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00:04It's being touted as the biggest drug bust
00:07in Canadian history and probably
00:09the most dramatic. A story
00:11covering two continents, a plane
00:13chase and up to a billion dollars
00:15worth of cocaine. This was a big
00:17case. I consider it the largest case I'd ever
00:19worked. We did not know
00:20anything about the pilot.
00:2323 years for the pilot Boulanger.
00:25His name is Raymond Boulanger.
00:27Raymond Boulanger.
00:29Well, I don't forget it. It was a hell of a lot of fun.
00:31Let me tell you. It was quite a ride.
00:35I was involved in a lot of different
00:37operations. Operations
00:39supervised by the CIA.
00:42I used to think
00:43the CIA were the good guys and then you start
00:45to realize the more you work for them, well, we're not the good
00:47guys. We're actually the bad guys.
00:50I talked with Pablo
00:51many times and then he was well into the CIA.
00:53They were all in bed with him.
00:56Cocaine.
00:58That's when it got interesting.
01:00I was considered one of the biggest
01:01traffickers at that time.
01:04They asked me if I can
01:06help him
01:08and I did.
01:10The cartels have a history of violence,
01:12a wide trail of destruction
01:14and death.
01:15Bad people.
01:17It's the far west.
01:18It's all part of the game.
01:22My grandfather said
01:23there's three ways you can live life.
01:24You can lead,
01:25you can follow,
01:26or you can get the fuck out the way.
01:28I prefer to lead.
01:45The seizure in Quebec
01:47may be the biggest ever.
01:48The enormous value of the plane's cargo
01:50that was crammed in here,
01:52that's just one part of the story.
01:54This guy contacted me and asked me
01:56if I thought it would be possible
01:57to fly a large load of cocaine
01:59from South America to Canada.
02:00I said, yeah, of course,
02:02it's no big deal.
02:03The goal was to put
02:044,000 kilos of cocaine
02:06on one flight.
02:08And that's it.
02:09You're on your way.
02:11We were at work.
02:12We had just gotten there.
02:14It was 8.30 or 9 o'clock,
02:16something like that,
02:16when we got the call from Ottawa.
02:18It was about a plane
02:19that had left Columbia
02:21that was supposed to go to the U.S.,
02:23but the Americans noticed
02:24it was actually headed to Canada.
02:27So I just pulled off to the right here
02:29and parked the airplane
02:30with the nose facing west,
02:31and we got out of the airplane
02:32and started looking
02:33where the hell everybody was.
02:34I'm standing here,
02:35300 clicks in the bush
02:36north of Montreal,
02:37and shit,
02:385 tons of cocaine,
02:3920 below zero,
02:40and nobody here.
02:41I couldn't believe it.
02:42It's insane.
02:43I never saw anything that stupid.
02:59I got a call
03:00from a gentleman here in Montreal,
03:01a representative of the local mafia,
03:04trying to get an aircraft
03:05that would be able to fly a load
03:06directly from Columbia to Canada.
03:08And they had problems
03:09that they'd gone through
03:10a couple of pilots
03:11who couldn't do it.
03:12They'd gone through
03:13a couple of attempts that failed.
03:14So at one point,
03:15this guy contacted me
03:16and asked me
03:16if I thought it would be possible
03:18to fly a large load of cocaine
03:20from South America to Canada.
03:22And I said,
03:23yeah, of course,
03:23it's no big deal.
03:27John Raymond Boulanger,
03:29he was approached
03:31by the Montreal Mafia
03:32to carry out
03:32a cocaine delivery operation
03:34from Columbia.
03:38Those people
03:39had already sponsored
03:41two operations
03:41over the previous months
03:43and they had failed.
03:46They didn't want
03:47the importation
03:48to fail.
03:49Like in previous attempts,
03:52so,
03:53they were looking
03:54for a pilot
03:55that was capable
03:56of getting the job done.
03:58with them.
04:07We're considered,
04:08myself and the group
04:09that I'm in,
04:10to be in the top 4%
04:12of the best pilots
04:13in the world.
04:14Well,
04:14I asked for $50 million
04:17and they said,
04:18yep,
04:19no problem.
04:21It's just not a game
04:22for amateurs.
04:23You know,
04:23it's very dangerous
04:24and you have to be highly skilled
04:25or just somewhat
04:27a little bit crazy
04:27maybe along the edges.
04:30But,
04:30you know,
04:30there's not that many pilots
04:31that have the skill
04:32to be able to do that.
04:36Because,
04:36you know,
04:37people had tried
04:38and said,
04:39they said it was impossible,
04:39it couldn't be done.
04:40And I said,
04:41that's ridiculous.
04:42Of course it could be done.
04:43There's no such thing
04:43as impossible.
04:44It just takes a little longer
04:45to do the impossible.
04:46That's all.
04:53But they had tried it
04:55a couple of times
04:55and they failed.
04:56So that becomes
04:57a question of competence.
05:07I went up myself
05:08and examined the runways.
05:09I took two of their people
05:10with me.
05:10I stopped at Casey
05:11on the way down
05:12and I told them,
05:13that's where you're going to be.
05:14This is where you're going to be.
05:15Casey,
05:15we used to fly there a lot.
05:17land there
05:18and go fishing
05:18in the river beside it.
05:22During the Cold War,
05:24the Canadian Armed Forces
05:25built military installations
05:27in the north of Canada.
05:29One of them
05:30was the Casey runway.
05:31It was an emergency
05:32landing strip.
05:34It was very,
05:35very long
05:36and isolated
05:37in the middle of nowhere.
05:39For operations
05:40like the one
05:40that Raymond was leading,
05:42to import drugs,
05:43it was perfect.
05:49He also had to have
05:50intimate knowledge
05:51of the landing conditions
05:52at Casey
05:53to be able to land
05:54a plane that large
05:56with that type of a load on it.
05:58He had to be familiar
05:59with that particular runway
06:01and what preparations
06:03were necessary
06:04to make it successful.
06:08So it's our belief
06:09that Mr. Bollinger
06:10was probably
06:11the sole architect,
06:12at least for the transportation,
06:14aviation transportation,
06:15part of this project.
06:23There's always confidence
06:24that everything's going to go well.
06:25We plan things
06:26and we do strategic thinking.
06:29So nothing is done haphazard here.
06:32The idea was to do
06:33a test flight first
06:34to make sure
06:36it could be done successfully.
06:38So they did a first flight
06:39with a King Air
06:40and 500 kilos of cocaine?
06:51I did the first flight successfully,
06:53no problem at all.
06:54It went quite well.
06:55I left Columbia
06:57and over Casey.
06:58I just spiraled,
06:59landed at the airport
07:00and there was my guy
07:01and we unloaded.
07:02I took some fuel on
07:03and we split.
07:04We were there,
07:05I think, probably,
07:06you could say 20 minutes,
07:07but, you know,
07:08some say 15,
07:09some say 18,
07:10but let's say 20 minutes.
07:16I was back in Columbia
07:18in less than 23 hours,
07:20less than one day.
07:30The goal, eventually,
07:33over the following weeks,
07:34was to fly in
07:35with a much bigger load,
07:374,000 kilos of cocaine
07:39in one flight.
07:43To transport
07:454,000 kilos of cocaine,
07:48they needed a bigger plane
07:49than a King Air.
07:50He decided on a Convair.
07:53The sponsors bought
07:55the Convair
07:55from a company called
07:57Avesca in Colombia.
