Drug Smuggler To DEA Agent-Ken Behr
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Ken Behr, a drug smuggler who became a DEA agent in Florida.
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He wasn't a DEA agent - he was an informant
Thank you, between 40 minute - 50 minutes in he starts to sound like an informant.
YES. Big difference. Might want to change the title on this video.
@@fmxmywaybig time. More like Smuggler Turned Snitch
🐭
@@NicolinaDanielleoh shut the hell up, you don’t even know what a snitch is, u look like u couldn’t even kill a fly, I bet you vote blue
I worked for DEA as a contract employee (pilot) back in the '80s. Behr's story is essentially true if you don't take his bluster too seriously. Everybody blows their own horn, but the underlying story he is telling is pretty accurate.
I´m 100% positive you made a looooooooot of money!!!!! If you made it to retirement... you can enjoy a pretty comfortable life!
Thanks it's all true. I was a CI for the Northen District in Florida. From 92 to 94.
He is not a Special Agent. He is an informant. Very different.
He did not work as a DEA agent. He got caught and flipped and ratted out his friends.
This guy is your average prison bullsh1t artist jack of all trades, master of none.
It's all true.. I have dozens of friends with similar stories. 100% true!
“Though oftentimes better than a master of one”
You sound like a Aussie 😊
You sound like Aussie
That guy is a wanker.
Soon as I saw the title I knew this one would be a banger😂😂😂
Banger?
Could you please elaborate?
Do you like this guy?
Same☺
@@leneo1731it’s slang for really good
Well done as always Mark! I always cannot wait for the photo scroll to get to their shoes...lol...shoes tell a lot about a person at the time
My father always used to say you can always judge a person by their shoes.
That is so funny I do the same thing lol
Same. Shoes say alot!
Mama said they was my magic shoes. She said they'd take me anywhere!
@@ryanslings6234 ha ha
It's amazing to see the man who brought Lambspread to Ohio!! I'm 50 and definitely remember that era!!! Super dope interview!!!!
Lambs breath
@@charleshubbard4306 I chuckled
@charleshubbard4306 that's the stuff.
This guy is so sketch. I can’t believe too much of what he says. He just seems very dis-genuine.
There's dysentery in the ranks!
Really. Lol why would I lie ? It's all 100% true!
@@kennethbehr5580 The 1980’s turn to the 1990’s must have been a head-jerk twist in the zeitgeist. Would you ask Mark Laita why ninety-nine percent of his subjects (from working escorts to cleaned-up addicts to reformed pedos to former NYC undercover detectives to wayward Amish to rogue stockbrokers to chip-on-shoulder hackers) have tattoos. All. Over. Their. Upper. Torsos?
@@kennethbehr5580 Why are most of Laita’s interview subjects tatted like there’s no tomorrow? Even the undercover detectives.
@@345mrsehe makes them all get tattooed before he will agree to film them.
Great job Ken. Fantastic video👍🏻
If UA-cam is known for one thing, it would be bringing the snitch out of people.
BIG FACTS!!
snitching and lying about how good you were at crimes
Another great interview! Thank you Mark!
Not an interview. More like a monologue.
A great storyteller! Thanks. Cheers from the country of your forefathers.
Cheers from the rebels who took down the empire.
So he’s a tough guy cause he stabbed his wife? That’s not tough bro its actually the opposite
He was a really tough guy but obviously not because he stabbed is wife.
@@suchislife801 not a real monster just a women hater lol if it was his kids you can call him that but hes just a bum who stabbed his wife
@@suchislife801 lots of men can stab their wives doesnt make them monsters makes them pussies and cowards dont disrespect the term monster for this bum
@@suchislife801Exactly.. Thank You!
Hahahahaha!@@bane8305
DEA to Drug Smuggler but Drug Smuggler to DEA. NO can’t be. 🥴🥴🥴
Fantastic interview!!
Hi from a lovely morning in London❤
Lovely morning in London?
Did you people move to another time zone?
Isn't it like half past one or something there now and you wrote this an hour ago?
Very compelling story. Thank you.
Why does he sound very proud of all this🤨
lol
thats the real q
Because speaks from ego 100% of the time
What's done is done, the good the bad, and the ugly. You own it and move on. There are losers and there are winners, angels and devils in this life. Regrets are for the weak.
