Locked In with Ian Bick - I Smuggled $100,000 in Cash on Planes — Then Got Sent to Prison for Drug Trafficking| Jordan Myers

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

Jordan Myers grew up in upstate New York with a good family — but she was always the troublemaker. When she left for Florida in her 20s and started working in the nightlife industry she met people who changed the direction of her life completely. She was recruited to smuggle drug money on planes from Florida to California — starting at $30,000 cash and eventually carrying $100,000 at a time. California became her home and her operation grew. She went from carrying cash to trafficking drugs herself — starting with weed before working her way up to harder substances. When the feds came for her in a conspiracy ring she was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison. She spent 15 months in an Arizona federal women's prison camp rode Con Air and navigated a legal process most people never see from the inside. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, Jordan tells the complete story — and shares what happened when she got out in 2026 and her prison photos went viral on social media. _____________________________________________ #drugs #truecrimecommunity #prisonlife #viral _____________________________________________ Connect with Jordan Myers: https://www.instagram.com/jrdyhighroller?igsh=MTNzaG91cnNuZXdlNQ== _____________________________________________ Thank you to MARS MEN & BLUEPRINT for sponsoring this episode: Mars Men: For a limited time, our listeners get 50% off FOR LIFE, Free Shipping, AND 3 Free Gifts at Mars Men at https://mengotomars.com/ _____________________________________________ Blueprint: For a limited time only, our listeners get 20% off + free shipping at https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com/ by using code LOCKEDIN at checkout. #Blueprint #ad _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Timestamps: _____________________________________________ To advertise on the show, contact [e-mail] or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/LockedInWithIanBicka Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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starting at $30,000 cash and eventually carrying $100,000 at a time. She ended up making California her home, became a drug trafficker herself, got busted by the feds, and was sentenced to five years in federal prison. And when she got out in 2006, her prison photos went viral. Her name is Jordan Myers, and this is her story. I grew up in upstate New York, actually.

Very rural, small town, kind of like in the middle between Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and the Finger Lakes area. My family's from Rochester. They live in Pennfield. Yeah. That's so funny. I'm from Watkins Glen, if you've ever heard of it. No, have it. Normally you have it unless you're like a really big race fan.

We have an international racetrack there. So if you love NASCAR, you probably have heard of it. If not. Oh, you know. it that was on the NASCAR lineup because they had a race there recently recently they did yeah they had it early they normally have been in august but there was some conflict and yeah that's pretty much the only reason anyone knows where i'm did you grow up liking NASCAR um i'm not a huge NASCAR fan however um i'm from a kind of low class area so a lot of our everything like survives off of what goes on

in our town during the summer so like a lot of restaurants and stuff are closed during the winter because there's just no traffic, they wouldn't survive. So a lot of people live off of the tourism that we get in the summer. So I worked at like a restaurant that catered towards, it's like basically catered towards the racetrack and has like the Formula One people that come through, the indie people that come through. A lot of NASCAR drivers come through there. And so that's how I made my money in the summers is like busing tables and waitressing tables there. Who did you grow up with?

What are both parents in that picture? I have both parents. They're still together today. I have five siblings. So yeah, I'm like smack dab in the middle. Yeah. What do your parents do for work? My mom is a doctor. She's a doctor of physical and physical therapy. And my dad was a school teacher. He's retired now. Wow. Yeah. Interesting dynamic. Isn't it? It's very interesting for them. Do you think if we had them here today that out of all their kids, you would have been the one that they would, you know, expect to go to prison? Probably so.

Why do you say that? I've kind of always been like their wild child for sure. I was getting in trouble. I was kind of acted out a little bit or wanted to take like a different path in life than a lot of my siblings. All my siblings still live in the area that we grew up in. And my sister, both of my sisters are, my sister owns a salon. My little sister works at her salon.

Like my older brother, he works in, he's worked in this like machine shop for ever since he got out of the military. And then my younger brother, he works in sales like he works closer to New York City. Actually, it's Saratoga Springs now. How are you in school? I, well, I'll say this. I was vote for my senior class, I was voted most athletic and class clown. So I was really big into sports.

I always played basketball, soccer, and I ran track. So I was a three-sport athlete. I loved it. My dad was coaching. My grandfather was my coach. Like, they've always been coaches. So I did okay in school as far as grades good enough to stay on the team and stay eligible, right? But never really probably worked to my potential.

It was focused on other things, boyfriends, partying, you know, stuff like that, yeah. Do you think your parents oversheltered you a little bit? They were stripped, for sure. There was a lot of sneaking out. There was a lot of, like, hanging out with older boys when I was younger. So, like I said, I was always into sports. So I did play high school sports while I was still in middle school.

So kind of hanging out with the older crowd when I was probably too young, too, secretly after school. You know, like I said, my parents both had jobs. So I had a little bit, whenever I had a little bit of free time, I probably wasn't doing something they knew about. Did they put high expectations on you as a kid? I feel like I always wanted to impress them. I think they always instilled like a lot of like this is, you know, your grades are to be this and that and the other thing. But I kind of just kind of did enough, basically.

And sometimes they would like say one time like in 10th grade, they were like, if you get on, high honor roll, right? Over a 92 GPA. We'll let you get a dog. Guess what? That semester I did get on high honor roll, so I was able to get a dog. After that, I just didn't really care. I was probably like a B-minus student, C-plus, but yeah. So just kind of did enough. Did you get arrested at all in high school or any drug problems, alcohol problems? So the only time I got like a drinking ticket one time in high school. So, yeah, I had to go appear in court and do community service. And then the first time I was actually arrested, I was 19 and I got a DUI.

So it wasn't, I was like, yeah, a year out of high school. Were you going to college at that point? I was. I was still going to like a local community college at the time. and yeah, I just partied like a lot, a lot. What were you going to college for? At the time, I think I was just getting, I think I was just doing like my prerequisites because I planned on like transferring to a school, the University of Albany, where my boyfriend

at the time was going to school. When you were 18, 19 years old, where do you think you saw yourself five years from them? Oh, gosh. I don't really know. I think I was so honestly, I was so focused on like my relationships so badly. I like wanted that to work out so bad. Everything I did was centered around like my relationship. And I was with like that was like my high school boyfriend going into college.

And I just like didn't see much else before that. I was kind of like just love crazy and didn't, yeah, like I really was. Like I'm looking because I, you know, obviously when you go through situations like this, you are forced to reflect on, you know, a lot of your younger years and like wasted time. And like, damn, what was I really doing? Like you wasted a lot of your youth when you're, you know, you have to sit down and think about the decisions you made and what really led you to that point. Where do you think that came from that, you know, want or need to make the relationship?

relationship work? I definitely, like I said, I had both parents, but I did grow up with probably, you know, probably from when I was like born until like 10 years old. My parents had a lot of issues. My dad was an alcoholic and I saw like a very inconsistent relationship. Dad was present. Sometimes he wasn't. And I think that kind of led to me having, you know, some real. attachment issues when it came to men. So 19, you get a DUI, then what happens? Oh, gosh. So, yeah, it was actually in New York State. What my blood alcohol content was, qualified it to be a aggravated DUIs, what they call it, because I was so drunk. And I had a, my parents had to pay for a lawyer. I got it lowered to a regular DUI because I think if you get an aggravated

DUI is like automatic jail time. I did probation. in the DUI classes, of course. And then that was that. Like I had to do, well, I had the breathalyzer actually for six months. It did have to go through that in the winter because you got to wait until your car warms up before you can even use it. Going to college like that was really fun at like 7 a.m. Going to 8 a.m. class, yeah.

So that and it wasn't that easy. I think I had to restart the DUI classes like twice. Every time you miss one or something, they make you restart. So my parents were just like over me. but I finally finished them, I think after like a year or two. Okay, I have to tell you all about this sponsor because it's genuinely perfect for me specifically. If you've watched a show for any amount of time,

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Well, and then, so I did, well, I did get an associates, right? And then pretty much, like, I went to the University of Albany. then I went down to Florida. So at some point, I moved, right? I totally didn't want to live in New York anymore. At one point in time, I just was like, I'm over this. I'm going to go finish my degree down in Florida. I think at the time I was like, I want to be a nurse.

