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Usually movies like to exaggerate things, but when it comes to trap houses, maybe the movies are going a little bit light. A trap house typically refers to a place like an empty house or an apartment that is used for the purposes of selling drugs, illegal gambling and sex work, but mainly drugs. So think of it as like a very, very illegal CVS. You walk in, you hope not to step on anyone that's slumped over on the floor, you pay for your drugs and you leave with every intention that you're going to feel better after you take these drugs. Some people like to loiter through the high of their recently acquired purchase, hence, you know, the people laying on the floor at most trap houses. It's a very common sight.
Each trap house though, is going to be a little bit different. Some of them just are non-government approved pharmacies where transactions are made. Others serve as manufacturing points where the drugs themselves are created, but not in a lab, in the kitchen. And they're all lumped together and people just call them trap houses. It's said the term comes from the fact that trap houses were known to only have one door in and out. So there's only one way in, there's only one way out. So that nobody could rob the pharmacist, the dealer.
Yeah. But others say, that's not entirely true because no smart dealer is going to keep their stash in their trap house. They're going to have a separate house called the stash house. But who are we to dissect someone's business model? Nevertheless, there are two younger women standing at what appears to be the only entrance into this trap house, trap apartment. They look a tad bit out of place. They both look Latina with a bit of like baby fat in their cheeks, which makes them look even younger than they already are. And they kind of look like the types of girls that you would see like at a receptionist desk at a doctor's office, a dentist office, but instead here they are at the front door of a trap apartment in Dallas, Texas. Which is not to say that there is like a look to someone who finds themselves addicted to substances, but they just look a little bit out of place, especially when you hear the reason that they're in this trap house to begin with. They're not here to purchase drugs.
They're here to sell them, a lot of them. This is a business deal, a proposition for the owner of the trap house, which is ironically named Love.
And like any good business proposal, the details are going to be ironed out by both parties. One of the two women, she's a narco, with deep connections to a cartel in Mexico. The other woman, she's just the translator, so she's translating everything the other one says in Spanish, translating it to English, for Love. They likely need someone to move products for them, and since Love already deals drugs, has connections in the US, it could be a profitable business deal for both parties. But the cartels don't just trust anybody, especially a complete outsider like Love, with no ties to the cartel, he's just an American man. The three of them are sitting around Love's kitchen table, and the younger woman, the translator, informs Love, before we can enter this very profitable business agreement, the type of business agreement that has the potential to turn Love into one of the biggest dealers north of the border. This deal is going to give him a lump sum of drugs and cash on signing, well, it's more like a handshake, plus a lifetime of drugs from the cartels.
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