08:00Avesca was a cargo company
08:02based out of El Dorado Airport,
08:04the main international airport
08:05in Bogota.
08:06and it was owned
08:07by a gentleman
08:08by the name of
08:09Luis Carlos Herrera Lascano.
08:12Luis Carlos Herrera
08:15was a pilot.
08:16He started in the cocaine business
08:18back in the 70s
08:19and in the early 80s.
08:22Avesca was flying loads
08:24of cocaine.
08:25The connection was there,
08:26the conspiracy was there,
08:28the cocaine planes were there.
08:30So we knew Avesca
08:32was the transportation air wing
08:34for the cartels.
08:37I had done flights
08:38with Convairs many times
08:39before doing the Casey one.
08:41I knew that was a perfectly
08:42good airplane for that.
08:43Convair 580 was modified
08:45with General Motors turbines
08:47on it.
08:47Very powerful engines
08:48and it's quite capable
08:49of carrying considerable overload.
08:52The main example
08:54of what we would see
08:55is that they would
08:56try to increase
08:57the capabilities
08:58of the aircraft.
08:59They wanted to carry
09:00larger loads,
09:01heavier loads
09:02for a greater distance.
09:03And one way
09:04that they were able
09:05to go the greater distance
09:06was to add additional fuel
09:08to the plane.
09:10To me,
09:10it looked horrifying.
09:11In my view,
09:12it was a very risky proposition
09:14and one that would take
09:16a very unique pilot
09:18to challenge that type
09:19of a risk.
09:20Or maybe you just weren't
09:23quite as rational
09:24as a regular pilot would be.
09:28I'd done several flights
09:29to Mexico with Convairs 580.
09:32It was an excellent
09:32aircraft for that.
09:40So typically,
09:41what they would do
09:41is when they were
09:42flying cocaine,
09:44they would disguise the plane
09:45by removing all the data tags.
09:47The identification tags
09:49were like the serial number
09:50on your automobile.
09:51A lot of the guys
09:52would rent their aircraft out.
09:53They just changed
09:54the registration numbers
09:55on the aircraft
09:56for the flight.
09:56Well, they don't want
09:57to identify the aircraft
09:58directly, so when they
10:00send an aircraft out
10:01for that,
10:01the serial numbers
10:02are removed.
10:03They're camouflaged
10:04the airplane.
10:04and you can't really,
10:05it's hard to detect
10:06the actual ownership.
10:08So, November 12, 1992,
10:11about five days
10:12before the infamous
10:14KC flight,
10:15Raymond Boulanger
10:16went to see his friend
10:16Guy Bernier
10:17on the south shore
10:18of Montreal.
10:19Oh, boy.
10:21Oh, my gosh.
10:25I had a company out
10:27in Saint-Jean.
10:28We did maintenance
10:29of Hydro-Québec planes,
10:31Convair 580s.
10:33One day, Raymond came
10:35to take a look
10:36in the hangar.
10:39There was a Convair
10:40that was almost
10:41a replica
10:41of the one
10:42he was going to use
10:43to fly to KC.
10:44As a joke,
10:44I put it on one
10:45that was pulled out
10:46of commission.
10:46I saw it in the hangar
10:47in Saint-Jean.
10:48The aircraft
10:49would be decommissioned.
10:50It was just being
10:50parted in pieces,
10:52had nothing left of it.
10:53And the registration
10:54had been canceled,
10:55obviously,
10:55but the letters
10:56were still there, so...
10:57It was easy
10:58to take the letters
10:59and put them
10:59on another plane.
11:01The letters
11:02just stuck in my mind,
11:03that's all.
11:03They said,
11:04well, give us
11:04a Canadian registration.
11:05It just came to my mind.
11:06Well, I'd go stick that on it.
11:07It's a bit of a joke, really.
11:09Sick sense of humor.
11:11I thought,
11:12yep, that's Raymond.
11:19There was a first meeting
11:21with the Montreal Mafia
11:22sponsoring the operation
11:23at the Champs-de-Mars
11:24metro station.
11:26I met the representative
11:28for the Mafia,
11:28Montreal Mafia.
11:30They're Sicilian,
11:31those ones.
11:31If you go use
11:32the other ones,
11:33Calabres,
11:33they're Italians,
11:34but the Sicilians
11:35are Sicilians.
11:36They don't like
11:37to be called Italians.
11:38But I guess
11:39it was a mix
11:40of all of them in there.
11:40They had Calabres,
11:41they had Sicilians,
11:42whatever, so...
11:43I don't even know
11:44the one who I met
11:45if he was a Calabres
11:46or a Sicilian.
11:48But here's definitely
11:49the Italian Mafia.
11:52Yeah, I met
11:53with the representative
11:54of the Sicilian Mafia,
11:56Deschamps de Mars.
11:57But he brought along
11:58with him
11:59the guy they had hired
12:00to do the pickup.
12:02The man that was going
12:03to wait for him
12:04on the Casey Strip
12:06with his accomplices
12:07was Christian Deschenes.
12:11I wasn't happy
12:12about that
12:12because I don't like
12:13meeting people
12:14I don't need to.
12:14He started to tell me
12:16about his prowess
12:16and he'd done this
12:17and he'd done that
12:18and he'd done that
12:18and I told him,
12:19quite frankly,
12:20I don't give a fuck
12:20who you are.
12:21You know,
12:22I don't want to know you.
12:23From that point on,
12:24there was a lot of tension
12:26between the two men.
12:33Well, I didn't really know him.
12:34I had no idea
12:34who he was, you know.
12:36And I'm pretty quick
12:36judge of character
12:37and you look somebody
12:38in the face
12:38and you can tell
12:39if he's a fraud or not,
12:40you know,
12:40and this guy was full of shit
12:41from the get-go.
12:44And I saw him
12:45when we were arraigned
12:46in Latouk
12:48when they hauled us up
12:49to charge us.
12:51And he was in the cell there.
12:53The other one,
12:54well, we didn't talk to him.
12:55I didn't walk by
12:56Colombian city
12:57anywhere near him.
12:57They had to keep him
12:58in the cell.
12:58The Colombians
12:59would have killed him.
13:00They would have jumped
13:00him right there.
13:15I went to pick up
13:16the aircraft for the flight
13:17around 5 o'clock
13:18in the afternoon
13:18in Bogota.
13:19They flew the aircraft
13:20to the desert,
13:21the Guajira.
13:22The runway we used
13:23in the Guajira
13:23was a runway
13:24we had used very often
13:26in the past
13:26when we take off
13:27with large aircraft.
13:29Heat gets up
13:30to 110 degrees
13:31in the daytime.
13:32You can't take off
13:33at 100 degree temperature.
13:34There's just no lift
13:35in the air.
13:36But we always
13:38managed somehow.
13:49Raymond had three
13:50accomplices on board
13:51for the Casey flight.
13:53My copilot was
13:54Juan Carlos Montes-Restrepo.
13:57I had José González
13:59who was the electrician
14:00and Jorge Rojas
14:01was the airframe
14:03and engine specialist.
14:05So that was the crew.
14:07The copilot got 70,
14:08gets $75,000
14:09for a flight like that
14:10and the fellas
14:11in the back
14:11get 50.
14:21The first vehicles
14:22that arrived
14:22were the ones
14:22with the barrels.
14:23So they load
14:24the barrels on board.