So I still had to take like a few more like classes that I didn't really take my basic education degree, like some more sciences and stuff like that to be able to qualify for nursing school, like this path to USF. I was in Tampa. So I did that and then I got a job at a pharmaceutical company because I was almost done with school and I was still doing like online classes like trying to finish up my degree. And I pretty much got immersed into like a party lifestyle and started working in a club. And I pretty much, I quit the pharmaceutical job.

I quit college and it's like you had like one semester left to obtain this degree and then just decided other things are more important. How'd your parents react to that? Really disappointed, but again, I think they learned over the years that showing too much disapproval or disappointment pushed me away because then I wouldn't contact them. I would kind of go missing and our relationship definitely. suffered. Do you regret that decision to quit college looking back on it now? Absolutely because why

would like I could still right now. You know, I have no excuse to just go to not go finish that. Of course, now that I have so many thousands of dollars of loans and stuff like that, but I've never paid, it would make it more difficult because I'd probably have to pay out of pop, you know, whatever. It would, it would be a little hurdle. But yeah, I definitely regret that. I definitely regret like the path I decided to take when it comes to just like, anything constructed if I had going in my life for a while and then like totally going left. How long do you stay in Florida for? Oh, honestly, I was back and forth. So I ended up in L.A. in around 2018 and I would like keep an apartment in Tampa and had one out in L.A. So I'd go back and forth.

And I really didn't permanently move from Tampa until the beginning of that. of 2022. No, why L.A.? Why did you pick there? Um, so yeah, like I said, so when I started working in the club, right, I obviously, you know, you meet a certain demographic of people. You're going to meet drug dealers, um, athletes, rappers, things like that. So I ended up be befriending some people and they would like ask me to, they're like, hey, will you fly money to California for me? They were like selling weed, whatever. And I started doing that. And then I was like, I love L.A. You know, I was a big weed smoker. I just was like, yeah, and I eventually made enough money one time I came, and I pretty much just never left.

Now, what were you doing at the club? I was the bottle server, so I just basically waited on tables, but it led to, I made a lot of money, and that's why I think I chose to, like, quit. I was like, I'm making what I'm making two weeks in one weekend here at the club. How much could you make it in a night as a bottle girl? Well, on average, I probably made like a few thousand a night, but like there's times that I definitely made upwards of like $10,000, $15,000 in one night. And that's all tips.

Yes. Wow. Yeah. You've probably seen some interesting things happen. For sure. Yeah, I did that for a long time. I mean, it's just like a lot of those nights that you're making that amount of money is normally like an artist is coming through.

So Tampa isn't like a a market for concerts, but they still have like large concerts that come through there. And I worked at a club that was literally across the street from the Amalie Arena, which is where big acts will come through. Like when Drake will come through, you're going to make those large numbers, the $10,000 to $15,000 because those tables cost so much, you get a percentage of what those tables cost. And then, of course, if you get the artists table, if they're generous, you can make a lot. Sometimes I've got nothing from someone you assume that you'd make a lot of money from. But yeah, that's how you can definitely. Those types of acts, are they nice in person? Most of them. Yeah, I would say. I've had very few negative experiences. And normally the negative

experiences aren't with the artists themselves. It's like they're friends. Yeah. And the friends probably don't tip or they're making. No, they're just obnoxious. Yeah. So now why does these individuals approach you to bring money to California? I believe that, like, I was trustworthy. I'm like, and I feel that I, they knew I'd probably down to make some money. You know what I mean? Like, I just was, I was, I was had like a hustler's mentality of some sort, so I didn't feel like it was really that big of a deal.

Were these guys regulars? Yeah, for sure. And they became, like, really good friends of mine. But they were, I've met them for sure through the club. Now, did you know it was illegal? what they were asking you to do? I knew the amount was illegal, yeah. Like, you're taking some sort of risk

to carry that amount of money on an airplane. How much are they asking you to bring? It varied. It varied from, like, I think I started off with smaller amounts, but then I think you earned trust, right? So I think I started off with, like, 30,000. And then it would be upwards of, like, 100 grand.

All cash. Yeah, all cash, yeah. What does $100,000 look like in cash? Pretty crazy, especially the way they have it. So I would have, like, say I'd wear a backpack, a carry-on bag, and a purse, spread it all throughout those three bags. And I've never got stopped or anything. The first time you do it, how nervous are you walking into the airport with that amount of money? I'm nervous. I'm so nervous.

But when you make it through that TSA and your bag comes out the conveyor, you're like, okay it's over with but don't they see that there's cash or are there ways to conceal it that you're doing no i didn't use carbon i mean there are ways to conceal it like the carbon paper or whatever but no it was just out in the open one time they did stop me and they're like can we see your bag i had like a big purse and i was like yeah and they just kind of like took a wand and pushed the money around and they're like okay go ahead i don't know i don't know if i'm just lucky and i would always we would often choose to fly out of Orlando opposed to Tampa because it's a larger airport and they're just like pushing bags through they're like it's so busy Disney world and all so yeah

that's why we chose Orlando did they give you like a cover story to say no and so you have nothing you didn't know what to do if you were to get caught absolutely no like I think I would that would probably come off the top of my head is like I'm buying a car or something that was what I've heard people say before, but no, they were just like, whatever. Because aren't, you're technically allowed to carry that much money if you have verification, yeah, like that you withdrew it from your bank account or something. Yeah, if you have some proof, I didn't have any proof. Now, how much are they paying you per each load? Like, say a $30,000 load, how much would you make?

Like, only like $3,000. So if you can make that amount in one night at the club, if not more, why do this? What do you think it made you want to do that? Honestly, just like extra cash, like whatever I love. And also just, just, like, oh, it's a free trip to LA. Of course, they're taking care of your accommodations while you're here, you know, going out, doing stuff. I liked that, like, L.A. lifestyle. I've always kind of, like, searched for that. I feel like, that's why I started working in the club and had cosmetic surgery. So I could work in a club and fit, you know, the part. So I think it just

kind of fit my plan at the time. And how old are you when you first start doing this? I was, like, 25 years old. Okay. Now, when you guys, Get to LA. Where does the money go? I just give it back to them and yeah, they would take it to get their weed. So you guys are all saying in the comments how big these guns are getting and, you know, people have been coming to their own conclusions about what the reason behind that is. And let me tell you, it's not what you think. So it all starts here on this very court a few weeks ago.

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You know what I mean? It just I think was easy for that like, hey, we need more money. I can't take this much. Or we need more people. We can't take this. You know, I wasn't the only girl flying. for sure. Do you think security or TSA let women in general slide for these types of transactions? For sure. I think it's, it raises a lot less red flags for women. Like if you stick like a male

version of you next to you, I wonder what the chances of the male getting pulled over versus you. For sure. And also when they're, for instance, I, and I flew for multiple different people, like some are Haitian, some are Arabic of, you know, of some sort. So, Yeah, they look a little, can be perceived as something more than what I am, is just like, oh, you know, I'm supposed to have this money or something. So did people just find out that you were the mule, I guess, that could be hired? Or just that I knew what they did and they were like, yeah, pretty much like, oh, she's done it for, you did it for other people. Why can't you, you know?

Now, as time went on, did you raise your rates at all? Not really, because I kind of stopped doing it. So what ended up happening was I decided to kind of permanently live in LA, right? So and I realized like I can sell weed myself. I can have people from Tampa fly out here and sell weed. So even if it's with them, but I got my own, like I know these other guys, they'll come out here and buy it from us. Yeah. So that's kind of how I got started selling out any kind of drugs.