Yeah like he's a poet...
Thanks for this wonderful story of redemption, Ken👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you.. your very kind.
This guy is a loser snitch. He is no agent!
@a.leehilliard4716
Classic case of “the pot calling kettle black”
I was engaged to one of the people he snitched on. Destroyed my life and I was never the same after he went to jail.
He would have gone to jail eventually anyways. You chose to be engaged to a guy in that lifestyle.
It’s illegal activity
He would have gotten killed, or locked up eventually
Really.. ? Well Im truly sorry but who were you engaged to? Who are you? Because I don't remember anybody that fits your comment and I believe I remember every person
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WOW.. What an amazing life.
Damn i wld like to see that as a movie. Great interview.
That Salem courthouse and jail was brutal
This is fascinating. I would love to know being a former addict and buying drugs in Mexico you cannot tell me that the US government does not know that there is US manufactured bottles of opiates in Mexico. There is no way anyone will ever convince me that the DEA doesn’t know this. I’d love to ask him that but I know he wouldn’t answer lol clean now for over a year
Happy to answer from what I know The US government has been involved in smuggling drugs since World War 2, but I have no proof whatsoever that the DEA or the government has anything to do with manufacturing drugs in Mexico I just don't know that.!
To everyone working towards their dreams ❤
My brother failed 1st grade and now 50+ yrs later I believe he was dyslexic and ADHD. His life went downhill from there believe it or not.
I 100% understand. please read my comment above. There is a direct link to prison.
Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!
I still struggle with both.
Managed a very successful 38+ year software engineering career. One of the things with AD(H)D is often the ability to hyperfocus on things one is highly interested in doing. It's like a superpower right up to the point that one gets bored, and/or something more interesting comes along. People with both conditions (or either of them) often tend to be highly intelligent. In childhood, this can lead down some pretty intense paths in life.
😂@@stringlarson1247
Dyslexia is usually common in children in elementary school most people commonly grow out if this. It's actually uncommon for adults to have this. They just remember it from child hood and apply it still to their lives...- neuroscientist
what is the difference ?
Didn’t know informant🐀 🟰 DEA special agent who skips police academy❗️🤯🤓😆
He did eventually say SNITCH 1:03:40! 🤷🏻♂️
You are all forgetting from the beginning he stated he has severe dyslexia and ADHD! People with ADHD have their thoughts come faster than they can speak them and finishing a sentence is very hard for them!! He is 100% legit!!
What I can’t stop thinking about is how he mentioned after Reagan and the war on drugs the amount of money smugglers and dealers could make increased because with greater risks mean increased profits. The way our government tries to stop the flow of drugs with tough on crime policies is extremely counter productive because they only attack supply with no attention to demand. And becomes a DEA agent. He essentially admitted his job is pointless and paradoxical…..
Your 100% right. I say in the book. What if we never had a drug war but instead a sensible approach to drugs like alcohol and tobacco.
Maybe you should research alcohol’s history. The irony is in the details.
Interesting story. 👍😊👏
I bet he's told these stories a thousand times
Yep
He comes across just a mature as a 14 year old.
Super proud of all his accomplishments just like a bragging teenager.
Well yes I have. I wrote a book about it all and have done several podcast. Look if you a fisher man or a hunter your stories revolve around those events. This is My life true stories. some time painful sometimes just life!
@kennethbehr5580 yea don't listen to these dorks, the internet just loves to hate. The world needs wild life stories documented.
Of course he’s old
That’s entertaining they had party kits for concerts. I remember selling a U2 fun pack. A few joints, hit of ecstasy and some U2 show tickets
Exactly... shoot never thought of including the tickets..lol
Love how he says New Orleans! Very interesting...love from the UK 🇬🇧
Mark, you should change the title on this video. Dude was never an Agent.
Obviously you can’t be a drug dealer and then a DEA agent. 😂🎉
Yup..I was a CI not an agent!
@@kennethbehr5580respect for turning your life around. Mark should pay more attention to detail on the facts like that.
Am I the only one wondering how well these people are vetted before being interviewed? A lot of what he says just seems like genuine bull💩
This is ridiculous!!😂
If he vetted people he wouldn't have as much content to put out. You don't magically find people with these grandiose stories. Its just a bunch of people who lie.
