[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] "It is mine to avenge."
"Their day of disaster is near, and their doom rushes upon them."
"The words of Deuteronomy never rang so true
as they did in the ears of Robin Hood 702 on those fateful days in 2011."
[religious music playing]
It was time for the hunted to become the hunter.
[RJ] I'm a man of God. I go to church almost every day.
I got the armor of Christ, protecting me from up above.
There's not a lot of people like me on the planet.
I believe in standing up to bullies.
So when Owen Hanson desecrated my mother's grave, that was it.
I would have followed him into hell to make him pay for what he did.
I am the David,
with my slingshot that's at the ready always.
And I got my seven fucking stones.
Only problem is, for the bad guys, I got more than seven stones.
I got a...
innumerable amount of stones that I could use in my slingshot
until I die.
[theme music playing]
[gunshot]
[intense music playing]
When you're dealing with a cartel, loyalty and trustworthiness is everything.
If they don't like how business is going,
they are willing to use any violence they need to, to communicate their message.
So the fact that Owen lost $3.2 million basically in a one week period,
it's going to be up to Owen to articulate what happened there.
Running away was not an option.
[music continues]
[Owen] I'm in Tijuana to let the boss of the most dangerous cartel in the world
know that I lost his money.
[wind blowing]
I'm meeting at this restaurant, and it's a ghost town.
And it's just got one lady making tortillas.
Two guys with AK-47s were out front, and I'm in the bathroom.
This is it. This is the day I'm fucking dying.
I'm going to get killed.
-[horn music playing] -[booms]
-I do a line of coke. -[sniffs]
And I meet El Jefe.
-[lighter clicks] -[burns]
He says, "Guero, what happened to my money?"
And I said, "Man, I got to just face the music."
So I'm breaking it down to him. This is what happened.
"That fucking Robin Hood guy, he really fucked me."
And El Jefe's listening, and he's reading me.
Does this guy think I'm lying? Does he think I'm making this story up?
He says, "You're out of your fucking mind, you stole the money."
-[guns cock] -[intense music playing]
He goes, "Remember how we work? Plata or plomo?"
It's a famous Escobar term that means "silver or lead."
Right there, I was like, "My life's over."
At 27 years old, I was this multimillionaire.
And now, I'm going to die.
I got one chance to save my skin.
And I got to make him an offer he can't refuse.
There's one thing they like the most. It's that money.
So I offer him a nice interest payment to the 3.2.
Call it four, even four million.
He said to me, "You're going to pay me back every dollar, cuatro million."
I said, "Sí, señor. Sí, viejón."
And I thought to myself, "Where am I going to find four million?"
-[ambient music playing] -[train horn blaring]
[elevator dings]
[Kate] I normally report on organized crime and corruption,
whether it be in politics, in sport, in business.
Bad people.
And this is one of my all-time favorite stories.
In 2011, I get a call from a police source saying,
"We just arrested Sean Carolan,
a former cage fighter turned personal trainer,
over the possession of a bag of $702,000 in cash."
And you think, "Well, hold on. What? Go back, go back."
-[car engine running] -[rewinding audio]
[man] The suitcase appears to contain a large amount of Australian currency.
Sean Carolan's explanation is that the $700,000 bag of cash,
that's Junior's money.
We just call him "Owen Hanson."
[suspenseful music playing]
[Michael] Once we worked out that Junior was Owen Hanson,
and we started looking at the money.
So $700,000 cash, where does it all come from?
It's gotta be drugs. No one deals in that sort of amount of cash.
And then we get a US National associated with it.
It was extremely suspicious.
After Sean had been arrested,
could have shown our hand, what we knew about it.
But we didn't.
The trick was to try and keep it quiet and start looking at Owen.
I'm like, "Where am I going to get this four million?"
Let's start with the $700,000 that the New South Wales Police has.
I got to think of a way to get this money back.
Sean Carolan gets out of jail, and he goes,
"Don't worry. I got the perfect guy."
A friend of Carolan introduces Owen Hanson to Craig Haeusler.
Major organized crime figure.
[Michael] Craig Haeusler is pretty well-known amongst criminal community.
Quite influential and could make things happen.
He's got the contacts, and he's got the perfect lawyer.
Which brings us to a Sydney lawyer, Michael Croke.
Better Call Saul would be the best comparison
you could probably find with him.
Let's just say I know a guy who knows a guy,
who knows another guy.
Michael Croke says, "Mate, it's going to be easy."
"We'll get the money back. Don't worry about it."
I'm like, "This is perfect."
But now, we obviously had to come up with the story to make this thing legit.
-[phone ringing] -[receiver lifted]
-[Owen] Hey, buddy! -[Craig] Yeah, mate.
The problem is, just the fact that it was in cash.
So, they're trying to ask where I got it from.
How'd it come into Australia? Did you bring it into Australia?
Which, of course, you didn't bring it in in cash.
-[suspenseful music playing] -[electric noises]
[Owen] Yes, anything...
