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How Drug Smuggling (Ecstasy) Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider

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Shaun Attwood is a former drug smuggler who ran a successful ring trafficking MDMA pills in the US in the '90s. He was arrested in 2002 and served six years in US jails.
Shaun speaks to Insider about how ecstasy is processed, smuggled, and sold. He recounts his work with the US Mexican Mafia gang and rivalries with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano and the Gambino crime family. He also speaks about sentencing, life in US jails, and extradition.
He has previously been featured on "Locked Up Abroad," and he has his own KZhead series interviewing former offenders. Shaun published his life story as the "English Shaun Trilogy" and speaks to audiences around the UK and Europe about prison reform.
Shaun Attwood on KZhead: / @shaunattwoodofficial
Shaun Attwood's books: shaunattwood.com/books/
Introduction - 00:00
Chapter 1: The Recipes - 00:27
Chapter 2: The Suppliers - 02:00
Chapter 3: New Mexican Mafia - 04:03
Chapter 4: Smuggling Methods - 04:58
Chapter 5: The Structure - 06:43
Chapter 6: The Distribution - 08:32
Chapter 7: The Competition - 10:17
Chapter 8: The Arrest - 12:46
Chapter 9: The Aftermath - 15:17
Chapter 10: The Backstory - 17:03
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  • Love Sean but them buttons working overtime 😂

    @daniellamont5861@daniellamont58617 ай бұрын

    • Probably looks OK when standing. (as he probably was when checking in the mirror lol)

      @gbt722@gbt7227 ай бұрын

    • maybe he needs a slightly bigger shirt 🥴

      @tthewizard7667@tthewizard76677 ай бұрын

    • im getting hench :)

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • ​@@shaunattwoodOFFICIALyou're getting takeout :-P

      @blackenedsprite8542@blackenedsprite85427 ай бұрын

    • Shows how much you know. He’s obviously got cash taped to his body to smuggle it and they probably caught him in between flights for the interview.

      @sergiopirela5864@sergiopirela58647 ай бұрын

  • You don't hear the words "fortunately there was a race riot" too often.

    @morganchilds9054@morganchilds90547 ай бұрын

    • The only time it's fortunate is when you're trying to steal from your neighbors and local business.

      @tokivikerness8863@tokivikerness88637 ай бұрын

    • ​@@tokivikerness8863or trying to sell lol

      @r32juan@r32juan7 ай бұрын

    • 😂

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • Do you not live in reality? Africans and muslims have been rioting in white countries every single week for years and years now.

      @bonerone9247@bonerone92477 ай бұрын

    • Really shows you how he thinks

      @sba8710@sba87106 ай бұрын

  • You can tell he really misses doing what he loved 😂

    @TrentsROOM@TrentsROOM7 ай бұрын

    • Agreed 💯

      @allen9975@allen99757 ай бұрын

    • Those were the good days of raving and pressed pills. I miss it too.

      @GymJones865@GymJones8657 ай бұрын

    • Government always ruins your fun😒

      @elgoog7830@elgoog78307 ай бұрын

    • So he loved ruining peoples life’s.

      @frozengamer3030@frozengamer30307 ай бұрын

    • He said it was super fun and a rush, so I don't blame him. But I bet he doesn't miss hanging out with the Aryan Brotherhood in maximum security prison

      @EdEddington@EdEddington7 ай бұрын

  • He is one hundred percent right about the ego.

    @champagneonme@champagneonme7 ай бұрын

    • And it's insane

      @CushionSapp@CushionSapp7 ай бұрын

    • and 100% wrong about everything else.

      @pentu7738@pentu77387 ай бұрын

    • Shaun has an imagination like Walt Disney.

      @darrenmunro2880@darrenmunro28806 ай бұрын

  • Exactly! 100% not about the money. I was a runner back in the day, about to turn middleman and start having my own runners but things got dicey, when we went to Queens, NY to pick up a load. The dude we were picking up from was literally less then 100 yards away, when undercovers in unmarked cars/trucks swarmed them. We casually drove away and got the fck out of there. Never heard from the guy ever again, sold the rest of the X pills I had for dirt cheap, just to get out of the game. Once again, it wasn't about the money... it was all about feeling important, having the attention and overall, feeling quite fcking powerful.

    @AceEquality@AceEquality7 ай бұрын

    • good point

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • Had a friend from college who ended up becoming a middleman for a Mexican cartel doing business with the Chinese for fentanyl ingredients. The guy was quite a genius and a polyglot, which made him a valuable piece in the drug game. He disappeared for a while to lay low in West Africa when things were hot only to end up arrested by Interpol in the Cayman Islands because he was visiting his mistress. He never cared about the money, because it was always flowing and eventually became meaningless to him. He loved killing and the power of deciding what would happen with people’s lives.

      @gvs6462@gvs64627 ай бұрын

    • I know it's just a show but the "regularness of life" is brought up in The Sopranos a few times as to why many of these criminals never get out of the life even if they know it will probably kill them eventually.

