EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Archie Gips’ production company Unrealistic Ideas is teaming with producer Van Echeverri for a documentary feature about the FBI’s takedown of U…
“Unrealistic Ideas has a strong track record in the true crime space and the story of Owen Hanson jumped out at us. This is a working class guy who worked hard to get into USC and then used the business skills he gained through his education there to create a global drug empire. We’re looking to explore how that happened and how it all fell apart,” said Unrealistic Ideas President/Partner Archie Gips.
Hanson began dealing recreational drugs and steroids to teammates in college during the early 2000s, ultimately building a violent empire that operated in U.S., Central and South America and Australia. Arrested in September 2015, and sentenced in late 2017 in a U.S.
The FBI teamed with the New South Wales Police Force in Australia to nab Hanson and uncovered an illegal sports gambling, money laundering and drug-trafficking enterprise of thousands of kilograms of illegal narcotics that led to Hanson; while also arresting more than 21 of his associates. The FBI employed an array of sophisticated investigative techniques, court-authorized electronic surveillances, informants, and undercover agents to bring down Hanson. One of the key dominos leading to Hanson’s demise was professional gambler turned FBI Confidential Human Source, R.J. Cipriani aka Robin Hood 702, who was tasked by Hanson to gamble $2.5M through the drug lord’s laundering scheme.
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