Welcome back to 30 series Chronicles Podcast.
I am your host, Officer Indio.
I was assigned to 30 series Specialized Unit in the Detroit Police Department.
I handled high felony crimes and demonic possession.
This is my story.
Again, I'd like to start out and say thank you for your support.
I've grown more listeners and people are reaching out and saying hey when is the next one coming
out?
I'm trying my best to stay on top of it.
Life challenges gets in the way at times and it makes it harder.
But the story that I'd like to get into is a little bit about my history with the Detroit
Police Department.
So here's a true story.
When I graduated the academy I was assigned to the Southwest District in Detroit Southwest
which is the third president on West Furner.
I was partnered with field training officers for about 3-4 months and to be honest with
you guys they said that I was too nice and I didn't cut the mustard because I was very
nice to everybody I spoke to because I always felt and was raised to treat people with respect
and dignity.
The boy was I in for a rude awakening.
So the field training officer at the time told my commanding officer that he felt that
I wasn't ready for the streets and that I would cost him $2.
And the story behind the $2 is that when an officer dies on a line of duty they deduct
$2 from every officer that's in that department and they give that as a small donation to
the family who just lost an officer.
And I spoke with the commander and I just said hey this is how I was raised.
I treat people with respect and I talked to them with respect and he said I'm going to
give you one more chance and he partnered me with another officer and that officer was
Hispanic.
I almost was like a twin to me to be honest with you and next you know I'm in this different
patrol unit and we're riding along down West Furner our first day together he lights a
cigarette takes a long drive and goes just do what I tell you to do or do what I say
to do when I tell you to do it and you should be fine.
And then next you know hits the gas and we take off like 50-60 miles an hour he cuts
a corner jumps a curve goes down this alley and I'm like what did you see and he's like
don't worry about it to stay in the car and he slams the car breaks and we come to this
long skid and he jumps out and I don't know whether to jump out because I don't want to
sit there and disobey this guy because I just got partnered with him and from the passenger
seat I see him grab this guy and start to plummet his ass and I'm like what the hell
has just happened and he picks this guy up and he tosses him into the garbage can then
closes the lid and he gets back into the car picks a cigarette that he had on dashboard
flat where he left it takes another drag and I'm like what the fuck just happened and he
was just like do try to sell cracked my wife when she dropped me off and then we carried
on and from that point forward I was like wow because the commanders who told me he's
gonna give me second chance said if you don't become more like this guy you're not you're
going to be let go from the police department and that was my experience and I've been there
ever since now not to say that I went in around kicking people's butts just because I wanted
to because that wasn't in my MO that's not who I was but if I had to get down toe to
toe I'd be the first one to take the badge off and go let's go and so to make a long
story short the reason why I'm telling you this is because this really did happen and
this is why I mean I went through a lot of trials and tribulations before I was inducted
into 30 series and fast forward three years later we're still partners and we started
investigating this drug dealer that's just bad and our SLIs which is source of information
start telling us that he was involved in this killing of a mentally challenged person on
the service drive in Southwest Detroit and everybody's telling us this but nobody's coming
forward and that's the thing with the hood you need to have a witness willing to testify
against that person but they were all afraid of him and they didn't want to go to court
but I knew that he did it and was just proving it flash forward six months later there's
a sting operation that's conducted on me by the Department of Justice and they put the
same drug dealer give him some dirty money and he was trying to give it to us he was
like you guys could take it you guys could take it and we're like we're not dirty cops
we don't do that and along behold I was arrested because this drug dealer accused us or accused
me of stealing his CD faceplate now if you remember back in the day there was faceplate
said it went on your CD player and then you could push the button it would eject that
faceplate I was arrested for a faceplate and a $15 personal check and the FBI and Department
of Justice raided my house and service a search warrant looking for a detachable face and
a $15 personal check and I was just blown away and we found this out through discovery
and I was placed on departmental leave without pay until the investigation happened I went
to my attorney and I was like listen I'm willing to take a lie detector test I'm willing to
do whatever they need to do to prove that I've never done that and they refused to give
me a polygraph test because they said it's not admissible in court so it would just
be a waste of time and so I waited and waited and waited and during that time this criminal
was arrested multiple times for violation of control substance act which is a felony
multiple times and here's my take on it he had protection from internal affairs and
the Department of Justice FBI so all that did was inflate it this guy's head and made
him turn worse and we already knew he was bad because our SOIs would tell us about the
murder they committed on the service drive our SOIs told us about the house that he
said on fire of two elderly couple because they would report him selling drugs around
the corner of rape, sodomy and everything else but again it's the hood and nobody wants
