Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - Why I Was Arrested 35 Times...

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

Why I Was Arrested 35 Times...

I'm not worried about canteen. I'm worried about bond money. Right. I don't need to eat a brick tonight. What I need is to be home so I can smoke some more crack, do some more Coke, shoot some more guy. This is Tommy Sikorsky. Sikorsky. Soporsky.

Yes, sir. All right. So, anyway, he's got a crazy story. It was one of the largest was, well, you were part of one of the largest drugs. In Pasco County, the headline when I got in trouble, my house got raided was a family they say is heavily entrenched in local drug sales. You know, that wasn't the largest or not like that. But I was definitely doing good, eating good and getting real high. Right.

Well, I mean, I think I meant the family that an actual family, entire family got indicted. The whole family was involved. We were all doing stuff. But I'll give you, I'll get you a little rundown of what had happened. Basically, I moved down here from Chicago, Illinois back in 94. I went to high school, started selling weed and shit like that, you know, as progressed time. And I would progress and started messing with Coke and acid and beans, ecstasy, you know, all that good stuff. I went to prison the first time.

Wait, wait. So you moved down here. From Chicago. How old were you? 14. Okay. Your whole family moved down? Yeah. My mom and dad divorced. My mom got my stepdad, and that's who raised me down here with my mother.

And we had three more children together. Right. At that time, were they involved in drugs at that time? No, no, no. My mom and dad, my mom worked for the hospital, Banette Point, Columbia and regional at Point. She worked there for like 15 years. When everybody started getting involved in the drugs is kind of when I went to the

pain management doctor for an auto accident I was in, got prescribed pain pills, started making money with that. And then my mom had quit working. Right. Go ahead. I'm sorry, but that wasn't. So, well, let's go back. So, but initially it was just you as a teenager, you started just.

Growing up. Selling weed in school, making some extra money, had a little dishwashing job at a Hudson Square Cafe. Right. You know, but of course, everybody likes money. So I'm doing a little bit of stuff on the side. And it just progressed. You know, everything would get. It would, more would come.

More would come. More would come. Right. And what I mean by that is, you know, I could make more money if I sell a little bit of Coke with this weed. Oh, I can sell these. beans that I get from a friend of mine over here, and I can make more money. I'm getting them for, you know, four or five dollars that I'm selling for 10 or 15, you know. Can I ask you

question? What's a bean? What is it? Ecstasy. I don't know what that is. Extacy. Sorry. Sorry. I don't. Hey, some people that are watching, they might not know. You know what I mean? But if they fucked with it, they know. I fucked with it. So, so ecstasy and stuff like that. Okay, so I wrote a story about a bunch of guys in Hudson, Florida. And it was a Lance Barabbas. I know who they are. I went to school with my girlfriend. Okay, so the kid's name was Doug. Doug God.

I wrote his book, his memoir when I was in prison. So, yeah, when you say Hudson, like I think about. They owned the Holy Ground. Right, right. Absolutely. I know who they are. Okay. All right.

Sorry. I just, I just, as you said Hudson, I thought. Absolutely. That's one of the, that now, now they were one of the largest. They didn't fuck off, you know. They did their thing There's plenty of other families That did their thing

Hudson Shady Hills Moon Lake I mean Of course that's You know backwood shit But that's where all the dopes at Right in the lake Out in the Shady Hills

You know what I'm saying People dropping fish tanks And getting pounds of dope out of them You know what I mean That's where it happens So that's why I don't know what that means I don't know what that means

When I say dropping fish tanks Hold on, Tony. Hold on. You said fish tanks? Well, he's not going to cut this up. He's going to, like, what you just said is going on there. They like it. Yeah.

