Introducing: Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord

Speaking publicly for the first time ever, Chicago-born identical twins Jay and Peter Flores share the incredible story of how they went from dealing $2 billion worth of drugs across the country as North America’s most successful cocaine traffickers, to government informants who brought down the infamous drug lord, “El Chapo.”

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The law is not there to protect criminals, is there
to protect the innocent. I was a criminal, so the
law wasn't there to benefit me. I've got st Jackson
and I'm Charlie Webster. Let me tell you a story
about two brothers. If you think this is just another
knockle story, you're wrong. My brood that we probably easily
pushed over a hundred thirty hundred forty tons since we

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were distributing in Chicago, Ton Miwaukee, Wisconsin, Apples, Minnesota, Incinnati, Ohio, Lands, Hanover, Kentucky,
dotint In New York City, Washington, Atlanta, Georgia, Los Angeles, California,
man Cover, British Columbia, and the pantheon of drug prosecutions
in the history of the Northern District of Illinois, this
case stands at the highest level. Sure it's got all

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the actions. And then pulled the gun out. It was
a fifty cap it's already loaded. He has a box
of ammunition, and he's like, go ahead and just put
one in the chamber. He said, listen, I'm calling you
because they got eight hundred men right to come get
But there's a chance that you might not make it
out of life and the drama. I said, well, sir,

(01:06):
I'm here because I'm here for my brother. I remember
getting my knees and praying, and I said, I give
my brother back that part without That's what I bag
and that's what I said. But at the end of
the day, it's about two boys born into a life.
They didn't shoot. Here the incredible true story of j
and Pete Flores, the twin brothers from Chicago who built

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America's biggest drug trafficking empire. What happened. I'm in a chapel, chapel.
We like this. They liked this. They looked at us
like their sons and treats like family. Now we're at
the table with the biggest juggles and with dot COM's
power and power and protection. J and Pete went on

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to become El Chapo's right hand men, becoming the biggest
cocaine suppliers are distributors for the set. He said, they
made me write a diagram of where we were in
the car top he writes the name Chapel, and he
does little sticks he could be and Jake, which part
don't you understand? Thinking about? Really just one in a

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way out. The story made international news because there are
the reason El Chapel is now in prison, and they've
never spoken publicly until now. It was crazy what I
had just proposed, like to cooperate against the biggest strugglers
in the world. My brother I had the only legal
recording of Chapels mom they ever had. Listen to Surviving
El Chapo, The Twins who brought Down a Drug Lord

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begins October nineteen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple
podcast or whatever you get your podcast. There's no one
else who were in our shoes. Take a sit next
to and turnin this. I'm alive. This is who they're
just in my life.