to come forward and testify against this guy because now they feel like he's untouchable
because now he's been arrested multiple times on violation of control substance act and
he's never saw a day court and why didn't he see a day court because he was their star
witness and the reason why I tell you this story was because I was put on departmental
leave for a year and during that year I didn't have that much money because I didn't get
paid much in the police department and again I didn't go enjoy the police department because
I wanted to be rich I wanted to help people and during this time I was approached by a
specialized unit called global risk and if you know what global risk is it's sort of
a name under black water and they asked me if I would like to do some executive protection
services out of the country and I said sure why not let me check on my attorney to see
if I'm able to go because I don't want people to believe that next you know that I left
the country to avoid prosecution and after speaking with my attorney I had the blessing
to go and of course I'm going to go because it's the only kind of money I could try to
salvage my life and I get put on the airport and I get flown out all the way to Tampico,
Mexico. We arrive on Tampico, Mexico right before the whole Y2K thing if you remember
that where all the computers were supposed to go down and this is going to be this complete
chaos because the computers weren't set to go past 2000 and all this madness but I had
no choice and I took it and so I arrived at Tampico with another person I call him EC
Cole, Cole is his last name and he and I and another member arrived in the Tampico, Mexico's
airstrip. We were then shuttled off to a private jet airport where we were blindfolded and
then flown and then we were on this plane. I wouldn't say private because it was definitely
luxury but it was a plane and we were on it for hours and I'm thinking to myself where
the hell are they taking us? Now they had the blindfolds on us when we got on the plane
and then once we were up in there we were able to take them off and we were in this plane
ride for a long, long, long time and then we finally touched ground and we land in a field,
a man-made field and because you could tell they just made this from dirt and we exit
and we're like where the hell are we? And then we're met with some hummers and some
black Range Rovers and they pick us up and they take us to an isolated place and I'm
looking around and I'm like I'm not familiar with the landscape of this environment where
the hell are we? So Christmas comes and goes and I'm still there in this desolate field
with EG Col and we're like what the hell did we join? And a month into it we start noticing
the same people arriving to this, our location and that location is unknown to us. All I
know is that we're heavily armed, we have just about every weapon that you could think
of, there's lots of us right? And I mean in our line there was probably about 15 of us
that were heavily armed but this white Range Rover would come in and they were always cleared
and a month into it one of the gentlemen from the White Range Rover finally acts as it and
starts smoking a cigarette and I could tell that cigarettes were European because it was
just different from what I'm used to in the States. Like you could light a marble red,
I could tell it's marble red or you can light a new port and I could tell it's a new port.
This cigarette just had a different distinct smell so I knew we had to be somewhere outside
of our country obviously. And he and I walked eyes and he had a black suit and on the lapel
was a red crucifix and he's seen me enough times on the detail where he was comfortable
enough where I approached him, heavily armed and I asked him a question, I say, if you
don't mind what are we doing here? And I was expecting him to go, well you guys are protecting
an oil pipeline or some sort of thing like that but he was like, you don't know? And
I said, no, I don't know. I just know that I took this job and you guys found me somehow
and now I'm here. And he said, tomorrow around noon, look as far as you can see and you're
going to see something. And I was like, okay, I don't know what he's supposed to see. And
he takes a long drag of his cigarette and he goes, you'll just see. And he throws it
on the dirt and turns it off and he gets back in the car and they pull off. And so I go
to bed and my detail was early in the morning so if I, four in the morning rolls around
and I'm up because now it's my turn to guard and our orders were weapons free, no one's
allowed if they're not cleared and we would have to light the person up that was coming
there. And some hours go by, I'm slipping on some coffee and I look at my watch and
I go, oh, it's almost noon. So I turn my back to see where he had pointed. And this is true,
ladies and gentlemen, I, we all see that are on the detail, a light, a white, bright light
coming from the sky all the way down behind the mountain. And this light was absolutely
gorgeous. It was heavenly. And we all just sort of looked at one another and was like,
what is that? And nobody knew. And I remember raising my weapon and looking in the scope
because it allowed me to see farther. And it was just radiant. And next, you know, it
goes away. And we're like, what the hell was that? They're shooting lasers? Are we out
here because there's UFOs? I mean, all kinds of questions started to get raised. A week
later, the same white on beat comes by. And he stops and he's clear. Before he pushes
on, he rolls the window down and he calls me over. And I go over there and I go, how
are you doing, sir? You guys, did you see it? And I go, yeah, I think so. A little hesitant
because I don't know if I was supposed to see what I was supposed to see or not. And
I'm like, yeah, can I ask you one more question? And he's like, go ahead. I said, what is,
what did I just see? I don't understand. I've never seen anything come that far and that
high. And he looked at me and smiled. And he goes, come here, come a little closer.
