Narcoworld: Dope Stories (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - I'm a Law-Abiding Citizen - full transcript

When you're
handing someone a pill,

you're handing someone love, innit?

Enjoyment and a good time.

I don't really see myself
as a criminal, man.

Customers love the pure MDMA.

I've got a guy that sends it over
from Europe, 'Dam.

This is what they want now
in the UK.

And we send a lot of them.

They could die of a heart attack
because they're not used to it.

Police!

The culture of raves is excess.



If you wanna drop your pill right here
or right there, it makes no difference.

I don't think that anyone can stop...

the drug problem.

Make some noise!

I'd rather sell the real MDMA,

'cause pills are normally mixed
with a lot of shit.

MDMA, you see it, you can taste it,

you know it's pure.

Haze is based in Birmingham,

in the heart of the UK.

He's just picked up a kilo
of the dance drug, MDMA.

I've got a guy that sends it over
from Europe, 'Dam.

Best shit I've had for ages.

MDMA usually comes in a pill,



but Haze prefers dealing in crystal.

If it's been mixed with anything,
you can taste it.

I've been taking ecstasy
since I was about 16.

You know, I know my game.

What does it taste like?

Sour.

Sour.

That's what they called it.

Like, when we was raving, like...

four, five times a week,

we used to call it sour power.

If it's not sour,
if it don't make you argh...

It's not... it's not the thing.

♪ Let's go ♪

- ♪ Round 'em up ♪
- ♪ Let's get it ♪

- ♪ We're about to get it ♪
- ♪ Get it ♪

Haze distributes to a network
of street dealers.

♪ Y'all, y'all, y'all ♪

♪ Top level don rebels
We will not settle ♪

♪ Got 'em locked leveled
Make it pop like a hot kettle ♪

Take a kilo and chop it down.

Obviously, people have been waiting for it
when it comes normally anyway,

so I'll probably have half of it sold
as soon as I get it.

I paid £275 per key,

and I'll... I'll raise double,

so I'm doing all right.

It's not too bad. It's a good income.

♪ Nobody get the job done
Like the king does ♪

♪ Feel that quick rush
Running through your veins ♪

♪ It's insane how I keep it going
Yeah, we maintain ♪

I don't really see myself
as a criminal, man.

I would say I'm a law abiding citizen.

The cops wouldn't agree.

So Haze has to take precautions.

I mean, you have to have reliable
people around you whatever you do.

You know, you gotta have people

that are gonna do
what they say they gonna do.

Otherwise, it just fucks up your own shit.

Well, I'll give half of it
to my G, which is my friend,

and then, I'll take a quarter of it,
I'll break it down...

and I'll sell that.

Big Trish usually sells
at parties and clubs.

It'll all go on one weekend
because it's that good.

But with summer coming,

there's only one place
for dealers like Trish to be.

It's easy for me to get
my stuff into the festivals because...

Well, I'm not gonna give all my secrets,

but I'm a woman, so it's very easy.

As police and security move
through the crowd,

Trish uses a tactic
that plays straight to the heart

of what MDMA is all about.

I hug a lot of people
when I see them,

so it doesn't really look as bait.

I'll just see my friend,
and I'll hug him or I'll hug her,

and we just do the exchange,
and you probably wouldn't even notice it.

You've just gotta be very clever
and, also, inconspicuous.

Every summer,
the UK goes festival mad,

and the demand for drugs skyrockets.

And the chemicals soon kick in.

I've took about half a gram of MDMA.

Um, I've taken a pill,
so I think it's MD and ecstasy.

Two grams of cocaine, uh...

It's pretty strong.

And about six pills.

Just feels like everywhere is really loud,

and I wanna go towards the music
and dance and... and have a good time.

Well, that's why we're at the festival.

I'm not gonna sit here
and play the fucking piano, am I?

Do you know what I mean?

Dealers like Trish
rise to the demand.

Summer ain't over yet, is it?
It's just beginning.

So, yeah.

There's a few more festivals
coming up, so...

yeah, I'm ready.

