Mark Minelli: My Experience with Dangerous Undercover Operations as a DEA Agent

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You have the opportunity to call up and talk live to one of them, retired DEA agent Mark Minelli. Mark is taking your calls effective live right now, 800-848-9222. So Mark, I spoke to you last week, but your story is so fascinating, what you've done for America, what you've done undercover, how much you've put your life on the line, how the cartels want you frankly dead right now. I wanted you to come back and be able to chat with us. Thank you so much for joining us

And thank you. Uh, thank you, Dominic. It's a pleasure being back here, sir

So, uh, for folks that don't know who you are, right... Uh, I said this before, it bears repeating again. You are the real deal. Drug Enforcement Administration, you, Mr. Minnelli, have cost cartels millions. A lot of dealers have done serious jail time because of you. For the general audience, what's the highlight in terms of your career, in your own words, in terms of the damage that you've done to these lowlifes, which is a good thing for us, to help keep drugs off the street?

Well, as we spoke last week, um, my, my objective is actually to get to the higher, uh, the hierarchy of these organizations. Those people on the street level, w- while they are violating our laws, they're generally doing it for a variety of reasons, and it's only by ascending that ladder, moving up the chain of command, can we get the violent high-level traffickers, which I've been successful in some, so many times throughout my career. That's my objective

Tell me about some of the cases, the high-profile cases you've worked on, and it would scare me to death because at any, at any moment, the deal can go, can go south, and you can have your brains blown out. It's actually happened before to DEA, uh, agents. Uh, it happened on Staten Island a number of years ago. Tell me about some of the high-profile things you have done

W- well, your, your... We, we, we refer to as situational awareness. Whether you're undercover or doing surveillance on another agent undercover, you have to have