Soft white underbelly, u the man💯
Great storyteller!
Love the direction this channel has taken in the last few years. 49:16
Worst part of being a guard is losing your compation
Hey Mark, seems like ADHD is a common theme on your channel. As someone who has it in the family myself, it would be interesting if you interviewed an expert in the field. Just a suggestion. Keep up the awesomeness. ❤️
So thanks for saying this. Fact 20 to 25% of the population has dyslexia 50% of the prison population has both dyslexia and or ADHD. There is a direct correlation between early learning disabilities and prison.
Watch your back Ken!
Anyone that has sold, sells, or otherwise been apart of this lifestyle, will be held accountable for the lives you/they have effected. Karma.
It’s Hank from breaking bad
Hank was never a drug smuggler.
@@karenfryberger4260 I meant the DEA part
I didn’t know there WAS a Canadian mafia. Can you imagine three guys named “Greg” and four “Scotts” showing up like “hey bud. We’re here to ask politely aboot that money you owe us.. the boss Greg isn’t happy”.
Right .. to funny... ah!
Guys..not to be that guy..but there is a crime family in Canada. La cosa nostra
everyone saying snitch doesn't realize when the law has you by the balls and you have a family, it forces you to cooperate...but all the people talkin' about "snitch" wouldn't even make it through an interrogation
Mark should line up interviews with some of the real gangsters in the comments. They seem to know more about the subject than most of the individuals he interviews.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well, you are another person that cannot discern fact from fiction.
dude looks hella good for being 67
Thanks..
I feel like I just watched an episode of Miami Vice.
I miss Jan Hammer´s music.
More like “Smuggler turned Snitch”
Thank you Mark, ❤❤ #neverholdback #lifecap
Ive never seen so much meanness in the comments! Wowza
In Canada he was referring to the rock machine mc out of Quebec.. motorhead! Ha~
Mom Bouche! I grew up in Vermont and remember when the border was wide open.
exactly...
@@jackwalker9492 me too.. when I was a teen me and my first boyfriend used to drive up to Buffalo New York and Rochester, and just go to CD stores and get new ports and come back over the rainbow bridge in Niagara falls.. only needed birth certificates! After 9-11 everything changed .. I haven't been back to the states since then, over 20 years, because I haven't gotten a passport made
I never liked a snitch...snitches gets stitches is what I heard growing up...
I hear you and understand and in the beginning when you were looking at 3 to 5 years nobody really snitched. BUT in the end when it was 15 to 25 years everybody snitched. You should read my book. contact me I'll give you a free copy.
This clown lies effortlessly and with a smile. I'll bet the farm 99% of what he says is false.
You have no clue what your talking about your just another clown who is a nobody still got that business going with your brother John or is this bill what a loser that's why you would always hang out with young boys cuz you got your ass beat alot by us younger kids like 16v. 17 while you were 22 what a loser Billy boy
Bet his fathers farm lol
Your on I'll put $10,000 in escrow. Where is your farm? Seriously why would I get up infront of millions of people and lie about being a drug runner and a snitch? Bets on $10,000 ?
@@kennethbehr5580 Someone's bothered 😂.
@@AJxPrime Well I spent a ton of energy to tell a true story so that others can see what it was like growing up in the middle of that area and then to be called a liar? Really my story is one of thousands like it, so the only solace is that my story is worth telling.
I’m sure this guys life story is awesome, but it was hard to follow. He kept jumping all over the place with zero effort to keep a timeline
Hello adhd duh 🤣
Mark posted Drug Smuggler to DEA Agent can’t get mad at Ken Behr for telling his story here is what he’s doing he is explaining things as if all the people who hear this have been in the game too , he’s being honest and expecting people to understand how it works most of the people on here now get to act as if they are mobbed up and runnin things , here’s the deal nobody knows what they would do till they’re in that room with the bench in it the one or both of your arms cuffed to it and you know what they got you with and you remember that last time you stood in front of the Judge and he said the next time you get life !! He did things most of you only see in Johnny Depp movies ! Till you walk in someone shoes don’t judge them
For someone who moved so much Cola out of Columbia during the 80's/90's he doesn't speak much of Pablo
As george jung
lol.. I said I didn't do much smuggling!