[Michael] I got telephone intercepts, wiretaps of Craig Haeusler.
He could be described as a career criminal.
This way, we're able to get the wiretap warrant.
The copper's apparently think that Owen's part
of an international money laundering ring.
But, I mean, so what? I mean, you know,
an international money launderer can still legitimately have $700,000.
[Michael] So straight away, we knew about the $700,000, that it wasn't legitimate.
They were trying to get the money back, but they didn't know exactly how.
You know, my aunt from Australia, she just passed away last week.
Oh, and did she have money?
The whole thing was not only brazen,
it was a little bit comical at times.
[Craig] You still don't want to just throw away 700 either.
[Owen] No, no.
Just gotta cross my I's and dot my T's.
Enter into the picture, a very well-known Australian rock promoter,
-Andrew McManus. -[rock music playing]
[Michael] McManus brings bands into Australia.
He'd bring in Fleetwood Mac.
-[Kate] Lenny Kravitz. -[Michael] KISS.
[Kate] ZZ Top.
["Legs" by ZZ Top playing]
[camera clicks]
But the thing is, Andrew McManus is desperate for money.
Mate, I need 200 G's in 24 hours.
Any idea how I can do it?
[Kate] So you've got all these people.
Their desperation to get a cut of the money
will ultimately bring them all undone.
[guitar music playing]
[Craig] Mate, you know what I was thinking?
Andrew's desperate for money at the moment.
-Yeah. -Do you think it's worthwhile--
I know what you're gonna say.
I know what you're gonna say, and don't say that over the phone.
I think it's a great idea.
[Kate] Andrew McManus is promised a cut of the $700,000
if he can help get it back.
[Owen] The agreement was that we were going to give him
a couple hundred thousand, and we'll use him as the alibi.
He's a concert promoter. He accepts cash.
He's got a safe full of cash at his house, so we went with him.
And he goes to the police. He says, "Yes, it's my money."
"It's as simple as this."
If I gave someone 700 large,
and you found someone with 700 large...
It's my 700 large.
[Kate] It's not the proceeds of crime. It's the proceeds of Andrew McManus.
Great!
We're kind of laughing, going, "This is just nuts."
McManus was heard on phone taps later saying, "Oh, I aced my interview."
"I just went full Hollywood mode."
[Andrew] Man, I was a fucking Academy Award winner.
[laughs]
[Owen] Craig Haeusler called me,
and he says, "Hey, it looks like we're gonna get the money back."
I said, "Fuck yeah." He goes, "There's one last thing."
You got an interview at the police department in Beverly Hills.
I said, "You got to be fucking kidding me. I ain't doing no interview."
He said, "Mate, this is the only way. It's not a US matter, mate."
"We're going to get the money back. Just go and have the interview."
"I want you to go to the Beverly Hills Police Department."
"They're going to connect you to the New South Wales Police."
I said, "They're going to arrest me right on the spot."
That's crazy, right? That's like losing your ball
over the neighbor's fence,
-and next door is a big bull terrier. -[dog barks]
And you climb over that fence to try and get your ball back.
Just let that ball go, don't you?
[Owen] You got to remember, I'm in to the cartel $4 million.
$700,000 would be nice to have right now. I'm like, "All right, all right, I'll go."
[suspenseful music playing]
[man on phone] Owen, what I intend to do is ask you some questions
about the $702,000 cash.
Do you understand that?
[Owen] I was under the impression that Michael Croke was going to be there today.
-Is he present? -[man] No, he's not.
They're like, "No, he's not present." I said, "Fuck that. I'm not interviewing."
So I call Croke. I say, "Hey, mate, where the fuck are you at?"
He said, "Mate, just tell them the story. We're good. We got this money."
And the Australians know even more by then,
and they start throwing these scenarios out to Owen,
which is kind of catching him off guard.
[man] Do you know a man by the name of Robert Cipriani?
[Owen] No.
[man] Obviously, we have a lot of cameras
throughout the casino here in Sydney, Australia,
and those cameras have shown you and Sean meeting
with Robert Cipriani at the casino on that day.
[Owen] Well, I... know, uh, no one with that name.
[man] You sure about that?
[Owen] Positive.
Right there, I knew something was wrong because they found Robin Hood.
How'd it go?
They kept asking a question about Robert Cipriani.
-I said, "I don't know who that name is." -How did they know that?
I don't know what's going on, but it's fucking messy.
You are such an idiot. This is just looking really bad.
[Owen] And I knew right then and there, I wasn't going to get the 700K back,
and now, the Australian police are after me.
But I was more worried about the debt I had with El Jefe.
[phone dings]
[suspenseful music playing]
[phone dings]
El Jefe gave me the ultimatum.
He still wanted to send his cocaine to Australia,
but obviously, I couldn't go there.
And he told me, "This time, you're not going Australia like you did before."
"You're going to be working on the US side,
and you're going to be handling the shipments."
Every dollar you make is coming straight to me."
