Interview

      žWhile having the conversation with my topic I decided to ask Vincent some questions, for example why did he decide to do this? What went through his mind when getting caught? What’s the story behind him getting caught? And do you regret doing what you did? This is what I got out of our conversation.  Vincent was taped a pound of ICE to his thigh, and his job was to smuggle it into the United States. His job was simple, he just needed to cross with the merchandise and take it to the park by Food 4 Less. Everything had went well as planned, Vincent had smuggled the problem was that the guy who would pick up the drug wasn't at the park. Vincent waited for like two or three hours, and suddenly close friend of his came up to him and told him that he needed to go to Jack in the Box. That Jack was the new point there were going to meet, so Vincent did as told. He got to Jack in the Box, and waited again for a long time for the guy to appear. Vince started to wonder what was going on; he felt that there was something wrong going on with this job. Then suddenly he saw two Border Patrols walk into jack and pass next to him. That's when Vince told himself, "There's something wrong with this job and what are Border Patrols doing here?" He turned to see where the Border Patrols went to, and when he saw that they were ordering he decided to leave and untapped the drug and throw it away. When he was on his way out there were other law enforcement officers outside waiting outside. One told him that where was he heading to, and Vincent answered, “Home he just came to eat something.” The officers grabbed him and pushed him into a wall and searched him without giving him a reason. Vincent was charged for smuggling drugs, and was told he would do a minimum sentence of 10 years. The moment he was being searched as he told me, his whole life went through his head. He told himself, “Why? Why did I do this for? Now my life is ruin. What is my mom going to think about me? How I’m I going to tell her? What about my friends and school?  . . .” After being a week and a half in jail a miracle came to Vincent because the officers searched Vincent without a search warrant, he was able to go free with no charges against him and his record was cleared. He regrets the moment he made the deal with the Narco in Mexicali about smuggling the drug. He went through six months of secondary every time he crossed the border. After finishing interviewing Vincent I interviewed some of my friends and asked, “What do you think about what Vincent did?” They all had the same respond, “I never would have expected Vincent to do something like that for money.”