Another interview with a guy who has a podcast, has written books (available in hardcover and as audio) and been on other YT channels. What happened to providing a platform for the marginalized, vulnerable people for whom the very name Soft White Underbelly is supposed to represent?
Good morning
Buenos Dias!
What an emotionally deep, profound, sensitive, good man.
The way he described his wife made me so touched I teared up.
That's where I got my wife!
Blonde 5"6, 36-24-36 in a bikini.
Could you be more romantic and deep?
Him and Cohen!
Bikini with the floral print.. smh.
My Ex wife was very pretty, my point was she was alluring enough to entice an international drug smuggler to get his picture taken with her! You're more then able to go to my website and see pictures of her (certainly not in her bathing suit)
Ironically, he did some good snitchin and massive harm as a drug dealer.
I've seen first hand what serious drugs do to a family. Robbed us all of all of our peace. One of my stepsons that had so much promise was lured into "the life."
Now he lives like so many of Mark's interviewees. Actually, worse mentally than many.
Sorry to hear. In the end my own family also.
Yes, one of my buddies was nuclear physics clever, now unable to do more than teach English in Barcelona. MJ should never be used by kids under 23.As far as adults go I don't like to tell anyone what to do.
This guy accomplished more than chapo by the age of 17. Wow.!!😂
No.. I wasn't that big..lol
It was fairly common. If you read Mr. Nice about a UK smuggler it was really super easy back then
He s a genius in his own mind
Mark , how are the Whittaker’s after all the rain last week ?? I thought about them while it was happening.
LIES: Eddie Murphy filmed his special, with the red suit, in Washington, D.C., in 1983. He said he saw this show in Florida, after he was busted in 1988.
The weapon stories are pure fiction. You think the military does not keep track of rockets and mines? If 1 weapon is missing a base gets locked down.
He claims he was held for months with no charges. In the United States, how long someone can be held in jail without being formally charged depends on several factors: In federal cases, the time limit is 48 hours. In some state cases, it can be up to 72 hours. He claims he was held 3 months.
Pure fiction.
Yeah because the government always follows protocol. Foh
Have you ALWAYS thought that you know everything?
@@DaisyRenee713just look at this persons post history. Every one is negative. Either a troll or just a miserable human. If there’s even a difference..
No we saw him around 1985 at the Sunrise Musical Theater. And I'll be happy to bet you $10,000 it's all true. The weapons were confiscated by the Hollywood police and the FDLE. The story made national headlines at the time. GET A LIFE!
No we saw him around 1985 at the Sunrise Musical Theater. And I'll be happy to bet you $10,000 it's all true. The weapons were confiscated by the Hollywood police and the FDLE. The story made national headlines at the time. GET A LIFE!
lot of holes in this story
The "witches" weren't tried at the court house in Salem.. Those buildings didn't exist back then. Another fun fact is that the witch trials happened in what is now Danvers.
Actually your right the 1st court house burned down. But they do the tours in the court house I was tried in. Good catch!
Dude busted Paul LeRoux!! That's fucking CRAZY. One of the biggest kingpins of all time
When did this channel turn into pure copaganda?
Dude didn't even try to give the dying man cpr. But proud to say he was a Dea informant. No empathy no honor nothing. Clout chasing at 60 yrs old. Disgusting
really... your a fool! 1) I don't know CPR and 2) ya think the guards were gonna let me give the guy CPR...lol Listen Doogie Howser get a life!
What was his book called?
One Step Over the Line. Confessions of a Marijuana Mercenary
Book called BS from a dreamer
40,000 lbs=20 tonnes lol. Dealing with the threat of mould would have been horrendous
He says that he was “an informant” one could never pass the background/ polygraph and get hired on with the past he’s got. Felony drug sales are gonna get you dropped from the hiring pool 100% GUARANTEED.
@@MD-ev3hm Of course, and 40-years-ago it was far more strict. Any drug sales, any criminal arrests, associating with convicted felons, drug use other than weed (tolerated under 21 or so), bad driving record, bad credit record, and even anything more than teenage homosexual experimentation would get you blackballed permanently. This is for Feds and state Attorney General’s Office narcs, as well as your big-city police departments which conducted real thorough applicant background investigations. The standards were very high and the pay was relatively much lower than today.
Mike Ehrmantraut!? 😱
So he didn't die!