It was like weed. And how long did that or how long did it take to get to that point? How long are you doing the trips for to L.A.? probably like a year probably like only like a year yeah and then you set up in l.a yeah how do you even go about finding a connect oh you'd be surprised at how easy it is out here you just know somebody and they're automatically like it's not like they're really that weary of you they i feel like take to out of town people a lot easier than oh if you said you're from california or something like that they're like red flag but from tampa or florida it's just regular i think you know somebody

But if they can vouch for you, then you're good. Now there's that much demand for, I guess, black market weed, even though weed's legal in California. For sure. For sure. 100%. But the weed was going back to Florida. And at that time, it wasn't legal. It is legal in Florida now. I'm not sure if it's recreationally legal, but it is medicinally.

But at that time, it wasn't. So you're doing more wholesaling? Yes. You're not doing like dime bags. No, no, no. Yeah. So someone could call you, say they needed this, and then you give it to them. Correct. And how much are you making from that? Oh, gosh. It would vary for sure. Like,

you could put some pounds of weed. You can only make $100 off each pound, right? Sometimes it could be $1,000, though, pound. It depends on what you find. And the time that you're selling it during COVID, weed was extremely expensive. And people were going, like, way out, like, coming out here and, like, paying the high for weeds. So, I mean, say, and it's like, you know, the more they get, the cheaper, you try to give them a deal, right? So, I mean, but if they're coming out and getting 100 pounds and then, you know, you make 200 pounds off each of them, you're doing pretty well for just one little. Why did COVID drive up the prices?

I think just because of the border and then everybody's at home and you can't do anything. So people were, and then COVID also, people had more money during COVID because of EDD and stuff like that. So people didn't mind spending more money on stuff like that as when they have that extra money in their pocket opposed to before. Were you done with nightlife by the time you started selling? Yeah, I never worked in nightlife out in L.A. Like maybe a couple gigs here and there. If somebody asked me like, hey, we need another server. But yeah, I really never got involved in it again. Did you ever have a moment where you felt like you could be doing more in your life? For sure. But I was so, like I said, I would wait.

Well, I was a big pot head. I would wake up every day, smoke. And I had like a routine. I just really cared about what I like my appearance. So I'd go up get go to the gym go tanning Lay out at the pool all day. I have my driver come pick me up go shopping go eat. This was just a regular like every day thing that I would do and spent personal drive. Yes for sure he still calls me every day to till this day. I'm like I'm a suit. I don't have any money anymore. So yeah, like he's literally like my family and I get it because you probably made like a hundred grand off me a year. So how much money do you think you were making at that point in time? In that point in time, I was definitely not as flush as I was in later years. But I probably I probably made roughly, let's say an average, probably like 30 grand a month. That's great money. It's great money.

And it's also when you're trying to betray a certain lifestyle. and you want to do everything like, I'm going to Tao every night, or I'm going to this place, I'm going to Katana, and you're going to all these places, and then you want to go shopping, and you always need a new outfit, and you need a new bag, or whatever, you want to go on a trip or something like that. It goes really fast.

Why do you think you needed to have that kind of lifestyle? Were you doing it for yourself, or do you think it was something bigger than that? In hindsight, it definitely wasn't for myself. Approval of peers. And that's something I definitely learned during like my incarceration. Like why? Why was I so focused on that? Because when you, I feel like when you're stripped of everything, you're like,

I really don't even miss that. During this time, are you going to visit your family at all? Yeah. So there was like periods of time where I wouldn't see them for an entire year and I literally had no excuse to. And I don't know if it was like I felt shame for what I was doing. But I would like try to justify it with monetary like gifts sending. a lot of money home doing what I could, like, let me pay for this or mom, let me buy you this

or something to, yeah, kind of make up for my absence. And I didn't think I really wanted to face them because I did kind of feel like I was an embarrassment to them. I'm not going to lie. How much work did you actually have to do to make that kind of money in a month? Not much work at all. Because, like I said, that could be just like one person coming out. And then I would feel comfortable not having to do anything until they came back.

And you never worried about getting robbed or the dangers of this life? At that time, I didn't even think that much into it, and that's really crazy. But I felt like I facilitated or operated it so well that, no, I wasn't. Like, it wasn't many people I was dealing with, right? I know who I'm dealing with. And, you know, I felt safe. Now, the guys you were transporting for, did they get mad that you go and start your own operation? No, because they literally have been doing it forever.

And they have plenty of, I mean, we did kind of like, there was like a little, oh, well, you're telling him you can get it for cheaper and no, I don't have him. There was a little bit, but it wasn't anything like too serious. And do you have to find people to transport it for you or the customer? That was on them. I didn't deal with any of that at that point in time. Okay. And now are you just keeping all this cash and say your apartment?

Yeah. Yeah. I had like a safe and I kept it there. I really just wouldn't have many people there besides them. But like, you know, I lived in a pretty secure unit. Again, still when I look back on it, very risky. Because I was just me. You're very entrepreneurial.

Like, you could have started a business or so many things. There's so much I could have done with that money. And, yeah, with how much I was willing to risk. Like, why not do it legally? Were you thinking of an exit at that time? No. So no investing or thinking of what's next? At that time, absolutely not.

No. I was just literally kind of like living day by day. How long does this go on for? That kind of goes on until like 2021 when I got involved into what got me arrested with the feds. And what was that? I was arrested for conspiracy with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. How did you get up to that? Or is the switch from weed to that level?

Yeah, so someone basically called me one day and was like, hey, do you know where I can get, you know, this and this from? And I'm like, actually, yeah, I know somebody who deals with those, you know, those particular drugs. And I, he was like on the next flight out from Florida to L.A. and I like facilitated the deal. I made like, shoot, I think $17,000 just from like middlemanning that situation. And it was like a small amount as well. And that's that one transaction that gets you popped? Nope.

Oh, it went on for. So actually we were investigated from the beginning. So actually the Fed's investigation started in 2021. We did, well, I didn't get arrested until after my. co-defendant got arrested, but he was arrested in April of 2023. So it went on for a few years. How did they find out about you? Confidential informants. Of a buyer? It was someone, I think, that my co-defendant brought out with him one time from Florida. And yeah, he kind of told him exactly what was going on immediately.

since I have a discovery and kind of see what was going on and kind of put two and two together. The identity was protected, obviously, but there weren't that many people around. So it's kind of easy to figure out what happened. Yeah, so that happened. Yeah, and I was arrested in August of 2023. Why did you, you know, advance to that level of drugs? Was it strictly because of money? It was just like the opportunity presented itself.

We had got weird to deal with. And plus, like, I wasn't fully invested in it. Like, I did it for, like, the little bit of a hustle. I made, I would do whatever for money, whether it was, like, getting money from men. I was, I was going to do it. So, and the fact that matters, I was always traveling. I was always gone. I wasn't always just sitting in L.A.

So when that opportunity presented itself, yeah, I was, like, freaked out. I'm not going to lie. But then I feel like I normalized it to myself. I'm not going to say I never just was okay with it. but yeah I definitely normalized what I was doing. And how much should you start making at that point? No, God. It was like all over the place depending on like how much

they could come back with. They typically would come back like once a month if it was a good month or whatever to get more. But at that point it was really my best friend that I was doing it with. So he would just kind of pay for my life and then give me like another 10. thousand dollars on top of it so i'll pay for your rent i'll pay for this you know just whatever do what i you know make sure this go smooth facilitate this and then um i'll just always make sure you're

straight now did you have precautions in place at all or are you more alert of your surroundings or for sure i just feel like the people i was dealing with we that's why i really like didn't have anyone in my house. He was only allowed there. Um, the person I dealt with, they were the only person allowed to come in there. Um, I think that's why I preferred to have a driver a lot of the time. Um, yeah, I definitely had to like watch my back. But again, yeah, I had a firearm for a, for a period of time just in case, which it was, isn't legal in California, but who does that really stop? So yeah, I would keep that in my house just in case. Now, what about like dating and stuff? Would you just keep to yourself? Oh, no. I mean, for during this time, I had a couple like, I don't even know if you can call them

relationships, situations with athletes that was kind of like on and off. You know, that's always a different kind of situation dealing with those kind of people. So yeah, I would date. I would date. I would kind of overall though like now that I look back on it I feel like I was like more single and just was dating more like doing what having fun going on trip like you know what I'm saying okay we go there and let's go to Mexico for the weekend and do this and that and the other thing but I don't think the relationship was all that serious now that I look back at it do you think any of those individuals realized what you were doing on the side no they were actually like extremely shocked when they found out

they were like what I had to like send them my indictment papers they're like so confused do you think anyone would have had you pegged for a drug dealer at that point in time just by like maybe looking at you

or hanging around you if you knew you knew but no I think I perceived the image I perceived to people was that I made my money from like

nightlife or men who had money. And that's how I had things that I had the things that I had. And I was how I was able to, you know, sustain that lifestyle. Do you think at that point in time a lot of people in Nightlife were doing some of these types of things that you were doing? For sure. I don't know if it was immediately people that I was, you know, dealing with.