Okay. So, on the raw note, on the raw note, when I said dropping fish tanks out in the hills or in Moon Lake, it's cooking dope, methamphetamines, you know. I don't personally know how to do it. I've seen it done. I've watched the tanks get put in the ground. And I've watched the tanks get pulled out of the ground and had shards. where you could hold a little baby they're so big feed them you know um crazy shit um a lot of cocaine and crack back in the day um it's it's just that that that area right there

in pasco county that's to be the title you know what i'm saying crack in the day you know i mean it's uh it was turned up you know i mean pasco county had had held the spot for quite a while for number one in the united states for overdoses on opiates because of the pain pelt pain pill pandemic you know what i'm saying that was that was a thing you know what i'm saying all the all the doctors around here tampa polk county you know what i'm saying all that this big circle area that we're in right now that's where they were writing scripts right where people were doctor shopping and all that and that's what got me going on to the next level you know what i mean i've seen all the money i could make with these vikinns laur tabs laur sets zanex volumes so i'm making

money, but I'm spending money too because I'm using. I'm not, I'm not, okay, so again, now you have people that say that they just sold dope and this, that, the other thing, and they never did it. A lot of them might not have did it, but a lot of them did. Right. I'll tell you the truth. I did drugs. I shot dope. I smoke crack. I smoke meth, all that. But I don't care because I changed my life. I'm doing good now. So it doesn't bother me to tell you that. And if you look down, or maybe not you, but if the next guy looks down on me, I really don't give a shit. Well, I get that all the time, too, but guys are like, you know, you take advantage of people, you do this, you do that. Say, well, what I did 20 fucking years ago has nothing to do with the person that I am right now.

You want to say, hey, you were a scumbag. Okay, well, I was a scumbag. But, you know, but you're saying, oh, you're still this. You're still. Stop. You don't fucking know. You don't know. And really, I take advantage of you, too, if I was still that way.

So watch your mouth. you know what I mean really I mean that's what it is because you can get busted right now you know what I'm saying right those are just people hating on you they're just mad because they didn't have the scam and we did you know what I mean so um haters will be haters it's all good you know I'm the same way I just brush it off it's like all right you can't you can't do anything about listen whether it's good things or bad things that people are saying they're still got you on their mind so guess what I did the job you know what I mean I like it when people tell I don't care if it's good or bad why you always talk about me

me. I must be interesting. You know what I mean? So, like I was saying, shit just like progressed. And I did go to prison the first time for multiple charges, a burglary battery, grand theft auto, basically scamming system and shit. My buddy had a bike. He wanted to get stolen so he can collect insurance money. I go ahead and get the ball rolling. I got somebody that's going to go in there, kick his door in, steal the street bike so he can get paid. paid for it. So they're going to fake a home invasion. Right.

Or a burglary. This was the burglary with the Grand Theft Auto attached to it. So, okay, cool. I got you, bro. I line it up. Get the jit that's going to steal the bike. Now my friend calls me and tells me, oh, we can't do this.

We can't do this. It's shit in me. You know what I'm saying? You already put the ball in motion. You know what I'm saying? So I left it alone when my friend called me, left that shit alone. He calls me one day and he says,

Hey man, I'm going to Tampa to go get a program for my computer. You want to ride with me? I said, no, man, I'm busy as fuck. You know what I'm saying? I got shit going on. Call me when you get back. All right, man, I'm out of here. All right.

I'll talk to you later. Boom, he leaves. Hey, man. Hey, tighted up. He's gone. All right. Bet. My friend went over there and got the bike.

You know what I'm saying? Burnt his ass. Now he don't get none of the money but the insurance money because your shit got robbed. I don't know what you're talking about. Right. He comes back about an hour later screaming, you're a piece of shit. I can't believe you did this to me, just that, the other thing. And I just basically told him, what are you talking about? You know, I don't. Right. I'm never going to tell him myself, you know what I mean. Well, I mean, if you think that's what happened, you should tell the fucking police. Yeah. They're called the cops. You know, I know it's him because I was going to set up myself for the insurance. Hey, look here, man. Oh, so you were going to do insurance fraud. I reported the bike stolen, you know?

So at any rate, I ended up getting arrested because a couple people, weak links, you know, they told on me. Another burglary battery, basically it was like a home invasion. It's a level seven, I think it was. My brother was dating a chick. I was friends with her baby's dad.