      @Dregkar@Dregkar6 ай бұрын

    • Well done for not getting sucked in further and for leaving that lifestyle. A wise man learns from other's mistakes. The reality is, the majority only wanted to know you for what you had, not who you were and so it's all fake. Most don't give a fcuk about you or what would happen to you when things go wrong, even just generally. They'd sell you up the river to cover their own backsides. It's a risky business. True about the ego, pride always fcuks things up. Better to be humble, the higher up someone is the further they have to fall and they still have God to answer to once they reach the other side.

      @Jeweli.@Jeweli.6 ай бұрын

    • ​@@gvs6462 "He never cared about the money, because it was always flowing and eventually became meaningless to him." This is quite important when people say they are not selling drugs "for the money". It is all about the money and the status and sense of importance that money buys.

      @57thorns@57thorns6 ай бұрын

  • What a brilliant businessman! Nice to see he's on the straight and narrow.

    @radders261@radders2617 ай бұрын

    • thanks!

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • its a made up story bro. You know it after he says how much mg was in the pills in the 90s. He has no clue

      @pentu7738@pentu77387 ай бұрын

    • Daddygate check it. One sick fraud is attwood

      @BillyBob-dz9rg@BillyBob-dz9rg5 ай бұрын

  • "hundreds of thousands dead in Mexico... all this knife crime in london... revolves around young people competing for the black market profit in drugs, created by drug laws." pretty much sums up the problem with the war on drugs

    @kperry5000@kperry50007 ай бұрын

    • Drug laws cause crime -Former drug smugglers Drug laws cause crime -Former drug addicts Drug laws cause crime -Former police officers Drug laws cause crime -Former organized crime Politicians: we really need to crack down on this marijooana

      @user-cn7io2pe8p@user-cn7io2pe8p7 ай бұрын

    • @@user-cn7io2pe8pthe prohibition just proves this point. Yay! We traded alcohol for the Mob.

      @Matt_10203@Matt_102037 ай бұрын

    • ​@@user-cn7io2pe8pget a job 🥱🥱

      @keagenmccartha7412@keagenmccartha74127 ай бұрын

    • Reminds me of the fictionalized Hamsterdam experiment created by Commander Bunny Colvin in The Wire. Legalizing drugs was a shock to everyone but turned out to be very effective limiting it to certain zones in Baltimore.

      @totalbliss1@totalbliss17 ай бұрын

    • Apparently sheriff joe arpiao isn't much help either

      @asimhusain8087@asimhusain80877 ай бұрын

  • Legalize everything, tax it, take the money out of the hands of the gangs. So obvious, so simple.

    @chad0x@chad0x7 ай бұрын

    • The Government is worse than any gang could dream

      @Eaglemadhatter@Eaglemadhatter6 ай бұрын

    • Every country or municipality which did this solved the drug problem over night basically. See Portugal and Geneva in the 80s.

      @kaspersergej@kaspersergej6 ай бұрын

    • Or. legalize it, and communites all share seeds, genetics and materials, cut out the taxes and the big industry becauaw we dont need them anymore. Thats why legalization wont happen until things are far worse for everyone

      @DG-iw3yw@DG-iw3yw6 ай бұрын

    • ESPECIALLY MDMA and psychedelics. The truly most beneficial drugs that are legit

      @Jumpingjackflash123@Jumpingjackflash1236 ай бұрын

  • Shaun always has a smile on his face even when facing Sammy

    @thepostman9664@thepostman96647 ай бұрын

    • Sammy the bull says he is a fraud and he never knew him

      @BillyBob-dz9rg@BillyBob-dz9rg5 ай бұрын

    • And you believe him? @@BillyBob-dz9rg

      @lifesbutastumble@lifesbutastumble5 ай бұрын

    • @@BillyBob-dz9rg sammy the rat is a known liar, can't trust either

      @adlibitum2139@adlibitum21393 ай бұрын

    • Never met him , this guys a jerk

      @pen2199@pen21997 күн бұрын

    • @@pen2199 better than been a prick !

      @thepostman9664@thepostman96643 күн бұрын

  • I really hurt myself badly with this drug as a teenager in the late 90s. Doing it daily not drinking water, ended up catatonic in the psychiatric center a few times. Hard times. Much better today.

    @Come-Jesus-Come@Come-Jesus-Come6 ай бұрын

    • Yeah it's a dangerous drug if taken irresponsibly (as teenagers usually are). In moderation though it's fantastic. That said I've done it just once in the past 23 years and may not ever do it again.

      @Axiomatic75@Axiomatic756 ай бұрын

    • so you didnt hurt yourself with the drug, but by not drinking water.

      @TheYolk@TheYolk6 ай бұрын

    • ​@@TheYolkI was taking it daily two or three times a day, not drinking water. I wasn't giving my brain time to rest and I eventually was catatonic, crying all the time it was a nightmare. This is when extacy was really extacy. But it took a long time, I'm better today.

