every time you sell a fire stick that's
jail broke it's a felony jail broke and
illegal that that doesn't match there
two different things investigation's not
over it's just beginning officers came
secret microphones secret cameras Lis
Vasquez he also jailbreaks his own Fire
Sticks if somebody has so much power
that they can shut down the media from
asking questions I have no shot so in 20
20 3 years after living in
Lakeland I opened up a booth at a flea
market people would come up to the booth
I was at and say Hey you know how to fix
Fire Sticks you know the lady that was
here before she taught me how to do it
or I bought it from her Fire Sticks Fire
Sticks Fire Sticks right so I've always
known about fire sticks so what is a
fire stick so fire stick specifically is
an Amazon Fire TV device it's probably 6
in long you plug it into your TV and
then you're able to stream versus using
using a smart TV which doesn't have as
much computing power in the smart TV a
fire stick gives you that power it's got
more RAM more speed so people have been
using them since 2016 that's when the
first fire stick came out along with
that around 2016 when the first one came
out people began what's called
jailbreaking the fire stick and really
all that means is turning on a setting
in the settings of the fire stick and
allowing for unknown sources allowing
you to download things that are not
available on the Amazon store so I can
download it for free and I don't have to
pay for it yeah so you can stream it for
free because that's another thing with
the Fire Sticks is you're not
downloading anything so if you are but
you're able to tie into the streaming
Network correct yeah you're able to tie
into the streaming network if you are
downloading movies and things like this
now you're crossing the line into
copyright infringement and the whole FBI
warning that you see at the beginning of
the movies punishable by five years blah
blah blah blah that's downloading okay
but for for me as far as I was concerned
I didn't have to do that there was apps
that gave you free stuff free movies
free local TV that were not illegal most
of them were on the Amazon store I
didn't even have to side load them where
do you get a fire stick and like what
are you paying for them so I would pay
I'd get them directly on Amazon or Best
Buy or Target same thing anybody else
could do same thing anybody else can do
I'd get so with Amazon in these places
you can only get three a day you can
only get three Fire Sticks a day and I'm
guessing they have limited so people who
are s loading and reselling them can't
sell 10 a day or something you know
which is stupid you just go to Best Buy
they get another three Target get
another three right well they have to
look like they're trying to limit it
yeah so right so I switch over to
selling the Fire
Sticks people start coming immediately
and I would ask people like what what do
you what do you want to put on there
like local news which is a majority of
people want it this is by the way this
flea market is international market
World in Auburn Dale Florida
so this is a it's the biggest flea
market in po County um but it's you know
it's mainly older people um not a
jam-packed place right so most people
that would come up and want a fire stick
what they wanted to do was reduce their
cable bill or cut the cord
completely and then be able to still see
their local channels see what's going on
in the news and that maybe Sports so
they come to me and they say hey can I I
want to see this I want to see that I
want to see this okay there's an app for
that you there's an app for that so just
bring it bring me your fire stick or I
have these that are ready to go I'd sell
fire sticks for maybe $25 or $30 more
than the listed price so when I buy them
on Amazon and these other places I'd buy
Amazon 4K sticks so they were the best
ones out the fastest ones out I think
they were $50 at the time and I charged
80 for it so it was like a $30 markup
for doing the service so I would remove
a lot of the stuff that's in the fire
stick already that slows it down just
stuff that Amazon puts in there and then
add whatever it is that they they would
customize it you tell me what you want
you can hang out and watch me do it
there's no hiding this is not a secret
yeah yeah it's just a service it's just
a service you know I'm providing so you
can sit here and watch people hang out
with me as I'm doing it and by the way
that later that my charge was not just
doing this and reselling it but showing
other people how to do it so they can do
it themselves and not have to come to me
and pay me 20 bucks or whatever it is so
that was part of that later it only took
two two weeks Matt so 2 weeks from
October 1st 2020 was when the first
undercover officers came to the uh flea
market in full undercover secret
microphones secret cameras and the whole
thing so I don't know if it was had
anything to do with me I was brand new
in the flea market other people had been
there for years so two weeks after I
begin doing this this when everything
starts I wasn't aware of it it
didn't come to light until December late
December 2020 so it was three months
that they were investigating us what
when the bus happened the sheriff of P
County his name is Grady Jud right he's
also known as American Sheriff right
very popular dude you know liked in the
community does good stuff and I love him
right before this with the exception
this with the this is the exception I
loved him before this
so when the when the whole bus went down
the sheriff of Pop County put out a
story that he went on the news there was
a whole press conference 15 minutes long
our pictures how this guy does his press
conferences is he'll do a raid or
they'll do a bus his team will do a bus
and let's say they get three guys they
got three pictures ready to go right so
they get their press C hey here's leis
Vasquez this guy right here was selling
Fire Sticks and by the way he was
arrested 15 years ago for stealing candy
from a store you know he just starts
going in on you right so during that
press conference one of his his
reasoning as to how this whole thing
happened is a concerned a concerned
citizen went to the Sheriff's Office in
October of 2020 and said his words they
come in there and say hey Sheriff
something's got to be wrong at the flea
market so they answer him like what well
they're selling free TV boxes over there
and that just doesn't seem right and
that's all it took for the investigation
to start so going back to these
conversations I had at the flea market I
remember a couple of strange two
particularly very strange conversations
one of them a guy comes up to my booth
and he's hey you got those jailbroken
Fire Sticks and I'm like yeah sure I
mean they're jailbroken but that's just
a term I I would always tell people this
like it's just a term jailbroken it's
just something that's really misused
because the Amazon Fire stick is not
locked you can't you can't
you're hacking into it or breaking into
it or yeah you're just reprogramming it
which anybody can do what anybody can do
yeah you're not hacking into anything
you're not changing code you're not
going through the back door you're
turning on a setting to allow you know
apps to side load apps so this guy comes
up to the booth and he's like yeah you
got those jailbroken at I like yeah well
I mean they're not jailbroken but sure
the reason they're called jail Brokers
could I do this with it I do that like
what do you what would you like on yours
if you want one he's like oh no I'm just
I just wanted to see if they were
jailbroken so I'm like okay cool okay
that's weird right that's it right and
then he's like before he that's it
before he leaves he goes but are they
illegal and then I go what do you what
do you mean illegal but Joe broken
illegal that that doesn't match those
two different things go well yeah just
asking and he leaves so he wasn't a
customer he was there just to talk or
whatever and then another conversation I
had shortly after that was a lady that
came by and she kind of asked the same
it was almost the same conversation hey
I like the term jailbroken and this and
they were really pushing that term
jailbroken and O are they legal oo that
sounds you know interesting so later on
it was my my opinion was that I think
those were possibly tactics to get me to
say certain things even though jail
broken is not not illegal the word is
it's just a word that was the whole
investigation two people no there was
more people had to buy right to buy
stuff they had to buy so the first Buy
in this whole buy and bus operation was
in early October two weeks after I began
selling the Fire Sticks so they come by
buy a fire stick whatever take off in
order to get probable cause for search
and arrest warrant they would have to
make take it somewhere to see if it's an
actual illegal item so they in my
discovery which I have you know I I F
the case um to a certain extent it's 50
pages my Discover is 50 pages so in
there you see where they took the fire
stick back the first time to a
