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I Was a Teenage Felon
I Was a Teenage Felon

I Was a Teenage Felon

—Former criminals tell true stories of how they went from being average American kids to becoming massively successful outlaws.
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Season 110 of 10 Episodes

  • At the age of 14, Coss starts selling cocaine in Manhattan's Lower East Side; by the time he reaches 18, he makes $3 million a year via his tri-state drug delivery service.

  • At 15, Art learns the craft of counterfeiting from his mother's boyfriend and goes on to become the best counterfeiter in the world, printing over $10 million of fake money.

  • Nineteen-year-old Fred traffics thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border between the United States and Mexico.

  • Big Herc sells crack at 15, robs drug dealers at 17, does porn at 18, robs banks at 27 and lives to tell about it all.

  • College friends selling bootleg T-shirts create an empire that pulls in thousands of dollars daily until drugs and arrests tear it down.

  • At the age of 12, Tiny Doughboy starts a street gang known as the Tiny Loc Bastards; his notorious crew robs drug dealers for cocaine and then sells the coke at local colleges.

  • Human trafficking was not something 23-year-old Max set out to do, but once he got a taste of the wealth and power that came with being a coyote, he never looked back.

  • Sixteen-year-old Obie is given the opportunity to distribute cocaine for an international drug organization and starts making more than a million dollars a month.

  • The mysterious and extremely destructive drug known as K2 that 18-year-old Yazz not only abuses but also traffics earns him $100,000 a week while also causing him to spiral out of control.

  • At age 17, Seth lives a rock star life while supplying 15 colleges in five different states with massive amounts of acid and weed until U.S. Marshals set their sights on him.

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4 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    The K2 Kingpin
    Hollywood Queenpin
    Shot Caller
    Albuquerque's Most Hated
  • The K2 Kingpin

    The mysterious and extremely destructive drug known as K2 that 18-year-old Yazz not only abuses but also traffics earns him $100,000 a week while also causing him to spiral out of control.
    Upcoming
  • Hollywood Queenpin

    At 17, Denise parties with celebrities on the Sunset Strip and transforms herself from a high school drug dealer to an international cocaine queenpin.
    Upcoming
  • Shot Caller

    At 15, Peter starts abusing meth and steals to feed his drug habit; his schemes grow from petty crime to grand-theft auto; a final heist lands him in max security prison.
    Upcoming
  • Albuquerque's Most Hated

    Fighting, dealing and stealing his way through the city since his first assault charge at age 11, MMA icon Adam eventually earns the moniker of Albuquerque's Most Hated.
    Upcoming
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