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Gone South

S4|E14: La Barbie

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After dismantling a major drug operation in New Orleans, DEA Agent Skip Sewell turns his attention to an elusive cartel boss whose unconventional background defies expectations. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. You can also subscribe to our newsletter, Gone South with Jed Lipinski. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:43.9

If you listen to season one of this podcast about the murder of Margaret Coon, you may remember a guy named Skip Sewell.

0:47.1

Skip spent 26 years with the DEA in New Orleans.

0:51.1

After retiring in 2017, he joined the local DA's office and investigated Margaret's death.

0:58.1

Skip suspected one of Margaret's neighbors, a divisive former computer programmer named Patricia Curry,

1:04.2

may have put a hit on Margaret in retaliation for some unknown slight.

1:08.8

But that's not what this episode is about.

1:11.2

Back in the late 90s,

1:12.6

Skip was still a hard-charging DEA agent,

1:15.0

known for working difficult and dangerous cases.

1:18.1

In 1999, he was wrapping up the biggest case of his career.

1:22.6

Its target was a notorious local drug kingpin named Richard Pena.

1:27.3

On the streets of New Orleans, he was called the Cuban because of all his similarities

1:32.3

to Al Pacino's role as a drug kingpin in Scarface.

1:38.3

Pena wasn't Cuban. He was from the Dominican Republic.

1:42.3

But his violent ascent to the top of New Orleans's drug underworld in the 90s resembled Tony Montana's fictional rise to power in Miami.

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