins the Honor Among Thieves Podcast to reveal the true story behind his father’s $1 million cocaine-smuggling flights for the Medellín Cartel. Aaron explains how Barry went from a TWA pilot to flying massive loads for Pablo Escobar and the Ochoa brothers—eventually earning as much as $2.5 million per trip. Going beyond the Tom Cruise movie American Made, Aaron separates Hollywood fiction from reality and addresses the questions surrounding Barry Seal’s connections to the CIA, DEA and White House. He also explains why he believes the federal government failed to protect Barry before his 1986 assassination. Aaron opens up about losing his father, his own struggles with drug smuggling and addiction, and his extraordinary decision to forgive a man involved in Barry Seal’s murder. He also reveals how he eventually became close friends with Pablo Escobar’s son. Subscribe to Honor Among Thieves Podcast for more true-crime interviews, federal prison stories, organized crime history, drug-trafficking cases, and raw conversations about consequences and redemption. This episode is presented for documentary, journalistic, and educational purposes. It does not promote or glorify illegal drug use, drug trafficking, identity fraud, or other criminal activity. Chapters 0:00 Barry Seal’s $1 Million Cocaine Flights 6:09 American Made: Barry Seal Fact vs. Hollywood Fiction 11:58 Growing Up as Barry Seal’s Son 16:38 $1 Million Flights for the Medellín Cartel 18:21 Barry Seal, the CIA and the Bay of Pigs 24:59 Barry Seal’s Mena, Arkansas Contra Operation 29:20 Photographing Pablo Escobar Loading Cocaine 32:32 Why the Government Failed to Protect Barry Seal 39:06 The Day Barry Seal Was Assassinated 45:15 Aaron Seal Forgives His Father’s Hitmen 53:27 Barry Seal’s Son Becomes a Drug Smuggler 57:09 A $400-a-Day Opioid Addiction 1:06:45 66:45 Barry Seal’s Son Befriends Pablo Escobar’s Son 1:11:38 Barry Seal and the “Snitch” Debate 1:16:45 Why Aaron Forgave the Escobar Family 1:21:37 CIA Drug-Trafficking Allegations and the Drug War 1:27:45 Redemption and Barry Seal’s Legacy Have an unbelievable story? Apply to be a guest: https://www.honoramongthievespodcast.com/guest Get Your Merch https://shop.honoramongthievespodcast.com/products/the-world-is-mine-unisex-t-shirt Become an Honor Among Thieves Patreon Member Join The Underworld https://www.patreon.com/cw/honoramongthieves?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Links Nelson on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/montanatheprophet/ Aaron Seal on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/real.aaron.seal?stkn=MXBjbG1hbHN0c3J2cg== Sponsors Nord VPN https://bit.ly/honorvpn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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