The head narcotics detective for a Texas District Attorney's Office secretly sold me stolen video clips. I used the clips to teach Americans how to buy, sell, grow, and traffic marijuana. Detective Richard Dickson, pictured above holding a flashlight under his arm, stole some of the video clips from the evidence room.

I used the purchased footage in my wildly popular NeverGetBusted Video Series that sold over 500,000 copies and was downloaded and viewed millions of times. I had no idea that one year later, the deal I made with the detective would become instrumental in releasing an innocent woman from prison.

A motorist in the United States has the right to refuse consent to search. Police have the right to conduct an outside air sniff of the auto using a drug dog. If the dog alerts, the police have probable cause to search and if the motorist interferes, the driver will be arrested for Resisting an Arrest/Search.

I became a K-9 expert by training hundreds of police dogs to locate contraband so I knew dogs couldn't always detect drugs hidden inside a car from the outside. I also learned it was easy to use a hand signals or verbal cues to make a dog false alert. The intentionally induced alert gave the illusion I had probable cause but I really didn't. Unfortunately and regrettably, I made a lot of drug busts using this illegal tactic.

My drug K-9 "Toby" and I after seizing $95,000 U.S. currency

I hosted dozens of K-9 training conferences where I secretly taught hundreds of cops the same technique. I justified the act as moral because I fully believed the propaganda that drugs were evil and drug users belonged in jail.

I had a huge shift in consciousness when I quit law enforcement and started smoking marijuana. I felt dreadfully sick, embarrassed and ashamed of the humanitarian crimes I had committed. As a form of penance, I produced the NeverGetBused DVD Series and became the first person to blow the whistle on the illegal practice of cueing K-9's to false alert.

Before I could finish the production of my first film,Volume 1: Traffic Stops,the news of my intentions to teach citizens how to trick drug dogs went viral. NeverGetBusted was reported in dozens of magazines, all the cable news channels and in every major newspaper in the world. This made it extremely difficult for me obtain video footage of a false alert because none of the K-9 academies or police officers would talk to me.

I desperately needed to complete the K9 segment so I contacted one of my ex drug task force partners, Richard Dickson. He was working as the lead drug detective for the Texas Yoakum County District Attorney's Office.

I explained to him that I would make money selling the videos but the main motive reason was because I believed it was wrong to arrest people for non-violent crimes. Detective Dickson acted like he agreed with me by stating he had lost interest in arresting people for marijuana.

He agreed to film his drug dog being cued to false alert and secretly sell me the footage for $1300.

I paid Detective Dickson $1300 for this footage of his drug dog false alerting.

In 2008, I needed special heat camera footage of a clandestine marijuana grow house to use in my second film,Volume 2: NeverGetRaided. The DVD's purpose was to teach citizens how to grow, possess and sell marijuana without being raided.

Police have discovered thousands of marijuana grow operations by using special heat imaging cameras known as Forward Looking Infrared or FLIR. The lights used to grow quality indoor marijuana produces an incredible amount of heat. Since these special cameras are designed to detect heat, the FLIR cameras are perfect for locating clandestine indoor growing operations.

In the FLIR video below, which Richard sold to me, you will notice an actual marijuana grow operation. This means Richard was either allowing the illegal operation to exist or he stole the video from the evidence room. Either way, the video in the clip below is the fruit of police corruption and cost me $1000.

I paid Detective Dickson $1000 for this infra-red footage he stole from the evidence room.

I promised Richard Dickson I would never tell anyone he sold me the footage to use in my anti-drug war films. I finally finished the production and the day I released Volume 2: NeverGetRaided, the media frenzy began. I quickly read the first story released about the controversial video and noticed Richard Dickson had been interviewed.

When the reporter asked him why he thought I flipped from being a top cop to teaching drug enforcement secrets, I was shocked and angered at his hypocritical response. The Odessa American reported the interview.

