By Craig Glazer
Craig Glazer used to be a standard university scholar while he deliberate and effectively carried out his first pretend sting to come again at a few drug buyers who had robbed him. the frenzy he received from the adventure led him and a workforce of eleven accomplices to mastermind a two-year, 33-sting spree that stretched coast to coast, posing as every thing from neighborhood police to IRS brokers and lodge managers. Glazer and Donald Woodbeck, his associate in crime, sniffed out the most sought-after drug lords within the kingdom for the FBI and DEA like bloodhounds. For some time, the plan worked—until Craig's global got here crashing down.
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I plowed ahead. “They don’t fight back because we’re cops. They even think you’re a cop now. They think there are dozens of other cops all over the place. They figure they’ll just go through the system. We take their guns, their money and their grass. ” “What a great idea,” Don said with a smirk. “You’re going to pose as a cop. ” “You’re going to get a big boom-boom gun and you’re going to stick these guys up and tell them you’re a cop? They’ll fall for that. ” He turned to Milwaukee Jim and laughed.
II. Title. 16’3092—dc22 [B] 2008008707 Printed in the United States of America TO MY MOTHER Rita, my grandpa Bennie, my father Stan, and Don Woodbeck: the people who helped make me who I am, for good and bad. And also to my nephews Jake and Alex, in the hope that reading my story they will make better choices in their lives than I made in mine. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Authors’ Note 1 - Higher Education 2 - A Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man 3 - Flash for the Cash 4 - A Life of Crime 5 - Bullets and Bikers 6 - Kill or Be Killed 7 - Undercover Cop 8 - Outlaws and Outsiders 9 - Going Hollywood 10 - Blood in Redondo Beach 11 - No Trust in Tinseltown 12 - Dope and Duplicity 13 - Getting Stung 14 - On Trial 15 - Behind Bars Epilogue Acknowledgments Authors’ Note SOME NAMES IN this book have been changed to protect the privacy and/or safety of individuals.
Bob pointed to the table in the middle of the room. Stacked neatly were separate piles of bills, held together by rubber bands. My $300 was the smallest contribution to the pool of $10,000. My fellow student, Steve Asher, who brought me to the apartment, had the biggest pile. The big man, who looked like a cross between Ernest Borgnine of McHale’s Navy and a red-bearded Viking, seemed pleased. He nodded to the scarred Chicano, who returned to the van they drove up in. In a few seconds, he came back lugging a burlap gunnysack that reeked of weed.