lab and they they they check to see if
it's illegal and they see that turn it
on Fox News yep it's illegal like in my
Discovery says Fox News was on there so
you can access the world because that's
on there so maybe they checked other
things but that's just what they put in
my paperwork so they confirm that okay
yeah you can see a cable channel on here
and the con the the investigation
continued there was a second buy the
next month and a third buy after that so
it it they did three buys of these of
this hot product and so on December of
2020 I came into my booth of December
19th 2020 you as a flea market vendor
you have to set up pretty early in the
morning so you're there at 8: in the I'm
sorry 700 in the morning setting up
getting ready because the first
customers are going to be showing up at
8 people are old people come by and they
walk around or whatever so I'm setting
up my booth that morning December 19th
2020 some a guy comes by first person
there it's the first customer he comes
up to my booth he goes hey do you still
have those jailbroken Fire Sticks and I
was like no I don't and actually didn't
I had what's called me sticks a
different device but I was like but
these are the same thing you could still
see your movies your TVs this kind of
thing so he goes uh can you give me a
second I just got to make a phone call
so he goes by Grady listen not just
saying yeah that was weird so he goes he
makes his phone call as he leaves to go
make this phone call a regular lady
comes by hey can you fix my device I
plug in her device and begin removing
all the crap that's in there that was
slowing it down as I'm doing this here
come six or seven dudes you know full
undercover hey Louis Vasquez we got a
search warrant for your boo
and I'm just shocked I'm just I went
deaf I couldn't hear what was being said
you know just shocked like these cops
are coming in here screaming my name
particularly that saying that they have
a search warrant so I respond after my
hearing comes back after a couple of
seconds and say okay what do you what is
this about they're like well you need to
step behind you need to step away from
the booth are you going to be cool
you're going to be cool man that whole
thing I'm like yeah I'm cool I get okay
I step away from the booth here comes a
photographer with a professional Cannon
whatever and he's he's taking pictures
of the signs he's taking pictures of all
the My crappy table and my rotten wood
that we get as vendors of a flea market
and so right there when I saw that guy
with the cannon camera I'm like okay
this is something different this this is
a little this is beyond the pill so the
guy the head guy ask me he goes hey you
you need to talk to me I'm like okay
okay he's like uh let's go to let's go
to the parking lot so I go to the
parking lot with him I talk well I go to
the parking lot with him we sit down at
his pickup truck he opens the glove
compartment hey gra grab that I grab it
stack of paper he's like read that and
it says Florida State statutes robbery
theft and Rel related crimes so I go
what thiss is robbery you're charging me
with Fire Sticks so what robbery has
nothing to do with this and he goes no
what you're doing does have to do with
it blah blah blah and he begins asking
me like how did you learn how to do this
how did you learn how to jail break a
fire stick
and I'm just shocked still so I'm like
what I don't I don't understand the
question you're talking about going in
the settings he's like no yeah how did
you do this like how did you learn how
to do this I told him what YouTube
YouTube it Google it read about it um he
goes well how did you learn how to put
cable channel on there or a movie on
there or Netflix or YouTube and I go
that's it's not illegal I mean I just go
on YouTube and learn how to do it
nothing about this is illegal jail I
start the process of explaining
jailbroken Fire Sticks are not illegal
this is not an illegal item right this
is a side loaded item the the Amazon
Fire stick is made unlocked you can't
you know you can't go any further than
that so he goes oh well what you're
doing was blah blah blah this and you
know this is what you're getting charged
with so I asked him what sort of charge
is there he's like felony 3 5 years in
prison if you get convicted
so uh we I end the conversation there we
they come and take me to jail but how
you know they they cuff you the whole
thing they cuff me the whole thing and
took me to PO County jail so how I knew
something was strange there was a lot of
weird things going on but when I go the
the transport cop comes to get me right
and take me from the Philly Market take
me to jail
I go I see him I turn around I've been
unfortunately cuffed a couple times in
my 20s I do the thing and he's said no
man it's cool I do it from the front and
I'm okay he puts on the cffs from the
front I've never seen this before cool I
get put in the car and this whole
situation it wasn't just me there was
three other people who got braided and
swept up and were being investigated and
were recorded the whole thing these were
elderly people in the in the same same
flea market in the same flea market same
flea market the oldest guy was
88 the lady the person after that was a
lady in her 70s I think late '70s and
there was another lady in her late 60s
couple couple gangsters a bunch of
gangsters walking up in pop County jail
so he so they roped up all these people
so I'm being put in the police car next
to me the 88y old guy they bring him in
to him next to me and I'm just that's
when I first realized that wait a minute
this was a
coordinated raid where you hit multiple
spots at once like here how they do in
drugs right they know you got two stash
spots they're going to hit them both at
the same time so you can't react so
that's when I realized okay this is not
just about me you know it's just
multiple people they take us to jail we
get to
jail they couldn't get it they couldn't
get us booked in the jail because the
Chargers were not even available so it
was a lot of weird things that were
going on as I'm in the car and they're
waiting for the charges to come
available my cop that was driving tells
the other cop that had two other people
in the car he goes man it's a sad day to
be a cop and they were talking about
this whole thing we got elderly people
back here from the Flea Market vendors
so I another strange thing I've never
heard from law enforcement you know I
never thought they'd say that in front
of people who are in handcuffs behind
them right so they get us booked into
the jail I'm with the old folks I
unfortunately have been to jail before
back in the day in my 20s so I knew the
process it's not it was wasn't going to
be a surprise but I am telling these
older folks Hey listen it's going to be
okay guys you're going to get bonded out
your family will pay you know I'm sure
it's going to be a you'll be able to to
pay and get out of jail so we get booked
in I tell the booking people just like
you said earlier I'm like hey you guys
got the worst of the worst huh in here
tonight and then he they didn't find
that funny which was cool um but I was
pissed I was really mad when we're
getting booked in with these older folks
you know so anyways I end up getting my
my wife post my bond and the next
morning I'm
released he wants Con Bank of America
out of
$250,000 using nothing but a fake ID and
his charm he is the most interesting man
in the
world I don't typically commit crime but
when I do it's bank
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released on a Sunday Sunday
morning I had to call out of work for
that Monday because I'm trying to figure
out what the hell is going
on so I call out of work I'm at home on
Monday morning the police took my cell
phone as part of the raid they weren't
supposed to take it but they took it you
know on accident they take the cell
phone so I have no cell phone I'm using
my wife cell phone in the backyard
looking for lawyers in po County hey
Tech crime who does internet crime you
know blah blah blah I'm looking for some
answers the call a text comes in to the
phone and it's somebody with my name
saying Louis and all caps is that you
what's going on and I'm looking it's
like this my wife's phone who the hell
could be texting for me right and it
turns out it was one of my co-workers
and they're like hey they sent me a link
after that text they're like you're on
TV right so and that's the gry judge
that's the first the first thing that
happened the first press conference um
there was only one but then it also went
to news and then the news began covering
it it went to radio went to Tik Tok it
went to Facebook do you have it the pop
County Sheriff's Office launching an
investigation into vendors here at the
international market World Flea Market
after getting a tip people were selling
illegal Fire Sticks but if you're just
here shopping on the weekend how do you
know what you're buying is legit well
the sheriff says if the higher price tag
doesn't tip you off the word jailbroken
should movies free TV free sports free