-[phone dings] -[music continues]
I mean, there's cartel guys that've been trying to figure out
routes into Australia forever,
and I basically had to use my own crew and figure out my own routes.
He had to keep running drugs to pay back El Jefe.
If he doesn't, he will get whacked.
Now, I got to think of a way to get this drug
that's so impossible to get, into the country.
But I told myself, "If you can get cocaine into Australia,
this stuff is like gold over there."
That's why they call it the "Isla de Oro," which is the Gold Island.
It was the only way out. I had no other choice.
[music intensifies]
[Kristy] He's doing business
in one of the most strict environments for drug traffic laws,
which is Australia, where you could go to jail for life.
The drug cartel, they already had routes.
However, if they had the ability or could work with someone
that could open another avenue, they're going to do that.
[Owen] El Jefe never told me
how the cartel's getting this stuff into the country.
I got to figure out a way to get this product in.
So, you know, my Rolodex starts thinking again.
-[rapid spinning] -[camera clicks]
[Alex] Craig had told him, "Next time, just go through me."
Craig was the cocaine kingpin of Sydney.
[Owen] And he said, "Why don't we meet in Fiji?"
-[wheels screeching] -[plane engines running]
And he's like, "Listen,
we have someone that we can pay that will get it through customs,
but you've got to put it somewhere to hide it."
And I remember, we were drinking wine at the time,
and I'm just like holding the wine, and just drinking this wine, and I'm like,
"That's it."
I said, "If I break down the cocaine into the liquid,
would you be able to turn it back into cocaine?"
And he says, "Well, let's try it."
-[rock music playing] -[snaps]
So I became a mad scientist.
-I pour all this Everclear in the bathtub. -[liquid bubbling]
Start chopping up the coke, just like... [imitates hits]
It's 10,000 grams of cocaine in this bathtub.
And I'm in there, and I'm just mixing this thing, man.
Probably getting high from the fumes.
And I start funneling the stuff into these wine bottles.
As stupid as this looks, I'm going to make this work.
I got on the encrypted phone and I said, "Craig, I need to do a sample run."
"I'm going to try ten kilos. We'll see how it works."
[Alex] And the cocaine wine gets shipped across to Australia.
There's a chemist that basically baked the alcohol out of it.
[Owen] If this fucking works, man, this is going to be a miracle.
I'm going to pay every dollar back one way or another.
-[bottles clinking] -Craig messaged me on the encrypted phone.
It worked.
We got ten kilos, and they came back like 95% pure cocaine.
And he says, "Mate, you're fucking genius." [laughs]
[Alex] Craig was like, "I got my people."
"They'll have your money in the States within three weeks."
And that's how he got back into the cocaine business.
We don't normally have our money launderer, now in a warehouse,
taking cocaine to another form.
That jump is, when you really think about it, is tremendous.
[Jim] He could be CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Here's this guy, got the world on a string,
business savvy, street smart, all the above.
He didn't need to do the illegal stuff,
but all he wanted to do was make a bunch of money.
[dramatic music playing]
So if I'm going to be moving 100 kilos a week, you know,
I got to scale up my operation, I got to put a team together.
I knew I had to get someone that I can trust.
And I thought to myself, "What about Tank?"
[electronic music playing]
[Tank] We link back up.
We started catching up with dinners, talking a little bit more,
and one of the things he talked about was Australia.
He's like, "In Australia, they're getting so much money
for like a brick of cocaine, it was insane."
You know, he kind of needed somebody to help at home.
But it's hard to find people you can trust.
So he was like, "Yeah, if you want to help,
I'm basically giving you the keys to the kingdom."
Hell, yeah. Let's go.
I was the street versus he was the boardroom.
He was the president. I was the vice president.
So if something happens to him, I can handle things.
Something happens to me, he can handle things.
[Owen] And I said, "Hey, you're going to man this operation,
and you're gonna make sure we protect it."
"And we're going to need you to hire everybody from here on out."
-[glass clinks] -[Tank] Work started really amping up.
I'm like, "Who else can we add to the team?"
I looked at my little cuz.
I was like, "Yo, I need some help. Pay's great."
Tank was always being a big brother, mentor, you know what I mean?
Tank always just looked out for me, you know what I mean?
He just gave me the rundown.
He was like, "Man, all we're doing is just pick up, drop off."
But he was like, "Man, if we get caught, we getting a life sentence."
And I thought about my son, and I was like...
"Fuck it, why not?" You know what I mean? [laughs]
[Owen] I got Junior, who's one of my runners.
And from there, I have Pauley to ship it.
I didn't ask questions because I didn't want to know.
Because if I get caught, I'm like, "Yeah, it's wine."
"I don't know. What's in there? I don't know, food?"
"I don't know, man. Like, what?"
In my brain, I knew, but I wasn't going to start asking questions.
It was a lot of just... Go here, do this, pick this up, bring it over here,
take it to the shipping facility,
and then go have fun for a few days, and then fly home.