      @Come-Jesus-Come@Come-Jesus-Come6 ай бұрын

    • ​@@Come-Jesus-Come You're missing the point. You would have ended up in the same condition without the X.

      @ianashmore9910@ianashmore99106 ай бұрын

    • @@ianashmore9910 I just focus on where I'm going now B.

      @Come-Jesus-Come@Come-Jesus-Come6 ай бұрын

  • This blew me away. Sean you come across as being sweet, caring and lovely, which I am sure that you are. But this level of involvement, you must’ve had a set of balls the size of melons. What a life and what an experience. You are so lucky to be alive to tell your story today.

    @jackiea6436@jackiea64367 ай бұрын

    • Cheers

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • All lies. Just like Jen who hides the fact that she’s a brass!!!

      @Roxybrown2107@Roxybrown21076 ай бұрын

    • Orrrrrr he's talking out of his arse

      @craigward7691@craigward76916 ай бұрын

    • @@craigward7691 I mean he was imprisoned for 9 and a half years for it

      @goofin6360@goofin63606 ай бұрын

    • Check out daddy gate one sick freak is attwood. Gets off on role playing sexual abuse of children. Daddygate

      @BillyBob-dz9rg@BillyBob-dz9rg5 ай бұрын

  • Absolutely insane story and that you’re still here to tell the tale. Really fortunate luck despite you got locked. As a consumer of xtc, I have very conflicted feelings about all the drug underworld. I’m not sure how dangerous it is here in Europe compared to the states but oh my god, it is a constant dodging of bullets.

    @jorgefernandez184@jorgefernandez1846 ай бұрын

    • For what? For putting something in his body through his own choice? Government needs to stay out of what I put in my body, remember? @@JhonnyCash-mo2wx

      @lifesbutastumble@lifesbutastumble5 ай бұрын

  • Been following Shaun for years and man, that story doesn’t get old. Would love to see the film!

    @LeifCoffield@LeifCoffield6 ай бұрын

  • What an interesting “master class” in how RICO structures are created and perpetrated. As a lawyer, and former prosecutor, I found it interested how the New Mexico Mafia gave Mr. Atwood a layperson’s class on America’s 4th and 5th amendments and searches based on probable cause. Many of the search buzzwords are part of the American lexicon but someone from Holland or the UK would probably not know the terms used everyday.

    @Familylawgroup@Familylawgroup7 ай бұрын

    • good observation

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • Sir you are a lawyer? Is it possible for my dad to obtain citezenship in anyway if he has been in prison for trying to sneak into the country then being deported and sneaking over again?

      @aquaticlives2948@aquaticlives29487 ай бұрын

    • @@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL Thank you. I was intrigued by some of your “business decisions” to respect turf in the products you “sold” versus the locations where you could be found. Initially, you decided you needed to send travel teams to Holland to test out new formulas. You sent “traveling chemists” to find new connections in clubs and party zones. Each time you needed to cross international borders you dramatically increased your risk. Why was it judged to be more profitable to generate the active ingredients in Holland vs manufacturing the product here? If you had been arrested in Holland for this same crime, how would the punishment ranges compare? How did their prison systems compare?

      @Familylawgroup@Familylawgroup7 ай бұрын

    • @@Familylawgroup A big reason for why most of the xtc comes from The Netherlands is due to a few things. The country is more tolerant when it comes to drug related crimes, thus making it safer for drug organizations to headquarters there. The drug organizations are also less structured and thus more difficult to crack down on. But most importantly is the infrastructure in the country. Not only has xtc production been going on in the Netherlands for over 30 years, but the country is also a huge hub for drug trafficking. It’s fairly easy to get drugs in and out of the country. Most xtc production is done in the South close to Belgium and Germany. The port of Rotterdam is also the biggest in Europe which means that massive amounts of drugs pass through it every week. Hopefully this answers your question about why producing xtc outside of the Netherlands is less common.

      @nathanvanlent9407@nathanvanlent94077 ай бұрын

    • @@nathanvanlent9407The port of Rotterdam and Belgium are massive ports and so much stuff comes through there daily that it’s more difficult to catch

      @tomking7080@tomking70807 ай бұрын

  • Someone get this man a shirt that actually fits

    @Michaele1991@Michaele19917 ай бұрын

    • I know, he looks like an overweight zen master. 😄

      @shoot_the_glass5654@shoot_the_glass56547 ай бұрын

    • He might be wearing a bulletproof vest.

      @ambatipudi@ambatipudi7 ай бұрын

    • ​@@shoot_the_glass5654 I JUST YELPED 😂😂😂 🥋

      @Heyu7her3@Heyu7her36 ай бұрын

    • @@ambatipudi fat is not bulletproof

      @billlynn8256@billlynn825624 күн бұрын

  • $100k to get the sentence down from 200 years to 9.5 years! Crazy! Money well spent damn

    @Black_Jesus3005@Black_Jesus30057 ай бұрын

    • Death sentence for all drug dealers.