anything secret camera reportings true
it probably is and in this case it's
also a crime detectives the P oh my God
look at the old me and my old broken
Fire Sticks to undercover deputies at
the international market World Flea
Market over the weekend lorenda Marlene
Holm bong wuo leis Gabriel Vasquez and
Grace yarro use signs like like this to
lure people who may have thought they
were paying too much for cable even if
you buy a legal fire stick and go online
and figure out how to jailbreak it the
first time you download content you're
committing a crime this video taken by
detectives shows their encounter with
vendors trying to make a sale it's got
all the premium channels all held show
time ESN NFL ticket anything you Pi
detectives seizing as many as 36
jailbroken Fire Sticks in one
day a lot of these things oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah they're very popular but
there's a reason it's illegal and it
affects all of us the businesses have
got to make the profit margins so
they're going to charge enough to cover
this shrinkage or this
loss so at the end of the day we all pay
for the few people that
steal so get your torches and go to our
houses because we're the reason thatum
networ is Charing
50 Ching one so whoever's got a fire sck
at home throw it so what H so okay so
they they text you and said said this is
is it this is you you're
on you're on the news right or you're on
the press conference and people around
here know right in Florida you're not
too far from po County yeah that the
press conferences are a thing they
happen and if you're on it you're [ __ ]
because you're get dragged and it's
going to be long so I get the text
message hey you're on they send me the
thumbnail I see I know exactly what it
looks you know gry Jud things looks like
I'm
like it's over right like this my whole
life is going to change after this so
the ground I swear the ground started
spinning the whole thing you know the
Dizzy thing like you're about to have a
panic attack or whatever so I go back
inside the house and make sure all the
TVs were off all the inter my my my wife
wasn't on the computer I was just
expecting to walk in and see her on the
computer with the press conference plane
just Frozen right and thank God he
wasn't watching it hadn't been out it
hadn't got to our house yet and from
there it was like okay so what am I
going to do now cuz it doesn't matter if
you get a lawyer this is this is the
problem with the press conference thing
it doesn't matter what you do after that
you're you're you're screwed right so I
the next morning I wake up I go to work
as normal I still don't have cell phone
because they took my cell phone good
thing they actually did take my cell
phone cuz of course a lot of texts came
in and calls hey this this this is
happening now this is happening I get to
work it's I don't even get out of the
door I I pull up to my job Park I don't
even get out of the door before one of
my guys truck drivers I used to work
with truck drivers they came up one guy
comes up to my door and he's ready to
open my door for me and I'm like damn
this one dude here is like known as the
guy that spreads the rumors right so as
soon as I saw that was that he knows it
was over I get out of the door he's like
hey look man it's going to be okay I saw
what happened in this kind of thing
here's that 20 bucks I just in case I
don't see you on Friday it's like oh man
I feel so bad but damn this is good news
is this juicy you know he didn't say the
juicy part but this is what I'm thinking
so he as soon as he knew I knew it was
over then I I pass hey I to Sam hey Sam
it's it's cool it was a mistake I'm
going to take care of it don't worry
about it I don't I don't even want to
talk about it we're good so I pass him
getting into the door where my job is
there's like three or four other guys
right there and they're like hey man you
all right you know they knew and I go in
oh yeah I'm good clock in is normal like
nothing's change or whatever I clock in
I go to sit down at the desk where I
work and then I hear my manager like
this manager that you never see he's
remote so he shows up he always tells me
before he shows up this time he showed
up he was there he said hey Louis you
got a second we can we
talk so I'm like I'm I tell him I'm
nervous to talk to you cuz I they didn't
know you were coming but okay we went in
the office and talk right away he takes
his cell phone he's like bro what the
hell is this right he's like I I got a
call from corporate and mind you I had
just got arrested like less than 48
hours before that corporate wasn't it's
in New Hampshire mhm I just got a call
from corporate to you need to go write
down you need to talk to your guy so
he's like what is this I explained to
him listen man this was a mistake on
their end they this raid was I don't
even know what to say I don't have my
Discovery yet but I'm like this just
doesn't make sense nobody's ever been
arrested for this man Clay is his name I
was like clay nobody's ever been
arrested for this this doesn't make
sense he's like yeah man but it got the
corporate out of my hands I got to
suspend you so he tells me that and I
say okay well I mean I know I'm not
coming back from the suspension it's not
I'm going to suspend you it's you're
terminated but I'm just going to tell
you now you're suspended because and
it's not his fault it was corporate's
call so as we're talking he gets a phone
call he steps out of the room hey I'll
be right back he comes in maybe 30
seconds after he stepped out he's like
man I don't know if who you're praying
or what you were doing but it worked
corporate has held off on the suspension
you must have a fan up there or whatever
he tells me so somebody some up there in
New Hampshire said whoa whoa whoa like
this is something's not right don't you
know so but he does tell me hey but
you're going to be under investigation
here at work you know we're going to
check your laptops you're going to check
you Etc you're not do anything wrong
you're not do anything so what are you
right so I was like well and he also a
really great thing he tells me and I
really appreciate it to this day he's
like hey I'm not telling you this as
your manager I'm telling you this like
as a father would tell his son fight the
case if you're truly if you're truly
innocent fight it doesn't matter if it
takes all the money you have or if you
have to get loans or you go on the debt
fight the case so by the if you clay
ever watches this thank you clay I
appreciate that cuz that's what I did so
I left work and continued trying to live
life however the next day's press
conference nothing to do with Amazon
Fire Sticks nothing to do with streaming
it was a sex thing right and that's what
they're known for po po County they we
busted 100 prostitutes and 10 John and
whatever and these are just people on
the street doing drugs but you know they
get a press conference out of it so this
press conference nothing to do with me
I'm at home I get another text and it's
hey you're on the press conference again
so I begin watching it and at the end of
the press conference they have a
question and answer thing every time
question and answer start the First
Media person stands up it's a lady from
a local news station and she goes hey
we've been getting calls all day to our
state and emails saying that jailbroken
fire scks are not illegal and then the
sheriff responds right and he's like
well of course they're illegal just
here's a clue jail broken get it you
know how he that's how he breaks it down
that's po vernacular right it's jail
broken arrest jail yes so that's how it
goes so he's that's part of the reason
they were pushing the whole jailbroken
jailbroken from the very begin
jailbroken more than anybody more than
any hackers ever push jailbroken since
jail broken began you know in 1981 or
whatever so if you give it it's if you
get it so they don't look like a
prostitution that or they don't call it
prostitution anymore now it's like human
trafficking traff everything is you know
is they throw terrorist in front of
anything they can throw it in front of
so it sounds twice as bad you get get
all twice as much time exactly you're
exactly right just like human he's a
domestic terrorist right ex fck did I do
I said I I have a sign that says [ __ ]
the government I don't understand man
well now you have to go to jail go ahead
no you're absolutely right that's what
that was it's that same human
trafficking slavery you know this thing
like get you like hey this guy is the
worst that there is right jail broken
he's the reason you're paying $350 a
month to Spectrum and disw because if
all fraud was was eliminated they would
they Spectrum would immediately drop it
down to
$12 exactly cuz they're in it to help us
yeah right and they you know all the
corporations are are looking out for the
people yes they are and they're also
corporations are also people too so it's
a whole thing people helping people
facts so I get I get this text I watch
the thing so I've never had a panic
attack before right before this day and