I'm like, "That sounds pretty fucking easy, right?"
[Owen] Once Pauley shipped off the cocaine in wine bottles,
Craig and his mates Down Under would take care of the rest,
even laundering the money back into the States.
So I put together my team, and I got to get them all encrypted phones.
Criminal gangs are now using encrypted mobile phones,
which make their communications impossible to decipher.
[electronic music playing]
[Owen] The boss, the cartels are using these things.
[Tank] They're Phantoms.
Basically, it's a BlackBerry that has been gutted out.
[Owen] And they take out the microphone, they take out the camera,
they take out the GPS, basically just an email and a phone.
[man] You're not able to make calls or anything like that.
The only thing you can use is the messaging system.
That was pretty dope to me.
No phone calls, no nothing, just all encrypted messages between us.
It's unrecoverable for everyone other than the intended recipient.
So there is no grabbing the phone and doing forensic on it later.
[man] They only deal with customers anonymously with nicknames.
And mine was Don Corleone. Mr. Don Corleone.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
And that's somebody I looked up to as a child watching The Godfather.
So I said, "What a better name than Don Corleone."
[rhythmic music playing]
So I got this team together, and we're ready to pay the boss back.
With Rufus, any time he did a run, he had his Uber sticker.
We just made it look as real as possible.
Owen's job for me was like 50 kilos in the trunk of my car
just rolling like it's nothing, you know what I mean?
[tires screeching]
[Owen] I had this monkey on my back,
and I was like, "Fuck, man, I just want to pay these guys back."
11 at night, 12 at night, "Hey, man, I need you to jump on a flight right now."
Okay. I'd fly across the country.
Go pick up $500,000, and you put it through the scanner,
and it goes right through, and you get it out the other side, and you walk away.
-[interviewer] Did you ever get stopped? -Never. Never, man.
I mean, you know what I mean? Never.
[Owen] I was landing every package, and it's just coming down.
That four million turned into three. Next thing you know, it was two.
And I'm like, "Fuck, I'm almost there. I can feel it."
The people in Australia couldn't believe it,
but they're like, "Mate, this is the best product we've ever had."
So now I'm doing a quarter a ton a week.
It's game time when you get into these numbers.
It's not like one or two birds, or one or two keys.
Like, that's nothing. Yeah, I'm saying I remember 300 to 400 keys.
These are numbers that people rap about.
We're actually looking at it, right? Like, this is actually in front of you.
[Owen] The boss is going, "Man, I've never seen anything like this."
A half a ton here, a half a ton there.
-[phone dings] -El Jefe sends me a message.
-He's like, "Holy shit, guero." -[phone dings]
"Estuvo. It's over. It's complete, it's done."
[phone dings]
I thought to myself, I said, "Fuck, man."
Once you start making $1,000,000 a day,
how do you go back to a legitimate job where you're chasing $150 grand a year?
-[dramatic music playing] -I like the feeling of being the man.
I like being able to go to a club, go to Vegas, fly private, go on a yacht.
I like all these girls around me. I like having security guards.
I like a bulletproof car.
If I stop doing what I'm doing, I'm not going to have all these things.
I'm not going to be able to feed all these mouths,
all these people that are working for me.
Cartel members have been trying to find routes for fucking decades,
and I just found the key to the sauce.
You look back at Escobar or Don Neto or El Chapo.
Did these guys ever quit?
This is it. I'm going to prove to people that doubted me my whole life
that I'm going to be just as successful as them, if not greater.
Just to show them, "Hey, I made it, man. Look, I'm on top."
I want to keep going. I want to keep making money.
Fuck, I can keep doing this forever.
[Pauley] In his head, he wanted to be a kingpin. Right?
Okay, so when you're a kingpin,
you find any way you can to get what you want
from point A to point B, whether it be via plane,
via boat, via car, via donkey, via fucking human.
[Owen] I wanted to be the American version of Chapo, you know?
I was going to make as much money as I could.
[energetic music playing]
[Tank] Next thing you know, he comes with a company credit card,
every car that I wanted to drive.
[Owen] You know, I'm riding on this private jet,
and we're buying everyone Rolexes. We're going to Louis Vuitton and Gucci.
I was an NFL player.
I'm supposed to be probably buying him some stuff.
And he's in there like, "Hey, get whatever you want."
Oh, he was blinged out. The flashy watch, the Gucci shirts.
Every time I would see him, it'd be a new car.
Just super murdered out, just something that people in music videos get.
He was so far gone, I had to kind of peel back my involvement with him.
I don't know what's going on.
[Jim] I was kept in the dark. He didn't call me.
"Dad, you'd never guess how much dope I unloaded today."
[Owen] My childhood home. It was just this dump.
I said, "Dad, let's turn this place into the party pad."
[Jim] I just had a bad feeling about it when he was building the house.
[Owen] I want to put Scarface to shame.
So I said, "Yeah, but we got to make it cocaine white."