Because it's not like I was just dating a drug dealer. Like I was literally doing this stuff. And that's normally the route a lot of the girls take is dating the drug dealer's thing. kind of out of the business and that's not the route that I took. I was straight up involved in it. So, yeah. Tell us about the day you got arrested what that was like. Yeah, so I was actually working in my now husband's restaurant. We were not married at the time. We had actually really just started dating and he was aware of like what was going on, but I hadn't been formally indicted, but I kind of had an inclination that something may happen

because someone called me from one of my co-defendants' hearings that he had had since he was arrested four months prior and said that you, I was on a list of unindicted co-conspirators. So I called the expensive, like the high-powered attorney that I got for him and he said, listen, either they tried to indict you in front of the grand jury, and they didn't or they're about to come get you, I'd get a lawyer. So I got arrested. I think it was August, like 18th or something of 2023.

I was working in our restaurant up here in L.A. And all of a sudden I'm just standing behind the counter and federal agents start like five walk in a row. And which at first it wasn't that alarming to me because the restaurant is right next to a courthouse. But then they said my name and they were like, Jordan. And they asked me to come out and told me to turn around and handcuffed me. I didn't really say anything.

My now husband, he came out and was like, what is she from the back of the kitchen? And was like, what is she getting arrested for? And I think they just said like conspiracy. And that was kind of like a strange situation. Well, it wasn't strange, but it wasn't strange, but, I was like, what the heck am I involved in? Like, this is crazy. They put me in the nice, like, brand new black SUV.

This, like, somewhat handsome agent is sitting in there with, like, a leather boulder, like, and pulls out the indictment. And I'm just like, what, like, is going on? He tells me what I'm indicted for. And he's, like, the good news is it's 20-year maximum. We're not charging you with any weight. So, da-da-da-da-da-da. And I'm like,

oh, that's supposed to be good news. You know, I'm like, what? So I'm like thinking I'm probably never going to see him, my husband again, because I'm like, we just started dating. Look at what he just witnessed. Like, oh, this is a mess. They ended up taking me to county jail that night because the marshals was closed. I actually ended up realizing after being in the car with them for a while

where they figured out where to take me for the night that they were the FBI agents from Florida. So they had been looking for me for like a week. I wasn't hiding, but they just thought. I was somewhere else in L.A. But when my friend had gotten arrested, I booked it out that apartment, put everything into storage, and kind of had been living like I was on the run, though I didn't know if I was because I was with him when he got arrested and they didn't have anything to do with me.

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if the DTO continued with me. Did your friend flip on you at all? No. Okay. So they just found out about. Oh, there was, oh my gosh. If you saw the discovery, I was flipped on way before. He didn't, he would never speak at all.

It was just an immense amount of evidence, wiretaps, eye clouds, confidential informants, before they picked up any of us. Now, when they first arrest you, do they seize anything, or do you just not have anything like assets at that point? They seized my vehicle when he was arrested. I was actually in Vegas. We were out there for a fight, and the U.S. marshals picked him up there. And but no, I think the only things that I lost were my bank accounts.

I think when they tried to like subpoena the banks for my, like, I guess my records or whatever, my statements. I think the banks like just chose to not bank with me anymore, you know? So I got like a Bank of America closed, my Navy federal, which I'm upset about. But yeah, so I had to start over again on the bank accounts. They debanked it. They did. Did you have a lot of money in the accounts at that point?

I was blowing through money so fast during that period of April, 2023, to I was indicted in August because, like I said, I was living. Like I was on the run. So I'd like stay at a hotel for like a couple days and keep, like I was living out of suitcases. I'd had to stop at my head, my driver, take me to the storage, get new clothes out, you know. And I would go back and florist from New York because I was afraid that something was going to happen and I wouldn't be able to have, I wouldn't have seen my family for a long time.

So spending weeks at a time there. during that time period. So I spent a ridiculous amount of money during that time. And by the time they were actually closed, I mean, I had some money in there, but I wouldn't say anything substantial. When you got arrested, do you call your parents? Yeah, they were like the first people I called,

probably my sister. Because it was pretty late over there in New York. By the time I was arrested over here. and yeah, I called my sister. I called my now my husband and I told him that I was going to be seen at this time downtown. And he was like, I'll be there. So he was there. I was had to do like a, it's not really called a PSI, but I don't know.

I had to like speak with their, they had to like get a whole synopsis on me for me to be able to qualify for pretrial release. It's kind of like a PSI basically where they call your family. whatever, ask you all about you, um, if they, to see if they feel comfortable with really seeing you on pretrial, uh, probation. And, um, so yeah, I was there when I had like court at 8 a.m. the next day. Um, I was talking to my court. I had just had a court appointed lawyer at the time. And he said that they wanted like $20,000 signature bond or whatever. And they, my parents said that they would sign it, but it would take a minute because they have to send all the paperwork out there. And then, um, so my husband was able to just sign it.

Um, and I got like, it's almost weird how you get out of the feds. Like they just let, they were like, okay. And pretty much shackled like took me back and then just let me out the bottom. Like, you're free. Yeah, without money or anything. Yeah. Okay. There's no booking out.

You know, you don't have to process out or anything like that. I was just gone. I had to go like surrender my passport within 24 hours. meet with my pretrial probation officer. And then, of course, like I said, go back to Tampa to be formally indicted. Were your parents surprised? I kind of let them know when my friend was arrested

that there was some stuff going on. I don't think they knew how into the situation I was or exactly what I was selling. I think they were aware of the weed, but I never told them any more than that. So yeah, they were shocked that what I was facing. Also, I minimized a lot of it the time that I was fighting my case. I was actually shocked by the amount of time I got.

I thought I was going to get like no time. Did you think about running it all before making it to Florida? No. I didn't at all. And they thought that too. I went to Mexico so many times that summer, but strictly like partying reasons. They were like, they like, they like, they like, you guys, I was down in Cabo or Touloum. meeting a plug or something.

No, I'm just literally going to party. I mean, they took your passport, too. Right, but it was like before, you know, before then,

yeah, so they were like made comments like, how's Mexico? And then I'm like, I'm just going to party for the weekend. But they, I think they soon found out that that's all it was. But yeah,

they took the passport. I never considered running because I'm like thinking, you know, when I'm talking to my new lawyer, he's saying, you know, where your points at are with this, I see you,

at like this level. And I'm like looking at where he's talking about. And I'm like, oh, that's like 24 months. I'm like that running would be crazy. Yeah, no. That really never crossed my mind. So going into the case, you're only thinking that you're going to get a couple years, Max.

Yeah. So when you get to Tampa, what happens? I get formally indicted. Things go on as normal. I figured the case would take a while. It seemed like it was a lot. And it did. And it did.

but not, let's see, how long was I on pretrial? It was pretty much like a year before I was taken at sentencing, so I immediately got taken out of that courtroom that day. So I was on pretrial for like a month or a year in a couple months. Do they want you to flip on anyone? For sure. I went through that. I admitted what I did, which in turn definitely implicated others.