But the cops are ready, too.

Six-three-three,
we're about one minute away now.

There's a lot of work being done
in the background leading up to this.

It's a few days
after the festival,

and West Midlands Police
are targeting an MDMA distributor

in the Birmingham area.

The intelligence is that

one of the occupants is quite high up
in the chain of distribution.

The main dealers will have runners
working for them that they'll send out,

but they're using or dealing
all different types of drugs.

Taking out a key supplier
could do a lot of damage

to the region's drug network.

It's gonna be a rapid entry
when we get there.

Secure people inside,
and then do a full search of the premises.

- Police! Step away from the door!
- Police!

Police! Stand away from the door! Police!

It's all under control.

Uh, two occupants and a child.

Uh...

All secure in there,
sat down there with officers,

so now it's the painstaking search time.

There ain't gonna be nothing here,
is there?

While the search continues,

Sergeant Short heads outside.

Come have a look at the car.

The car search
begins to yield results.

- Is it a lock knife?
- Yeah.

We'll have to seize that,
won't we?

It's an offense to have one in public.

That's the type of weapons that we're
coming up against quite regular, that is.

And back inside the apartment...

It was just in a pot
in the kitchen.

...a chance to hit
the distributor where it hurts.

Uh, looking at probably about £10,000...

in cash.

Yeah. All in £20 notes, you can see.

That will be seized
under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

This would be a sign
of some sort of drug dealing.

The intelligence we got is that
he's high up the chain of the dealing,

so he wouldn't keep the drugs,
he'd bring, import them in

and sell it on straightaway.
And it's being dealt from other premises.

A bust like this
won't affect the supply chain for long.

Because the UK lies

next to one of the world's
biggest producers of MDMA...

the Netherlands.

Children live here.

People walk with their dogs.

It's just a normal neighborhood.

Bad things happen in normal places.

Vincent has been making pills
in a quiet Dutch suburb

for five years.

This is the stamp.

The Blue Punishers.

So I have to put it in there correctly.

But you can buy all kinds of stamps...

Donald Trumpies, whatever you want.

I also have big machines,

but this is what I use
for small, fast orders.

You can use this everywhere,
we're now in a shed.

This one can make up to 6,000 pills
in one hour.

Vincent is aware
of the mixed rep pills have

among users in the UK.

The UK market changed a lot.

A few years ago, they'd take everything,

but now, they're used to quality.

So we have to send good quality,
or they're not, they're not gonna buy it.

So his pills
have just one main ingredient.

This is MDMA.

This is the best to make pills.

MDMA traditionally comes
from a compound that's organic.

But Vincent's MDMA is made differently.

The result is purer...

cheaper...

and it's taking the ecstasy trade
by storm.

The high is very intense,

and the rush possibly lasts longer.

And you can make them as soon as you want.

They also get bigger in here.
For example, 100mg, 200mg, 250.

The good news
for British buyers

comes with a catch.

It's also dangerous
because if you take too much, you can die.

They could die of a heart attack
because they're not used to it.

It's their fault if they take too much.

For Vincent, the drug trade
is all about one thing...

profit.

The harder you work,
the more you sell.

You can make 10,000 euros each week.

So, I can buy whatever I want,
I can do whatever I want,

I can go on holiday whenever I want.

So, it's just like a little bit of freedom
for me.

If you're scared to go to prison,
then don't do this, it's not for you.

You can't be scared all the time.
If you're scared, you make mistakes.

There's a lot
of police activity everywhere.

I hear helicopters, see police cars.

Frank heads up
the trafficking side of the operation.

We have our own crew,

our own organization.

And everybody got their tasks.

I make sure the transport is okay,
so that everything gets packed...

to stash cars
and this gets shipped to the UK.

His team makes up to ten trips
to the UK every year.

When it arrives and they get sold,
I get a piece of the pie.

Per kilo, it's like 2,500 euros
for pills and MDMA.

It's a big business in the UK right now.

That's what we're aiming for.

♪ Y'all got it comin'
When the devil rides out ♪

♪ When the devil rides out ♪

Right now, I'm busy in the evening.