Yessss
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Except in reverse, and his character was never a DEA agent and he became way more than a drug smuggler.
@@karenfryberger4260 ohhhhh.. I'm out of the loop.... I've never seen that show 🤣
Citing Paul Manaforte. Right.
Greedy Coward with alot of excuses.
He was NOT a DEA agent.
Justifying snitching
How does he just try and make us think his buddy ratting on him is okay and then goes on a 10 min rant about no one wants to be a rat they teach you this in 1st grade blah blah blah which one is it bud ?🤣😭💀🤦🏻♂️
Both??? Nobody can be proud of being a snitch but after 32 years I can't be made at him. He just did what anybody and everybody does. Take the deal!
IF this guy's for real...First and Last Name dropping, cops and Federal Agents??? Not smart. And, Sammy the Bull Griaveino???
😂😂😂
I wonder if Mark fact checks any of these people.
Giving this guy the benefit of the doubt though....Not everyone is good at a monologue and expressing themselves under these circumstances. It can be intimidating and very stressful, which could result in him seeming like he's not genuine when he is. Who knows. If you're being honest, thanks for sharing your story sir. Many of us would be stuttering fools if we tried to do this type of discussion.
Thank you so much!
This guy thinks hes Hank from Breaking Bad.
Just a snitch who was to scared to do his time born a Jersey coward 😂 an informant a narc
@@Arsniclon Most dopers looking at 20+ years are going to flip for all they’re worth. There are two types of private defense attorneys you can retain if you’re charged with drug trafficking. One is a high-dollar attorney that will file every possible motion and go through every government report and recording word by word looking for an opening to attack.
The second type of private criminal defense attorney is a deal-maker who will get the defendant a cooperators agreement where you sell your soul for a “5K” sentence reduction. These guys are known for their good contacts with agents and prosecutors than for courtroom theatrics.
If you go with a public defender you’re screwed. They don’t have the resources to beat these types of cases and you’ll be found guilty and get slammed (high end of sentencing guidelines).
If they say you want to cooperate, you’ll see them at the first meeting with agents and prosecutors. The DEA will thank them and show them the door. The next time you see them will be sentencing. No written deal, no guarantees… even unofficial. You get what you pay for.
Interesting that they had cows and farms in Wayne in the 50’s. Can’t imagine it now
Bro looks like Chester V from Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2
I hope he gets help and stops soon
Wow silly me thought Scarface was a fictional movie character, but he’s REAL- just a Floridian country bumpkin! 😎🤪🤥😆
My aunt lives in Wayne New Jersey and my two cousins
What do you want, a medal?!?!?! 😂
Exit 53..... former Parsippany resident, but I got out of there.
And....?
It’s just a statement omg you people have nothing else to worry about
@stevenmorinello8522 oh, well, I have family in california ☺️😚☺️
Why Jimmy Buffett had to catch a stray
Mark!!! Interview chad marks already
Great interview and ye s you,would have sold fet
I was about to say I highly doubt one can be a DEA agent if he was selling drugs as a teen more like a Drug Informant
Do they need any mules to haul around the north ? I’m here
How about sailing Columbia to Vancouver ??
Do people like this have even a single clue how insufferable they are? His daughter must be continually embarrassed by the constant brag yapping
Literally
I wonder if he knew Crockett and Tubbs?
The guy really is a joke. Knows what he's doing is illegal and that sooner or later he's gonna get caught, but when that time comes what does he do? Turns in to a snitch, and the way he's talking about it he liked being a snitch.
Every major cartel boss or mafia boss have snitched all they wanna do is telling everything do there time in prison and get out
Wow how can you look at your self many many fictional dea stores
all true.. shit you only heard part of the stories...lol you can have a free copy of the book if you read.
Gets so close to acknowledging his White privilege in the penal system but then veers wildly off track to claim he got out of jail b/c he was ‘cunning”, “smart”, and ‘rich’. Classic
You’re a retard if you think whites are the ones getting out of prison due to their skin color.
Well I go into more detail in the book about black and brown incarceration. And the governments own drug running. And yes I had money and a life time of experience.
Wonder if he knew Jon Roberts....
He knows Robert Jons
I am sure he could make up another story.
NO I know of him and his story but never meet him.
@@kennethbehr5580why are u replying to everyone lmao
Missing Rebecca
Enough of rebecca