14:25There's iron men
14:26everywhere.
14:27There's two or three
14:28hundred of them
14:28and the last thing
14:29to arrive
14:29is a truck full of drugs.
14:30Then they all
14:31get in line
14:31and they take
14:33all the drugs out
14:34and then they
14:35place them
14:35on the side.
14:374,343 kilos
14:39to be exact.
14:41Well, yeah,
14:41they would have
14:41liked to put more
14:42but that was it.
14:44Any more,
14:44200 kilos more
14:45I might not have
14:46gotten off that runway.
14:48It's that critical.
14:50When you think of
14:51the amount of drugs
14:52on that plane,
14:53believe me,
14:54most people thought
14:55he wouldn't be able
14:55to take off.
14:56Yes, of course
14:57it's dangerous.
14:59It's what you're paid for.
15:01You know,
15:01no danger,
15:02everybody would be doing it.
15:03It wouldn't be a big deal,
15:04would it?
15:05Yeah, we knew that.
15:06Yeah,
15:06it was going to be
15:07a really tricky flight.
15:08My scheduled departure
15:10was around 9, 9.15.
15:12Well, you'd take
15:12all the runway you need,
15:14every inch of it
15:15and then you just
15:15pull the aircraft
15:16off slightly,
15:17you let it float
15:18off itself
15:18and that's it,
15:19you're on your way.
15:20So the aircraft
15:20did a wonderful job.
15:28Took off the air
15:29just like nothing.
15:39As soon as his plane left,
15:41he got a message
15:42that he was being tailed,
15:43he was being followed.
15:50Well, I got a call
15:51right away telling me
15:52that I had a tail.
15:55Yeah, it had been
15:56less than 10 minutes
15:57since takeoff
15:57and he warned us
15:58right away.
15:59Just after we take off
16:00and another plane took off,
16:01there was an informant
16:03somewhere.
16:06One of the things
16:06that I'm still challenged
16:08today was to understand
16:09how he thought
16:09he could have
16:11outrun the surveillance,
16:12particularly when it included
16:13the southern Florida,
16:15Caribbean area
16:16and basically NORAD.
16:18Shit, he was being
16:20followed by the
16:20American Air Force
16:21along the coast
16:23the whole time, Jesus.
16:25There's no way
16:26to come up with plan B.
16:29But if he knew
16:30he was being followed,
16:31I don't understand
16:32why he wouldn't have
16:32diverted to an alternate site
16:34or even return back
16:36to the jungle.
16:36Well, heading back
16:37was harder than a question.
16:38It was far too late.
16:39They called me right away
16:40and said that they had
16:41scanned and picked up
16:42the slick
16:42who had just taken off
16:44from Panama
16:44and I said, okay, cool.
16:46That's when I decided
16:46to opt a few more
16:49longitudes to the east.
16:50That delayed
16:51the flight a little.
16:53It also made him
16:54cross a violent storm
16:56north of Bermuda.
17:01Typical North Atlantic
17:02storm, rough wind
17:03and ice.
17:03You get your ass kicked.
17:05It's kind of rough.
17:09That was your average
17:10North Atlantic storm.
17:11Ice, strong winds,
17:12freezing rain,
17:13you name it.
17:14It was a mishmash
17:15of a bunch of things.
17:16Very windy and bumpy.
17:17You know,
17:18you're in deep shit
17:19when it gets bumpy
17:20and the plane does this.
17:21There's turbulence.
17:22Lots of it.
17:23Well, the Colombians
17:24had never seen
17:24a North Atlantic storm
17:25much less because
17:26I don't think they'd ever
17:27been out of Columbia.
17:28A little scared?
17:30Yeah.
17:31Particularly the co-pilot
17:32thought the airplane
17:33was going to come apart.
17:35This kind of weather
17:35is very unforgiving
17:37when people are
17:38incompetent.
17:39We were in there
17:39for about an hour
17:41and then all of a sudden
17:42you just fly out of it
17:43and all the air is all
17:44smooth all of a sudden.
17:45So it's quite a change.
17:46It's all of a sudden,
17:46woof,
17:47you're just,
17:48it's like you're going
17:48in the madhouse.
17:49You're boom, boom,
17:50bippity bop
17:50and you're tossed
17:51all over the place
17:52and then,
17:52boop,
17:53you're out.
17:56Oh yeah,
17:57you can get up
17:57and go in the back.
17:58We have our lunch
17:59with us and everything.
18:00We have a little table
18:00set up and everything
18:01in the back.
18:03Yeah, you have a lot
18:03of time to relax.
18:04You're just cruising
18:05along at altitude,
18:06heading in one direction,
18:07so there's not much
18:08going on.
18:08And not long after that
18:09is when we spotted
18:10the Canadian fighter jets.
18:22A Convair
18:23twin-engine plane
18:24took off from Columbia.
18:25A few quick phone calls
18:27and two CF-18s
18:29from Goose Bay, Labrador
18:30were up in the air.
18:31But he followed me
18:32all the way down
18:33and I said,
18:34oh, that's not going
18:34to last very long
18:35for you, buddy.
18:36So the lower he goes,
18:37the faster he burns
18:38up his fuel.
18:39He left
18:40and the other one
18:41got closer.
18:41We were just timing
18:42how long it was going
18:43to take for him
18:44to run out of gas.
18:45Yeah, we were timing it.
18:46How long?
18:4710 minutes?
18:4715?
18:48Nah, 8 minutes?
18:498 minutes,
18:50one of my engineers
18:51won the bet.
18:52It took 12 minutes.
18:53He was supposed
18:54to buy lunch
18:54when we got back
18:55to Columbia,
18:55but we didn't get
18:56back to Columbia.
18:58So I just paralleled
18:59the river and kept
19:00the aircraft at high
19:01speed and down
19:01so the other jet
19:02pulled right up
19:03beside us,
19:04flew around us,
19:05made circles all around.
19:06He went around the
19:07plane two or three times
19:08and he got in front
19:09and then he made
19:10his way here,
19:11made signs like that
19:12to go down
19:12and I just waved
19:13at him and said,
19:14I'm going forward.
19:15It was already critical.
19:17He was about
19:18to run out of fuel.
19:20So the other guy
19:21decided that was it,
19:22it was critical,
19:22so he just peeled off
19:23and away he went.
19:26They spotted
19:27the airplane
19:28over New Brunswick,
19:28but because of low fuel,
19:30the Air Force
19:30led to get away.
19:32The military pilots
19:33landed in Fredericton
19:34to refuel.
19:35The suspicious plane
19:36got away
19:37from the police
19:38and army.
19:38Yeah,
19:39that's all part
19:40of the job.
19:41It's no big deal.
19:42I mean,
19:42we get intercepted
19:43all the time.
19:44It's no big deal.
19:45He must feel
19:46that he's got
19:47a lot of luck
19:48in his life
19:48and the fact
19:49that he's still
19:50here today.
19:53I'm not sure of the word.
19:54I don't want to use
19:55nonchalant.
19:56The nonchalant pilot.
19:59Mr. Bollinger
20:00takes an extraordinary
20:01amount of risk
20:02and has obviously
20:03had some success
20:05up till this point
20:06with that risk.
20:07Had he succeeded,
20:09I'm convinced
20:10there would have been
20:11many more flights
20:12to Casey, Canada.
20:15It was time
20:16to head to Casey,
20:17but he didn't want
20:18to fly through
20:19American airspace.
