Highway robbery, when done by the man is known as civil asset forfeiture. In the contest to see who can get away with the most, highway patrol and DEA tend to come out on top since the law allows them to steal your money, cars, and other stuff. After doing her time, Trinity goes to Takashi–her most favorite place to eat–gets a surprise for her birthday and a lesson in how those assets are spent.
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Trinity talks about trying to get through the metal detector in Provo and instead gets into a fight with a cop. Trinity has a problem with authority and it manifests itself at the worst times. She reminisces about the day the Feds busted into her home, took Bob away, and she was arrested. Davis County jail is a good place to make goals.
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Our couriers aren’t in Kansas anymore as they venture outside the Emerald Triangle. Come along with Trinity on the yellow brick road to a field of poppies in Shelter Cove, through a gauntlet of living speed bumps in Lassen Forest, into the onion-domed wonder of St. Orr’s resort in Gualala, and the danger that awaits traffickers on the cliffs of the Mendocino Coast.
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Driving through pastures, fields of potatoes, and rural Idaho, Trinity’s convinced the state is a hot bed of sophisticated hicks and rocket scientists. Escaping an Amber Alert, parking the load next to a K- 9 unit at Wendy’s, and surviving the state bowling tournament in Burley, Trinity talks about Bob’s childhood in Idaho and her in-laws who still live there.
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Getting the load and driving it home. Hidden cops wait for unsuspecting travelers on Highway 199. Stopping at Hiouchie’s Café and dealing with friendly servers. Oregon has lots of strange idiosyncrasies, from the full-fledged bald mountains caused by clear-cut logging, the baby lambs on I-5, and no self-service gas stations. In midst of it all, Trinity decides to walk home from Seven Feathers Casino.
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Law enforcement uses the latest technologies from the intelligence community, the military and electronic surveillance to catch their targets. Take a cell phone with you on the road and DEA snatches up your emails, texts, photos and contacts. And, worst of all, convenience store clerks are paid bounty hunters in the game between the law and all of us.
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Driving cannabis loads from California to Utah for the better part of 5 years gave Trinity a unique perspective and awareness. Her whiteness cloaked her from the watchful eyes of law enforcement, but she saw how DWB automatically caused people of color to be in the crosshairs of state cops and DEA.
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It’s becoming more obvious that we live in a police state, even if many of us never think the criminal justice system will touch our protected lives. Trinity experienced, 1st-hand, the battle between the federal government’s war on drugs and legalization of marijuana by the states. Ride along, and listen in, as she describes how she, her family, and our nation have become entrenched in the business of criminal justice and the prison industry that now touches the lives of one out of every three Americans.
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Trinity talks about gaining courage to reveal the truth about the drug world and prison industry. She reminisces about all the characters and people she’s met on her adventures in The Emerald Triangle. And, a final twist in Trinity’s story for the listeners.
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Pondering on recent newspaper stories, Trinity compares her experiences as a driver with couriers from Medford, NY who were busted May 1, 2020, carrying just under a million dollars cash on CA’s Interstate 5. She ponders and speculates what it was exactly that led to Frank Capraro and Desmond McDays’ arrest on the way to pick up their load in NorCal. Could it have been the Fed’s super stealth Stingray technology, the boys’ naiveté regarding their ability to stay under the radar, or the $500 cash bounty that brought attention from the authorities?
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