Only On 3: Inside The Fight Against Mexican Drug Cartels

TEMECULA – There is a select group of elite state drug agents that go inside the Mexican drug cartels, gain their trust by acting as one of them, and busting them with piles of meth and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.

In this high stakes game of spying and intercepting, there’s a lingo that state narcotic agents use:

The “crooks” are what they call the mexican drug cartels now using riverside county as *the* hot spot for their drug deals.

The “friendlies” are the confidential informants that put their lives on the line to

And the “dope” is what they’re trying tio get off the streets.

In one case, we followed narcotics agents on the hunt for meth with a street value of 386 thousand dollars.