20:21If you fly over
20:23to the United States
20:23without permission,
20:24you're intruding
20:25in American airspace.
20:26Wherever you go,
20:27they'll come
20:27and get you.
20:29So what he did
20:30was fly north
20:31along the New Brunswick
20:33main border.
20:34During that time,
20:35he was flying
20:36a very low altitude,
20:38about 100 feet
20:39above the treetops.
20:48We don't transmit
20:49on our radios ever.
20:50If you transmit
20:51a radio signal,
20:52they can detect
20:53your position immediately.
20:55So we don't transmit.
20:57Make no noise.
21:07Approached straight
21:08in the runway.
21:09I didn't plan
21:11on flying around
21:12taking a look
21:12at the scenery.
21:13So I approached
21:14the runway
21:14from flat out
21:15at low altitude
21:16and headed straight in.
21:20And I remember
21:21when I reversed
21:22the props
21:22to slow the airplane
21:23down,
21:23there was just
21:24a big white cloud.
21:25And we just disappeared
21:26in a big white cloud.
21:30And then we started
21:31looking around.
21:32Where the hell
21:32is everybody?
21:33Nobody here?
21:33Like a big WTF?
21:39Big surprise.
21:40Nobody here.
21:42The evening news
21:44with Suzanne LaBerge.
21:46Ladies and gentlemen,
21:47good evening.
21:48This morning,
21:49the American FBI
21:50signaled the presence
21:51of a suspicious airplane
21:52flying over the Atlantic
21:54approaching Nova Scotia.
22:02On November 18th, 1992,
22:04I got to the detachment
22:06I was stationed at,
22:07as usual.
22:08We were at the office.
22:10We got in at 8.30
22:11or 9 o'clock,
22:12something like that.
22:13We got a call
22:14from Ottawa.
22:17We didn't get
22:18much information.
22:19A plane had left
22:20Columbia
22:20and was headed
22:21toward the U.S.,
22:22but the Americans
22:23noticed it was actually
22:24headed toward
22:25Canada.
22:28So,
22:28we dispatched
22:30all our personnel,
22:31teams of two,
22:32all of the province's
22:34detachments were called on,
22:35in Gaspé,
22:37Cetille,
22:37and everywhere.
22:38All of our RCMP officers
22:39were going to check
22:40every runway
22:41the plane could land on.
22:43We left that morning
22:44on a military helicopter
22:45because I knew about
22:47Casey.
22:48I was convinced
22:49that if this was
22:50really happening,
22:51they would land at Casey.
22:53It's the best place
22:54to land,
22:55a mile-long asphalt runway.
23:04So, I just pulled off
23:06to the right here
23:06and parked the airplane
23:07with the nose-facing west,
23:09and we got out of the airplane
23:10and started looking
23:11where the hell everybody was,
23:12and there was nobody here.
23:14I see all the tracks,
23:15truck tracks and trailer tracks
23:16and skidoo tracks
23:18and whatever,
23:19like there's been
23:19a lot of activity there,
23:20but there is nothing there
23:21right now.
23:22So, we knew
23:23that somebody had been there
23:24for all the time.
23:25Where the hell they were now,
23:26I had no idea.
23:28What the?
23:30I was standing here,
23:31300 clicks in the bush
23:32north of Montreal
23:33and shit,
23:33five tons of cocaine,
23:3520 below zero
23:36and there's nobody here.
23:37I couldn't believe it.
23:38It's insane.
23:39I never saw anything
23:40that stupid.
23:46When Raymond got off the plane
23:47and realized Christian Deschenes
23:49and his associates
23:50weren't there,
23:51it was a race
23:52against the clock.
23:53Raymond knew
23:54he had to get
23:54out of there quickly.
23:56At the same time,
23:57the police knew
23:58that a plane had landed
23:59somewhere with cocaine in it.
24:01Officers had no idea
24:02where it was,
24:03but they were in a rush
24:03to find it.
24:09At the time
24:10of the Casey incident,
24:11I had two sets of duties
24:12at the RCMP.
24:14I was part of the
24:15Criminal Intelligence Squad
24:16in Montreal
24:17and I was part of
24:19the Tactical Intervention Team.
24:23That morning,
24:24around 9 a.m.,
24:26the head
24:27of my tactical team
24:28wanted us to meet
24:29as soon as possible
24:30at the office
24:32because there seemed
24:33to be an airplane
24:34coming in from Colombia
24:35that had disappeared.
24:38We needed our help
24:39to trace it.
24:52I was on my way
24:53to fix a machine.
24:54at the two-and-a-half-mile mark
24:56about,
24:57all of a sudden,
24:57I saw a big plane
24:58that was coming down
24:59in compression.
25:00There was black smoke
25:01coming out of the back.
25:02I thought,
25:02damn it,
25:03it's in trouble.
25:03I decided to go see
25:05what's happening
25:05with the plane.
25:06Big plane like that?
25:07We never seen one land there.
25:12We went out on the highway
25:13beside there
25:14and I hitched
25:14straight down
25:15to the village
25:15to go make a phone call
25:16and see if we can
25:16get some phone calls in
25:18because we didn't have
25:19any cellular phones
25:19here at that time.
25:20Took a walk
25:21onto the little road
25:22that's over here.
25:23I waited
25:24and I saw a vehicle coming
25:25so I flagged him down.
25:27They had gotten off
25:27the plane
25:28by the time I got there
25:29so I asked him,
25:30what's going on?
25:32He said the plane
25:32wasn't functioning well
25:33and we really needed
25:34a phone.
25:46A pilot with three Colombians?
25:48That's rare.
25:49It's a little fishy, right?
25:50He's looking for something.
25:52He was trying
25:52to find a phone.
25:53I brought him to a phone.
25:55I'm a good Samaritan
25:56so I offered him a lift.
26:05He drove us down
26:05to the village in Casey
26:06so I had to go down there
26:08and I went to the
26:08Dépaneurle.
26:11I dropped them off there.
26:13Then I went inside
26:14to tell them
26:15that the people
26:15I picked up
26:16needed to use the phone.
26:17They talked to
26:18Tijan Houdon.
26:19Tijan Houdon
26:20was the owner.
26:21It was set in his ways.
26:23He grew up in Casey.
26:25He never left Casey.
26:29So he was kind of
26:30the mayor of the town
26:31because there wasn't one.
26:34He wasn't a bad guy
26:35but when he started drinking
26:37it could last
26:38four to five weeks.
26:42And we made phone calls
26:44and I couldn't reach
26:44anybody in Montreal
26:45who was trying to find out
26:46where the hell
26:46these people were.
26:52Nobody was answering
26:53their phones.
26:55So I wasn't very
26:56impressed with that.
26:57You think somebody
26:58could have been monitored
26:59the stupid phone
26:59at one point, you know?
27:01But no.
27:02No, they totally
27:03screwed it up
27:03from the get-go.
27:04Never seen such a bunch
27:05of incompetent
27:07nincompoops in my life.
27:08Idiots.
27:09The bozo in charge of it
27:10decided it was time
27:12to leave
27:12and he left
27:13at 7.25 in the morning.
27:15I would strongly recommend
27:16that he doesn't ever
27:16cross my path
27:17or come anywhere near
27:18where I am
27:19because he will disappear.
27:28and I phoned an air taxi company.