$2,000 bottles of tequila on every shelf.
Temperature controlled. What are you doing?
I was pretty disappointed. It didn't feel like home to me anymore.
I was like, "This is fucking awesome."
And then you get to my office, and I have my AK-47 silver plated.
-Louis Vuitton on the handles. -[gun cocks and shoots]
Wow, this fucker's in the rabbit hole. [laughing] He liked that shit.
[guitar music playing]
[Owen] I became this fucking international playboy.
And then a songwriter from Mexico wrote a narcocorrido about me.
[man singing in Spanish]
-Say hello to my little friend. -[gun fires]
All the guys went to the NFL and made millions.
There's Matt Leinart. He's holding the clipboard.
You know, he's the backup at the time. I was having a lot more fun than them.
I was on top.
Traveling the world, I'm dating ten, 12 girls
at a time all over the fucking country.
And that's when I met Stephanie.
And there was something about her, and I was like, "Man, this is the one."
[Stephanie] It was kind of like, "Who is this guy?"
Charisma. Like, the attitude, the confidence.
Kind of dorky, like in a weird way, but so smart.
Like, you could just tell. You could just see.
This is not your typical LA girl, you know, she's not stuck up. Snobby.
Maybe I need this in my life because I'm not used to this.
[Stephanie] My son really liked him.
-I love you, Owen. -[Stephanie] He was great with him.
There's a side of me that wants that family,
that wants to put something together that I never had really.
[Stephanie] I would just have to mention something, like,
"Mason needs a big boy bed."
"Oh, get whichever one you want. Let me know how much it is."
He just made my life so much easier,
especially being like a single mom and stuff.
It was just... very easy for me.
[Owen] I wasn't just throwing money at her.
I mean, I wanted to be able to give her the best life.
[Stephanie] He wasn't like someone that was just,
"Oh, buy me a bag or something." He was actually investing in me.
Like, I had gone to hair school when I was 18, but I stopped.
He's like, "You need to do it. You're so good at it."
"Ask them if they'll give you a deal, if I pay cash."
And I'm like, "They're not going to give me a deal."
I'm like, "Where do you think we are?" They did. They gave me a deal. [laughs]
[Owen] She didn't know what I did for a living.
[Stephanie] So he told me a real estate developer.
I had seen homes that he developed.
I really didn't doubt it, so...
[Owen] I can't let her know what's going on.
The less you know, the better with everybody.
And I remember after that,
telling Stephanie, "Hey, why don't we go halves on a kid?"
Have a family with me, have kids with me,
and give me something that I've never had,
and then we're going to live happily ever after.
You know, that's where my mind was at the time.
"Yeah, it'll be great. We'll get you a nanny."
And I was like, "No, I've had a child. I know what it's like. No."
He had so many great qualities that I would want in a husband,
but I'm not a dumb person. I'm not naive.
I said, "Do you do anything with drugs? Are you involved in any way?"
You know, obviously I'm thinking, like, I have a son.
And he did say to me, "Look, the less you know, the better."
"And I'm doing this for your own good."
And that's when I was like, "Okay, yeah." So I need to decide what I want to do.
[Owen] Do I really want to stop this life I'm living
and settle down with this woman that wants to start a family?
Or do I want to keep making this money?
And I just kept climbing that mountain, and there's only one way to go from there.
[phone ringing]
[phone picks up]
Hello, mate. How are you?
Good, who is this?
Listen, uh... you've been talking to Owen, right?
To who?
Owen. You know, Owen Hanson.
-No, I don't know him. -You know, Junior DeLuca.
He goes by Junior. Owen.
He's got problems. So, man, just stay away.
[ambient music playing]
I listened to hundreds of hours of telephone intercepts, wiretaps.
At this time, we didn't know he was involved.
There was someone that called my partner in Australia, Craig.
He tried to use some Australian accent on them.
This is what happens. I get a phone call last night.
Have you ever gone by the name DeLuca?
Yeah, DeLuca. I go by Junior DeLuca.
He said to me something like,
"You'd do well to keep away from him. He's in big trouble at the moment."
And that's when I knew something was-- Something was off.
Yeah, I'll tell you what this is about. We went hard on that guy Robert Cipriani.
I had someone pay him a visit over here, and it went south.
-I'm not worried about it. -Yeah.
I love when people think that they can get over on me.
Hit him with kryptonite that he never thought was going to hit him.
I hit him with kryptonite, man.
I only do that when somebody fucks with me.
Then I come after you.
What is this guy doing? People are getting phone calls at...
Like, how is he getting these guys' numbers?
Information... is powerful.
And I'm a guy that can get information on you,
anybody else in this room.
Then you go to war.
The contacts I had in my world at the time,
I could have had him whacked over five minutes, just like that.
You know, you're dealing with the cartel.
[dramatic music playing]
[Mark] The way RJ tells it to me,
he gets a package in the mail, and it's a DVD.
He pops it in the DVD player.