So it was very difficult and I felt like, well, I'll tell you, they were telling me throughout the whole process like, you don't have any weight on your charge. You have no weight on your charge. This is good. Like we're not charging you with an amount of drugs. We're just saying you had something to do with this whole thing. You know, making it clear that they want to be leader of, you know, what they consider the drug trafficking operating. So they, you know, ask you to accept responsibility. They ask you, okay, so what did you do?

What was your role in this? And you go and tell them. And if you know how the feds work, which I know you do, your sentencing is like a mini trial, right? And they bring up all the facts. So after my, well, during my sentencing, when they did the PSI, after I gave a statement about, hey, yeah, this is a very. what I'll admit to. And let's be honest, if you saw my discovery, there really wasn't much.

We were talking ridiculous on the phone. Um, the confidential informants, of course, that's like, to me, hearsay. Um, but they seized a lot. They didn't just arrest me and my co-defendant. There were multiple others. Um, they seized a lot of drugs. Um, I was identified by multiple people who did flip months before I was even arrested. So I say all that to say, by the time I was sentenced, when I got my PSI back, they were charging me with over 100 pounds of methamphetamine, like the weight of it. And that was because I said something about it. So it was just like, okay, you guys are supposed to give me a plea deal because I'm admitting

to this, but then actually made my point. skyrocket and... So what did they re-indite you? Like, add up more... It wasn't even a re-indind... I don't even know how they do this, and I still don't even understand until this day, but they can...

Like, it doesn't change the charge, I guess. Conspiracy is such an odd, complex charge. They can just say, we can prove, or we believe we can prove that she had something to do with 200 pounds of meth.

Sounds like ghost dope. They hit you. Absolutely. All of it was almost all of it was ghost dope that they charged anybody with. I think one of the guys had like a few, like had some, but wasn't my coat, like my best friend. It wasn't him. They found like remnants in his apartment.

Like there really wasn't anything. But they charged, one of the guys they charged had, I don't know how much they had, he had, but he had maybe like 50 pounds of it or something in like his garage or something. They did get that. But everything else. else on that on our indictment is all ghost though so it's like relevant conduct they hit you with the sentencing because like in a fraud case it for instance i was found not guilty on most of the money but then the judge was able to throw in even counts i was not convicted of for relevant conduct

which made my point skyrocket and a higher guideline absolutely that's exactly what happened and so i got tricked for sure because now looking back on it it's just like let them do their job. Their scare tactics are impressive though. I'm not going to lie, especially when you're looking at like 20 years. And then I thought that my, without the dope or the weight being on my charge, I did think my points were like, I think I guess, 17, right? They went up to 35 after they placed that weight on me. So what did you sign for versus what did you get sentencing? See, that's the thing. Also, I had a really great lawyer. I didn't sign for any number.

I pretty much just signed a deal that I think that they would keep me under. I don't even remember. Is it like an open plea type of thing? I think it had to be an open plea. And then the fact of the matter is that they were agreeing that my points were at a certain level and they were going to recommend to where my points fell at, basically. So we were like, okay, this. and then they hit when I do the PSI, I call the PSI lady. I'm like, why does it say

my 200, like, whatever pounds of this? And she's like, oh, the government told me to add that. And I'm like, what? So I call my lawyer and I'm like, what, like, is going on? Like, you know, I'm looking at where they have my points at now. And it says a 35 that, if I look at the level one offender, and I look at that, it says that that's 12 to 17 years,

is the guideline for that. And I'm thinking two years previously. How much time does the judge give you at sentencing? Sentencing, he gave me 60 months, which is five years. And this is really your first time. Correct. Besides the DUI. Yeah, besides the DUI,

could they count that against you, the DUI? Yeah, I think I, that's what kept me from being a zero point offender. I had like one point. In New York was able to count in Florida. Wow. The feds will find like anything you've ever done. And how come they revoke your bond right then. Normally, if you're on pretrial, you should be able to self-surrender.

It was odd. Again, I, everything moved so fast, I believe. So my lawyer was like, no, she should be able to turn herself in. The prosecution was saying something about, no, she does need to turn herself in today, which I'm shocked by. I have my mom there. She spoke at court, and he did lower my points a lot for my family's testimony is what he called it. But he, um, he said something. the prosecution was like, no, she needs to go today. And the guy, he said some statue, right? And the judge brings out his big law book. And he's like, Ms. Myers, I can't break the law.

We do need to bring you into custody today. And it was just, all happened so fast. And it was so confusing. I don't know if it had to do with the district that I was indicted in or the amount of time I got. I really still, to this day, do not know why I had to go into custody. at that moment. Now, during this time you're on pretrial, fighting your case, what are you doing for work? I worked at the restaurant, like, all day, every day.

In Florida or you went back to Cal? No, no. I was in LA the whole time. They let me pre-trial in LA. I lived here in Van Nuys. And I worked at my husband's restaurant called Juana Smash. It's a Smashburger restaurant. And I dedicated pretty much all my time while I'm pre-trial.

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I wasn't in a great mental state and that kept me pretty busy. So what is your boyfriend thing during that time? You know, you guys just start dating. You're arrested. You're facing prison. What's going through his mind? Honestly, we like initially bonded over this situation. So I'm telling him before I'm indicted like what's going on. And he had a previous federal case for different, something fraud related. However, he's kind of telling me how the feds work, because it is so different,

and there's so many little loopholes and weird things they can do in laws and acts and whatever else. So he's kind of telling me, like, you know, at this point, after I get indicted, he kind of just, like, I'm going to be there with you through this whole process, which to me, like, meant a lot because I know most other men aren't going to do that like immediate red flag like she comes with too much baggage and I wouldn't even have really faulted him for that at that point in time because it was a lot like the way our

relationship started was immediately very strained he's still on federal probation for his case um and trying to navigate that and then he's faced with the whole um separate somebody else's whole separate situation while he's trying to get through his what did you think about him being in prison? Did you care about it all that he had a criminal record? No, I didn't. I mean, who am I to judge? But no, I feel in this where the circles I was running, it was just extremely common.

And I did know, like, we're, like, friends on the internet for a long time. Like, we followed each other or whatever. So I was, like, familiar with his case. And his case, honestly, like, he didn't, he did it, like, 10 years before he even got arrested for it. Like, they came, like, seven, eight years later or something like that. And by the time he was even like sentenced, it was like 10 years. Like, you know, so he got like, I think he even got sentenced over Zoom, like,

because it was during COVID. So, yeah, no, it wasn't, like, honestly, it was very positive for me because I don't think anybody else would have been able to understand what I was going through. And like to have that support throughout my pretrial during my prison time. now as I'm still like in custody but on the other end of it um it's meant a lot what advice did he give you in regards to prison because you knew you had to do some time you didn't know how much at that point so I'm sure you asked him something for sure he has very different views on prison than I do so he's like do your time and come home like really his like he's very straightforward with it he has done time

before so he's told me he does his time by which I think a lot of men do is kind of like staying far away from the outside like just being present in prison that day do what you got to do do your time and you're going to come home I was very much still when I got arrested though it was sudden because it happened at my sentencing and I didn't think I was going to I was still trying to live like on the outside and control stuff at the restaurant like I'm calling from prison like no you need to do the schedule for John can't work that many hours this week. You know, like, I'm trying to, like, control things from the outside and he would constantly be like, you can't do that. Like, none of this stuff is in your control anymore. And, um, I was just so focused on still trying to

be out, be on the, be on the outside. So you get sentenced to 60 months. Where do they take you when your bond got revoked? Yeah. So that was like the worst part of my time. I got taken to a county jail in Florida called Pinellas County Jail. And it's like on Clearwater Beach. That's where they house the Fed inmates in Tampa. They have a contract with that county. It is awful. It's like built in the 1950s still probably has lead paint like rolling gates,

lights on all night. They put Fed inmates. I don't know why in the high security pod. So I'm in there with child murderers, killed their husband, just people with pretty serious crimes. And I'm like, I'm only fed inmate in my pod. Um, there's no wreck time. You're in that pot all day. You get your fed, you get fed there, everything. I stayed there for about a month. Um, and that's when the marshals finally, and I was like praying for the marshals to come get me every day. Like, please, like, you know, come get me. Um,

they finally did after about a month. Um, and that's when the marshals finally did after about a month and that's when I went into transit and was flown when got on conair which is a wild experience in itself shackled all day and I went to Oklahoma and I wasn't yet in BOP custody technically so I didn't go to the trance the BOP transfer center but I went to one of the other little they're called like CCA's core civics is where I went to one of them I was stuck there for about a month They didn't do a lot of flights from Oklahoma to Arizona. I feel like they constantly are going back to the East Coast. But yeah, so I stayed there for roughly a month.