27:30They were looking
27:31for a place
27:32to get another plane
27:32so they called up
27:34and they took.
27:37You know,
27:38one of my dispatchers
27:39working the morning shift
27:40had just come in.
27:41He was a little edgy
27:42when he came in.
27:43He told me,
27:43Ivan, I just got a phone call
27:45from Casey.
27:46They need a plane
27:47right now
27:48to leave Casey
27:49so they needed
27:50to get to Montreal quickly.
27:51I was going to wait
27:52until the airplane arrived,
27:53have my Colombians
27:54get the pilot
27:55out of the plane
27:55without him seeing me.
27:57Yeah, if he'd taken off
27:59too bad for our pilot
28:00but he would have
28:02gotten off the plane.
28:04I don't know how though.
28:06He would have stayed
28:07in Casey though.
28:08Put him in the conveyor
28:09we'll leave him there
28:10and take four or five bales
28:12and a couple of my Colombians
28:13and get the hell out of there
28:14with his plane.
28:15Let the cops find
28:16the other guy there
28:17and let them figure
28:18that one out.
28:21The old man
28:22from the Departure
28:22who had his pickup
28:23drove us back up
28:24to the runway
28:25and the three Colombians
28:26sat in his truck waiting
28:34and I walked out
28:35on the runway
28:35waiting for the Aztec
28:37to arrive.
28:37By that point
28:38we were on the runway
28:39two jets,
28:40Air Force F-18s
28:41came buzzing
28:41over the treetop.
28:45That noise
28:46scared the Colombians
28:47and they took off
28:48with the guy's truck.
28:49I don't know
28:49what the hell
28:50they think
28:50they were doing
28:51because he had no idea
28:52where they were
28:53and you're talking
28:54pushing Canada
28:55they'd never been
28:55they'd never
28:56seen colds like that
28:57before
28:57and the guy
28:58wondered what the hell
28:59was going on.
28:59I'm sure
29:00Tijan Hodon
29:01wasn't okay
29:01with all of it.
29:02So he takes off
29:03and I'm standing
29:04here all by myself
29:05the Colombians are gone
29:06and I'm looking
29:07at the airplane
29:07and I said
29:08I couldn't believe it.
29:09It's five tons
29:09of cocaine
29:10in the darn thing
29:11and I'm standing
29:12out here
29:12on my own
29:13and I said
29:14this is not possible.
29:16It was
29:17I was just stupefied.
29:22At Stone Consolidated
29:24we made paper
29:25for newspapers
29:26and Tijan called
29:27me all of a sudden.
29:30He was vulgar.
29:32God fucking damn it
29:33the Colombians
29:34left with my pickup truck.
29:35I said I'd go look around.
29:37I looked around the camps.
29:39At the bottom of the hill
29:40there was a camp
29:41on a sand mound.
29:42Once I got down there
29:43I saw Tijan's truck
29:45in the ditch.
29:46Yeah they tried
29:47to get away
29:48but on the other side
29:49of the camp
29:49they drove into the ditch
29:51and they went
29:51into the woods on foot.
29:53I called Tijan
29:54and told him
29:54I found your truck.
29:55I didn't touch it.
29:56He told me
29:57the plane was full of drugs
29:58so I thought
29:59oh.
30:04When we got to Casey
30:05the plane was
30:06at the end of the runway
30:08so we landed.
30:09When we got there
30:10and saw the convent
30:11it was bigger
30:12than what he had been told
30:13but thankfully
30:15we had the letters
30:16the identification letters.
30:18When we saw it
30:19we didn't know
30:20if the drugs
30:20were still in there
30:21or if they were already gone.
30:23That's why we decided
30:24to go after the pilot
30:25and his crew.
30:26So we got back
30:27into the helicopter
30:28and followed the road
30:29along the woods.
30:32So anyway
30:33after all that
30:34rigmarole
30:34I went back
30:35to the highway
30:35started hitchhiking again
30:36and a guy came by
30:37picked me up
30:39and off we went
30:40went down
30:41he took me down
30:41to the stone-cold
30:42salt camp.
30:46We followed the road
30:47we could see
30:48the consolidated office
30:50and we got off
30:51because I had to call
30:51my superiors
30:52to check in with them
30:53we didn't have
30:54communications.
30:57The guy
30:58my forced worker
30:59showed up with
31:00Raymond Boulanger
31:02so Raymond asked
31:04to use the phone
31:05so I let him
31:06make a call
31:07I went outside.
31:08I tried again
31:09to contact
31:09the stupid
31:10number in Montreal
31:11we didn't get anywhere.
31:19All of a sudden
31:20the helicopter
31:21landed at the end
31:22of the camp.
31:23There was
31:24Corporal Peltier.
31:26We landed there
31:27and
31:29we went in
31:30to meet
31:30the pilot.
31:35So I made
31:36my way
31:36to the office
31:37and I saw
31:37someone on the phone
31:38he was sitting
31:39at the desk
31:39and making a call.
31:40I was on the phone
31:41and the guy
31:42looked at me
31:42he said
31:43we need to use
31:43the phone
31:44I said
31:44I'll be finished
31:44in a second
31:45and I said
31:45who are you?
31:46He said
31:47I'm the RCMP.
31:48I asked
31:49who are you?
31:50He said
31:50Raymond Boulanger
31:51I'm the pilot
31:51of the airplane.
31:52I'm the pilot
31:53of the airplane
31:54he said
31:54you're under arrest
31:55you know.
31:56Well I asked
31:56him to specify
31:57what plane
31:58he said
31:59the plane
31:59on the runway
32:00the one that landed.
32:00I said
32:01cool here
32:01you can use
32:02the phone
32:02now.
32:03That was it.
32:0518 years
32:05of flying
32:06for the drug
32:06cartels
32:06ended here
32:07right here.
32:08He was done
32:09for.
32:10He'd been
32:10caught.
32:11You always
32:12think that
32:12you won't
32:13get caught.
32:18It's being
32:18touted as
32:19the biggest
32:19drug bust
32:20in Canadian
32:21history
32:21and probably
32:22the most
32:23dramatic.
32:23A story
32:24covering
32:24two continents
32:25a plane
32:26chase
32:26and up
32:27to a billion
32:27dollars
32:28worth of
32:28cocaine.
32:29The enormous
32:30value
32:30of the
32:31plane's
32:31cargo
32:31that's
32:32just
32:32one part
32:32of the
32:33story.
32:33Another
32:34part
32:34is
32:34where
32:35it
32:35happened.
32:35Casey
32:36Quebec
32:36a remote
32:37little
32:37community
32:38that
32:38police
32:38say
32:38is
32:39now
32:39the
32:39site
32:40of
32:40the
32:40largest
32:40drug
32:41bust
32:41in the
32:41country's
32:41history.
32:42I'll say
32:42it like
32:43that guy
32:43you never
32:44see Casey
32:44on maps
32:45but now
32:45thanks to
32:46this
32:46maybe one
32:47day
32:47it will
32:47show up
32:48on one.
32:55we got a
32:56call from
32:56the head
32:57of our
32:57team
32:57corporal
32:58Barry
32:58he said
32:59listen
32:59we just
33:00found
33:00the plane
33:00it's
33:01in Casey
33:01we'll
33:02wait for
33:02you
33:02get over
33:03here.
33:12Such an
33:12important
33:13seizure
33:13and making
33:14those arrests
33:15that's a
33:16dream come
33:16true for
33:17an officer
33:17working in
33:18drug
33:18enforcement.
