Locked In with Ian Bick

Scott Gussin grew up in New York, lost his mother at seven years old in a moment that changed the direction of everything that followed, fell into selling weed and hash and LSD coming of age in the 1960s and 70s, and eventually built one of the most specific and most audacious international drug smuggling operations available — bringing hash from Morocco to the United States across a career that spanned thirty years before it finally ended.
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#crimestory #drugsmugglers #truecrimestories
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Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: 
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Timestamps:
00:00 Roadblock with hash on board
00:37 Guest intro: Scott's story
00:57 Growing up in Portchester
01:21 Losing his mom at 7
03:37 A parade of housekeepers
06:59 The housekeepers get weird
08:03 Getting into weed at 15
10:42 Meeting Reuben and the LSD
13:58 Hash vs. weed explained
17:28 Pricing the product
20:00 Spotting 'heads' back then
22:45 Only two straight jobs
25:05 The ignorant law enforcement
26:18 Cops don't recognize hash
27:25 A trippy traffic stop
32:26 Acid buddy becomes a JW
37:23 After high school
38:18 Dodging the Vietnam draft
40:56 College for connections
44:40 Hitching with a pound of weed
46:16 The business mindset
47:42 Leaving college for California
48:09 Meeting Cassidy and the Morocco plan
50:47 The cocaine trip that wasn't
54:30 Selling the boat, new plan
57:03 Bringing Stella along
58:59 Buying the VW bus
01:01:39 Buying hash on the mountain
01:05:28 Driving with 44 pounds
01:07:09 Coming upon a roadblock
01:10:47 Getting past the roadblock
01:13:52 Setting up at the beach house
01:16:34 Building the secret stash bed
01:18:57 A month in Morocco
01:20:00 The sign to leave
01:22:45 The Moroccan customs search
01:27:20 The ferry and the dolphins
01:28:24 Easy entry into Spain
01:32:40 Cassidy's anger and laughter
01:33:46 Shipping the bus to Montreal
01:35:28 Swapping the bed in Canada
01:37:53 Crossing into the US with the bed
01:39:13 Selling the hash, big profits
01:43:36 Trust in the old days
01:44:29 Bust risks in Spain and Morocco
01:46:19 The failed second attempt
01:49:01 The near-disastrous boat trip
01:54:15 How long did the career last?
01:54:55 Back to New York, then Arizona
01:59:32 The Laguna Beach connection
02:02:20 Cowboy Neil's operation
02:04:41 The North County partnership
02:07:12 Weighing and distributing
02:09:00 The two-year plan
02:10:16 Thai stick and new markets
02:14:19 The big deal in Laguna
02:17:20 The gift suitcase
02:18:51 The DEA roadblock
02:21:17 Three hours of interrogation
02:25:00 The search comes up empty
02:27:24 Scared straight by the DEA
02:29:04 Overall earnings and taxes
02:32:59 The DEA's advice: leave California
02:36:41 Moving to Florida and new businesses
02:38:00 The mistake that ended it all
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Supreme McGriff Jr. grew up in Queens not fully understanding who his father was until the stories, the attention, and the weight of the name Kenneth Supreme McGriff started shaping everything around him — while his mother worked to keep him away from the path that had defined his father's legacy and the federal prison sentence that followed it. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, he shares what finding out his father is Kenneth Supreme McGriff actually produced in him, what his upbringing in Queens really looked like with that name attached to everything, what his own trouble with scamming and his time on Rikers Island actually involved, what deciding to create an Instagram account with his father's name attached to his own actually set in motion — the celebrities who reached out, the stories with Mike Tyson, the 50 Cent beef, and the complete truth about what carrying one of the most recognized and most feared names in New York street history actually costs the son who never chose it.