"Well, it doesn't surprised me one bit," said Richard Dickson, Yoakum County investigator and a former member of the Permian Basin Drug Task Force. "I think the easiest way to say it is that some of us were born to be peace officers and some were born to be businessmen, Barry was born to be a businessman."

While Richard was publicly assaulting my character by accusing me of exploitation, he was spending $2300 I paid him from money I earned selling the videos. Even though he betrayed me and attempted to assassinate my character, I still kept my promise and didn't rat him out for selling me the videos.

FLIR image of a marijuana grow house

One year after purchasing the FLIR footage, I went to Odessa to sting the cops in my first episode of Kopbusters. My plan was to lure cops into raiding a fake marijuana grow room. I wanted to bring attention to Yolanda Madden who was sent to prison because the Odessa police planted methamphetamine in her car.

I rented a house and placed a grow light in the front bedroom. I pumped the heat from the light out of the front window and hoped the cops would use a FLIR camera to convince themselves they discovered a legitimate marijuana grow house.

I placed two small Christmas trees under the light instead of marijuana plants and rigged the house with cameras. I sent an anonymous letter to a preacher hoping he would give it to the cops. There was nothing left to do except wait for the cops to kick in the door.

I used Christmas trees instead of marijuana and used this fan motor to pump the hot air out of the front window.

When I was a drug cop, FLIR cameras were legal to use without a warrant. Before the police raided the Kopbuster house, the Supreme Court ruled a warrant must be issued before using the cameras. Since the probable cause needed to raid a house usually amounts to the same probable cause needed to use the FLIR, the cameras basically became useless to the cops overnight.

Despite the ruling, police continued using the cameras and would not reveal the illegality on the warrant affidavit. This is similar to illegally tapping a phone. If a cop listens to your telephone conversation without a warrant, he will use the information but will not reveal how he learned it.

When I discovered there was no FLIR warrant issued in this case, I was suspicious this same illegal tactic had been used to detect the hot air being pumped from the trap house. The warrant affidavit used in the raid did not contain enough evidence to establish probable cause so the judge should never have signed the warrant. The Odessa American reported:

“Judge McCoy and Chief Burton defended the narcotics investigators’ raid, even after knowing all that transpired. Burton also defended the fact that it was done solely on information given in an anonymous tip and two surveillance drive-bys done by his officers.”

An anonymous tip and two glances at a house are never enough evidence to raid a home. I did believe the cops really thought the house was being used to grow marijuana or they wouldn't have raided it. I was strongly suspicious that in order to determine if the anonymous letter was truthful, the cops secretly used Richards' FLIR camera during the “drive-bys.”

Video of cops raiding my trap house and Yolanda being released from prison.

I theorized that the police and judge had an "off the record" conversation that included telling the magistrate a FLIR scan gave a positive reading that heat was being pumped from the house.

Instead of going through the headache of issuing a warrant for the use of the FLIR and then issuing another warrant to search the house, the judge signed the incomplete warrant. He did not realize it was a trap.

I blogged my suspicions and was ridiculed by the police and a number of Odessa citizens. To prove my point and to free Yolanda, I broke my promise to Richard Dickson by posting the proof of our deal in the comment section of the Odessa American website.

Detective Dickson never denied the allegations because I sent copies of the cancelled checks to the Texas Rangers. He was never indicted and didn't lose his job but Yolanda was freed after serving four years of an eight year prison sentence.

It is an undeniable synchronicity how the FLIR footage I bought from a cop later became the key factor in helping me free a woman from the same area.

If miracles are real then this miracle happened because I broke a promise. Sometimes a promise is meant to be broken.

Yolanda Madden leaving court after learning she will remain free

If you think it was immoral for me to break my promise to Detective Richard Dickson, let me have it in the comment section. If you think it was moral for me to break my promise, give me an upvote.

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Photo of Marijuana grow house credit: https://goo.gl/cHYfZW
Video of KopBuster Sting credit: Texas Observer
Photo of Yolanda leaving court: Odessa American