I I watch this thing and I'm thinking I
don't know what the thing because he
shut down the media like the lady that
got up and asked this question it was a
legit question she was not lying they
were calling her station and he shuts
her down you know he he goes on jail
broken saying this whole thing and then
he embarrasses her the media person
there to all the other media people and
you can tell she was embarrassed cuz her
answer was like oh okay and she sat down
and and the other people started
laughing around her so after I saw that
right away my teeth start shattering I
start like doing this thing that I've
never exper I'm like the hell I have
hypothermia like this is weird and I
actually end up having a panic attack
first time ever and I go outside and
breathing doing Navy SEAL techniques
Breathe In Breathe Out 5sec Hold the
whole thing and it worked but I realized
the reason I had that panic attack is
because if somebody has so much power
that they can shut down the media from
asking questions right I have no shot I
have no no chance of getting a fair
trial no chance of having a jury of my
peers or whatever the jury's already
poisoned right so that right there told
me you know there's no I got problems
so we we go from there the news coverage
started it went to local news and the
News were were paring I mean word for
word you know you saw it on that on that
thing you C judge told him to say what
the it's like the US attorney will come
out with us attorneys will come out with
a a press release and they put it out
and then the newspapers essentially
barely even rewrite what the US attorney
said and then they put in the newspaper
and then that goes from this newspaper
to this new then it's the Associated
Press next thing you know it's in the
you know Tampa Tribune and this and that
it's like what he wrote a press release
you guys just rewrote it so it makes it
look like you did the reporting but you
didn't do the reporting at all
you know you might have made one phone
call but that's it you're just basically
they're just putting out what they want
and everybody just follows suit right
it's cheaper that way it is cheaper it's
cheaper that way and I'll tell you what
Grady Jud I'm I respect Grady Jud to
this day I live in P County to this day
right and before this I love Grady J I
mean because a guy he does things going
after child Predators going after you
know he does a lot of stuff looking out
for kids and we have two little kids at
home my wife and I have two boys at home
so we appreciate that and especially
when he said I don't know if you
remember this but it was during the
Hurricanes no I'm sorry it was during
recent riots that were going on and he
does a press conference for that he's
like hey if you come to P County riding
and breaking windows and all that my
residents have guns I encourage them to
hold guns load your guns and they're
going to use the guns so don't come over
here messing around and breaking [ __ ]
right we appreciate that yeah yeah right
we live there we love that kind of stuff
my issue was with this particular case
right and what came out later because
there's there's more that came out um
anyway the news coverage
starts I just continue trying to trying
to live go to work and look for lawy did
you get a lawyer I was going to say okay
yeah I end up getting a lawyer found a
lawyer that has that deals with somewhat
Tech stuff even then it was I mean it
was yeah that's that's so hard to find
especially in po County cuz I was
looking at lawyers in Orlando Tampa
nearby large towns there's a little
issue with that though is that PO County
sometimes beefs with these with these
cities right so when they'll have a
press conference they'll say well in
Orlando they let all this stuff go and
Tampa you know so there there's ongoing
thing that that the office the sheriff's
office has with these outside cities so
I kept it in P county found the best
person I could find uh this person was a
former prosecutor and this whole thing
and they're they've been in P County a
while so I call the lawyer I get not the
person I'm looking for Who is the
picture or the name I get somebody that
just you know kind of started there um
but the way I saw it I like okay they
just left the prosecutor's office in po
County they should have you know friends
there they can talk and find out what
the hell is going on so I get this
lawyer at the first conversation she's
like I I I say ma'am I don't know if
you've ever seen this before like what
kind of History what do you what what
have you had that's similar to this and
how did it work out and she's like well
I've never seen this before for Fire
Sticks but I had this I had a guy who
was selling fake contacts Etc blah blah
blah nothing to do with streaming or
Tech so she goes but what you need to
know is that you're facing 5 years in
prison you're have you ever been
arrested yes I've been arrested back in
the day yes I had a couple misdem metor
convictions well that's going to play a
factor misdem metor convictions is going
to play a factor yeah that's what you
told that's it's going to play a factor
and so and she's giving me the scare
thing right right I'm already scared
she okay so I said so what how would we
approach this like how would you speak
to whatever your friends over there and
she goes well I mean we humanize you to
the
judge I'm just thinking like you're
sounds like throwing me on the mercy of
the court for something I haven't really
done right right and and explaining a
law that the law they charge me with is
and let me get into that the law they
charge me with is a Florida law okay
this is only ever Federal this first
time a state has used a law that they
have to make it fit whatever the law is
called intercepting Communications from
a provider right so essentially they're
saying that the fire stick device can
hack into Spectrum or dish or these
other cable providers and get the full
list of you know things all the channels
you get the the you know what's the
thing that goes up and down the
scrolling thing oh you get everything
right yeah the listings or whatever the
listings and it says what time things
are coming on like exactly the same
thing you get if you pay these providers
that's what you get from this device
that you're selling so that charge is a
misdemeanor it's a misdemeanor however
if you are selling these devices like he
says in the conference if you're selling
these devices for commercial gain and
you're also doing it with the knowledge
of that you're defrauding a a cable
company so let's say it's Dish Network
I'm let's say I'm at my booth hey
somebody comes up yeah I want some Dish
Network channels okay cool here just do
this you're going to hack directly in
the dish and we're going to get dish
like we're doing it to Def frud Dish
Network you have to be in those
parameters to break this law now and
then then it becomes a felony from Mis
meter to
felony so they're saying that the fire
sck device is acted in this way which is
impossible they do have devices that
people use that they're sold sometimes
at flea markets or maybe other places
that do log into dish and they're called
like pass keys they get you these pass
Keys you put it on your box that you buy
and and it directly hacks into the thing
now you're you know committing a
misdemeanor or whatever anyways this law
hadn't been used I don't know how long I
don't think it's ever been used cuz I
wrote a book about this whole ordeal
I've been researching everything there
is to about this law and have not found
one one person that's ever been arrested
for it so I get hit with this
charge get the lawyer the lawyer
starting the case or whatever and just I
continued going from there
okay I mean what she does she I mean
does she understand that you're is
you're going to trial or is she trying
to get you to just like hey just take a
plea if I can get this down to a
misdemeanor take a plea or can I I can
get you probation take a take a plea you
know CU it doesn't sound like she's got
a great strategy so far of let's just
humanize you it doesn't seem like a
strategy to me right so hope is not a
strategy hope is not a strategy so it
seemed right away it was like okay we're
going to try to plea deal or whatever I
told her not on the very first call I
wanted to get somebody on the case but
on the second call we had maybe two
weeks later we had the same kind of hey
give me all the charges you've been
arrested with before everything you've
been convicted with before so I can see
how would play a factor blah blah blah
and then I tell her at the end say I
want to take this to trial like I don't
have the money to take it to trial
because it's another I paid 25 maybe
3,000 for the lawyer right and then it
cost another three grand or four grand
to start trial I had to borrow the first
money and I was already in debt
borrowing that money to get the lawyer
but I told her I'll find a way but I
want to go to trial because I'm
researching myself I cannot find
anywhere where this has happened before
this is not correct I didn't have my
Discovery evidence yet had I had it it