My family kind of knows
that something's up.

'Cause they see I don't have usual
business hours like from 9:00 to 5:00.

But they don't ask a lot of questions.

So I just keep it that way.

It takes nearly seven hours
to get to the UK via car ferry.

Remaining cool is one part,

but it's also stay calm.

Don't draw attention.

If you draw attention, you get caught.

The pills are soon landed
at the Port of Harwich

and heading for the UK's capital...

London.

♪ Tell a young boy come
They be like OK ♪

♪ I comin from the streets
Where dem man don't play ♪

♪ Wanna know about beef
Wanna know about peak? ♪

♪ Wanna know about street
Come and fuck my straight ♪

♪ What can I say
Bare man a move sick in their ends ♪

♪ Bare man wanna switch and pretend
You snitch in the ends ♪

I got the link to the man that made it.

That's ten times better
than sending your money online

and waiting for the postman.

That's all I'm saying, so.

Candy Man is a distributor
with a Dutch connection,

who sells all over the UK.

When you're handing someone a pill,
yeah, you're handing someone love, innit?

Enjoyment and a good time.

People like to self-medicate with ecstasy
and it's never gonna stop.

Ecstasy is just something
people will always do.

Yeah, so someone's ordered something.

Gonna weigh them up quickly.

Just like a real candy store,

he offers a tempting range of products...

at a price.

If you sold every pill for £10,

that would be on the street like, what,

£30,000.

Everyone's selling, by the way, like...

Probably some of the people
watching your documentary,

they don't know
that their little 17-year-old Harry

is ordering drugs online, 300 pills.

They're youngsters, they're on it,

they're like what I would have been doing
when I was a kid if I knew about drugs.

Going with his mates,
sell it to all of them.

Gonna come back with three grand.

And buy your parents a holiday
or some shit.

But he ain't gonna buy you a holiday.

He's gonna go and have more fun.
It's just what I'm saying.

That's what we're living
in. That time, man.

In such a fluid market,
you need to promote your product.

Candy Man must reach out to influencers

to help him spread the word.

Yeah, how long you gonna be?

- I'm at Bridge Road now.
- All right cool. Bye.

Done, mate.

London is very unpredictable.

You can meet anybody
from all walks of life.

Anyone could be a potential threat.

At the same time,
anyone can be your friend.

♪ I saw you look at me ♪

♪ I felt the rush ♪

♪ I felt the chemistry ♪

♪ I know you felt it, too ♪

♪ I saw it in your eyes ♪

♪ It called to me ♪

Mr. Smith has access
to an underground dance scene...

that has no security...

and no rules.

Illegal raves.

The rave scene and the drugs
within the rave scene

might appear frightening
to someone who does not know.

First couple of raves I went to,
they were just like...

frothing at the mouths,

like foam was coming
out of their mouths, like...

moving around and whatnot.

For dealers,
raves are a great place

to generate a buzz
around a new brand of pills.

If you're in the know,
you're in the know.

And if a party happens, it doesn't happen,

if you're there, you're present,

you know, you're famous,
or you're infamous.

And what ravers take today,

the festival crowd will take tomorrow.

Everyone's got a mobile phone
in their pocket, Facebook, everything.

Tonight, there's only a sort
of few on sale.

What these are is pure MDMA pills.

These are the Premiers.

Each one has got pictures
of, like, different football clubs.

I don't follow football, mate.
I can't read that shit.

But, anyway, that's what it is.

That cost me 150,

and I'll be selling each one
for about 20 quid each.

I'm hoping to get
about £400 profit off that.

To realize that profit,

Smith needs to get the product to market.

But in the underground, nothing is easy.

Last three years
has been big issues, mate.

Parties going up, parties going down.

It's hard to know when things
are gonna be a success,

and when things aren't.

Luckily, Smith has
the right connections.

Cracking is getting into buildings

so that people can use them for raves.

Crow is hunting
for rave venues.

He knows the score.

We don't know if a building
will have alarms, CCTV,

and that could trip us up.