      @kristopherdetar4346@kristopherdetar43467 ай бұрын

    • Saul was definitely working for him

      @alifnaufal@alifnaufal7 ай бұрын

    • @@kristopherdetar4346 Better lock up big pharma 🥴

      @Black_Jesus3005@Black_Jesus30057 ай бұрын

    • Only served 6 years. Less time than the average possession charge. Whoever the judge was should have been tried.

      @sleepy_jean@sleepy_jean7 ай бұрын

    • @@kristopherdetar4346no one cares. go be emotional elsewhere

      @gaykidsexisttoo@gaykidsexisttoo7 ай бұрын

  • Spent the 1990's in Arizona, now I know where all that great x was coming from. Thanks for some fantastic memories! Must have passed through Sonoyta a 100 times without a second glance. Just clean-cut college kids going to Rocky Point. Only time I was questioned was at the check point near Ajo, but a respectful and cooperative demeanor kept the search cursory and I was on my way. Coming from the Chicago area I also had the good fortune of experiencing the 1980's LSD resurgence. * Hope I haven't offended anyone, just a crazy exciting time in my life.

    @aseanWalker@aseanWalker6 ай бұрын

  • Big up Shaun, been following his content for awhile now. RIP Wildman 🌹

    @tomoliver_music@tomoliver_music6 ай бұрын

  • Prison in most of the world is a punishment, prison in America is a business.

    @ENRU-01@ENRU-017 ай бұрын

  • one of the best videos i’ve seen in years, such a story, great work peeps!

    @shashlik420@shashlik4207 ай бұрын

    • thanks!

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

  • Easily some of the best content on KZhead, this'll be the first series to win the eventual web content version of an an actual prestige award

    @ZHL242@ZHL2427 ай бұрын

  • Best series on YT & In every video, the message is clear. Drug laws & lack of support are the root cause.

    @AQpizza@AQpizza7 ай бұрын

    • Organised crime will always exist, governments can only reduce it

      @joshflynn2173@joshflynn21737 ай бұрын

    • And people who make the choice to take drugs

      @canesugar911@canesugar9117 ай бұрын

    • @@canesugar911 What you choose to do to yourself is up to you. No need for a nanny state, someone taking a pill is doing less harm to society than someone who drives around in a diesel car all day.

      @OxymoronicTonic@OxymoronicTonic7 ай бұрын

    • Drug laws create the avenue to throw young black males in jail. You can't have a never ending, poverty stricken maze that overwhelmingly help feed a massive prison system and remove the main law that accomplishes this. Why do you think federal marijuana laws still exist when almost every state legalized it? This is just modern-day slavery in a covert form.

      @totalbliss1@totalbliss17 ай бұрын

    • @canesugar911 Do you use coffee, sugar, tobacco or chocolate? lol

      @DG-iw3yw@DG-iw3yw6 ай бұрын

  • Very well put together piece. Bravo Insider

    @natemurray02@natemurray026 ай бұрын

  • Those buttons are holding on for dear life.

    @scottwood981@scottwood9817 ай бұрын

  • What a character this man is... I remember my first E - a snowball.... my mates found me in front of the P.A in the morning saying "I'm coming next week"! I've followed Sean on KZhead for years now and he's such an interesting guy. Changed his life and now has a mrs & baby (Ziggy) Nice one sir, keep up the good work ❤

    @GregRichards-vv4bj@GregRichards-vv4bj6 ай бұрын

  • Awesome interview

    @BushaBandulu@BushaBandulu7 ай бұрын

  • love this series, keep em coming! ❤

    @kareena281@kareena2817 ай бұрын

  • 11:02 This is so funny, “I did something silly” xD so savage, and nonchalant.

    @KingOfDepravity@KingOfDepravity7 ай бұрын

  • Hello Shaun, Vic from LBC Cali! Congratulations on the Birth of your Son! Shaun your hair…. When we look at the days gone past! There is an old saying….” Don’t let your yesterday be your Tomorrow “! You look simply Marvelous’Ol Chap!!! I like you really miss Wild Man, Shaun! RIP our friend! Those kind of guys are once in a Lifetime buddies! I’m watching thinking, darn Shaun you had the Money! Millions at a young age, wish you would have gone back to your Thinking Tree! That’s gone and your here, Thank God for that! I’m 63 now Shaun and always remember my partner Doyle’s words. He was 20 years my Senior and a true Gangster, he help Big Donald Garcia start the Mema , Mexican Mafia out of San Fernando ! “Where your at I’ve Been , Where I’m at ? I hope you make it! Cheers to you and your Family! Love you my Brotherman! Again Congratulations your a Father and new Duties! My Hats off to you Brother!

    @victhegatekeeper2236@victhegatekeeper22367 ай бұрын

  • Everybody remembers how lovely was his first pill at the party🎉❤ pure joy and feeling soo happy...good memories😊

    @centarforbr.9.529@centarforbr.9.5297 ай бұрын

    • Yes, first time is always the best, nothing else will ever come close to it.