would have been more information for me
so she goes all right yeah if you're if
you're sure then I'll keep doing the
thing whatever another maybe month pass
after that that's we decided hey we're
going to go to trial
and it didn't seem like she was going to
get all the information because it's
just hard to find it's hard to find
anywhere where this has happened it's
it's really federal law so if you're if
you're making copies of something right
if you're slinging DVDs on on us7 in
Davenport Florida to people at 7-Eleven
it's pretty obvious yeah it's obvious
that this is a this is the movie such
and such and you've downloaded and
copied onto a CD and so it's obvious I
I've stole it this you're just giving
people access to something well yeah
it's obvious you stole it and you have a
downloaded copy and that's Federal
copyright law so the feds have to come
after you these people on the street
selling CDs or whatever to sue you to
get you sued civil by the companies or
whatever or to hit you with some sort of
a charge uh some sort of felony charge
being that this is streaming and not
you're not holding any physical copies
and also we're not hacking into any
systems um it's very treated completely
different you know um so during this
time on that same note two days after I
get out of jail a I don't know if you
remember this but the co bill from 2020
it was late 2020 around Christmas they
passed the emergency covid relief bill
and it
was called the covid-19 care package
they gave us some sort of like a 1400
bucks or 1,200 bucks something like that
yeah something like that they G us a
little a little thing within that pack
that was the biggest bill ever passed in
history it's 5,000 plus pages and write
about this in the book it's over 5,000
Pages biggest bill ever passed in that
Co legislation there was a bunch of
other stuff thrown in there too that had
nothing to do with Co one of them was
like horse racing Integrity act another
one was like you know tax breaks for
corporations just random stuff right one
thing that was in the middle of that
package was called the protect
protecting lawful streaming act where
it's the feds now and this is currently
the law now before 2020 if you if you
are running entire servers I'm talking
about like the size of your house
servers computers apps like giving you
access to the world Pay-Per-View fights
UFC like you know NFL ticket NBA
everything if you're running those
things and you get busted to misdemeanor
that's what it was before 2020 this Co
bill made that a felony now if you're
like the criminal the top criminal doing
this or whatever so this thing gets
passed but you were arrested prior I was
arrested two days prior to it being
passed so they'll I don't think I had
anything what are we talking about yeah
I mean I don't think I it was just weird
that that whole thing happened because
had I been arrested under that it would
have been a misor and even if I got
arrested on the next one it would have
been the same the same
felony so time goes on the lawyer things
are not going good with the lawyer I
mean she seems busy she's got stuff
going on she got other clients I'm
calling I'm getting the pargal and you
know so it's not going that good I'm
doing my own
research the news is coverage is kind of
slowing down but then it gets put on
Facebook and then it gets put on Tik Tok
and then it gets so it just keeps going
like it never really ends and gives you
a break to figure out what you're going
to do you get in touch with these these
other Arch criminals the old guy the old
people you ever talk to them and say
let's pull our resources and get a real
lawyer that's a that's a really good
question of course they're all selling
stuff at the fle market
doing the same thing were they selling
something similar they yeah they were
selling essentially the same thing uh
Amazon Fire Sticks I mean they were
selling some of the older sticks maybe
fire stick lights while I was doing fire
stick 4ks but essentially the same so
the 88y old
guy it went he went on he went on
YouTube and figured out how to reprogram
me he must have been a genius I mean I
don't at 88 like you know that's pretty
like he must he's like he's the original
hacker he's the original hacker he he
remembers when he remembers when
computers were aaces you know the you
know auses oh my god do any of you know
what an abacus is a Backus no for God's
sakes it's a it's so it's a wooden
device where you can count numbers with
it's like it's like the Chinese used it
they used it that was like there was
joke like that was the original
computer all right yeah no my my wit is
is is wasted on you guys anyway but your
point is right spot on because during a
press conference the 88y old man though
so he's like the OG like you're saying
of the game he's like George Hots George
Hots I I blamed it on him yeah he's
running the whole
thing yeah no he's like the OG of this
thing right because George Hots I don't
know if you heard of him but he's the
first guy to jailbreak anything right
this was in early 2000s Jo jail broke an
iPhone a device that's actually locked
that you actually do have to jailbreak
an iPhone he's the first guy so that's
during the press conference Jud was like
this 80 the 88y old guy he's like oh
this gentleman he must have been really
good with whatever he was doing cuz he
was jailbreaking them and he was buying
them from other places he was moving
jud's favorite character in this whole
Saga that I wrote about and and Liv
through it is the old the elderly lady
she was like 77 she would sell candles
so her thing was she had a candle store
and then she also had Fire Sticks as
people were coming in to buy candles
they might buy a fire stick she had her
TV on and stuff like that so he goes and
this lady she's the most techsavvy of
the
group her name is blah blah blah and
she'll not get you just candles and more
but you'll leave with a fire stick and
it's jail
broke so she he she she got a bad she
was a tech ABY of the group blah blah
blah me when it came to my part it was
just like ah this guy yeah he's got
arrest for driving on a suspended
license he's got open warrants or he's I
think he said warrants but made it seem
like it's open like physical warrants
now right this is from 10 years ago he
told he lied to a law enforcement
officer back in the day blah blah blah
he sold his fire six for that much and
this and then the the third the fourth
lady she sold custom cups so you go get
your your coffee mug right there get
your name Matt [ __ ] boom boom boom
you're good but then you might leave
with a fire stick inside the cup right
and now you got access to she she's they
call them pushers the push the pushers
first one's free first one's free first
one's free so he had a day with the and
he's pretty good at it not going to lie
so we're talking about the press
conferences right we get our names out
there our stories and our background
here's the thing with press conferences
right so police are allowed to do press
conferences I researched that too they
they can talk about it they can talk
about what they found what the
investigation discovered Etc but what
they can't do is give prejudicial
statements which is basically just
saying yeah this guy and you know just
talking [ __ ] about you which is he's
guilty of this he's guilty like you
don't know that I'm guilty of anything
you just know you just know you came to
my house and I had a lab you know right
right we Amer we're American right we
have the presumption of innocence you
have to prove in court that we're guilty
turns out I could have had that house
rented to somebody I haven't been in the
house for six months so I don't have a
lab he's got a lab so right go ahe Y no
you're absolutely right and with that
whole thing you can't go on a press
conference and say
well this guy's background was this and
he got in trouble for that because now
you're tainting the jury right right
right right so it I just wanted to
mention that part where I feel and I
talk about in the book too is it's a
violation not just of mine this press
conference has been going on for a while
for different things but for sure for
mines and those other three people right
because this is not a sex thing this is
not a a child thing this is not an
assault it's not a crime even if you
somebody right in anywhere let's say po
County somebody gets or something they
don't usually get press conferences it's
it's just one guy another guy so you're
going to court as a accused killer
you're going to fight your case as a
private person you can't do that once
you get on the press conference so I
feel it's a violation of the Sixth
Amendment which is the right to a fair
trial and the right to an impartial jury
once you put that information out there
that's that's over also I feel that our
fourth amendment rights were violated
because they got search and seizure
warrants
over the word of a concerned citizen
right that came to the police and said
yeah they're doing something legal I
don't know you go check it out so they
get search and seizure warrants I think