When you're in the county jail, were you thinking that's how your whole sentence is going to be? Or did you know that there's a better part of the federal system? Yeah, no, I knew it was going to be a lot better. And especially there was one girl. Actually, I take that back. It was a girl who was in there. But she was waiting to get sentenced. and she was a Fed inmate but had been in the feds before.

And it was like 10 years ago, though, when the feds was like kind of decent, oh, there's soda machines and salad bars, all the things you like hear about it. And we get steak and we get like all those, yeah. And she probably did. But now it's much different. But she did her time at FCI. I knew I was going to a camp. So I did know that, and I think that's what killed me the most about being in there

is like being confined, not being able to go outside, not seeing daylight. That was really rough for me. So I knew, all right, I'm going to get to a camp. I'm going to be able to be outside. I'm going to have things to do. I'm going to have a job. I'm going to get into ARDAP, all these things. So I knew that that's why I couldn't wait for those marshals to come pick me up.

I was on Conair too. Did you? It was interesting from a males for subjective because they would bring the woman on last. And then all the guys are like trying to see the woman. They'd yell at you not to talk to them and everything like that. Oh yeah, and I had to use, I was in my court clothes. So they dressed me out in my court clothes and I was wearing heels to court. So they had me in these like this size shower shoes.

Like that's what they gave me is flip-flops. I'm like, I'm like, I asked if my family could bring me sneakers. No, they wouldn't let me. So I actually, I had to use the restroom one time on there. You're shackled. So you pretty much have a woman marshal. I have to like pull down your pants for you. It's totally humiliating.

And I remember one guy grabbed at me when I was walking back there and like a marshal like hemmed him up, put him in like a headlock and set all these crazy things to him. And I'm just like, oh, like this is the craziest thing. So yeah, I had to walk through the whole plane with those guys and they're pretty. And the guys are like, I remember the marshals just being like, don't worry. We don't, you don't even like her kind anyway. You'll be back to your boyfriend soon.

You know, like they talk crazy. So those male inmates like, they're like disgusted by them. But yeah, sitting in the front. with all the girls. There's normally not many girls and having to wait for all the guys to get on there. So, yeah, I had to do two trips to Oklahoma, then Oklahoma to Phoenix on Conair. Now, did you want to go back to the West Coast? Was that your choice? For sure. I asked to go to Phoenix. I asked for that specific facility because I knew that they were an ARDAP camp. And that was the only one. Are there female camps in California not ARDAP?

Yes, Victorville. Okay. Is that the one that got shut down? no what's the woman's one that oh chaw it's that's a state one no there's another woman's one where the warden got uh like oh that was for raving yeah that's up in like the bay was that closed by the time you yes i actually would thought i was going to go there um because with fsa you're supposed to go like 500 miles of your home address or whatever supposedly so Dublin i actually asked a girl that i knew who did time there and she's like girl it just closed And I'm like, oh, dang, so where am I going to go?

I knew about Brian in Brian, Texas. They're an Ardap camp. You would have been with some celebrities over there. There is. That's where they go. I think that's the nicest one. That's why they try to, like, go there. But Phoenix, yeah, it wasn't great, but it's a small camp.

It does have a men's FCI attached to it. So it's like actually called now a satellite camp. It kind of supports the FCI. A lot of the girls work over there at the FCI. But yeah, I chose to go there because it was the closest to my husband, extremely far from my parents. However, there's very few women camps in the whole United States, especially ones with ARDAP.

So tell us about this camp. What's it like, you know, day one you got there? Yeah. So some of the girls that I was in transit with, they'd been in the BOP custody for a while. So that was actually really helpful. and they a lot of them were going to the art they were on art app transfers so first day i show up with like eight other girls um show up with your big laundry bag um the world they show up we get your greens

we wore green there um go through of course medical and your psyche veil and stuff like that and then i remember getting my assigned you know getting my orientation book and assigned to um my unit that specific prison had four units, that's it. I think at no time we really ever had over 200 people or women there. First time I go to the bed assignment, someone's sleeping in it. So I'm like, I don't know what I, I think I immediately cry. So I head back down to like the admin office and this woman sees me and she's like, are you okay?

And I'm like, I'm just overwhelmed. Like I don't have a bed. And so she figures it out for me. I ended up finding out she's like the prison psychologist. She's like, you should try this program. I'm like, yeah. So I immediately spent my first couple days, like, how do I get into ARDAP now? I was doing anything that I was trying to get involved in anything that could get me out of prison faster.

So whether it was harassing the RDAP coordinate, the DAPC, I was like going to do it. So I put it in a, writing a cop out. I would like to get into it. Because I knew, I knew how they worked. right, I got, I finally made it to that camp, um, December 10th. So I was almost in custody for two months before I made it, um, to my actual, uh, prison. And I knew that the girls had told me when I got there that the new phase of art app starts January 4th. So I'm like, oh, I got to get into that because if I don't, then I think they started like every six months after that. So I'm like, I don't

want to wait till you know so I write her a cop out going stop and everyone's like afraid of this woman but knock on her door hi my name's Myers you know I'm highly motivated to get into this next class of R-dap so she actually moves me over to R-Dap unit that day so I did pretty much majority of all my time in the R-Dap unit which is definitely a different way to do your time very structured keeps you out of trouble absolutely because if you get in trouble you probably won't get your year off

that was like a real serious program it was known throughout the BOP that like that is a very difficult art app to get through we started off with like 25 people in our face I graduated with nine people so that many people either

quit got remediated or got kicked up of the program. So yeah, I definitely, I did not do prison with a cell phone. I did not do it with a vape. I did not do drugs. I did not like I did real time. Like that was it. I wasn't connected to the outside world. I was just on core links and email and my friends and using my 500 minutes. That's all we got, you know, and that was it. Now, how old are you when you get to prison? I was 32. Can you break down the timing of you get to prison? You get to prison. You get to prison. I was 32. Can you break down the timing of you get to prison and then, you know, with a five-year sentence, what it looks

like with R-DAP and good time and all of that, how that gets broken down. Absolutely. So that's something I definitely made sure that I had some knowledge on before I entered prison and I would have my time calculated even in the county. I'm like, okay. So basically, and I also went to a great facility, people who, because I know not every case manager is the best in the Bureau of Prisons. prisons, but where I was at, they were very good. So basically on a 60 month sentence, I got a year, 12 months taken off for ARDAP. Then I had another, I was credited a full year of FSA. So the first step act, that means every month that you serve, you get 15 days back taken off your sentence. After the first six months, of course, you get 10 days each month until you get past the first six months. So they front loaded. My