      @PTG-ze1di@PTG-ze1di7 ай бұрын

  • That shirt is on life support.

    @Disk@Disk7 ай бұрын

  • I went to college at ASU in the early 2000s and remember dealing with this guys people. Those were some wild times!

    @azcardguy7825@azcardguy78257 ай бұрын

    • 😂

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • As Boone NC?

      @j_rainsgoat3929@j_rainsgoat39297 ай бұрын

    • thanks to Skye & Kushnir.....the beginning of the end.@@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL

      @alesiaapodaca6946@alesiaapodaca69466 ай бұрын

  • One needs to maintain a certain level of skepticism on KZhead videos, but this is one of the rare ones that seems to me to be pretty dependable in telling its story.

    @xbubblehead@xbubblehead7 ай бұрын

    • how do you know? you're just guessing as though you have the faintest idea whether or not he's lying

      @octilli@octilli7 ай бұрын

    • @@octilli Do you know what "seems" means?

      @xbubblehead@xbubblehead7 ай бұрын

    • @@octillioml Shaun’s been around for decades, please research him more as his stories are truly important if you want to understand crime, America and why people don’t trust the executive branch of government

      @Alex-tx2dh@Alex-tx2dh6 ай бұрын

  • Sean is awesome. I’ve been following his channel for a while now

    @BrassMtn@BrassMtn7 ай бұрын

  • Right on. Thanks for sharing.

    @ruperterskin2117@ruperterskin21177 ай бұрын

  • He came to talk to my school last year. Interesting guy

    @zander2076@zander20767 ай бұрын

  • One of your best videos yet

    @jo1e-de-v1vre@jo1e-de-v1vre6 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for your service.

    @ianashmore9910@ianashmore99106 ай бұрын

  • Some great observations here on how counterproductive the "war on drugs" effort is, and how it drives the demand for drugs up, while funding giant government machinery to fight a pointless battle

    @muppetb.lansing8374@muppetb.lansing83747 ай бұрын

    • thanks!

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

  • I was definitely munching on his tabs, out of Chicago, back in the early 2000's I specifically remember eating those mitsu's, dollar signs and teletubies. Literally gave me xtc chills when he talked about them. 👍thanks for the good times my friend!

    @elgoog7830@elgoog78307 ай бұрын

    • thanks!

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • ​@@shaunattwoodOFFICIALI was wondering if you have ever been to DEMF, in Detroit, MI...its every Memorial Day weekend?!

      @antoinettewargo3389@antoinettewargo338911 күн бұрын

  • Thank you for your service :)

    @PossMcLeod@PossMcLeod7 ай бұрын

  • “I did something silly” proceeds to explain how he raided an Italian mafia house :D

    @diobrando89@diobrando897 ай бұрын

  • I'd like to clarify when Shaun said 40,000 pills being a serious loss He didn't mean financially he meant he really loves MDMA

    @NickTaylorRickPowers@NickTaylorRickPowers7 ай бұрын

    • Its true, the cost pwr pill when you buy this many isnt very much

      @DG-iw3yw@DG-iw3yw6 ай бұрын

  • Very interesting ...watching this as a resident of Scottsdale Arizona

    @Ovie_1@Ovie_17 ай бұрын

  • Good morning Community..love this awareness 💯🌄

    @user-zr7rc8xg9k@user-zr7rc8xg9k7 ай бұрын

  • "fortunately, there was a race riot" LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 That caught me off guard

    @judybash9393@judybash93937 ай бұрын

  • "How drug smuggling worked when any idiot could do it"

    @paulsimons769@paulsimons7697 ай бұрын

  • Shaun seems like a top gent 👏 Never met the man, only know bits and pieces about him on KZhead etc over the years.. I've met plenty of people in a similar game. Most are power-hungry, egotistical sociopaths who think their Gods .. but the few that aren't like that are usually just messers like me , who got involved for every type of reason on earth. But they are normally good people! Keep up the good work, Shaun and Insider too. Cheers mate 👍 👌 😀

    @user-nj4en2br6e@user-nj4en2br6e7 ай бұрын

    • He likely lost his ego in prison mate. Also you can’t judge someone by how they appear in camera, you judge them by their actions over a period of time. Good on him though, now he can give us these insights.

      @sighfly2928@sighfly29287 ай бұрын

    • @sighfly2928 fair point and I see what u mean, he may have had a big ego , younger lads in that type of business usually do! 😉 And American lock ups are not known for their tolerance, warm welcomes and hospitality!! Cheers mate 👍

      @user-nj4en2br6e@user-nj4en2br6e7 ай бұрын

    • Cheers 🍻

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • ​@@sighfly2928i think its because the xtc trade and the rave scène is also different type of beast

      @owningkoning@owningkoning7 ай бұрын

    • Sadly people like Shaun are not the typical. There are some really nasty pieces of work involved in this enterprise, attracted to it and made by the illegality of it and money to be made. People need to realise the war on drugs does not help anything. least of all the cost to the tax payer to fund that complete waste of time and effort.

