Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
The Downfall of Wes Watson, $1M Heist Gone Wrong, & Life In Prison
Wed, 12 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: Who is Wes Watson and what is his connection to crime?
Wes Watson was my OG. I despise Wes Watson, but the advice wasn't bad. He's morphed himself into a monster, and the advice is turning back.
He's probably going to prison. They somehow steal jewelry from this dude. One of the pieces being the necklace from Pretty Woman. The only thing I wanna say is just, I really appreciate you guys. When I found your story, I resonated with it. Not the fraud aspect, I hadn't done any of that, but
starting over yeah and that you're like a you are okay with being a civilian i like being a civilian you're not like this i never told i'm this fucking super gangster you know so that that's yeah man i just want to say thank you i can't nobody's going to be able to do it better than wes watson right wes watson was my og in san quentin
what's old west doing these he's uh beating people up yeah we're about to do a uh video on him here soon in a week or so he beat some guy up in the gym did he oh i know i mean oh he caught it yeah he like they like assaulted somebody yeah oh bro he was like i don't know all the details um but it seemed like he was like calling people i was like if you got a problem come down here
Someone came down there. Yeah, it was come down here and we'll go outside in the parking lot and it'll be me and you. But that's not what happened. The guy came down there. Walked up to him, and Wes gets in his face, and Wes has got like three bodyguards. And they attack the guy, beat him up. Once he's on the ground, Wes kicks him in the fucking head a couple times.
Oh, bro, he's going back to the joint for... And the fight's over, and he's still... The guy's laying on his... And he's stomping him? No, the guy's laying there. It's over. He's on the ground, and he runs up and kicks him in the fucking head. I mean, he's, like, walking around the gym. Like, he's not in danger anymore. It's over.
And one of his bodyguards grabs a fucking weight and hits him with the weight. They're kicking the guy multiple times. Dude, that's a serious bodily injury with a weapon. And it's all on tape. Bro, he's... He's done. Well, now, Florida's a stand your ground. If you come... You can do exactly what happened. Dude, a Weston stand is fucking... Right.
Well, what happened is he does, but when the guy approaches him, they can get into a fist fight. Yeah. But your buddies jumped in. Exactly. You weren't in danger. So if you're in danger, you feel you're in danger. And Wes could maybe make that argument. The guy came down, but the guy's just standing there. He never goes at Wes. Right. They're just arguing at this point. And Wes attacks him.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the $1 million jewelry heist?
West throws the first. It looked like that to me. He's hit. He's done. They fall on the ground. When he's on the ground, the other guys jump on top of him. They beat him senseless. And used a weapon.
West didn't.
One of the other guys did. Then the guy kind of stumbles and falls on the ground. He's on the ground on his knees. West kicks him once. And then he walks around and he kicks him solid in the fucking head. So it's at the very least, it's like aggravated battery.
Right.
I don't know how the laws are in Colorado, but in Florida, you give a lot of leeway. Oh, I'm sure. But you don't have that much.
But you can legally fight.
Two consenting adults can fight. Oh, absolutely. If they wanted to go outside in the parking lot by themselves and do a fist fight, perfectly fine. As it should be. Wouldn't have been a problem. As it should be. Once you're no longer in danger... And he was in danger. Not only that, your buddies had jumped in. It stopped being stand your ground and it started just being an assault.
So I think he's probably, if he doesn't get five years paper, he's probably going to get a couple years in prison.
He's got a lot of money. He's probably going to have to sit down for a calendar, bro. You don't think? I think the media or the court system will want to teach him a lesson. The problem is the video. Right.
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Chapter 3: What are the consequences of Wes Watson's actions?
Maybe putting on a fake lifestyle and they're selling high dollar coaching or whatever and they kind of go in there and say, not really. That's pretty funny.
Well, hey. Hopefully, hopefully old boy figures it out, but you're going to learn the hard way in that big fucking bubble bath or whatever the fuck he sits in. That dude's crazy. He's always like in this huge bubble bath, like, Want to get to this point, brother? You want to drive a Rolls Royce? No, I don't care. I like my truck.
