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Meth kingpin says he's gone from 'drug dealer to hope dealer'

  • Gamboa expressed regret over his past drug use, stating, 'I resent the day that I ever used drugs.'
  • Gamboa has spent 8,455 days in prison and has transformed from a 'drug dealer to a hope dealer,' according to Adam Martin.
  • Adam Martin, CEO of the F5 Project, noted that despite prison's challenges, change can happen from within.
  • Martin acknowledged that incarceration methods need to change, saying, 'You don't have to be all ‘Hug-A-Thug’ to accept that something must change.
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Meth kingpin says he's gone from 'drug dealer to hope dealer'

BUTNER, N.C. — When Michael Gamoba was 8 years old, his older siblings brought him to his first drug buy in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. When he was 9, his brothers fed him LSD. By the time he turned 10, “I was involved in drug deals, mostly as a prop,” Gamboa told Forum News Service in a recent recorded session that, due to prison restrictions, could only be conducted through his attorney, Jacki Phelps. Further communication with Gamboa — once …

·Cherokee County, United States
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Inforum broke the news in Fargo, United States on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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