it was based on false information who
who was the concerned citizen so the
concerned citizen was never never
discovered it doesn't seem right either
cuz I'm I'm based on the Constitution
I'm allowed to confront my exactly
accusers you're exactly right I'm
allowed to confront my accusers so when
I got my Discovery evidence that's where
I real saw like it was by the time I got
my Discovery it was too late I had
already did a deal with them to get the
charge dismissed and it wasn't a a deal
that I came up with it was they're like
okay listen you know if you want to get
it dismissed you got to do this you got
to pay us I'll get to that part but once
I got I did talk to them about that they
gave me the discovery 30 days later
whatever it was I'm looking through it I
don't see any concerned citizens I'm
looking for the concerned citizen like
who okay did somebody how'd this start
yeah how'd this start somebody go and
say that I they charged too much for a
fire stick or what was it because when I
was selling reselling the Fire Sticks I
had great people like most of them were
older there were some young people there
there's a mix of everybody and they love
they love me there like they would bring
me cake they bring me just stuff you
know because I helped them cut their
bill of hundreds of dollars and these
people have to they have medicine they
have bills to pay like they're getting
killed just to watch one or two channels
but they have to pay for 500 of them
right so I was very popular there love
me for that so I'm like who what what
happened here I checked the discovery
there's no concerned citizen like was
put on TV the only thing that I found
was that somebody there was a person
that went to law enforcement and said
this is instead of what was said on TV
that was oh they're doing something
wrong I said go check it out it's a
little more detailed than that this
person went to the Sheriff's office or
whatever and said hey vendors at this
International Market world are selling
access to TV without written Express
authorization of the cable
communications provider blah blah I mean
perfect to the law just look what the
law says it's amazing it's amazing we
need to talk to that guy I think he's a
lawyer you know the guy knows the law or
maybe just somebody that doesn't exist
at all you know that's right that's
that's very very likely so in the book I
talk about that part but specifically
they did mention his name and it turns
out he actually worked for a cable
company oh okay so somebody I don't know
if it they don't say that he's the
concerned citizen but they say that
citizen said this and my Discovery says
this guy said you know it it kind of
ties together this guy said something
similar so that's what turned out in the
whole case is it wasn't just hey these
guys are selling free TV it's the cable
company
is the cable company is creating writing
statements going on record making
recorded statements yeah sure enough fir
that's what got them the arrest and
search
warrants the fact that somebody from the
C company came down and said yep hey
what they're doing is illegal this is
you know Etc and with that they took us
to jail from there so they didn't look
up the specific laws or anything they
didn't right nobody no the judge I guess
didn't because you have to go to a judge
right like to get a search warrant and
and and an arrest warrant you have to
have probable calls and I nobody looked
at it no nobody looked at it they just
took this guy's word well then they sent
down people to buy from you correct to
prove that you were selling them which I
was correct but what I'm selling is an
illegal right okay right so that that's
what I think that's who the concerned
citizen may have been with that
information I was already you know sort
of wrapping up with with the law so I
wasn't able to I wasn't able to really
use it what are you saying wrapping up
like was your lawyer talking to them
like what's so my lawyer was talking to
them my lawyer weren't K to court for me
so I could continue working every day I
stopped going to the flea market I was
just going on the weekends and I work my
regular 9 to5 you know 50 60 hours at
work Monday through Friday so she was
going to court for me she would I call
her when she gets back from court and
see what happened oh no we're just
talking you know it's she goes to my
arment Etc and it keeps going from there
um I got in contact with people from the
Electronic Frontier Foundation which is
internet group that watches these kind
of sit situations and helps you out pro
bono and the whole thing um and they
were willing to help but they needed my
lawyer to say it's okay like for them to
come in and work together my lawyer
wasn't really with that
so we she comes to me one day the lawyer
with a deal and she goes hey so got
great news for you
Louis remember that whole felony thing
forget about it we'll get you a a
misdemeanor or whatever however she said
it she's like okay so if you're willing
to take this misdemeanor of
attempted fraud of cable provider thing
Florida law then they will you're good
you'll take that you'll do some you
won't do jail essentially you won't do
jail but you're going to shitload of
community service probation the whatever
okay if you take that then at least you
don't have to lose everything so I I
tell her yeah but I'm going to lose my
job like I have to beat this case
because if I go with a misdemeanor they
told me specifically like you're under
investigation you're not just like back
to normal you have to beat this or you
have to get it dismissed or you're going
to lose your job so I told her no it's
that and it's also the principal like I
I know I want to take it to trial I'm
still working on getting the money for
trial don't have it but I want to I
don't want to take a deal she's like you
sure are you sure you know cuz this I
got to give an ansers to the DA by today
blah blah blah I tell her no and she
goes and and tells them that I'm not
going to take that that deal what about
the guy at work that told you to no
matter matter what if you're innocent to
fight it did why don't you just go to
him and say you know what that's a great
that's a great idea and I'm so glad you
said I'm sticking with it I need to
borrow $10,000 no doubt no doubt I want
to stand on my principles I want you to
stand on yours do you have a credit card
available you know I mean that seems
only fair following your advice Rick or
whatever his name was definitely I mean
that would have been good that would
have been good man that would on your
side that's you should have called me I
called Rick it's his idea not to take
the Fon or not to take the misemer go
ahead sorry go ahead yeah I know but
that's that would have been great that
would have helped but during that time
you know I was just going back and forth
the lawyer the whole term jailbroken
right doesn't apply to any Android
devices they're they're completely
unlocked it applies to an iPhone if you
want a jailbreak to add stuff and that's
legal even if you jailbreak an iPhone
that's still legal you're not doing
anything illegal if you jailbreak a
where it becomes illegal if you
jailbreak a gaming device Xbox
PlayStation 5 and you're down you're
playing downloaded games that are
pirated that's been illegal forever
right my thing is that the whole term of
jailbreaking being in a great area for
streaming is fake it's fake news this is
what they've been telling us for years
so we continue paying the hundreds of
dollars a month for cable when they in
2010 Sony and apple tried to sue people
for jailbreaking their phones right and
they said we're not going to you're
going to get sued essentially they're Su
they're threatening the S people okay
well that's not criminal that's civil
that's still civil yeah it's still civil
but people took that to I want to say if
it was a supreme court at some point the
Library of Congress got involved maybe
when they went the Supreme Court and
said that jailbreaking an actual Apple
device is completely legal and since
then it's been legal that's 20 2010 so
even before that the Android devices
were you know were completely
legit so it it's my aimation that that
that's just a scare tactic used to get
us to continue you know not using new
devices and continuously paying bills
for this thing right there's nothing on
the books that says this is illegal but
there's nothing on the books that say
it's necessarily legal corre you can
find similar devices that that that that
has it has already been determined that
it's legal to to whatever alter or all
them to be have things downloaded for
Androids it's open for Apple it's still
open although you do have to
actually alter the programming to allow
for downloads right and for certain
things that are completely locked off
like certain games because you can make
money on games you can gain things like
you can do things like that in certain
games they're absolutely you're not
allowed to alter anything within the
game or allowed downloads or change it
in any way and all of those have been
determined but there's no real
