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The Case of Donte West
📻 Episode #445
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 25, 2024
About This Episode
On March 8, 2016, Officer Nicholas Blake became suspicious of two vehicles traveling together on Interstate 70 toward Manhattan, KS due to their appearance and registration inconsistencies. He suspected they were involved in drug trafficking, with one acting as a decoy. Following a series of stops and surveillances by multiple law enforcement officers, a considerable…
The Case
On March 8, 2016, Officer Nicholas Blake became suspicious of two vehicles traveling together on Interstate 70 toward Manhattan, KS due to their appearance and registration inconsistencies. He suspected they were involved in drug trafficking, with one acting as a decoy. Following a series of stops and surveillances by multiple law enforcement officers, a considerable amount of marijuana and methamphetamine was found in one of the vehicles leading to the arrest of Donte Westmoreland and others. Westmoreland was convicted based largely on the testimony of an informant, Jacob Gadwood, who claimed to have bought marijuana from Donte, but the informant's credibility was later questioned, and a prosecutorial deal ensuring Gadwood would not be charged with a crime was never disclosed.
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00:04:01“Speaker 2: same direction, but different destinations. Speaker 1: And they had a different agenda. Speaker 2: I had like sebecsa CPOs, a couple pounds of marijuana. Speaker 2: I'm not too sure what was in there, and nothing Speaker 2: ever left the vehicle. Like I said, same direction, different destinations.”
00:14:08“Speaker 2: And on the way to sentencing, fifteen minutes from their airport, Speaker 2: just seeing my younger brothers crying in the back seat Speaker 2: and feel like they lost everybody. That kind of just Speaker 2: woke my brain up. And going out there to that Speaker 2: sentencing learning that ninety five percent of people across the”
00:23:25“Speaker 2: me along these finance meetings. I didn't know what was Speaker 2: going on, but he said, just sit in and listen Speaker 2: and just take notes and eventually it makes sense like Speaker 2: it did for you while he was in prison. And Speaker 2: it did, and he was able to give me a”
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