33:19But we
33:20had to go
33:21back to
33:21the plane
33:22to make
33:22sure the
33:23drugs
33:23stayed
33:24there.
33:25They
33:25were left
33:25there
33:26unsupervised.
33:27Sergeant
33:28Rivard left
33:29with Mr.
33:29Boulanger
33:30and we
33:31went back
33:32to the
33:32airplane.
33:36In the
33:36meantime
33:37we called
33:37the Montreal
33:38office because
33:39they had
33:40asked us
33:40to wait
33:40for them
33:41they wanted
33:41to send
33:42people from
33:42Montreal
33:43but it
33:44was minus
33:4440 degrees
33:45out there.
33:46We were
33:47wearing jeans
33:48and light
33:48winter jackets
33:49so we
33:50decided to
33:51go wait
33:52in the
33:52plane.
33:54René
33:54didn't think
33:55it was a
33:55good idea
33:56but I
33:56told them
33:56we had
33:57to.
33:58Just to
33:59make sure
33:59that everything
34:00was there.
34:05It was
34:06there.
34:09All of
34:10it was
34:10there.
34:11The
34:11plane
34:11that had
34:12come
34:12from
34:12Colombia
34:13was
34:13carrying
34:13over
34:14four tons
34:14of
34:15cocaine.
34:16The RCMP
34:17guy told
34:17me what
34:17it was
34:18worth.
34:18It was
34:19pure
34:19cocaine.
34:21It was
34:21worth
34:21150 bucks
34:22per ounce.
34:24That was
34:25a lot
34:25of money's
34:25worth.
34:36And they
34:36all started
34:37arriving
34:37from all
34:37over the
34:38place.
34:38The army
34:38and everything
34:39else and
34:39the whole
34:42show went
34:42on.
34:43With
34:43machine guns
34:44on each
34:44side of
34:45the plane.
34:45There were
34:46armed police
34:46officers and
34:47it was a huge
34:48deal.
34:49That's when
34:49they told me
34:50you never
34:50know what
34:51can happen.
34:52Some people
34:53had lost
34:53money because
34:54of the bust.
34:55That was their
34:56fear that
34:57commandos would
34:57show up and
34:58just bomb the
34:58camp.
34:59Cartels are
35:00powerful.
35:04When we
35:05got there
35:05we were
35:06shocked.
35:07We could
35:08see fresh
35:09tire marks
35:10made by a
35:11truck.
35:12And since
35:13they were
35:13fresh we
35:14figured the
35:15truck had
35:16been waiting
35:17for the
35:17shipment
35:18there.
35:22Deschenes
35:23and Forza
35:24were supposed
35:24to be at
35:25the end of
35:25the KC
35:26runway when
35:26the plane
35:27was landing
35:27to get
35:28the drugs.
35:29But as
35:30we know
35:30they left
35:31sooner.
35:32They went
35:32back to
35:33Montreal.
35:34So when
35:34he got
35:35contact with
35:36his bosses
35:36they told
35:37him where
35:37are you?
35:38Whoa, whoa,
35:39the airplane
35:40wasn't coming.
35:40Nobody told
35:41you the airplane
35:41wasn't coming.
35:42Get your
35:42ass to hell
35:43back up
35:43there.
35:43So he
35:44turned around
35:44and went
35:44back up
35:45in the
35:45pickup truck
35:45him and
35:46another
35:46guy.
35:48Up north
35:48like that
35:49the one
35:50disadvantage
35:50for
35:51organizations
35:51is that
35:52there's
35:52only one
35:53road.
35:57Around
35:582.30
35:58more RCMP
36:00guys showed
36:00up.
36:01They got
36:02an
36:02Econoline
36:02with their
36:0312 gauges
36:04through the
36:04windows
36:04looking for
36:05the
36:05Colombians.
36:06We went
36:07a little
36:07further south
36:08and that's
36:10when I saw
36:10that the
36:10footprints
36:11going into
36:11the woods
36:12had been
36:12erased
36:13with some
36:13branches.
36:14One of
36:14the Colombians
36:15tried to
36:15erase their
36:15footprints
36:16in the
36:16ground
36:16in the
36:17snow
36:17by using
36:17branches.
36:18That
36:18wasn't
36:19really
36:19effective
36:19because
36:19you could
36:20still see
36:20the trail
36:21even
36:21if you
36:22can't
36:22see
36:22a footprint
36:23so
36:23not too
36:24bright.
36:25We
36:26went into
36:26the woods
36:27and followed
36:27the trail
36:28the prints
36:28looked fresh
36:29and all
36:30of a sudden
36:31the prints
36:31stopped
36:32and there
36:33was a hole.
36:33They took
36:34off in the
36:34forest and
36:35after they
36:35found a little
36:36sort of like
36:37a little cave
36:37type thing
36:38and they
36:38were all
36:38huddled in
36:39there trying
36:39to keep
36:39warm.
36:40They were
36:40almost
36:41frozen to
36:42death.
36:42one of them
36:43was in
36:45hypothermic
36:45shock.
36:46If we
36:46hadn't
36:47found them
36:47that night
36:48they would
36:48have been
36:49dead by
36:49morning.
36:51After I
36:51was arrested
36:52they brought
36:52me back
36:53at one
36:53point to
36:54the stone
36:54console
36:54and then
36:55they picked
36:55them up
36:56around
36:56four o'clock
36:56in the
36:57afternoon.
36:58The hell
36:58do you
36:58think you
36:58were going?
36:59What the
36:59hell was
37:00all that
37:00about?
37:01Do you
37:02realize that
37:03you're in
37:03a country
37:03you've never
37:04been here?
37:04You don't
37:04speak the
37:05language?
37:05You haven't
37:06got a clue
37:06where you
37:07are geographically
37:08speaking and
37:09where were you
37:10planning on
37:10going?
37:10Exactly.
37:12I didn't
37:13know.
37:14They weren't
37:14happy with
37:15that but
37:15anyway the
37:16co-pilot was
37:16a bit of
37:16an idiot.
37:18So the
37:18other said
37:19we didn't
37:20want to go
37:20we didn't
37:20want to go
37:21I said
37:21okay it
37:21doesn't
37:22matter right
37:22now.
37:23I said
37:23you know
37:23you could
37:23have died
37:24out there?
37:24They wanted
37:25to strangle
37:25the son
37:26of a
37:26bitch.
37:32After
37:34dinner another
37:35RCMP guy
37:36showed up.
37:37He said
37:37Carol you
37:38have to
37:38come light
37:39something up
37:39for me.
37:40we're going
37:41to search
37:41Jean-Hudeau's
37:42truck.
37:42All right.
37:43So I parked
37:44the Econoline
37:45sideways in
37:46the middle
37:46of the road
37:46and lit
37:47the truck
37:47up.
37:48I stayed
37:48in the bus
37:49and let
37:49the guy
37:50do his
37:50job.
37:51All of a
37:52sudden a
37:53really nice
37:53pickup truck
37:54showed up.
37:55It looked
37:56brand new.
37:57It was shiny
37:58like a mirror.
37:59When you're
37:59working trucks
38:00get dirty.
38:01This one was
38:02spotless.
38:03I flashed the
38:04headlights and
38:05the RCMP
38:05guy came.
38:07I said
38:09those guys
38:09didn't look
38:10like Jesus'
38:11children.