Okay, so they break up. Right. The girl gets with my brother. He has his son on Father's Day weekend. so my brother is at work I'm at a friend's house and my brother calls me screaming hey bro go go over there with Renee and get Mikey back you know Michael's not giving Mikey back so I'm like what's going on I'm just waking up you know at the time I was doing a lot of paying pills so before I really do anything I got to bust me down a blue real quick and get right you know what I'm saying

I got to get right I'm dope sick right now so I turn around and get right and get right and get and I called my brother back. He gives me the rundown. So we go up to Spring Hill. So I have a question. So when you say dope sick, like how long does it take? Like overnight,

just sleeping overnight by the time you wake up, you're sick. When you wake up in the morning, you're not feeling good. Right. You're under the weather. You know what I'm saying? Because you're addicted to oxies.

Yeah, you're going to be sneezing, sweat and colds. You know, it's terrible. It's probably one of the worst drugs I've ever done. Well, probably the worst for you as far as withdrawals, you know? Right. Um, so we went back up. We went up to Hernando County. And, uh, I asked the girl. I said, Renee, what do you want me to do? The door's locked. He's not answering the door. We see them in the house. You know, what do you want me to do here, man? You know, she's like, just open the door for me. No, no, no, no. This is that. The other thing crying. Of course, I feel soft. And, you know, I'm, I'm kind of heartbroken too. You know, she wants her kid back. The poor girl can't do nothing. And so I turn around and I kick the door off the hinges.

Which is the reaction of just anybody would do that. Right. And listen, so she has bills on at this house in her name. Right. Okay. So technically speaking. Right. She's, yeah, she's got a claim to the house.

I'm opening this door for her. Right. So I opened the door. We walk in and here comes Michael. What the fuck? You know, he's swinging on me and all this. Well, I knocked his ass out. So that's where the burglary battery.

came in because I went through the threshold of the door into the home and then battered him. Right. So I got a burglary battery. Didn't get no kidnapping because it was her kid. Brought the kid home, whatever, whatever. Well, because my last name, you know, is a motherfucker. They couldn't spell my last name. So they couldn't charge me for like four or five months. I'm out running around hanging out. Well, then I finally get picked up on some. some shit in Pasco and I go to jail and I'm done. I'm not bonding out no more. I'm done with all the bond money. And, uh, tell them how much your money you spend in bond money in your um, in, in bond money in one year I spent, uh, it was 25,000. So that's 2,500. Plus my lawyer was

another 2,500. So that's five. Excuse me. Um, then I spent 25,000 again. another $2,500 on a lawyer. Then I spent $25,000 again, another $2,500 on a lawyer. So the lawyer's already at $7,500. My bond's already at $7,500 on the 10%. Then my bond went all the way up to like $55,000. So that was $5,500. The lawyer kind of working with me.

You know, I didn't really have to keep giving them money every time. And my bond went up to $65,000. Then it went up to $90,000. I think it was $90,000. Why is it going up? Because I kept missing court. The reason I would miss court was a drug addict. I would, you know, sell drugs to do drugs.

So I'm smoking crack all night doing Coke and all this other shit. Get a shower. I'd be drying off, literally looking in the mirror while I'm drying off in the bathroom. And I'm like, you know, cross-eyed jaw way over here because I'm so high on Coke. And I'm looking at myself and I'm like, bitch, I can't go to court right now. you know what I mean the judge is going to throw me in jail right so fuck court I'll re bond I don't have to see the judge today my mom would scream Tommy your fucking bond's gonna go up that's okay mom just put the house back up I'll pay the cash don't worry about it and of course mom you know