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 #TrueCrime #RikersIsland #supreme #50Cent #prisonstories
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Timestamps:
00:00 Growing Up In Queens
01:02 Discovering My Father's Identity
03:13 My Dad's Life And Their Split
05:17 Life Before Knowing The Truth
07:31 Learning About My Dad From The Streets
09:39 The 50 Cent Connection
10:02 Law Enforcement's Perspective
11:21 Meeting My Dad For The First Time
13:41 First Phone Call With Supreme
14:28 Advice And Avoiding The Streets
16:17 Inevitable Pull Of The Streets
17:37 Uncle Comes Home From Prison
18:08 Street Culture Today
19:40 Dad's Fear For My Safety
22:16 Bill Courtney And The Movie
24:29 Sponsor: Hungry Root
27:11 Finding Myself In My Late Teens
29:25 Introduction To Scamming
30:38 Mom Discovers The Truth
32:36 Dad Finds Out I'm Scamming
35:26 Turning Myself In
36:44 Incarceration And Identity
38:23 Why Scamming Over Drugs
39:17 My Rikers Experience
43:28 Keeping My Identity Private In Jail
48:48 Life After Rikers
51:33 Finding My Path
53:17 Going Viral With 50 Cent's Son
55:20 Trolling And Building A Brand
56:04 The Brother Rumor
59:59 First Celebrity Encounters
01:01:31 Interviews And 50 Cent Questions
01:03:06 Biggest Conspiracy Theories
01:04:43 Dad's Take On My Interviews
01:06:47 Supreme Clothing Brand Connection
01:08:13 Mike Tyson Saved My Life
01:13:23 A Movie About My Dad
01:14:48 Thoughts On Meech
01:19:39 Challenging Lil Meech To A Fight
01:25:09 My Current Businesses
01:27:16 Relationship With My Dad Now
01:30:08 Hope For My Dad's Release
01:32:24 My Dad's Legacy
01:33:09 Changing My Last Name
01:33:34 Meeting My Half Sister
01:34:11 My Mom's Thoughts On My Fame
01:35:27 The Hit On My Mom
01:37:28 What If I Never Knew
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Ralph Friedman is the most decorated detective in NYPD history — with 2,000 on-duty arrests, 5,000 additional assists, and 219 awards — and in this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, he finally tells the complete truth about what policing in New York City's most dangerous precincts really looked like from the inside during the most violent and most lawless era available. Stationed at the South Bronx's notorious 41st Precinct — known as Fort Apache — he served during one of New York City's most dire periods, recording 2,000 on-duty arrests, 5,000 additional assists, and 15 shootings — four of them fatal — before a rookie in a radio patrol car T-boned his passenger door at high speed on August 1, 1983, leaving him with 23 broken bones including a pelvis broken in four places and a shattered hip that forced him into medical retirement at 34. He shares what the Bronx streets in the 70s and 80s really required of the officers working them, what criminals putting hits on him actually involved, the worst things he ever saw on the job, and what the stories from a career that produced the most decorated record in NYPD history actually sound like from the detective who lived every one of them.
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#NYPD #cops #truecrimestories #police
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to Detective Ralph Friedman
00:22 Reflections on a Legendary Career
01:08 How He Became a Cop
03:25 First Day in the Bronx
04:34 An Officer's Gear in the 1970s
06:16 The Mental Toll of Policing
07:47 Public Respect and Deterrence
10:00 Case: Stopping a Justifiable Homicide
12:53 Public Sentiment Today vs. Back Then
15:08 First Arrest and Early Impressions
17:04 Specialization and the Black Liberation Army
19:34 Daily Danger and Chaos
22:40 Corruption and the Knapp Commission
24:16 A Rookie's Brush with Corruption
27:43 Changing Views on Women in Policing
29:57 Path to Detective
33:05 Plainclothes Work and Tactics
35:31 Shootout in the South Bronx
41:17 Aftermath of a Shooting
43:31 Close Calls and Street Survival Tips
47:20 Quirky Emergency Service Stories
51:03 Old School vs. Modern Training
53:52 Detective Work and Arrests
58:40 A Typical Day as a Detective
01:02:32 Taking Down a Gun and Grenade Cache
01:05:05 Reputation and Informants
01:07:55 Riding with Friends and a Street Crew
01:12:40 The Worst Call of His Career
01:14:40 When the System Fails
01:16:51 Fitting In with the Squad
01:18:04 Off-Duty Life and Arrests
01:21:28 The Attempt on His Life
01:27:07 A Date with an Assassin
01:29:25 The Trap Unfortunately Foiled
01:30:42 The Emotional Weight of Taking Lives
01:32:28 Respect eroding in Society
01:35:10 Detective Ranks Explained
01:38:41 Handling Bosses and Paperwork
01:40:41 The Frances Tavern Case That Haunts Him
01:45:40 Fighting Layoffs
01:48:41 The Accident That Ended It All
01:53:20 Recovery and the Next Chapter
01:58:40 Life Advice from a Legend
02:00:00 Final Thoughts and Thanks
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Jenifer Lockwood became a surgical nurse in Florida, grew up watching her mother struggle with addiction, developed her own health complications that introduced her to prescription pills, and eventually built a scheme at her job calling in fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacies to feed the addiction before law enforcement set her up at a pharmacy and arrested her — producing a 15 year Florida state prison sentence that she served 13 years of before sobriety, a paralegal career built inside those walls, and a complete life transformation gave everything that addiction cost her a completely different second chapter.