FSA's got another 12 months off my sentence. So we've already taken 24 months off. I did qualify. Oh, I did have nine months good time. So what's that like 35 months? 33 months off. And then I got a year second chance act. So when you typically, the way they did it there is like if you have over a five year sentence, they're going to give you the full 12 months off for your second chance act, which is not technically time off of your sentence, but it is time out of prison so they will release you to a halfway house slash home confinement for 12 months of your sentence so you're not incarcerated so in in total I ended up doing 15 months on 60 months that's incredible it was incredible meanwhile I get three years that I do 29 months inside exactly but at

that time you know first step back had just passed yeah and you'd be lucky to get two or three months halfway house oh yeah like I remember reading the book and everything and it's like you could get up to 12 months. It's a fight to even get six months there. A hundred percent. So I knew I was super lucky because I've known people who were incarcerated and did time just before I did and they got like six months halfway out, so you know, where they should have gotten the whole 12, you know, and that happens with a lot of people and has been happening with a lot of people in the federal system for a long time. And I just went to one of those facilities where it seemed like they were getting people out of there. They weren't trying to hold you forever, which a lot of these prisons,

they don't care you're a number so I did get lucky um getting all that FSA time front loaded they don't have to do that either so basically all the time that I'm still since I am still in custody they already gave me all the credits that I earn each month right now ahead of time so that just got me out of prison so much faster now you were someone that like the finer things in life you like to travel uh you took care of yourself how hard was prison to adapt to and that's sense. It was a lot, but I'm not going to lie. Doing that county time and doing that time in transit humbled me so much that it did feel so nice when you finally get that, you know, you finally get to the feds and you get their commissary. Our commissary wasn't the greatest in the world, but,

you know, you have all these options. And if you do have a little bit of money, you know, you can take care of yourself to a certain extent, like with the products and stuff like that. However, it was very difficult for me. I had black hair when I went into prison, black. I had been dyeing my hair for like 15 years. And so that was the first thing that I'm like, oh my God. Like, I can't wait to get there. I'm going to get the hair dye because they have hair dye in the feds.

And then by the time I really like got settled and was like going to do that, I'm like, maybe I should just have my natural hair grow out. You know, I'm like, why do I have to do all? I don't have to do all this or keep up an image plus the hair dye sucks. And I'm in the middle of the desert. and if you understand the water quality there, the hair die wasn't going to say in my hair anyways. So I did my whole sentence with like half,

even in the prison pictures that went viral, my hair was like half blonde, half black. And so I decided to like lighten my hair when I got out and just stray away from my previous, you know, fake look. Though I don't know, bleach blonde, but I'm a blonde naturally. So I, um, it was definitely an adjustment period.

However, I felt like, I don't know, I felt lucky for everything I did have still. Like, I think little things really like started to mean a lot to me. The fact that I did have this like Ole body wash was a lot because you literally go to these like the county and they give you like this little tiny bar of soap like this and like make it last. Like no deodorant. Exactly. No, like if they even gave you deodorant.

So yeah, I did feel like it was kind of decent when I got there, but I went like in ARDAP, you're not allowed to specifically at this facility. You're not allowed to go into that unit with anyone else. Like someone give you sneakers. No, you, like, that's contraband. So I had to wait and get sneakers. So I was literally in boots 24-7 for like four months. That's the worst. Yes, it was.

and it took so long. They only did sneaker orders every so often. So yeah, I would like, and that sucked for me because I was like, dang, like working out kind of did suffer. I just had to like hit the weights a lot, which that was another good thing about that facility. We were grandfathered in on the weight pile. So we've had them since like the 80s. Yes, they were like Arnold Schwarzenegger like original weights. But we had them in the most facilities are not going to have free weights and stuff like that.

So that was a nice thing about being there. I worked at the rec. So that was good. But yeah, there was like certain little things that I did have to go without. Like I'm stomping around in boots 24-7 wearing my gray's black boots. Did you do any like the homemade prison makeup or? We had a whole makeup.

Oh, on commissary? Oh, yeah. We had like three shades of foundation. We had a lot. So I didn't have to do any of that. They had plenty of makeup at that facility for sure. What commissary item did you learn how to make prison, food-wise.

Oh, God. Did you have, like, a hookup you would make or that you like there? I would literally, the only thing I truly would make is, like, tunables with the sweet Asian sauce, make your, you know, chop up the pickle, hot Cheetos, layer it all up. That's all I would make. I would pay people to cook for me if I was doing it. I'm not making the burritos. I don't know how to, or the tamales, all that stuff.

They're making that stuff for me. I don't, I do not. I do not know what's going on. Now, was your boyfriend able to visit you? Because he had a case or? So, no. He, Corey could not visit me. We thought he could.

That's why I chose to go so close to L.A. Because it's a 45 minute flight. When he turned in his visitor form, it was flagging something with them and they were not going for it. And by the time, he sent in like three forms. One time he forgot to like sign it. One time, like he's like overniting it too, like spending all this money to like get these in. And no.

I think he said my counselor, I think he ended up saying for some reason, like some old warrant from like, like, I don't know how long ago it is, kept showing that it hadn't been taken care of. Now he's on federal. Like his probation officer would have made him take care of it, right? So it's not like he has just a warrant from like some other state. But they kept seeing it and they were like, no, he can't come. So he, I never saw him in person. the entire time that I was incarcerated, though we did have like the, we had like three or four

video visits week. So I did do that all the time and spent a lot of money doing that. Oh, did you have like the tablets? We had tablets, but we didn't have video visits on them. We literally just shows strictly on the tablets. But we did have in our computer room. We had two like computers in the back that were visitation computers. And we could make like, I don't know, the way I scheduled them, I could do like three or four visits a week on those 30 minutes. And so I did get to see him quite often through the video call. So all in all, you did less time than what you expected to have to do in general, right? Granted, you have a lot of baggage now with like probation and halfway house and stuff.

Of course, yeah, I have a long time on, you know, the halfway house and home confinement. However, I always thought I'm like, okay, I'm going to do in between, I think, 15. and 21 months. I always saw that. I'm like, best case scenario ever, knowing this about the Second Chance Act and FSA and Ardap and my good time. I was like, I could do 15 months. But I don't know how much Second Chance Act they're giving.

So let me, if I, if they're not only, if they're only giving six months, then I'm going to end up doing 21 months, right? My best case scenario definitely happened. And I'm so thankful for that. Like, I really, it's shocking to a lot of people who are in custody, like how quickly I was able to do my,

my time. Yeah. Like, you know, there's a lot of people who don't qualify for FSA or RDA and stuff like that. So they are doing like 85% of their time. How do you think your mindset changed while you're in prison? I will credit it a lot. It changed tremendously. I will credit it a lot to the program I was in. When you're in therapy every day for nine months plus, you know, they say like, we're purposely trying to brainwash you, but they're literally trying to rewage you. But they're literally trying to rewire the way you think about things, the things we glorify, that things we prioritize. So, um, again, when you're stripped of everything, your family, I really learned how much I took my family for granted, putting them through this.

Um, they are not familiar. So like my husband, he has had his father incarcerated in the system. Um, he did 10 years when he was a child. Um, his cousin was in the feds for, like a 20 year sentence, some of his best friends lengthy federal present sentences. For my family, this is totally, like, brand new, so confusing, scary. They're scared for me. So I definitely learned a lot about prioritizing my family, missing out on all this time with them.

I have nieces. I have nephews. I'm not able to start a family of my own in the situation I'm in. So definitely look at, you know, learned what really matters and I'm trying to stay. away from those materialistic items that I placed like before everybody else for a really long time. What was your plan coming out of prison? Oh gosh. I was like really wanting to focus on my marriage. I'm not going to lie. It was very tough for us while I was in there. He's trying to navigate life without me. I'm not going to say he just can't survive without me.