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My dad, he's working in a nightclub. Okay, this nightclub is called the Garden of Eden. He's a bouncer there. And we don't have a lot of money, man. We don't come from money. So he starts immersing himself in the underworld of L.A. at the time. And mind you, he's also dating that Playboy bunny. Her name's Sandra Bentley.
She had been with a gentleman before she met my pops named Mark Yagala, who's a billionaire Wall Street guy. Sounds familiar. You might know him because he was a fraudster type of guy. He did.
The name sounds familiar.
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Chapter 4: How does the legal system handle violent crimes?
And as far as the necklace is concerned, you would think, well, they had to sell that. But really, they probably just broke it down for diamonds and sold it individually. You see what I'm saying? To a fence or a couple fences. So then it's like, if I was a guy and I had the necklace, where's the necklace? You see what I'm saying? It's a tough sell unless they get this guy on tape.
They find the gun and they, you know, it's a hard pill to swallow. After that, what happened with your mom?
Basically just destroyed my mom psychologically, emotionally, mentally. And my sister and I, we had also been equally just as devastated from the event, right? So we were all...
lashing out in our own ways it was it was all manifesting differently for each of us the trauma of our you know my father whatever but anyway for me i was just looking for attention from older male figures um gravitating a lot towards gangs tagging crews stuff like that just skating all day painting graffiti all day
basically just trying every drug i can and trying to impress older males as much as possible so do you join a gang or no i didn't join a gang at that age i was part of a tagging crew okay um i'm not gonna say the name of it ended up being like somewhat of a decent crew back then but uh you know, just painting a bunch. And what does that mean?
A tagging crew? Like, I mean, I think you guys tag, um, just randomly you, are you putting together like, like, I hate to say this cause I'm just going to make me sound like I absolutely don't know what I'm talking about, but are you guys doing like actual, like, you know, um,
like murals and stuff or you just doing small tags and what are those tags like i don't know i don't know yeah what's the what's it like like do you you said it's a whole cruise so it's like are there multiple crews how does it how does it work do you guys go out at night like at midnight or what's the reason it sounds so ridiculous you guys say like that sounds a super and it is pretty lame looking back but basically man no there was no murals and it was like a group of you know kids essentially going out at night but
Really, so it is kind of, I mean, I don't want to call it gangs, but think of it like this. Let's say you have a name, right? Like we call it KSF, King Size Family, okay? That's your crew. You got folks in it that came before you. You got asked to be on it, whatever. You join it. You're tagging KSF with your moniker, right? Let's say you write Kobe. You write Kobe.
ksf that's your tag tagging crew basically just lets folks know who you run with in the graffiti world you know but yes the idea and the point is to spread as much of your y'all's name throughout the city through the medium of spray paint art you know i mean
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Chapter 5: What is the impact of drug addiction on life choices?
Right. So I catch that.
And then did she, and she, she saw this and she calls the police.
The bank called the police. Called the police. And how it happened, it was weird because I don't know why we did this, but for some reason, we went up to this random guy in the parking lot and asked him if we could sign the check over to him so he could... It was this whole convoluted thing, but the bank is who... Did he do that? He did.
Fucking idiot.
Yeah, he did.
I've been in Walmart. I mean, not Walmart. I've been in Home Depot.
Someone asked you?
No, guys have come up to me and been like, hey, man, listen, I got a Home Depot or I got a gift card for 200 bucks. Give it to you for 100 bucks right now, bro. And I was just like, yeah, no, no. no, no, it's good. Good. And I, and I'm like, no, no, I believe it. I'm like, I believe it's good. I'm like, I also know that you put, this is somebody else's credit card you used or somebody else.
Like, I don't doubt this is going to go through for two 50, but I'm not going to be a part of your fraud. You're right. Like I, um, And I was going to say, if somebody came up to me and said, hey, man, can I endorse this over to you? And you'd be like, yeah, get the fuck out of here. Yeah, I felt bad. It was a dude and his lady, too.
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