When I'm going to crack a building,

the first thing that runs
into my mind is...

whether or not there's witnesses.

He's scoping his first target
of the night.

Here's a little something for you.

After climbing all this shit,

found an entrance right here.

This down here looks like an entrance.

Fucking pigeons and shit, man!

This place is definitely
under construction.

It was abandoned,
but now they're renovating it.

This is not good.

There are a lot of cameras here.

So I'm gonna have to leave.

Crow isn't having
a lot of luck,

but he's got help.

And one of his crew has spotted something.

Looks like an abandoned
building site thing.

Jump over from here, fam.

Come on.

Yeah, we got the lock here.

We got the lock here,
we can pull this down.

I think there's a second lock
somewhere here as well. There it is.

What we need to do
is either bust that lock...

or the lock down there.

We might as well do that one,
'cause that's an actual door.

Wait, wait. Hold up, hold up, hold up.

Hold up.

Wait for the people to go.

Hold on.

We got it.

Quick, quick, quick, quick.

This is nice, mate. This is fucking nice!

Crow's getting a good feeling.

How many entrances does it have?

Usable entrances,
it has about three.

He's got a plan
to fend off the cops...

if they buy it.

We are, in fact,
in an abandoned building.

I'm putting on Section 144,
this clears our name as squatters.

It officializes squatters' rights
on this building.

First is, you need to get your supplies.

That's your rigs...

power...

your decks...

your speakers.

Sometimes a little bit of drugs as well.

Did you put the snap out
saying "inbox for location," yeah?

Yeah.

Crow and his crew
start plugging their contacts.

You just keep telling people to ask
for the location,

and then we just send it to them.

To, like 3,000 people.

Literally, you have to go
through every single person.

Social media isn't safe,

and that means
messaging everyone individually.

It was very easy to stay ahead
of the police at one point.

It's becoming a bit harder and harder now.

What did you stop at last?

A lot of times,
it's through social media.

But, of course, social media
has become more and more, uh...

bait to the police.

Because there's a lot of undercover police
acting as normal accounts on there.

So, nowadays, we're trying to go more
through personal messages

and word of mouth.

Um...

There is a rave happening.

Mr Smith knows
that once he's inside the venue,

he and his pills will be safe.

But getting in won't be easy.

My main concerns
for getting into a venue

are the authorities.

The police want to shut things down.

You don't wanna get stopped and searched,
it's not worth it.

The rave is heating up.

The culture of raves is excess.

You wanna smoke weed, you can.

If you wanna drop your pill right here
or right there, it makes no difference.

But cops
are already on the scene.

I don't know
if you didn't read that.

We're using this building as a squat
and a temporary house.

I don't need to give you a name.
I'm a squatter.

- What?
- Squatter.

You're all on CCTV
at this current moment in time.

So you can either leave with your gear
or you'll be leaving without it.

Caught between a rock
and a hard place,

Crow is out of options.

Well, when the police come
and block off the entrances,

and they circle the buildings,
there's nothing more we can do.

So, it's looking like a done deal.

The party's over,

but Mr. Smith did okay.

I was still able to, you know,

sell enough
before any police bullshit happened.

I've made 90 tonight.

I'm just gonna try and see
if I can find some more customers.

♪ If you want it, want it ♪

♪ You want it, come on, come on ♪

♪ So you really want it all ♪

♪ You just can't get enough ♪

♪ Be careful what you wish for ♪

♪ I might just give it up ♪

With super strength pills
selling at raves,

the word soon spreads.

Demand starts to build...

and dealers are on hand to supply.

I don't know
if these are killing people,

but they're very strong,
I will say that much.

Smiler has just
picked up a batch.

My busiest season is the festival season.

May to September,

there's money to be made every week
in different parts of the country.

He's driving through the night.

His destination?

A major festival.

Obviously, right now,
the country's on high terror alert.

So the fact
that we're on high terror alert,

it means that anyone with a bag
that's bigger than the A4 size

is considered... could be a threat.

