Chris “The Machine” Arevalos: Inside a Cartel OxyContin Pipeline
Former U.S. Marine Chris “The Machine” Arevalos recounts how OxyContin addiction in southern Indiana grew into a cross-border cartel operation connecting Tijuana with the Midwest.
Chris describes his first $20,000 deal in Mexico, building trust with a cartel plaza boss named Puma, making repeated trips across the border, and eventually using commercial-airline transporters to move pills back to the United States. He also explains how he kept a low profile, converted cash into gold and buried it beneath an abandoned hog pen, and what he says he witnessed involving cartel violence and corrupt…
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