was always on my team right it didn't matter what her son her baby boy did she was coming she was signing that deed of that house I was putting up up to 10% and I was getting out of jail. I bonded out so many times that when I would come to jail, the people in booking would be like, hey, Siporski, you bonding out or are you staying? I'm bonding. You know, I got a bond, right? I'm shit. I'm out of here, biz. You ain't even got to dress me out. You know what I'm saying? And then now you can mention me, DOCTV. That's where we met. Oh, you met in, okay. You've been arrested of what, like 35 times, right? I've had 35 arrests on my record. I got 35 arrests on my record, whether it be violation of probation, new charges,

this, that, the other thing. That's where I met Josh, DOCTV-813. That's how I met you. I met him in the county jail on one of my escapades of missing court, them off-bonding me, have to get a new bonds officer. That's another thing, too, that I would bond out from one bond company be out for two months go to court maybe once the other time i'd miss court then they would off bond me arrest me go back to jail now i'm in the county jail making three-way calls making my money to pay my bond you know what i'm saying i'm having my mom go do this go grab this go drop it off over here get this money put it over here give it to the bondsman go sign your fucking name on the dotted line get me out mom love you you know and when i met him in county jail all that was going on and when

i first met him i was like because you know when you're in county jail there's a lot of people saying all that stuff like i'm gonna get bonded yeah yeah i thought he was full of shit at first i didn't think he had any money and then boom listen this is what i would do i'm not worried about canteen i'm worried about bond money right as you see i'm a big boy you know what i mean i could miss a meal or two i don't need to eat a brick tonight What I need is to be home so I can smoke some more crack, do some more Coke, shoot some more goddamn pills. That's what I want to do. So the people in jail would actually call me J.G. Wentworth because I would be on the phone and telling my people how to do this and do that and go get my money.

Go handle this. And this is when you're doing doctor shopping at this point? At that point, I was doing doctors and prescriptions and all that, which I did that for 20 years of my life. I did that since 2000. Listen, I wrote fake prescriptions for Vicodins back in 2000. When people were doing them for roxies and oxies and shit, that was 10 years later. Eight years, six years, eight years later. Bits, I already did that.

Now I'm sponsoring people to the doctor. I'm taking you and all your family, friends, and whoever you can get me to take to the doctor, I'm going to go ahead and get their scripts for the low. I'm going to give them a little bit of crack because they want to smoke crack. They don't want to do pain pills. I'm going to go ahead and give them the crack take all their pills from them for dirt cheap and then I'm going to bust them

and bust them down for $30, $35 a piece, $20 a piece. You know, they started at $10. So you mean, wait, what's a pill cost, basically? Okay, so back in the day, when I first started getting Roxy's in 2004, 2005, when they first came out, you were getting them from mom and pop pharmacies for like 60 to 80, 90 cents. Right, and you're selling them for...

I'm selling them for 10. All right, so $10. So you got a good profit. margin. Then, when I went to prison the first time and came out, the pills were all the way up to $15 a piece, and they were like $6 at the pharmacy. You know what I'm saying? So there's $6, so on 120 pills, you know, you do the 600, 720, you're paying $720 for a script of 120 blues. But before I went to prison the first time, you were getting from one doctor. I was, one doctor I was getting 330s oxycodones 150 oxy80s 480 methadone tens 120 xanax bars 90 flexerol and 60 somas from one doctor so right there

you're making over $10,000 and each one of these get each one of your people are going to what just one doctor some of them are going to two three four five I had I had and how many people okay sorry about 50 you know on that could be up with that could be 150 scripts okay so look if i'm sponsoring that many people to the doctor or i was taking that many people to the doctor or however it was going down i was actually able to take as many people as i wanted and still support 750 to 1500 a day drug habit still walk around in nice clothes still drive four and drive four Whips, you know. It may not have been my foreign whip, but I bet you I was driving one. You know what I'm saying? So, um, at the end of the day, plus, you know, I'm doing meth at the

time now, you know, I mean, this, this was a very, how old were you? Um, when I was doing the meth and shit about 25 on up to about 30, you know, I did it for about five years. I've done a lot of drugs, man. Um, I've, I didn't discriminate. You know what I'm saying? If you got you fucked up i wanted to try it you know what i mean because that's a life i was living you know