determination at this point for fire
sticks but the government but they're
saying but they keep using the term
jailbreak jailbreak jailbreak right and
as a result of that they're saying well
if we call it something that sounds
nefarious then we can make it appear
that it's illegal and that's essentially
where you were at and you said I want to
go to trial on this and your lawyer of
course is saying you gave me three grand
yeah like I'm not going to trial for
three grand so she's wanting some money
and even then it doesn't sound like her
heart's in in it anyway yeah yeah um
yeah I probably had a better attorney
for you yeah for sure I would yeah where
his heart's into everything he's
probably going to go under eventually
they the ones that are really passionate
and will fight for you they claim
bankruptcy cuz yeah passion doesn't pay
but yeah so so you're trying to put it
together you're trying to go to her and
explain the whole thing she's trying to
get you to take a a misdemeanor right
she's trying to get you to go away I
need you to go away at this point so I'm
sure she's a wonderful person to but
nothing against her yeah but you know
she's yeah she's not passionate about
the law or this case at least so what so
you can't figure it you you're you're
having a hard time just finding in
there's nothing Rock Solid out there
there's nothing rocksolid out there
there is the Electronic Frontier
Foundation which helps people probone or
that kind of thing and what are they
saying are they saying that this is
perfectly legal yes but they don't have
but they don't actually have case law to
prove it right so they don't have a case
that went through that where a judge
said this is legal right right so they
don't have that they're saying it's
legal but they don't have case law right
they don't have case law no one's ever
been arrested in the United States of
America as far as I'm aware for this so
there's nothing to reference there's
people that have been sued um like if
you go back to Napster do you remember
the Napster days probably early 2010 or
earlier than that 2000s 99 right so
during that time they were same thing
except it was for music and suing people
for downloading on Napster and Kaza and
these kind of places and similar to The
Reason not bring up Nas cuz it it ties
to this similar to the Napster days they
were going after what they call major
violators right people that were
downloading a bunch of music or whatever
so but you were downloading stuff you
were downloading stuff so yeah that's
harder physical copy you're just giving
them access to something that's already
available correct correct okay yeah
you're downloading stuff there so that's
harder to to to fight but even then they
can only sue them they could there was
no like criminal case law there's
nothing they could reference right so
they were suing people back there for
being my major violators but as an aside
a lot of them were kids seniors like I
talk about talk about it in the book
there's a 12-year-old girl that was
called a major the first person to get
sued her mom opens the door there's a
guy suing or sorry giving her paperwork
hey your daughter's being sued by the
record industry of America for this many
thousands because her computer was up
and it it was being uploaded music was
being uploaded and there's other people
like seniors who were called you know by
news reporters back then Hey how does it
feel to be a major violator so this kind
of thing the way I see it is the music
industry did it then the movie industry
has done that to every five years or so
they'll push some kind of big campaign
hey we're going to get the worst of the
worst and every time it's seniors it's
you know people that are normal
Americans these aren't what about all
the other groups that are actually doing
this as you know a business selling it
these other you know actual criminal
groups they don't ever go after them but
there is no criminal thing to tied to it
so my lawyer you know I don't know if
she there was nothing it was hard for
her to so I get it anyways I contacted
the Electronic Frontier Foundation
quickly told them hey here's some links
here's the news here's this here's this
this is what's happening I'm looking for
anybody that knows like what to do here
they did eventually respond it was the
holiday season so it took a while they
responded hey we're so sorry for what's
happening yeah this is completely wrong
we're we're willing to help but your
lawyer has to accept it because you know
you've already got representation so
that didn't really help but at least it
gave me a little bit of hope that hey
yeah this is this is wrong this is not
just me thinking that you know I read
case law before knew Fire Sticks were
completely legal mhm um this was other
people saying the same thing that do
this for a living So eventually the case
the case did get dismiss
so so she came to me with that deal
about the misdemeanor I said no a couple
weeks later she calls and I'm at work
one of my with one of my truck drivers
she calls I pick up and I see I hear
that's her I leave work I'm like hey I
got to I got to go take a lunch break
now so I talk to her on the phone and
she goes hey all right Louis that was a
good call so I got a better just a
better thing going on now so if you're
willing to pay them for the money they
spent investigating you for those three
months if you're willing to pay that
back and do some community service then
they'd be willing to dismiss the charges
and I'm like so no do I have to pay the
money do you have to pay the money up
front up front I I was going to say
dismiss the charges and I'll send you a
check I got you yeah they were like hey
I got gry jud's yard you got to come to
the police station you have to mow Mo P
yeah exactly have to you have to mow the
the the um sheriff station yard so what
yeah I mean it was it random I don't
know if this has ever happened either
it's like yeah just pay us back how much
was it what are they saying it wasn't
nothing crazy but it was up to I think I
paid $600 for you know to me that was a
huge amount especially back in 2020 so
it was maybe 600 bucks or something like
that and it was for each time they came
out for the cameras in the hours because
this didn't just involve one guy or two
guys these were detectives from multiple
divisions within the sheriff's
department so there was Homeland like a
guy from Homeland a guy from Vice a guy
from narcotics you know a guy from these
random you know whatever divisions you
call the other people and say let's all
pitch in let's all pitch in 150 bucks we
got this done we're done right now is
the 88 year old guy still alive because
we got to get the money out of him
immediately yeah he's going to get lucky
and get out of this yeah yeah I I think
he's still around I haven't the thing is
I don't know what happened to them to a
big extent cuz I left the market I did
go back one more time and talk to
whoever was there the 88y old guy was
one and I'm like hey man listen what's
happening is [ __ ] like you know
don't just take a deal don't you and he
didn't want to talk no he didn't want to
talk he's like oh man that's okay you
know whatever and and I end up leaving
I'm okay that's cool it's fair he thinks
I'm wearing a wire because we're we've
been spun around and we don't know who's
wearing a wire who's got video cameras
so and then I went to see the older lady
too and she was still there her story I
think was the worst out of this whole
thing they're gangsters bro like they
stuck with it you bowed out immediately
they stuck it I'm selling some candles
[ __ ] gry Jud I'm back back [ __ ]
Saturday they stuck with it they ain't
scared they ain't backing down they were
there the next day flipping antennas or
whatever else they they got so they were
they were doing their thing what
happened with her so what the the lady
she was there what I found out was that
she didn't just get bailed out of jail
nobody could bail her out she didn't
have family to bail her out and this
this happened during Christmas so she
was in there from December 20th through
Christmas and I want to say it was like
another week so it's like two weeks
total it's for an elderly lady a gr a
dick in the P County Jail which is not
po County Jail is not no Cakewalk I mean
it's no I I I have a hard time believing
that Grady Jud runs a nice clean
establishment that and he's kind and
polite to everybody every I'm pretty
sure it's hard he's hard on these mother
hardore you only get water there's only
water for everybody there's no juice
there's no nothing it's only water the
food is really nasty and I know this
from before the fire stick thing when I
had had to go in there for a little bit
back in my 20s and it was just nothing
but nasty food and water but anyway she
was in there for all and there's
dangerous people in Joe you know this is
County Joe it's not prisons County jails
you got people like coming down from
meth people withdrawing people just you
know acting crazy or whatever so I found
out she was in there during that time
