Former D.O.J. Special Agent Steve Duncan describes David Barron and his Assassin [70:41-75:41]

You know, we got him with, you know, a gallon or so of PCP, a few pounds of methamphetamine. We had him delivering, you know, methamphetamine and weapons to us at an offsite that we created because he liked body shops. You know, we got him in a situation that he could refuse to cooperate with us. And so, he was, he was our key witness in indicting David Barone, him and other witnesses that came along and then other people in the upper echelon of the Oriental Philips organization. So, you know, Juan Philips was key. He was somebody living here under our nose that was doing David's dirty work, you know, keeping the weapons for him for all the homicides that he did in Southern California. And, you know, we finally got to him, you know, maybe a couple of years later, but we got to him and ended up using him. And a lot of other gang bangers that, you know, people said would never cooperate with us to indict David Barone. You know, so it was his own people that turned him in. Steve, I'll tell you, we're over an hour 11. This is probably the longest show, but it's the fastest we've ever had. We're very grateful. Thank you for coming on. And you know what? You definitely have a second date with us. Thanks David. Thanks David. Thanks for working to come back without a doubt. With that said, child, do you have anything for Steve? No, I just want to say, thanks a lot, Steve, you know, you know, hearing from you, being there, working the stuff, you know, kind of puts things into perspective for some of us that were working the streets during that time here. And at the border of Calexco and the Higali and knowing that the F-AFO, you know, had a big influence down on everything that was happening here in Higali and Calexco and Provelli. We had a lot of dope coming across during that time, especially Coke. It was crazy, man. You know, we would hear all the gunshots south of Calexico. You know, we're in the same area. If for anybody that knows where Calexico is at, I mean, we only have a border fence that separates us. I mean, we breathe there at the same area. We have everything the same. So that's where Kiki's from. Yeah. Kiki, I knew Kiki. That's where Kiki's from and Kiki's all of our hero. Yeah. I knew Kiki personally. You know me and I was a little kid. My dad's friend. And it's one of the reasons why we came a cop too. It was Kiki, Joan Ava, Arnold Brown, you know, Armando Nguyenya's, all these guys. They were all a long-forced people and that's what I looked up to, or my mentors growing up. So, you know, we can never, we can never let people forget, especially our cops who Kiki was and what it means to us. Yeah. Yeah. I still think, I still stay in contact sometimes with Mika, his wife. She'll call me up once in a while and ask me stuff. And so I'll be seeing her in September. We're trying to get Kiki's schools. They've been in trailers for the last. Yes. We're just talking about that in our foundation meeting. Oh, okay. So you're part of the foundation. Yeah. Okay. Cool. He is a foundation. He is a foundation. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kiki Jr. Little Kikito. I remember you with a little kid. I'm trying to get him up here. He'll go. It's been warm and it's been warm in San Diego. So I'm pretty sure he'll, he'll want to go up there. Hey, Steve, we got Lupe. He's saying coach, coach Duncan for him to call you coach Duncan. There's a reason why, right? He probably knew you were doing a hot back then. Hi, Lupe. I hope you're doing well. Yeah. That was always our first priority to keep you guys in line. That's right. Benny, any last words for Steve? You know, Steve Kiki arrested me when I was in high school. High school days. I got on a fight. He took me into custody and drove me to my grandma's house. Or it was worse than, where it was worse to see why. Yeah. But chocolate. You know, Steve, you were so spot on on cases that are picked and unpicked for prosecution. Or where they want, or where they, or where they want the resources to go. You know, you got the plea bargains behind the scene deals. And the criminal basically gets away. You experience that not the only one. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you know, when we started putting this thing together, our today's a podcast, you know, because it takes work. I mean to put all these things together. And I started remembering. I remember one time being in TGA with the FBI. We were out there on a different case. And walked in the commandante. And he wants to. He's asking us. We want to go see a torture chamber that they just discovered. So of course, we want to say, yeah, we want to go look. I was telling you, man. We went there. It was an auto shop. It was. It was. It was gruesome. I mean, it's just like in the movies, man. It's like a horror movie. Body parts. And. And the way they were handling the scene. I was looking at it. And I said, oh, my God, we would never handle the case. A scene like the way they were handling that scene. Unbelievable. But just brought back so many memories. You know, just. Yeah. Thank you for coming on. And I'll see you in Las Vegas again. Pretty soon. Yeah.