      @theoutsider6191@theoutsider61917 ай бұрын

  • These stories are epic... it's so cool to hear other people's experiences 👍 I found a loop hole from Amsterdam to London through the bus service.... never got caught ❗❗

    @mrbbqcraig@mrbbqcraig7 ай бұрын

    • ahahah

      @solowplaysmc9013@solowplaysmc90137 ай бұрын

    • now you will

      @acanfullofcoke@acanfullofcoke7 ай бұрын

    • Dude said not to brag you don’t listen

      @shanescull9552@shanescull95527 ай бұрын

    • :)

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

    • Curb your ego. I know, it's hard for narcissists. But what drives you is also endangering you. The narrow path inbetween is the one to walk carefully, always keep your balance.

      @mixalisstathis274@mixalisstathis2744 ай бұрын

  • What a wild journey I must say.

    @kingjaries@kingjaries7 ай бұрын

  • It’s crazy to think this man did a speak at my high school in England. Was about 15 years ago but vividly remember it. Great story and really fascinating bloke

    @Tomkim1995@Tomkim19957 ай бұрын

    • Same for us

      @alexanderjosmith@alexanderjosmith7 ай бұрын

  • When Sammy went down, almost everyone in his organisation talked. When Sean got busted, not one person from his outfit talked.

    @ossian108@ossian1087 ай бұрын

    • Who is Sammy?

      @elijahcaon8094@elijahcaon80947 ай бұрын

    • @@elijahcaon8094 Sammy "The Bull" Gravano

      @andrewdunbar828@andrewdunbar8287 ай бұрын

    • ​@@elijahcaon8094do you even bother watching the video or are you on youtube for the comments

      @DC66DC@DC66DC7 ай бұрын

    • That’s because his stories are far fetched

      @imonlytellingthetruth6562@imonlytellingthetruth65627 ай бұрын

    • that is not true. A few people talked, but not him. That was the cost of him picking kids with no criminal history & coming from good families.

      @alesiaapodaca6946@alesiaapodaca69466 ай бұрын

  • he trafficking something under that shirt

    @justincastaneda@justincastaneda7 ай бұрын

  • A great philosopher once wrote "naughty, naughty, very naughty" 😄

    @ytcensorhack1876@ytcensorhack18767 ай бұрын

    • @FUKZU got any vera's?

      @ytcensorhack1876@ytcensorhack18767 ай бұрын

    • @@ytcensorhack1876 any salmon?😁

      @paddyjoe1884@paddyjoe18847 ай бұрын

  • Brilliant interview, love Shaun, great local lad who's been very successful and turned his life around for the good

    @pravda666@pravda6667 ай бұрын

    • thanks!

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

  • "Can you feel it yet?" ...ah, the good 'ol days :)

    @bsnhbksan@bsnhbksan7 ай бұрын

  • I clicked a video one day and to my absolute surprise, I found the owner of the channel on a podcast with Shaun and a flerfer. I have never seen anyone have that much fun not doing drugs before.

    @BaronVonQuiply@BaronVonQuiply4 ай бұрын

  • NO WAY Shaun Attwood? I thought he was banned from making good content. Cheers to the man I met on PKA, and the journalist of the modern life of crime

    @Alex-tx2dh@Alex-tx2dh6 ай бұрын

  • We love Shaun!!

    @danthamanization@danthamanization6 ай бұрын

  • notice how he named all his friends by name (been caught) but was careful to be vague about the “enterprises” in holland

    @lelsqueks@lelsqueks7 ай бұрын

  • give mans a shirt that fits

    @CraiiZeD@CraiiZeD7 ай бұрын

    • Lmfao I didn't even notice that at first

      @douggaudiosi14@douggaudiosi147 ай бұрын

  • The most impressive part about the whole video is the buttons on his shirt holding on for dear life 😀

    @stephankoens1011@stephankoens10117 ай бұрын

  • My first experience was in the early 90's (Fantasia 92) and I was hooked on Ecstasy. I was 23. Thank god I made it through those days largely unmarked.

    @TheBro_UK-yw2gu@TheBro_UK-yw2gu3 ай бұрын

  • My first E was 98-99’… we went to Marquee club and my friend scored a white Mitzi for each of us. Speed bombs. I was still rocking at lunchtime the next day

    @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317@sonsofthewestredwhiteblue53176 ай бұрын

  • Got those pure brown/tan once that were so pure they cumbled apart because there were no fillers. I remember maybe 15 minutes after taking the first one I ducked out of the way of a beam of a street light because it looked so defined that it was solid

    @chrisbarry9345@chrisbarry93457 ай бұрын

  • It's hilarious that the dole was telling you to lie about your past so they didn't have to keep paying you. Honestly they'd do anything but actually help someone

    @mild_meme@mild_meme7 ай бұрын

    • True dat. The reality is though the rehabilitation of offenders is only there in name. It is not actually there for rehabilitation. And on drug charges as serious as Shaun, there is not a time limit on the disclosure of the crimes. So zero rehabilitation. It is self defeating for society to operate this way. You understand it with dangerous people and crimes against the person like rape, murder and so on. But drugs is a total waste of police time, legal system time, prison availability, and on and on.

