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I'm curious as to how you knew he's a meth dealer. I'm guessing he was being very overt about his operations?

That seems like it would be really entertaining, at least until he figures out you're paying close attention.

He told the tail something along the lines of "He's pulled over on the side of the road? He has meth shit in the back!"

Up until that day I had no idea what he was dealing, but he was obviously a drug dealer; every week a cadre of scummy looking people would meet him in the cafe and give him their burner phones, he'd toss the phones into his backpack and give them all new ones.

This story has way more ridiculousness to it, especially from that particular day... maybe for another time.

Sounds like you've been watching Better Call Saul! Although, they were handing over stacks of cash instead of swapping burners, but yeah, essentially the same premise.

I really wish I were inventing all this. It eventually became quite a nuisance when the guy vanished and undercover police took his place thinking I was tied to it, due to being a regular with no apparent occupation.

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