North Idaho Experience

Was Wyatt Earp a Kootenai County Deputy? A Detective Answers + Wild Cases from the Bay Area to North Idaho

North Idaho Experience

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Detective Jeff Snell has spent 28 years in law enforcement — from working gangs in one of California's most violent cities to solving cases in Kootenai County that start with $80 game cameras and end with SWAT teams. In this episode Eric and Seth sit down with Jeff for one of the most wide-ranging conversations in NIE podcast history. You'll hear about drug trends cops actually see on the street, why fentanyl arrests in North Idaho dropped off a cliff after the border closed, the game camera ...

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