Thomas Shretner person
also: Shretner, Tom Sretner, Shredner
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of the L.A. County Sheriff's Office. And how could they burn it? When Gordon called the DEA office in L.A., as Gonzalez suggested, his uneasiness grew. No, he was told, the Costa Rican DEA office was not investigating Lister and Blanton, bu…
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Thomas Shretner was only too happy to help him. Shretner had his hands full with other investigations, he told Gordon, and his supervisors wouldn't let him spend any time on the Blanton case. All he could do for him was pass along a little …
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after the show, so that we can get right into the book, because it's crazy. It's just literally crazy going on. Okay, so where we left off, we were in August of 1986, and the Riverside DEA agent, Thomas Shretner, who was the guy that the ma…
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In LA, the police department and the sheriff's department was kind of skeptical about because they had literally the biggest case of the biggest cocaine dealer in the world going on. And the DEA wasn't really interested. He was busy doing o…
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Shretner had debriefed a Nicaraguan informant who had known Blanton since meeting him in Miami in 1983, which, as you guys recall, is when he came over. The informant from Nicaragua. The informant admitted hauling cocaine and millions of do…
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He had felt bad about doing it and was planning to turn Danielle in eventually. Yeah, you know, sometime when it's not convenient for me making money. Okay, as a matter of fact, the informant said he had already tried to turn him in once be…
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The FBI wasn't interested. Shretner's informant described the drug ring as consisting of loosely associated Nicaraguans under Somoza, located principally in the Northern California area. Said the groups together purchased or distributed app…
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to the Blanton organization, and then from Blanton to Menendez in San Francisco. This is according to the informant. For Gordon, that information, Gordon is the major's guy that's the police that's investigating the drug ring in Los Angeles…
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The other group is ran by Menendez and located principally in San Francisco. The informants filled seven pages with names, dates, cash delivery, stash houses, drug storehouses, and business fronts. History has proven that nearly every piece…
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Among those named as members of Blanton's operation was Claudio Vallecaristio, a.k.a. Ivan Argelas, Rick Rasta's first major supplier. Another one of Blanton's employees, a cocaine distributor by the name of Ivan Torres, was listed as havin…
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Then Shredder dropped a new bombshell on Tom Gordon. The DEA wasn't the only federal agency that had their eye on Blanton. Just a few days earlier, Shredder related he'd met with an FBI agent named Douglas Auklan, A-U-K-L-A-N, whose office …
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drug network in the United States, but only one guy's going to do it. Auckland said he didn't get any help on the case from his superiors or any other agents. That was according to the Department of Defense, or excuse me, the Department of …