[man speaking in Spanish]
It's the Mexican cartel execution.
[speaking Spanish] We know who you're married to.
And there's a note there from Owen saying, "We're coming for you."
It didn't ruffle my feathers at all.
Because...
I'm the one who went to the feds.
So if the FBI is working a case in the United States,
and our investigation determines it has conductivity in Australia,
we'll reach out to our partners in Australia and say,
"Hey, we want to tell you about this case we have."
They're like, "Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. We know those people."
[Michael] So the first time I met RJ Cipriani, we're in Hollywood.
He gave me a long statement,
talking about Owen Hanson, about this money, the $2.4 million.
That fact that it'd been connected to the $700,000.
What I didn't believe is that he didn't know that he was money laundering.
We talked to the FBI and told them that we knew
that Owen was bringing drugs into Australia,
but we didn't really know how.
[guitar music playing]
[Owen] At this time, my packages are landing left and right in Australia.
Everyone's going, "Wow, you're 100%. I've never seen anything like it."
And then one day, I get a message from one of my contacts in Australia.
"Mate, we didn't get the package. It got picked off."
[camera clicks]
This route I built, my baby, just stopped like that.
Craig came to me and he says, "Dude, I met these guys at this yacht party."
He says, "Hey, he's got a route," and it was perfect timing.
I just lost my route. He's got a route. Just give him my name and number.
"Hey, I'm Al Wilson. I'm friends with Craig Haeusler."
"I heard you like to golf."
-[ball whacks] -[sinister music playing]
So I meet him in San Diego.
We're boozing, we're having shots. I'm popping Vicodin.
They're popping Vicodin. I'm doing bumps of coke.
-[sniffs] -[sipping]
And I'm like, "Man, these guys are awesome."
And guess what? He's got a fucking Phantom.
Once I saw that phone, and it just clicked, I'm like,
"This guy's working in the game."
So when he says he could do it, I said, "Fuck it, let's go for it."
[Tank] O-Dog hits me out of nowhere.
He says, "Listen. I need you to meet up with those guys."
I'm like, "All right."
I call Tank and told him, Al Wilson's the real deal.
This guy knows what he's doing.
You need to meet this guy for a down payment.
[Tank] So I'm pulling up in the parking lot.
I got money in a box, and I see him.
So I get out the car, and I'm walking over there.
Give it to him.
The next day, Al Wilson asked for five kilos. I said, "No problem."
[Rufus] I'm getting this call. Owen, blowing me up, blowing me up.
He was like, "Man, my buddies, they want these five keys down in San Diego."
All right, cool.
[Owen] This drop went smooth. My runner, Rufus, got paid.
He gave me the money.
I got confirmation that our product is in route,
and it's going to be in Australia by Monday.
-Everything was dandy. -[phone dings]
I said, "We're golden."
So I'm telling El Jefe, "Don't worry, we got a new route."
He says, "Are you a fucking idiot?"
And he goes, "Hey, you're with the feds, man."
[Tank] This guy was like, late 50s, white hair.
[camera clicks]
[Rufus] Dude with that goddamn Magnum, P.I. shirt. [laughs]
Like the little floral Hawaiian shirt, bro, like... [laughs]
That should've been a dead giveaway there. You know what I mean? Like...
[soft music playing]
You know, I think Owen was very cocky, very brazen.
I think he was in a course he just could not pull out of.
[Tank] He had been on top for so long
and getting away with everything he possibly put his mind to.
So Owen's mindset, it was more and more like,
"I can't be touched."
[Tank on video] Dr. O-Dog...
[Alex] Owen at the time was heavily drinking.
He was heavily using drugs and alcohol
because there is a little part of him that kept saying, "You are fucked."
"They're on to you, they're going to get you."
I was in so deep, I just kept telling myself,
"I want to believe this guy's real."
At this point,
I'm scheduled to have another round of golf in the morning with Al Wilson.
And in the back of my mind, I was like, "This is it."
There's no way I'm getting out of this.
The ball's already rolling down the hill, and no one's stopping this.
[helicopter whirring]
And I woke up that morning, got a message from Al Wilson.
He says, "Where you at? I'm in the clubhouse."
And right when I got that message, I said, "Fuck it, I'm going."
-[engine running] -[dramatic music playing]
My mind is racing like crazy, you know.
Maybe this guy is the feds.
[gear changes]
I get busted, then what? I do a life sentence.
And I said, "Fuck it. Maybe I'm just being paranoid."
-I did a key bump of coke. -[sniffs]
And I felt like this relief.
Get to the parking lot, and there's my caddie.
I go, "Where is everyone?"
And as soon as I turn around...
Then, like in the movies, just like in his movie, in his head,
you know, everything just slows down.
And I look, and there's 15 FBI agents coming out of the bushes.
There's a helicopter above me, and I go, "Oh, fuck."
[helicopter whiring]
I've been working on Owen for about five years at that stage.
Everything had come to a point, and I was there for it.
