(drums heavily beating)
(drums lightly beating)
(pounding)
- I'm going on a ride-along with Luke, the bouncer
from the strip club.
Hopefully I can get some advice on other places
to seek out my investigation.
He's gonna show me different hot spots
when he was sellin' drugs
and drug ridden parts of town.
What up? - Hey, what's up, Jackie?
- How you doin'?
- All right, and you?
- [Jackie] I'm all right.
- Ready to ride?
- [Jackie] Hell yeah! You ready?
- Yeah. - All right, cool.
(car door slamming)
(tense music)
- [Jackie] All right, all right.
Ready to see some (beep).
(Luke laughing)
- [Jackie] I'm undercover so everything has to be
casual-normal, you know.
I have to be cool,
and I can't show that I'm involved in something
more than just being new around town.
I don't know nothin' about this area.
I'm really hoping that Luke can show me the spots
where cartels linger,
but I'm gonna have to see
what he's willing to share with me
to seek out my investigation.
- [Jackie] Why is everybody's car so jacked up?
- 'Cause you in Louisville, man.
It's high-speed chases and shootouts.
Like, for real, man.
During the day,
you can ride where the (beep) you wanna ride in Louisville.
At night time, (beep).
- Yeah, that's what I heard.
- This is St. Louis.
And I ain't gonna point,
but these little houses right here to the left,
- [Jackie] Mmm-hmm. back in the day,
you know, open-market drug dealing.
You know, you stand on all four corners of his block
and get your shit off. -[Jackie] Get whatever you want.
- Yeah, get whatever you want, sell whatever you want.
Like this area right here, this is Portland.
And Portland, this is where all the white guys get it.
Portland is known for pills, weed, and cocaine.
When you come to Louisville,
people think because white people live in Portland
that they ain't tough or, you know,
they shouldn't be respected.
They wrong, you know what I'm saying?
Portland Is one of the toughest white neighborhoods
in the city of Louisville.
These (beep) will kill you on this side of the road
just like they will up here on the other side of the road.
(ominous music)
Don't ever forget that.
- Okay. You know what I'm saying?
This is owned (beep) space.
- Okay.
- And drugs is not just in the west end of Louisville.
This right here is the old folks towers for the, you know,
sick and elderly that don't have families, right?
- [Jackie] Right.
You know what they call this (beep) now?
- [Jackie] What?
- New Jack City.
It's supposed to be a spot for elderly people.
Now, you got the old people
and a whole bunch of (beep) drug addicts
sellin' heroin, crack.
Whatever drugs on the street,
you can go right there to New Jack City and find it.
- [Jackie] Oh, wow.
- The reality of it is just drugs is all over the community.
They're everywhere.
- [Jackie] What do you think it is?
Is it the geography that's--
- The geography of the interstate.
I-65 is a main corridor from Louisville to the South.
This area right here,
this is where a lot of people threw life away
and chose to live or sleep under a bridge.
- It's really sad to see the effects the cartels have
on this community.
(ominous music)
- I ain't gonna walk over there with no cameras or nothin',
but we can get out if y'all want to.
(car door clicking open)
We live in America.
This is crazy.
- Where's the main wire getting it in here?
- All that (beep) is mapped out.
My girlfriend, a year or two ago, she's being nosy.
She sees this guy get out and throw two big garbage bags
over the bridge and pull the (beep) off.
She calls the police and say,
"A guy just dumped some trash on the side and took off."
So, the police get there and they bust the bags open.
It's nothin' but (beep) money.
The cartel ride down the street,
throw somethin' out the window.
You know that I'm throwing it out beforehand,
you pull over like you being good to the community,
and you pick up, put it in your car and pull the (beep) off.
- What's the reason for that tactic?
- No hand to hand.
- Being out on the block,
that's one of the no no's that I learned.
You don't ever hand somebody somethin',
'cause the police send people out there to watch for that.
So, if it ain't hand to hand, where's the suspicion?
- This bridge, it's a good location
for the drug market, basically.
(ominous music)
It's a perfect spot for the cartels
to drop their packages off.
Not only is there a bunch of users,
there's also a lot of dealers
that make their money under this bridge.
- Let's get back. - [Jackie] Let's bounce.
Now I have a lead to follow.
I wanna get under that bridge
and hopefully find out
how the cartel's doing business around here.
(dramatic music)