Javier Guzman was an undercover vice cop with the Tampa Police Department when the DEA recruited him to infiltrate the Cali cartel, then supplying roughly 80 percent of the world’s cocaine. Working alongside Robert Mazur, the agent behind The Infiltrator, on Operation PROMO, Javier posed as money launderer Antonio Ruiz and collected duffel bags of cartel cash across the country.But he grew too close to the cartel’s money man, and the line between cop and criminal began to blur. Javier and his wife, Beth Browne, tell the story of the bust that sent him to federal prison and the memoir, Riptide, that followed.Subscribe to our newsletter: ⁠https://jedlipinski.substack.com/⁠ Connect with Jed Lipinski:⁠https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/