Someone read me my rights. I heard the fucking Australian accent.
And I said, "Oh, fuck. I am so fucked, man."
He heard my accent. He just went white, completely white.
I knew right there. I said, "My life is over."
[newswoman] New tonight, authorities arrested a man who's accused
in an Australian...
-Drug trafficking... -Money laundering...
-An illegal... -Gambling ring...
Villains worthy of a Martin Scorsese film.
Violence, threats and millions of dollars exchanged...
[newswoman] To smuggle cocaine from Mexico to Australia...
[newsman] 126 counts of gambling and conspiracy.
[all] Former USC football player, Owen Hanson.
-[newswoman] Own "O-Dog" Hanson. -The leader of that ring.
Owen Hanson had his tentacles all over the place.
And I know one thing for sure.
The FBI will not stop until they get every person involved in his crew.
[Owen] In the US and Australia, 26 people total were arrested and charged.
That's when the shit hit the fan.
Owen Hansen was really good at taking advantage of people's weaknesses.
One guy on his charge, he even took his own life.
It's a horrible thing.
[Rufus] I was the first one to get sentenced.
He was like, "Well, I'm sentencing you to 72 months."
In my head, I got to do the math.
Why don't you just say the years? Like... [chuckles]
Why take me through this?
Shit, man, I just looked at my son. I said, "I'm sorry."
He looked at his mom and said, "It's because of Tank, ain't it?" [laughs]
[Tank] Those charges was very heavy.
RICO, drugs. I mean, they threw everything in there.
You just start questioning yourself, your sanity.
Yeah, they gave me the 87 months.
At night, I'd wake up. I would have these nightmares
of just being in jail for the rest of my life.
[Danno] My lawyer. He told me,
"Oh, they're just going to give you probation. Don't worry about it."
And the US Attorney stands up and says, "We need to have him do some prison time."
Danno Hanks is the one that desecrated my parents' grave.
But he came to me and apologized.
[newsman] Daniel Hanks, after posting a $50,000 bond,
showed up to ask for forgiveness
from the man he was paid to threaten and intimidate.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything that ever happened.
[newsman] Then came the handshake and the tears.
[crying]
He was hoodwinked, like all these other guys.
[crying] Never want anybody to do it to me.
I just want to see that man locked up forever.
I broke down. He got the shot, exactly what he wanted.
But Cipriani and the FBI, you know,
they're looking for an opportunity to put him away.
[interviewer] Did you sign like an immunity...
No, I signed a proffer when I first talked to the feds in helping them.
[interviewer] What's a proffer?
Well, Google it.
Cipriani, he had no loyalty to Owen, he didn't give a shit.
I think that's...
I don't know how Cipriani's still alive personally.
[Owen] I remember getting sentenced. I was scared.
I'm not gonna lie. I was fucking nervous.
You get taken out by the US Marshals. You're in handcuffs.
My lawyer comes in, he says, "Prosecution's going to ask for 19."
"If we're lucky, he'll give you 15."
And the judge said 255 months.
Oh, my God.
I started to do the calculations in my head.
And I was like, "Oh, my God, that's 21 years and three months."
The marshals took me, and they walked me out.
And I look back at my dad and he said,
"If you feel like crying, cry in the shower
because you don't want anybody to see you."
I remember that. I got in the shower that night,
and I just bawled my eyes out. I was just devastated.
Prison, you got to be as tough as you can.
There's no such thing as weakness in prison.
[phone ringing]
[automated voice] This call is from a federal prison.
This call will be recorded and subject to monitoring at any time.
-This call is from... -[Owen] Owen.
[automated voice] You may begin speaking now.
[Owen] In prison, every night, you get shaken down
and yelled at, shining a flashlight in our eyes.
That's where the PTSD comes in.
Looking at my calendar date, release, something on 2036. Like, fuck.
I just played it like quarter by quarter, like a football game.
The first quarter, you know, the first five years.
And the second quarter, the next five years.
I have to be doing something, I have to keep my mind busy, and I got an idea.
There's one, and there's two.
Two ice creams, 24 bucks.
Put a little peanut butter and some protein shake together.
And make an ice cream and freeze it.
We'll be serving seven ice creams to our VIP customers that pre-ordered.
That's a pre-order because I will not make them
unless I have the stamps in hand. No money, no honey.
Hang on, my prison butler's here. Hey, there he is.
Good afternoon, Mr. Hanson.
A prison butler is probably the best thing I've ever invested in.
Where the fuck did I go wrong by selling cocaine in Australia
and getting 21 years when I could have just came to prison
and make ice cream at 700% markup?
That's California Kid back in action, guys.
[Jim] Getting out in 21 years, he's gonna be 54.
He's not going to have a family. He's going to miss out on everything.
You know, he got basically kicked in the nuts, and he took it like a man.
And he's doing his time.
I'm going to get through it. He's going to get through it.
Just hoping I'm around long enough to enjoy some time with him.