      @theoutsider6191@theoutsider61917 ай бұрын

    • It’s never fixed in order to guarantee an infinite state of employment for “The Justice System”. Which is all a sick joke, and terrifyingly fraudulent. In reality, it’s a legalized slavery & BDSM system. Don’t believe me? Read the fine print on The 13th Amendment.

      @belliott88@belliott886 ай бұрын

  • I just want a relationship as strong as those buttons. Is that too much to ask for?

    @1aadam@1aadam7 ай бұрын

  • i have to say, when shawn after hearing how shawn talked about wild man on a podcast. i didnt think he would look like he did in the pictures.

    @possibear@possibear7 ай бұрын

  • Nice one shaun

    @afaccrocazz@afaccrocazz7 ай бұрын

  • this was very interesting

    @videogamevalley7523@videogamevalley75237 ай бұрын

  • well done lad great show, thank god your life is beautiful now with new member of your family Ziggy seen your supra there same has mine . cheers see ye soon. Terry

    @terrymoogan3773@terrymoogan37737 ай бұрын

  • Excellent video

    @subtractivemusic@subtractivemusic7 ай бұрын

  • In the mid-90s friends would get 25,000 pills sent through DHL/FedEx in one box from the Netherlands into NYC regularly. Mitsubishis, Full Moons (the big ones you could snap in 2), flying saucers, etc...Wasn't even a thing until too many people started doing it. They pumped them all through the Tunnel, Limelight, Twilo & Living Room in about a week. The club scene glory days.

    @BASE5NYC@BASE5NYC7 ай бұрын

    • Full Moons circa 1994 🤪

      @Back2BasicsUS@Back2BasicsUS7 ай бұрын

    • Don't confuse people. You must mean FROM Shanghai or Beijing. That's what Blinken and Biden claimed.

      @Zerpentsa6598@Zerpentsa65987 ай бұрын

  • The analogues (plant food) that were popular in the mid 2000's were quite clean.

    @nothingbutchappy@nothingbutchappy7 ай бұрын

  • Can someone please get him a shirt that fits him?

    @ShiefVance@ShiefVance2 ай бұрын

  • We had large quantities of safrole in Croatia during the early 90s (1992-2000), and we had many "repurposed factory presses" that were satisfactory for the local (and German) techno/rave scene. The good ol' CLEAN days... 😎🕺🏻🎶🎶

    @onewillow8511@onewillow85117 ай бұрын

  • The War on Drugs is the problem. Drugs must be legalized & regulated mostly for purity.

    @PigRipperLAW@PigRipperLAW7 ай бұрын

    • I hope I NEVER see that in my life time.

      @JOHANNA-qd6iz@JOHANNA-qd6iz7 ай бұрын

    • @@JOHANNA-qd6izyou’re braindead

      @christianfonseca4666@christianfonseca46667 ай бұрын

    • ​@@JOHANNA-qd6iz no one asked johanna

      @migerrancan554@migerrancan5546 ай бұрын

  • Shaun has written a couple of books based on his experiences. Well worth checking out.

    @Ricey83@Ricey833 ай бұрын

  • We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

    @user-np7wm3qx1s@user-np7wm3qx1s7 ай бұрын

  • Why are they blurring pills? 💊

    @Aldeeezzy@Aldeeezzy6 ай бұрын

  • Still got a card Shaun gave out at my school 15 years ago, T-Bone says take care out there!

    @ereejim@ereejim6 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for your story and I could relate with having it all and losing it. I owned one of those house/rave record store from 96-2003. No I didn’t get into the illegal drug business, but the guy who worked for me and screwed men over was a e dealer. Looking back, I would’ve never given him a chance to work for me after he admitted selling E. But I told him to not to do it around my business and what a fool I was bc he ended up supplying most of my customers. I mean if I wanted to make money from drugs, I would’ve don’t it myself or gone into partnership with him bc at the time house music and E worked hand and hand. But I’ve kept a more simple life with a simple job and I didn’t think when you reach success, you had all these ppl. wanting to take you down and the drama that comes with success. I’m actually lucky to be alive bc my first partner demanded money paid back to them that my partner owed them. So I paid them, but before that, I didn’t know who was waiting to kill me. So even why you ran a legit business, just being associate with these drug ppl. you could easily get sucked in.

    @jacknjill3000@jacknjill30003 ай бұрын

  • Very good expose….

    @harrydebastardeharris987@harrydebastardeharris9877 ай бұрын

  • Next size up would be good

    @sunshinekomaransky3426@sunshinekomaransky34267 ай бұрын

  • Wildmans cooking videos are still the best content on KZhead

    @jamiebooth3181@jamiebooth31817 ай бұрын

  • i loved xtc when i was in my late teens - early 20s. never had a better time in my life. people like to demonize things that really don't deserve it.