that that made me even more mad about
this whole thing the the other lady I'm
not sure what happened to her if she's
still there but I'm pretty sure she is I
didn't go back to Mark after that that
first initial visit after getting out of
jail so I was done I had a regular 9 to5
like so I had something to fall back on
they didn't this is their bread and
butter you shut them down you're
shutting down their opportunity to eat
to buy medicine to the whole thing so
I'm I'm not sure what end up come how
they're doing today but I would assume
they're going to see this eventually
somewhere and hopefully you know makes
them feel good that somebody speaking up
for him because I could have said
nothing like I this happened in 2020 I'm
not this the first this is the second
time I'm speaking about it in public um
I wanted it to go away I just try to
continue living life but it keeps coming
up so after this whole thing went down
and it sort of went away legally my
reputation was ruined at work for sure
so I ended up leaving that job after a
couple months like there was a promotion
that came up that it was it was mine I'd
been there six years before this
happened right work coming in every day
I was like working my way up after that
I couldn't get an interview for like any
position moving up so I knew that was
over I left that job start a new job as
a manager somewhere at another logistics
company and it
took maybe 30 days before somebody's
like oh [ __ ] man yeah damn that's you
that you're the guy from the fire stick
thing and that was you know that so it
kept coming up right so I let that go
all right whatever and I stayed at that
second job for like another year and
almost two years but right there I knew
that okay I can't stay here forever
because this is going to get out and it
did get out they didn't fire me or
nothing people people support it most of
everybody hey man yeah that this
whatever they support because they know
you know the whole story but it just
kept bring coming up so I left to a
third job that I'm at now and it's only
a matter of time before it comes up
again because it's still everywhere it's
still on YouTube so on Google so that's
the reason I'm telling the story now cuz
I didn't have to I could just continue
my life and you know not talk about it
but I wrote this book particularly to
tell this story not just mine but also
the where's the
book babe can you I was say do you have
a copy of the book yes so that's the
version before it got published that you
see not for but have I have a bunch of
these oh you do yeah with the with your
books no I'm saying with the yeah with
my books with a you know not released
for sale or whatever so you you were
saying so I wrote the you know go ahead
so I wrote this book after years of
trying to get away from this story and
being owned by it like I'm now trying to
own my own story right and talk about
this so that one yeah okay so I wrote
this book to you know give our side I
didn't get any uh input from the other
vendors because they you know I didn't
go back to the flea market but they were
affected worse than I was um we do have
kids at home so we had bills still to
pay so
um so we were also affected but yeah so
that's why I wrote the book I could have
been quiet and gone away but I wanted to
definitely get it out there uh for
several reasons one of the reasons is
the press conference thing I would love
to see that go away right if if at all
possible because people oh to have them
take it down or you to have them take
down mindes and no longer do press
conferences well still do press
conference don't give prejudicial
statements don't trash people on the
press conference give them their chance
to have a fair trial right
and on that on the going back to the
Constitutional thing if you if you can't
get a fair trial then there's no your
Constitution doesn't apply to you um you
know it just doesn't it's a violation of
the it's a violation and they've been
and they've been sued you know but just
a year not even a year it's the same
year of Minds guy sued the sheriff's
department and they had to pay him
$100,000 for pain and suffering right
for being on a press conference and then
later being found not guilty or later
they dismissed it or whatever he sued
and it's happened a lot it's not just
one lawsuit during my research for this
book I found several people that had
done lawsuits I found lawyers out of
Tampa who publicly put statements out
you know whether they're defending
somebody that got arrested in po County
or they're just saying in general hey
your you your use of press conferences
is violating this right that right you
know it's got to stop you don't you
can't just give any statement that you
want to you know for for clout or
whatever right as entertaining as they
are they're very entertaining right did
you do an audible version so I'm working
on that now I did I have my paperback
version and then I have it on eBook too
which available now it's available at
Apple Google Kindle Amazon everywhere
you can get books and then the the audio
version should be available by the time
the this interview drops yeah the auto
the audible like I I I probably you know
I probably 30% of my book sales are on
Audible really yeah because people just
don't like you know a lot of people
don't breed so they don't want to buy
you know they don't want to buy the book
but they boy they'll buy Audible for
sure yeah you can just listen to it on
that work or on the way to work and are
you doing it I'm doing it okay cool yeah
I set up a little studio in the closet
and I'm well yeah I'm doing it okay yeah
well cool you feel like you feel like we
so what happened wait a minute so what
happened basically you took the deal
so you did take the deal so yeah so she
G she gives me this breakdown of this
deal pay us it'll go away so yeah at
that point I have a decision to make
either I find3 or $4,000 or whatever it
is going to be to start trial from
somewhere which it was impossible we we
didn't have those options or or or I
push I take this deal right that's like
there's no other option you got the
money ready or you going to take this
deal right right so I said okay I agreed
let's go ahead and do that I found some
money to pay them and then they had some
community service hours that you can buy
it out also bought that out for another
200 or whatever it was and it just gets
dismissed goes away and then they hope
nobody else talks about it right right
because they knew they were wrong this
is why they offered me this deal right
which they usually maybe would offer to
somebody with no criminal history I
don't have a big criminal history but I
did have some stuff back in the day and
usually they would say ah you know what
no you had your chance right you know
like like Grady says during the Press
confence he's he when he's talking about
us he's like but that guy he's had a
couple bites of the Apple so he might
not have it so easy right so but then
when it comes down to it I have it very
easy and they just you know dismiss it
to me it's almost like they they wanted
this thing to go away because one of the
press conferences the second one where
somebody says Hey the news says these
aren't illegal illegal we're getting
calls and you know emails that got taken
down by the the media team that's the
one they took down yeah but they don't
take down the original one if you know
it's just weird that one you can't find
on YouTube anywhere now so I'm conv it
was convenient yeah it's convenient and
the media is questioning something right
it's like oh can I ask one question
about that thing you know and then all
of a sudden that you can't find that
video anymore right so that's strange
I'd love people to go to my website it's
Tech SL or tech-p pat.com so Tech te c h
then the dash pirate. comom there you
can find the book I have my own you know
line of shirts all type of merch on
there you know and basically just trying
to recruit what I lost during this time
for no reason I mean it's still going on
now I'm still losing you know jobs here
and there and I'm trying to recoup from
this so that's why I I I have that on my
website well thanks for coming by thanks
for having me man I really appreciate it
but I didn't get a chance to say that
thank you so much for having me you've
been excellent you know I was a fan
before now I'm a bigger fan but I really
appreciate you giving me this
opportunity cuz this is new I haven't
talked about this you know besides the
first time recently in public so it's it
feels good to start getting this [ __ ]
off my chest and you know moving forward
and trying to take control of the story
and no longer having it run my life so I
want to be able to run it so I
appreciate that no problem all right I
appreciate so hold on let me all right
the Y what stop God bro don't Mary I
don't know if you married a mean woman
but I mean my wife's
Dominican just angry just just always
poking making fun of me it's just you
know just mean spirited just a
mean-spirited person all right all right
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