[Owen on phone] Then two years later, all of a sudden I get this call,
and they say, "Hey, you're going to have to go to Australia."
I said, "What?"
In 2020, Michael Croke, the Sydney solicitor, is facing trial.
A high profile criminal lawyer, it's very difficult to try and prosecute them.
The star witness has been flown to Australia to give evidence.
[Owen on phone] I feel like that was the Lord watching after me, he said,
"You know what? I think you've been in there long enough."
He said, "I'm going to give you another chance."
Hanson's evidence was absolutely devastating.
With Owen, he got a reduction in his sentence
by helping the Australian authorities with the conviction of Michael Croke.
[Owen on phone] And it all paid off. I got years off my sentence.
[Jim] I think Owen's getting out right now.
[Brandon] Really?
[inaudible dialogue]
[Owen laughs] Yeah.
[Jim] There's a camera, wave to them. Out on the street.
-[Brandon] Get in here, big guy. -[Owen] Yo, buddy!
[Brandon] Bring it in, man.
-[Owen] I love you. -[Brandon] I love you, buddy. Man.
-[Jim] I need one of Owen and I... -Yeah.
...to send to his mother.
There it is, a couple more.
-Fight on. Yeah, baby. -There it is.
You fucking did it, Brandon.
We're gonna call a modeling agency for Jimbo over there.
[Owen] It's been almost a decade
I've been behind bars, and to taste the freedom,
just to be able to see my father.
This is for you, Dad.
You know, I never thought I'd make it where he'd be alive still.
You know, I was supposed to get 21 and a half years.
[Jim] To be honest with you, I'm worried about his future.
If he wants to go back to what he was doing,
that's not a good thing.
[Owen] I'm not afraid to fall down. I'm going to get back up.
And I learned from my mistakes, and I got my master's degree in prison.
-What's your name? -My name's Owen.
-Owen Hanson, yeah. -You didn't attend the NFL draft?
No, didn't attend. I got into trouble.
Yeah, I fell down, but I'm gonna be successful again one day.
I just feel it.
You know, I got into illegal activity.
I started selling drugs, and I started using drugs.
I've been down ten years in the federal prison.
You know, I've been locked up with rapists, terrorists, murderers.
And I was thrown in a six-by-eight cell.
Just want to make it clear these cameras aren't for glitz and glamor.
These cameras, the glitz and glamor cost me my life and put me in the slammer.
[Jim] You know, he lived a certain lifestyle, and...
Something's telling me in the back of my head
that he wants to kind of get back to the upbeat lifestyle.
We up here working, man. We back, man. Look, game time.
-Tank and O Show. -[laughs]
The Tank and O Show is back, man.
[Jim] He needs to humble himself.
I would personally like to see him do the hammer and nails,
and see what it's really like to build,
you know, because that's what I did.
[Owen] What are we doing first? The filler or the Botox?
[Jim] I'm glad he's getting out. I hope he stays out.
If not, he's in a whole lot of trouble 'cause second time around,
he's not getting the commissary money, he's not getting the phone calls.
He's not getting letters.
[boy] What's the most expensive thing you bought?
I bought a nice watch.
How much did it cost?
$100,000.
-[gasps] -[laughs]
[Owen] But it got taken.
I feel bad for you.
It's all right, don't feel bad.
We're here, man. We're playing football today.
Can't feel bad.
We're free. We are breathing.
I'm finally out of prison
in a halfway house about ten miles down the road.
But I'm not going to lie, it's been a very hard experience for me.
All right, fellas.
I'm 42 years old. I've got no car, I've got no job, I've got no money.
I sleep in a dorm with 20 guys at a time.
It's not fun.
I got to start planning for the future.
[Jim] It's all on him.
You know, it's just a big, giant question mark to see what's going to happen.
[man] Quiet, please, quiet.
Much better. [chuckles]
[guitar music playing]
[in Spanish] ♪ I live my life my way ♪
♪ I take care of what's mine nothing else matters ♪
♪ Even though my cage might be made of gold ♪
♪ This beast has grown its mane and my claws are at the ready ♪
♪ They say I'm considered a high-profile terrorist ♪
♪ A danger for the nation ♪
♪ And the Australian government is desperate for my extradition ♪
♪ I have everything coordinated with Tank at my side ♪
♪ My packages are never intercepted ♪
♪ There's enough Corleone to last a long while ♪
♪ The lineage is only growing stronger there's a reason I am who I am ♪
♪ With a sip of tequila ♪
♪ And my diamond crusted AK-47 to destroy my enemies ♪
♪ Riding on a private jet we take off to Cabo ♪
♪ I'm often seen flying by ♪
♪ Only late model armored cars and my men always on high alert ♪
♪ Fingers twitching, ready to attack ♪
♪ The California Kid another nickname given to me ♪
♪ Will soon ring in the gringos' ears ♪
♪ And my call sign is Don Corleone ♪
♪ Just like the Sicilian except I'm for real ♪ ♪