    @WillieZekeBrad@WillieZekeBrad7 ай бұрын

    • Yeah but these days it would be cut with fentanyl.

      @j_rainsgoat3929@j_rainsgoat39297 ай бұрын

    • @@j_rainsgoat3929i don‘t know why someone would lace xtc pills with fentanyl… everybody would notice that the high is not normal especially because they want to turn up and don‘t want to nod off on opiates… but i‘m not from the usa and what happens in the usa often seems completely fake to me 😂 wild world over there

      @timmyscurr8269@timmyscurr82697 ай бұрын

    • I used to love mdma as well until I’ve done too many serotonergic drugs and lost the magic. Now I just get an awful body load, hypertension and hot flashes lol.

      @JuanDeag228@JuanDeag2287 ай бұрын

    • Takes away from the rest of your life tho. I always hope users don’t use regularly

      @Alex-tx2dh@Alex-tx2dh6 ай бұрын

    • ​@@JuanDeag228 try htp-5 supplements

      @migerrancan554@migerrancan5546 ай бұрын

  • Shaun is a well know story teller so solid proof of all his Claims are Required.

    @GMT439@GMT4396 ай бұрын

    • There’s case files

      @will.42069@will.420696 ай бұрын

    • @@will.42069 He isn't tough or smart enough to be a big time drug smuggler and he never has been. He's a good story teller though. That is unless I see 100% solid proof of all his claims.

      @GMT439@GMT4396 ай бұрын

    • @@will.42069 Also.. MDMA is usually transported large scale as kilo lumps of pure Crystal. Most drugs are smuggled in there pure form and then cut and or turned into pills / crack whatever once they are in the country.. Why would anyone smuggle fully produced pills when the packages would have to be larger and more of them for the street level product? Get Shawn to answer that one and stay looking credible.

      @GMT439@GMT4396 ай бұрын

    • @@will.42069 Tell Shaun that I will talk to him live in front of everyone who wants to watch if he wishes to defend my claims about him. (Instead of having paid pawn to do his talking.) Shawn is that 'Important' he won't even be allowed to talk to me about anything. ..You do know who I am right?

      @GMT439@GMT4396 ай бұрын

    • @@GMT439 why don’t u read the case files then? What could be more reputable than a whole investigation outlined in a report ? What evidence have you heard that warrants him being labels a liar ?

      @will.42069@will.420696 ай бұрын

  • This dude is real af i found the Detroit rave scene back in '05 and pills were off the chain back then right around that same time basically man i miss those days

    @Dave-ohhh@Dave-ohhh7 ай бұрын

    • thanks!

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

  • Great work

    @levijamesvstheworld@levijamesvstheworld7 ай бұрын

    • thanks!

      @shaunattwoodOFFICIAL@shaunattwoodOFFICIAL7 ай бұрын

  • The Hacienda was better known but The Thunderdome was *the* place. Crazy nights there back in the day.

    @matthewr8502@matthewr85026 ай бұрын

  • Looks like he's smuggling something under that shirt 😂

    @emelpolat4762@emelpolat47623 ай бұрын

  • 10 million worth of ecstasy yet can't afford to buy a shirt that fits.

    @bigbootyjudy6124@bigbootyjudy61247 ай бұрын

  • What a great video

    @Eliasmuzeyin@Eliasmuzeyin7 ай бұрын

  • @0:00 by the look of that shirt he just smuggled $10,000,000 of ectasy into that studio.......🤣

    @larcomj@larcomj7 ай бұрын

  • THAT SHIRT!!!!!!!!!!!!

    @shitslikebear@shitslikebear7 ай бұрын

  • I saw this guy in a Professor Dave explains video! I had to double check if it was actually him, but he was one of the moderator's in a flat earth debate on Dave's channel. I did not realize he had a past life like this!!

    @user-tg9hw2qd4k@user-tg9hw2qd4k7 ай бұрын

    • God damn, yeah that’s the same guy. That’s really a strange connection, interesting nonetheless.

      @Matt_10203@Matt_102037 ай бұрын

  • That shirt is fighting for it’s life

    @ferminaviles5767@ferminaviles57677 ай бұрын

  • Silence from Arizona state correctional services…. Speaks volumes about their corruption!

    @willienelsongonzalez4609@willienelsongonzalez46097 ай бұрын

  • We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

    @user-iw6uw2vh2s@user-iw6uw2vh2s7 ай бұрын

    • Took a screenshot of this comment. Sent to printer. Going on wall. ❤.

      @pyootchnich@pyootchnich7 ай бұрын

    • @@pyootchnich If you are interested: It's from the play The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder

      @Kub_@Kub_6 ай бұрын

    • @@Kub_ many thanks

      @pyootchnich@pyootchnich6 ай бұрын

  • The work those buttons are doing is beyond the call of duty!

    @nutsbutdum@nutsbutdum7 ай бұрын
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