38:11They had
38:12shady faces.
38:14He said
38:14he'd go
38:15check it
38:15out.
38:17He went
38:17to go see
38:18them and
38:18they said
38:19they were
38:19coming back
38:19to fix
38:20two machines
38:20at the
38:21two and a
38:21half mile
38:21mark.
38:22They said
38:23we work
38:24for console.
38:25We're here
38:25to fix
38:25two machines.
38:26no.
38:27And I
38:28said I
38:29knew all
38:29my employees
38:30trucks.
38:31If one of
38:31them got a
38:32new one I
38:33always knew
38:33about it
38:33right away.
38:34They were
38:35arrested and
38:36charged.
38:41There's
38:41nothing to
38:42think you
38:42know just
38:42deal with
38:43the situation
38:44ah shit
38:44you know
38:45okay what's
38:46next you
38:47know.
38:51He didn't
38:52look like a
38:53guy who
38:54had just
38:54been arrested
38:55for smuggling
38:56the biggest
38:56quantity of
38:57cocaine in
38:58Canadian
38:58history.
38:59I found
39:01it rather
39:02odd.
39:03Calm,
39:03smiling,
39:04cooperative.
39:05I should
39:05have
39:06handcuffed
39:06him but
39:08I didn't.
39:09I was
39:10supposed to
39:11but I
39:12didn't.
39:12I spent
39:1337 years
39:14working at
39:14the RCMP
39:15in Quebec.
39:16I have
39:17never seen
39:18anyone
39:19like him.
39:21What are
39:21you going
39:21to do?
39:22There's
39:22nothing else
39:23you can
39:23do.
39:23You can
39:23stand
39:24here and
39:24scream
39:24and fume
39:24and fart.
39:25You're
39:25there.
39:26The deal
39:27is done
39:27you know
39:28that's it
39:29the jig
39:29is up
39:30you're
39:30over
39:30deal
39:31with it.
39:32I'm going
39:32to get
39:33arrested
39:33I'm going
39:33to get
39:33charged
39:34and that's
39:34it so deal
39:35with it
39:35and get
39:35it over
39:35with as
39:36quickly as
39:36possible.
39:37You seem
39:38to accept
39:38the situation.
39:40He was
39:40arrested
39:41and he knew
39:41he wasn't
39:42going to get
39:43himself out
39:43of it.
39:56So this
39:57is what
39:57we know
39:57what we're
39:58talking about
39:59is three
39:59tons of
39:59cocaine
40:00worth
40:00over a
40:01billion
40:01dollars.
40:09I got a
40:10call
40:11one day
40:12that the
40:13Canadian
40:13authorities
40:14had captured
40:14a Convair 580
40:15in Casey,
40:17Canada.
40:20and when
40:20I first
40:21heard him
40:21I go
40:21Canada?
40:22They're
40:22going up
40:23to Canada?
40:23I knew
40:24they were
40:24going
40:24everywhere
40:24else.
40:25Looked
40:25at it
40:25and I
40:25go
40:25yeah
40:26okay
40:27they'll
40:27do
40:27anything.
40:28We
40:29arrived
40:29in Quebec
40:30to identify
40:31the plane.
40:32It was
40:33pretty obvious
40:34that it
40:34was most
40:35likely
40:35one of
40:36Avesca's
40:36planes,
40:37one of
40:37Herrera's
40:37planes.
40:38I told
40:38Chuck
40:39to
40:39work
40:39I
40:39think
40:39we
40:39have
40:40something
40:40here.
40:40That's
40:41what
40:41really
40:42got
40:42me
40:42going.
40:44I
40:45never
40:45thought
40:45I'd
40:45see him
40:46in custody.
40:47that time
40:48period
40:48the
40:49sale
40:50of
40:50aircraft
40:50from
40:51the
40:51United
40:51States
40:51to
40:52Columbia
40:52dropped
40:52off
40:53considerably.
40:54They
40:54still
40:54would
40:54use
40:55aircraft
40:55but
40:55not
40:56to
40:56the
40:56degree
40:56that
40:57they
40:57had
40:57before
40:57the
40:57Casey
40:58incident.
40:58You
40:59take
40:59every
40:59victory
41:00you
41:00can
41:00get
41:00and
41:01this
41:01was
41:01quite
41:01a
41:01victory
41:02at
41:02the
41:02time.
41:06The
41:07seizure
41:07and the
41:08fact
41:08that
41:08everyone
41:09involved
41:09was
41:09being
41:10convicted
41:11was
41:11definitely
41:12a
41:12really
41:12big
41:13accomplishment.
41:13It
41:13was
41:14a
41:14dream
41:14come
41:14true
41:14for
41:15everyone
41:17It's
41:18like
41:18in
41:18the
41:18movies
41:20when
41:20nothing
41:21goes
41:21wrong.
41:26The
41:27way
41:27I
41:27look
41:27at it
41:28you
41:28win
41:28some
41:28you
41:28lose
41:28some
41:29that
41:29day
41:29I
41:30lost
41:30day
41:30one
41:31so
41:32big
41:32deal
41:33that's
41:34the
41:34only
41:34one
41:34I
41:35ever
41:35lost.
41:38Casey
41:39is
41:39probably
41:40the
41:40biggest
41:41bust
41:41I
41:41ever
41:42worked
41:42on
41:42in
41:42my
41:42entire
41:43career.
41:44It's
41:44definitely
41:45the
41:45biggest
41:45drug
41:46importation
41:46in
41:46Canadian
41:47history.
41:50The
41:51seizure
41:51in
41:51Quebec
41:51may
41:52be
41:52the
41:52biggest
41:52ever.
41:53We
41:54determined
41:55that
41:56there
41:56were
41:564,323
41:59kilos
41:59of
42:00cocaine.
42:00Worth
42:012.7
42:02billion
42:02dollars
42:02in
42:03total.
42:03Close
42:03to
42:03three
42:04times
42:04more
42:04than
42:04we
42:04thought.
42:05The
42:06biggest
42:06cocaine
42:06importation
42:07in
42:07this
42:07country's
42:08history.
42:08Four
42:09individuals
42:09will
42:10respond
42:10in
42:10court
42:11to
42:11all
42:11sorts
42:11of
42:11charges.
42:16By
42:17time
42:17they
42:17decided
42:17to
42:17move
42:18us
42:18all
42:18down
42:18to
42:18the
42:18prison
42:19it
42:19was
42:19about
42:193
42:19or
42:194
42:19o'clock
42:20in
42:20the
42:20morning.
42:20One
42:21person
42:21per
42:21helicopter.
42:22If you
42:22could have
42:22put all
42:23us in
42:23one
42:23helicopter
42:24it would
42:24have been
42:24the same
42:24thing.
42:25But they
42:25had to
42:26make the
42:26big show.
42:27It was
42:27the apocalypse.
42:28It was like
42:28in the movie
42:29in Vietnam.
42:30It was the
42:30same
42:30helicopters
42:31they used
42:31back in
42:32Vietnam too.
42:32They had
42:33SWAT teams
42:33on the roof
42:34and things
42:34all over the
42:35place.
42:35The lights
42:36on and the
42:36newspaper and
42:47armed to
42:47the teeth
42:48about 30
42:48Royal Canadian
42:49mounted police
42:50and Sertage
42:51Quebec officers
42:51created an
42:52impenetrable
42:53barrier.