You'd have to, obviously,
get past the sniffer dogs,

you have to get past the search.

There is a network that people do use
to get into festivals.

But myself, I just have
to get a little bit lucky, that's all.

The festival is happening
200 miles from London,

just outside
the UK's northern powerhouse...

Manchester.

Make some noise!

These are people that have
potentially been identified as carrying.

So anybody that is identified
as potentially carrying

is then led into a separate tent here.

- Who you here with today?
- Three friends.

- They gone in?
- Yeah.

Police are guarding
the entrances,

zeroing in on anyone suspicious.

Honestly, these were all for them.

He's been paid
to bring them in?

Right.

They've chucked me an extra five

to put it in my thingy
and get through with it.

This is the worst thing in the world.

It looks like I'm dealing,
and I swear to God I'm not.

It's gonna be in your benefit

if you pass me details
of who's paid you to bring them in.

But the man says nothing.

Let me just inform you,
at this moment in time,

I'm arresting you on suspicion

of being in possession of a Class A drug
with intent to supply.

With the cops busy,

Smiler has made it through.

I know what I've come to do.
Like, I'm not afraid.

If I act afraid they'll...
they'll pick up on my fear.

I leave the worrying
up to the other people.

He's soon doing brisk business.

Police are aware
that high strength pills are on site.

Every festival you seem to go to
at the moment,

there is, you know,
reported deaths which occur.

You can see some of the ages
of people coming into the festival.

They're relatively young, and...

uh, obviously we need to make sure
that they're protected.

Inside the festival,

it's down to the organizers to respond.

There's obviously major concern
given the strength of them.

That message has obviously
been relayed throughout the site

as well for festival goers,

just to make sure
that they're aware of that.

But on the streets,
the cops can do more.

A GMP Tactical Unit

is on its way to an address
in Greater Manchester.

Their mission:

to disrupt the distribution network
with links to the Netherlands.

The organized crime group
that we're targeting today

could be involved in distributing ecstasy.

When we arrive at the address, we have
a number of concerns go through our head.

The first major concern will be

what access do they have
to any potential weapon.

Hopefully, a state of shock takes place,

so people tend to stop what they're doing
and look before they then decide to move.

So as long as we're on the ball,
hopefully everything will go to plan,

and we'll try to, essentially,
dominate and contain

any person on that... on that property.

Right, everybody!

Police hit multiple entrances
to the property at the same time.

Anyone here?

Police!

All clear. It's alright.

Police!

All clear.

- All clear?
- Yeah.

The gang has already fled.

An extensive search begins.

A small amount of cannabis
isn't much of a haul.

Then they strike gold.

No drugs, but maybe something better.

We've got two, uh, passports
relating to the subject.

Uh, they're Dutch passports.

So that ties into the intelligence
picture around this operation.

Another piece in the jigsaw

that could bust the Dutch supply ring
wide open.

But this is just one region
in one part of the UK.

Meanwhile, the Dutch connection
continues to churn out pills.

It's a daily business
for me, so...

It's like you are now filming me,

that's your work, this is my work.

Dealers and distributors
continue to push them.

There's more pure pills now,
'cause there's more access to MDMA.

You can get it freely now, so, obviously,
the pills are gonna be pure.

And with the UK festival scene
growing larger,

there will always be someone
waiting in the wings.

I don't think that anyone
can stop the drug problem.

'Cause if I don't give it to someone,

someone else is gonna give it to them.

♪ Okay, I'm from a place
Where they play the chase ♪

♪ 'Round here ♪

♪ These ladies ride hard as a man
Just for a taste ♪

♪ Man, we ride ♪

♪ See, the hustling's in my blood ♪

♪ Mama told me keep going
Till that sun come up ♪

♪ Boy, I'm hard ♪

♪ I was built by the game ♪

♪ You don't really want this drive
Well, stay in your lane ♪

♪ See, we move ♪

♪ Like a thief in the night ♪

♪ You will never see us coming
But I'm dumpin' on site ♪

♪ On site, on site ♪

♪ On site, on site ♪