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“What kind of friends does this guy have?” Marty wanted to know. “What
kind of life is that?”
After that, Dee Dee and Marty became closer friends.
WhenMartywasinPeru,hegotintococaine.Thinkinghewasgoingtomake
money, he would take some of the local pots they would make in Peru, that they
didn't fire, but you would just see them lying out to dry in the sun. Marty was
also pretty good at chemistry. So he was thinking, “Well, if they don't have to
fire those in a kiln, there must be some way to put the cocaine in the clay syrup,
and then get it back out when you get it to the States.”
He figured out a way to impregnate these clay pots with cocaine, and he also
figured out a way to reverse it and extract the cocaine back out! When he finally
got the method down, he made this huge cache of pots he was going to ship to
the U.S., and no one would ever think of it in a million years. In celebration,
Marty gave some money to this local guy who was working for him, his assist-
ant. Unfortunately for him, in typical Marty fashion, this assistant guy took the
money down to a local village bar, got really drunk, and started telling people in
the bar about this ingenious, crazy plan they had going. Just by chance, it turned
out there was a DEA agent sitting in the bar. So Marty had to take off, leaving
all his pots behind. But according to Marty, there was a big article about it in
National Geographic,
something like “Busted Right at the Last Moment, an In-
genious Smuggling Scheme…” Marty was always screwing up somewhere, or
getting himself screwed up by others.
But he was a pretty good smuggler.
DAVID LAWTON
Marty talked about being in the Mexican prison. He had a lot of stories about
them trying to get out, using a spoon to dig himself out.
According to Laki Vazakis, Matz and an accomplice “hid for days” in the tunnel under the
prisonbeforetheMexicanpolicefinallydiscoveredthem.Thestorywascoveredprofusely
in Mexico's sensationalist newspapers.
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DAVID LAWTON
He talked about the brutality of the Mexican prisons. Marty was fluent in Span-
ish, which I think helped him out. And he knew how to cut the deals in order
to not get brutalized himself. But he saw many people killed in those pris-
ons—many people.
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