42:54Putting in
42:54place the
42:55highest security
42:56measures.
42:57But then
42:58again you
42:58got to give
42:58it to the
42:59poor police
42:59the poor
43:00guys they
43:00got to get
43:00out and play
43:01with their
43:01toys now and
43:01then you
43:02know and
43:02they never
43:03really get
43:03an opportunity
43:04to really
43:04shoot at
43:04somebody or
43:05get all
43:06their gear
43:06and actually
43:07go into
43:07action so
43:08it must be
43:08a bit
43:09frustrating
43:09for them.
43:10I think
43:11our biggest
43:11concern was
43:12securing the
43:13perimeter.
43:14We took
43:14it seriously.
43:15When we got
43:15there there
43:16there was tons
43:17waiting the
43:17room was
43:17packed there
43:18was people
43:18standing
43:18everywhere.
43:19It's like a
43:20big party.
43:20To avoid
43:21talking and
43:22going to
43:22trial and
43:23revealing who
43:23hired you
43:24people plead
43:25guilty and
43:25tell us
43:26nothing.
43:27So the
43:27organization
43:27just keeps
43:28moving forward
43:29and on and
43:30on and
43:30there you
43:31go.
43:31And you
43:31don't tell
43:32you have
43:32contractual
43:33agreements
43:33you know
43:33you can't
43:34divulge that
43:34information
43:35because
43:35they'll
43:36come after
43:36you.
43:38If you
43:38compromise
43:38situations
43:39they'll
43:40come after
43:40you and
43:41they're
43:42ruthless
43:42they'll
43:42kill you.
43:43We pled
43:44guilty
43:44that was
43:45it was
43:45over.
43:46We got
43:46to leave.
43:47We didn't
43:47want to
43:47stay
43:47there any
43:48longer
43:48than we
43:48had to.
43:49We got
43:49it over
43:49with and
43:50got out
43:50of there.
43:51Narcotics
43:51trafficking,
43:52transport,
43:53conspiracy.
43:54Importation.
43:55That was
43:55the only
43:56charge I
43:56got.
43:57The
43:58Crown
43:58wasn't
43:58going to
43:59just hand
43:59out a
44:00light
44:00sentencing.
44:01It was
44:02out of
44:02the
44:02question.
44:04The
44:04sentence
44:05had to
44:05reflect
44:06the
44:06gravity
44:06of the
44:07offense.
44:09I
44:09got 23
44:10years
44:10and my
44:11crew
44:11got 20
44:12years
44:12each.
44:13As
44:13far
44:13as
44:13the
44:14sentence
44:14goes
44:14I
44:15feel
44:15no
44:15pity.
44:16I
44:16think
44:17that
44:1723
44:17years,
44:18well,
44:18if it
44:19were up
44:19to me,
44:20I
44:20would
44:20have
44:20given
44:20more
44:21than
44:21that.
44:21But it's
44:22the first
44:22time I
44:23got arrested
44:23for drugs
44:24and all
44:24the times
44:24I've been
44:25flying drugs.
44:25And I
44:26wouldn't have
44:26got caught
44:26that time
44:27if the
44:27Italians
44:27had been
44:28there doing
44:28their job.
44:29I
44:29wouldn't
44:29have
44:29got
44:29caught.
44:33Today
44:33in the
44:33Schwinnigan
44:34courthouse,
44:35surprised,
44:35four of them
44:36pleaded
44:36guilty.
44:37The
44:37judge
44:37sentenced
44:38to
44:38three
44:38Colombians
44:39to
44:3920
44:39years
44:39and
44:39the
44:40Quebecer
44:40Raymond
44:41Boulanger,
44:41who was
44:42the pilot,
44:42was sentenced
44:43to 23
44:43years.
44:45Yes,
44:45I'm very
44:46pleased.
44:46I think
44:47that the
44:47sentence is
44:48appropriate
44:48and fair
44:49and given
44:51all the
44:51circumstances.
44:52Yes,
44:53there's nothing
44:53to freak
44:53out about.
44:54It's just
44:55a sentence
44:55in front
44:55of a
44:56judge.
44:56It's no
44:56big deal.
44:57You know
44:58what they
44:58did with
44:58judges
44:59in Colombia.
45:00You know
45:00what I
45:00mean?
45:01You either
45:01walk away
45:02or boom.
45:03The system
45:04didn't put
45:04you in there,
45:05you put
45:05yourself in
45:06there,
45:06so deal
45:06with it.
45:06That's all
45:07part of
45:07it.
45:11is get
45:12on with
45:12it.
45:12with the
45:12sentence.
45:13You know,
45:14you went
45:14in there,
45:14you did
45:14it,
45:15do your
45:15time now.
45:16That's it.
45:21So he
45:22got a 23-year
45:23prison sentence,
45:24but people
45:25aren't going
45:25to remember
45:26the actual
45:26sentence.
45:30They brought
45:31us from
45:31the cell
45:31downstairs,
45:32up the
45:32stairs,
45:32and when
45:33they opened
45:33the door,
45:33there was
45:34a corridor
45:34there.
45:35I couldn't
45:35count.
45:36It was
45:36an old maze
45:37of journalists
45:37clicking,
45:38clicking,
45:38taking pictures
45:39and stuff.
45:40like that.
45:40And the
45:41Colombians
45:41and the
45:41other guys
45:41were all
45:42hiding their
45:42faces.
45:43What are
45:43you,
45:43pussy?
45:44I don't
45:44care.
45:44I'm not
45:44going to
45:45hide my
45:45face.
45:45I'm not
45:45ashamed of
45:46what I
45:46do.
45:46So I
45:47just winked
45:47at them
45:48and that
45:48was it.
45:50I saw
45:51Raymond just
45:52like I'd
45:53always known
45:53him.
45:53He was a
45:54charmer,
45:54even in
45:55handcuffs.
45:56He had a
45:56nice smile
45:57on.
45:57That was
45:58the Raymond
45:58Boulanger
45:59I knew.
46:00My sense
46:01of humor,
46:01what are you
46:02going to do?
46:02He was
46:04boastful.
46:05He liked
46:05it.
46:06He really
46:12I could
46:13have flipped
46:13the bird
46:14at him,
46:14but I
46:14didn't.
46:14My mom
46:15said,
46:15that's not
46:15the light.
46:16Yeah,
46:16so you
46:17caught me,
46:17you caught
46:17me,
46:18big deal.
46:18You know,
46:19there's,
46:20that's all.
46:29Donna Kona
46:30is the
46:31largest
46:32penitentiary
46:32in Quebec.
46:34Inmates
46:34have committed
46:35violent crimes,
46:36murders,
46:37attempted murders,
46:38drug importation,
46:39organized crime.
46:41It's really,
46:42really a dangerous
46:42place.
46:43It's scary.
46:45It's violent.
46:46You got some
46:46pretty happy-duty
46:47criminals and stuff
46:48in there,
46:48but not all
46:49murderers.
46:50Got rapists,
46:51lots of those,
46:52but, you know,
46:53whatever, you know,
46:54the time I was here,
46:55I saw seven murders.
46:57It isn't known,
46:58but the police
46:59are after him
47:00because his halfway
47:01house has not
47:02heard from him.
47:04You don't want
47:04to give me parole?
47:06I'll parole myself.
47:11for the
47:12the
47:24or
47:25about
47:27and
47:36Legenda por Sônia Ruberti