Former D.O.J. Special Agent Steve Duncan describes David Barron and his Assassin [15:12-20:14]

Wow. A, a, a, Steve real quick, like, I am jealous. It looks like you have great weather behind you. You got like the wind blowing and stuff like that. I just looked at my, my weather stuff and we're still at. Lingerie on one 14 feels, feels harder than that. But my next, you know, you kind of answered the question that I had for you is, and who is David Barone? But can you give us more detail? I mean, you know, how, you know, how was this kid? Is he, you know, did you start dealing with him as a young kid? And, you know, how much background do you know on David Barone? Yeah, when I came into the, to the, to this world of working gangs, David was already in custody for committing a murder when he was 16 years old. And so he did time as a juvenile in San Quentin. And got out briefly, and it was a sending of police department that had to deal with him because, you know, he was on the streets of Logan Heights. He was a guy, a, a guy, a, a gang member. And so he was selling PCP, he was heading several crews of people at Memorial Park, where Logan Heights gang members hung out that were selling PCP for him. And he was gang banging. He was, he was a 1% or he was the, he was the guy in the gang that led them. He was charismatic. He was violent. And he was organized and he, he, he was the leader of these guys. And when he was out on the street, violence went up. And, you know, homicides went up. And so it was sending a PD guys like Dave Contreras and, and the gang detectives at the time that had to deal with this guy on a daily basis. I was a probation officer just coming into it. In 1989, when I, I heard of David, and I heard that he was public enemy number one, and I heard that law enforcement in San Diego was targeting him and trying to get him dirty because he was into so many things, you know, manufacturing met them, fed him, laundering money through an auto business. He was moving tons of cocaine for the Adiano Felix organization in Tijuana through the, through the, through the ports of entry to the east. And he was doing everything. And, you know, this guy was just somebody that we knew we had to target. And so as early as 1989, we were involved in an organized crime, drug enforcement task force cases, OCDF cases targeting David. And Gustavo Rivera Martinez and Bat Marquez, you know, guys that were thorns in our side in the law enforcement community. But I was brand new, you know, and so I was, I was, you know, I was trained by guys like Dave and, and guys in DEA like Jack Robertson. And San Diego PD, especially they were, there were our partners in this, you know, they were the guys out on the street. And, you know, we depended on them a lot because there was a lot of violence going on with David. He was doing a lot of homicides in California for the Adianos, you know, they didn't want to draw heat to themselves in Tijuana. So he was doing a lot of homicides in California. And so we were, you know, we were keeping an eye on him. And, you know, the guy was just so careful that it was just very hard to follow him around. It was very hard to catch him doing anything. And, you know, in 1992 he finally got win that we were on to him. And he basically went over to the other side of the border and stayed put in Tijuana. So, so that comes, you know, we grew quick like David, I mean, I'm sorry Steve. So a lot of us have worked, you know, task forces or we've done, you know, cases through our investigations. A lot of people don't know what OSA death means. Can you, can you, you know, tell us what the acronym OSA death means? Yeah, it's organized crime, drug enforcement task force. And it's a federal grant when you have a case that is substantial. And you have a leader of an organization, you know, that's killing and trafficking drugs. And, you know, you write a proposal and it's, you know, writing a proposal for a grant to the federal government. And if they accept it, there's a meeting at the US Attorney's Office and you plead your case. And if they accept that, then they give you money. And they give you resources, more resources. They allow you to pick a team and to provide overtime opportunity for those law enforcement agents that agreed to play, agreed to work the case with you.