"Meet Freddie Wayne Huff II. Rising in the ranks as a lawman in North Carolina during the early years of the War on Terror, Huff made the leap from drug-hunting K9 officer to a deputized officer at the DEA in 2009. Not long into his stint with the El Paso Intelligence Center, the DEA's leading intel hub targeting Mexican drug cartels, he was confronted with stark words from a terminally ill mentor. "What you think you're doing is noble," said the dying veteran to his young gun. "But they want it here. You're a pawn. Everything you're doing is in vain.""
"A year later, Huff returned to North Carolina, back with the K9 unit, raking in millions in seized illicit cash for the Lexington Police Department. He was so good at his bailiwick that his seizures helped fund the department's new training facility, upgrade its vehicle fleet, and expand its assault rifle arsenal. In 2013, Huff was promoted to state trooper, where he continued to shine. But before the year was up, he made the mistake of pulling over a drunk driver who also happened to be an insurance executive and donor to Governor Pat McCrory. Huff was drummed out of the force on trumped-up charges. Suddenly, the ominous words from his DEA mentor returned to him with a vengeance. "I told myself that if anything ever fell in my lap," Huff said, "I was going to use every fucking thing I had known, learned, and taught against them.""
Freddie Huff advanced from a drug-hunting K9 officer to a deputized DEA agent at the El Paso Intelligence Center before returning to North Carolina. He generated millions in seized cash that funded Lexington Police Department upgrades and earned a promotion to state trooper. After pulling over a politically connected drunk driver, Huff was expelled on trumped-up charges. He resolved to use all his training and knowledge against the system and exploited gaps in counternarcotics methods to build a drug trafficking network on the East Coast. His network included soldiers, special forces operators, and at least one former ISIS affiliate.
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