The Drug Dealing Stripper That Was On The First 48 And Did 13 Years In Prison

Former Stripper turned drug dealer Danielle Sachs reveals how painkiller addiction pulled her into fake prescriptions, pharmacy fraud and Florida’s pill-mill economy. In this unfiltered Honor Among Thieves Podcast interview, Danielle explains how she sold prescription pills from Miami and Palm Beach to Kentucky, landed on Gainesville’s Most Wanted list and eventually became involved in a murder case featured on A&E’s The First 48.

After her arrest was captured by The First 48, Danielle spent nearly four years in county jail before receiving a 15-year sentence and serving 13 years in Florida state prison. She breaks down Florida’s principal law, life inside a women’s prison and the dangerous prison-contraband economy that continued her cycle of criminal behavior.

Danielle also shares the moment confinement forced her to confront who she had become, how faith transformed the final years of her sentence and how she rebuilt her life after prison. This is a raw true-crime story about prescription drug dealing, opioid addiction, murder, women’s prison, prison contraband, redemption and second chances.

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This episode is presented for documentary, journalistic, and educational purposes. It does not promote or glorify illegal drug use, drug trafficking, identity fraud, or other criminal activity.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

06:18 Rebellion, Running Away and Early Trouble

18:17 Stripping at With a Fake ID

26:09 The Fake Prescription Drug Operation

34:22 Landing on Gainesville’s Most Wanted

40:11 Drug Court and Florida’s Pill-Mill Era