But it is different when you're used to having a partner for a while, running a business together. Um, and you know, he's a father himself. So there was just a lot and him trying to, you know, grow the business and do what he needs to do. And then having me in there and I didn't handle it well. I didn't handle my prison time very well. Um, it really anxious, you know, just didn't cope with being out of society well at all. Um, so I really came out trying to just navigate the situation with him. prioritize what we're going to do from this forward this like you know as soon as I'm released

and forward where are we growing where are we elevating to um because we both are kind we're not kind of we're extremely over that lifestyle um and wanting to you know like we're I'm 34 years old he's going to 30 not going to be 39 this year and it's just like it grows old and um want to really have a solid foundation so definitely working on growing the restaurant business that's like he's a chef as well so that's like his true passion and I did a lot of business classes that was basically all that I did when I was in college was a business major so or minor and so that's where I go to is like the marketing the you know the managing the everyday the money of the business so kind of coming together and working on that and seeing

how far that can take us because the restaurant business isn't easy by any means. But he has a really great concept. And so that's where I think we're set on trying. And we also do meal preps on the weekends. We started a meal prep company while I've been out. You know, so something in the food industry for sure. And it looks really good. I've been watching it on Instagram.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, that's been really just like some extra money on the weekend. We do it when I have a home pass. We do all the meal preps for the week for everybody and ourselves. And yeah, just a little extra money on the side. Do you think that quenches like your hustler side of you? Yeah, because it keeps me busy.

And it's so nice. Like to be able to say like, you really earned this paycheck and there's no like danger or anxiety that comes with doing it. Now, talk about going viral. You know, you get out of prison and you're, that's how I found you. Right. You just had a viral post. And it's just such a simple post too. was um but it blew up yeah did like i did not expect it to go viral like that of course like

i'm not even gonna sit here and lie like you try to do like i didn't take prison pictures the whole time i was locked up but i when i moved out of the ardap unit my last couple months there the girls that i lived with in the other unit they were like come on we're doing pictures i'm like oh my hair but this and they're just like come on so we do these group photos I do like, yeah, one day. It's like, I took pictures one time. In there, you'd be surprised. Girls take pictures every weekend.

I did it one time. And I'm like, yeah, I'll have some, hopefully nice pictures. You know, my husband wants some of them, whatever. I didn't get them for like two months after I took them. Like, I got them like the week before I was released. So doing that, yeah, did I want to like show everyone? Look, I'm out of prison. Hey, everybody.

You know, I've been radio silent for almost two years. But going viral like that. was overwhelming because I did it. If I had thought about it, I would have done it much differently. I did it the day I was released. If you know what that's like, it's super overwhelming day. I'm seeing him for the first time in almost two years. I'm there with my sister. I'm driving through several, you know, it's like a seven hour drive to get here from Phoenix and I'm in there like taking pictures of pictures. The quality is terrible too. Like, I'm not even understanding AI and how you can do all these things now because it was just starting out. There wasn't like, there was.

like chat gbt but it was just like a website and you can go type stuff in when i got locked up so i probably would have done it differently and almost like tried to capitalize in different ways honestly but it was funny like it kind of like it was a little overstimulating but it did occupy me when i was on a seven-day blackout in that halfway house getting all these messages whatever did they care that you're gone viral did they say anything i was kind of scared about it No, they never said anything. But people in the halfway house, because, you know, federal men, state men, and then the federal women, we are definitely kept separate from them, but we're still in the same place.

So we see them off, the men often. They're like, I swear I saw you on the internet today. And then like the halfway house, people would be like, what do you talk about? Like, she is. She's like going. She's on the internet. I've seen. I'm like, oh.

I feel like they've gotten laxed, especially now in the podcast world and stuff. Because when I got out of prison, you know, I'm. I almost got in trouble or I got a 100 series shot, but I beat it because I took a picture with like my parents and put on Instagram when I got out because you weren't allowed. At that time, you could only have a flip phone in the halfway house. Yes, you hear about all those things. They were strict and then, you know, even hanging out with felons and stuff. Now I have so many people that are, you know, felons that get permission from their probation

officers. You just have to like get permission. Yeah, but even so, even without permission, silly. Like, how are you going to send someone back, you know? How do I know? I didn't check their criminal history. It's just so silly, you know. But I think the times are changing, especially with media.

It would be different if you were going on a podcast saying, yeah, I'm still committing. X, Y, and Z crimes, you know? And that's why I, like, was worried. I'm like, I'm not going to be able to do this until I'm out of custody. But I did, you know, I talked to, because we have, like, an employment specialist there. And I kind of just told them, like, this is like a, you never know what can come from things like this. What I've started writing a book. So you never know, you know, like from this, who I could.

meet from them seeing this interview. And I kind of painted it to them like that. And they were kind of like, okay, when you put it like that, fine. We'll let you go. You got to put the prison photo as the cover. That'd be iconic. That would be high. What do you think was the craziest DM you've gotten from that, uh, from that post? Anyone like well known or? Yeah. And it's not like I'm new to people DMing me, right? Like brand new. But yes, there were, a lot of famous people that reached out and have in the past anyways. But like, oh, look, no, I remember her. Like, oh, that's where she's been.

And that's what I got a lot of. Oh, that's where you went. Like, wow. But, yeah, of course, they do reach out, like, you know, people offering to send money. I mean, it's still, to this day, like, if I had my phone, like, I would literally be like, you know, what the heck? Like, they're still like. I think I'm locked up a lot of the time.

Well, at least you know how to capitalize it now. You know, you go that angle with the female felon version. There's just like that fascination, I think, in society with that. For sure. And that's the thing. I kind of knew that being locked up because you're in there. And all the shows that the girls want to watch in the TV room, I have to do something with prison, love after lockup.

Like, everything is about prison. are like extremely fascinated with prison life. And especially when it comes to like a female's in prison, like they couldn't believe. Like I, there were so many people saying that my, that my photo was AI. Like I wasn't even real.

And I'm like, really? I would have tried to look way better if that was AI. What do you think about those girls on Love After Lockup? Do you think they're just using those guys? Oh, yeah. I never got super into the show. But I would joke with him, like, we should be on that.

But you guys should do that, that would be a good episode. It's a little late, too late after lockup. But I did. And there was a guy, I think, that was on it at the, they had the camera crews outside of the men's prison that I was next to. Somebody was, a guy was getting released from FPC, or not FPC, FCI, Phoenix that was on the show. I watched it for the first time because my girlfriend likes watching it. And I saw it. I'm like, you know, this is just, it's, these girls are 100% using these men.

and these men are 100% getting used and they go to extreme extents, but to the woman, it's a hustle, you know? That's literally, but it looks like it looks like they're just hustling these men for sure. I mean, but men hustle women too while they're in prison. They do. And it's like you see, like that's what I saw a lot of when I was in prison

the pen pale situation. All these girls are on these pen pale websites. I obviously would never part, I did not partake in anything like that, but that is so common in there. These guys that are just infatuated with girls that are in prison. A lot of them can't get someone else on the outside or anything like that.

Yeah. What would you tell your teenage self if you could sit across from her today? What piece of advice would you give her? Oh. To love yourself more to, that everything is going to be okay, but to trust your gut more. And it's okay to be yourself. and you don't have to, you don't have to appeal to everybody.

You don't have to be what everybody likes or what is appealing to everybody else and, you know, like, that you are enough as is. Do you feel at peace now? I'm still in a stressful situation, but in a lot of aspects of my life, yes, I'm much more peaceful. I don't rely on weed to calm me down or to escape. You know, I'm completely sober.

I don't drink. So all those years of being like a party girl and, you know, using substances to kind of escape the lifestyle I'm living. I don't do that anymore. So I would say for sure. I'm a lot more at peace with everything in my life. And I'm just like really looking forward to, you know, my future. Would you do it all over again if you could? No, I wouldn't because I really don't.

I am regretful of certain decisions I made. But I can't, you know, I believe in God. I believe in my path. You know, there's a reason for everything. And just, you know, it's what I do going forward that, you know, is really a true testament of like who I am and, you know, where I'm supposed to go. Well, Jordan, I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. Ian, it was my pleasure.

Thank you so much. I'm glad we could finally meet. Me too. You had to come out here to meet me. I really would. I mean, I'm excited to see your success in the future and looking forward to connecting and having your husband on the show too. Absolutely.

I know he'll love it. Definitely. Thank you.