ATF Agent Spent 2 Years Undercover With the Sons of Silence — Then the President Asked One Question

For two years, Blake Boteler lived three lives — ATF special agent, outlaw motorcycle gang prospect, and a husband and father who couldn't watch his own kids play tee-ball without a police officer questioning why a long-haired guy was watching children from a parking lot. He couldn't answer. He was undercover. This is Part 1 of his story: how a petroleum geologist from Texas Tech got robbed at gunpoint outside an Oklahoma City bar, hunted the robber down like it was a geological survey, and ended up in an ATF badge — and then spent the next two years cold-calling his way into the Sons of Silence, one of the most dangerous outlaw motorcycle gangs in America. Blake was Craig Floyd's Officer of the Month at the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial Fund in July 2002. His motorcycle and his undercover jacket are in the National Law Enforcement Museum. In Part 2: 230 weapons seized. A $50,000 contract on his life. And an arrest plan involving a hearse, a fake body, and a funeral plot in Colorado Springs. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Cold Open — The President's Question 0:45 Introducing Blake Boteler 3:00 How Deep Undercover Operations Actually Work 7:30 Cold-Calling Into the Sons of Silence 10:00 The Girl Test and the Undercover House 13:30 The Three Dilemmas: Violence, Drugs, and Women 18:00 Living Three Lives: Outlaw, Agent, Father 22:30 The Petroleum Geologist Who Became an ATF Agent 26:00 Bill Erfurth: A Different Kind of Undercover 29:30 The Fourth of July in Jail CONNECT WITH US: 🔔 Subscribe so you don't miss Part 2 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are found 🌐 CitizensBehinTheBadge.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #HeroesBehindTheBadge #ATF #UndercoverCop #SonsOfSilence #OutlawMotorcycleGang #TrueCrime #LawEnforcement #Undercover #BikerGang #ATFAgent #ColdCase #CriminalJustice #PolicePodcast #OutlawBiker #BlakeBoteler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYWORDS: Sons of Silence, ATF undercover, outlaw motorcycle gang, biker gang infiltration, ATF agent, undercover operation, deep cover, law enforcement podcast, heroes behind the badge, citizens behind the badge, Blake Boteler, motorcycle gang Colorado, Sons of Silence Colorado Springs, ATF infiltration, true crime podcast, police podcast, undercover cop, biker gang documentary, outlaw biker, OMG infiltration, ATF operation motorcycle gang, law enforcement stories, undercover biker, Craig Floyd, NLEOMF, National Law Enforcement Museum, Dennis Collins podcast

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