And I lean a little closer. I don't know if he's gonna punch me or kiss me. But I'm
like, okay, let me just get ready for whatever's about to come my way. He takes his dragon
and he goes, what if I told you that Jesus Christ had a son and he was here and my heart
dropped in my asshole puckered. And I was like, what? And then he smiled, rolled the
window up and he pulled off. And I looked back and EC E Cole was behind me. And Eric
Cole, well, there's his name, right? Eric Cole. He was behind me. And the reason why
I was kind of hesitant to say his name was because he took an operation in black water
and he didn't make it. So I was trying to pay homage to his family. But I think this
sort of is his legacy as well. And we sort of look one another and couldn't believe that
we heard is the truth or just a lie. And then one of the other people that were on detail
longer than we were were told us, you know, those are priests, right? And I'm like, is
that what the red lapel who's the fix is on their blazer? It's like, yeah. I'm thinking
why would a priest lie to me? I don't think he would lie. And then buddy just tell me
what he was not supposed to tell me. And it just got really weird for me. And I was coming
and approaching the end of my assignment. And then I was approached again by the same
guy that found me just happened to be there and says, Hey, we'd like you to stick around
a little longer. But by then I was sort of spooked. And I was like, no, I think it's time
for me to go home. And he said, Okay, we understand. And so a couple of days later, I packed my
stuff up and I flew back to Detroit. So I arrived back home in Detroit. My wife picks
me up from the airport. And I tell her that what happened. And she's sort of quiet. And
I'm like, what's wrong? She's like, you know, the guy that put those fake charges on you,
he killed a little girl. And I was like, what? And he's like, she told me like, Yeah, he
was rested with the other guy that he was with. Because he did a drive by. And then murdered
this little girl. And that little girl's name was destiny Thomas. She was nine years old
and she was playing in her room. When they did a drive by and they shot her in the head
and killed her. And I was just sick to my stomach. Sick to the fact that I knew that
this guy was bad. And he had this protection from internal affairs and Department of Justice
that allowed him to continue to be who he was. And all they did was made him a supervillain
because now he felt like he was untouchable. Because I was aware of the arrests that had
happened. He was arrested on multiple times for violation of the Contrary Substance Act,
which is a felony and also possession of a gun. And nothing ever came to light. And
now this little girl, she she died unnecessarily because he should have never been on the streets.
And WDIV News Detroit reached out to me wanted to do an interview because they wanted to
know if this guy had federal protection. And I wanted to tell the truth. I'm like, absolutely.
Let me tell you this whole thing. But I couldn't. My attorney would not allow me to speak because
I was still being persecuted for something I know I didn't do. And long and behold,
police trial finally happens for me. And we go in there. And I tell them I started the
story. And immediately, sherry Oliver reinstates me full active duty and give the soft for
his back pay. Because he saw through the bullshit of what was being spun around me.
And so a week later, I have to report back to my precinct. And I go there and full uniform
doesn't feel the same anymore, because I'm thinking, man, did I really just go through
all that crap? And I went through it. I tell you, because the news is calling me a cancerous
disease and all these other things and they threw me under the bus and still came out
clean because I didn't do anything wrong. I was a good cop. And I didn't stay there too
long. That's when I was approached by a sergeant saying that I was being reassigned. And that's
when I was inducted into the 30 series. After all the stuff that I went through trials and
tribulations, you can look this court case up and my heart goes out to destiny Thomas's
family. I tried to put him away because I knew he was bad. I knew he was going to kill
somebody else hurt somebody else. And I tried my best. And so I give you my condolences.
Rest in peace. That city Thomas I tried. I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm a father
now so I can't it breaks my heart and there's not a day that hasn't gone by that I've been
one to tell the story. And there it is guys. The true story. Again, thank you for supporting
my podcast. We'll dive deeper into the rabbit hole next week. God bless.