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#PrisonStories #PrisonLife #florida #nurse #truecrimestory
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Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: 
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Timestamps:
00:00 Surgical Nurse's Journey
00:28 Growing Up in Pensacola
02:22 Discovering Biological Father
05:52 Influence of Medical Family
09:15 Early Marriage and Nursing
12:04 Life as a Surgical Nurse
14:41 Sponsor Break
15:14 Traumatic OR Stories
20:36 Addiction Begins
24:47 Mother's Role in Addiction
27:20 Silent Struggles in Healthcare
30:40 Prescription Ends, Desperation
35:20 Arrested in Pharmacy
38:48 Drug Trafficking Charge
41:02 Pharmacy Verification Process
43:36 Bond and Legal Threats
48:39 Out on Bond, Terminated
50:05 Bond Revoked and Withdrawal
52:27 Firing Lawyer, Public Defender
55:00 County Jail Experience
57:38 Sponsor Break
58:47 Legal Process and Plea Deal
01:03:58 Understanding Gain Time
01:05:18 Marriage and New Relationship
01:09:10 Motherhood from Prison
01:13:26 First Day of Prison
01:19:29 Fitting in at Gatson
01:23:31 Becoming a Law Clerk
01:29:51 Prison Shows and Talents
01:31:04 Types of Cases Helped
01:32:32 Sobriety and Self-Discovery
01:35:35 Using Nursing Skills in Prison
01:38:49 Financial Support Inside
01:39:55 Mother's Sobriety
01:40:06 Questioning Sentencing Length
01:42:50 Refusing Cases and Prejudice
01:48:53 Comparing Sentences
01:50:15 Lessons from Encounters
01:53:42 Approaching Release Date
01:55:59 Release and Reuniting with Kids
02:03:36 Josh's Anger and Healing
02:05:30 Current Work and Advocacy
02:08:13 Feeling the Lost Years
02:09:25 Advice to Past Self
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Tiffany Vulcain grew up neglected by her parents, cycled through group homes and juvenile detention, spent her teenage years around gang life, and hit the streets on her own after turning 18 before a credit card scheme and the wrong group of people produced a five year federal prison sentence — and had to give birth in one of the most isolating and most institutionally indifferent environments available. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, she shares what a childhood defined by neglect, group homes, and juvenile detention really produced before the streets found her, what the federal prison sentence that followed the credit card scheme actually looked like from the inside, and what being pregnant in federal prison and giving birth behind bars actually required of a woman who had spent her entire life fighting to survive systems that were never built to help her.
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#pregnancy #prison #truecrimestories #pregnant
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Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick:
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and Tiffany's Story
00:22 Early Life and Foster Care
01:18 Life in Jamaica vs. New York
02:10 Dysfunctional Home and Abuse
04:19 Running Away and Finding the Streets
06:11 Entering the Group Home
07:19 Freedom and Life of Crime Begins
09:40 Gang Involvement and Acceptance
10:46 Teenage Arrest and Juvenile Detention
13:13 Inside the Juvenile Facility
14:14 Returning Home and Foster Care Again
16:03 Aging Out and Exploitation
17:16 Escalating Crime and Credit Card Fraud
20:08 How the Fraud Worked
21:45 Facing the Victims
23:42 Self-Perception and Morality
24:42 Getting Caught in Virginia
27:59 The Federal Investigation
29:13 Turning Yourself In
31:28 The Plea Deal and Decision to Not Snitch
33:47 Estrangement from Family
34:15 Arrested Again While Pregnant
35:43 Experiencing Rikers Island
38:00 Sentencing and Lost Self-Surrender
40:08 Transport to MDC Brooklyn
41:40 The MINT Program and Women in MDC
43:57 Husband and Baby Plans
45:08 Giving Birth in Prison
53:16 Compassion vs. Desensitization
54:20 After Birth: Hospital and Advocacy
56:20 Baby in ICU and Special Permission
57:42 Leaving the Hospital Without Baby
01:00:42 Returning to Prison in Depression
01:02:02 Danbury Prison and Transition to Male Facility
01:04:12 Fight and Transfer to Philadelphia
01:07:23 The Shoe and Diesel Therapy
01:10:01 Flight with Chris Brown
01:11:42 Visits and Regret
01:12:24 Life in Philadelphia and Self-Discovery
01:14:00 Another Fight and Return to Brooklyn
01:15:20 Coming Home Without a Plan
01:16:00 Post-Prison Struggles and Betrayal
01:17:20 The Turning Point
01:19:20 Healing and Rebranding
01:20:14 Finding Purpose in Re-entry Work
01:22:51 Current Success and Roles
01:24:10 Message to Younger Self
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