“The next morning, Mike returned to the hotel carrying a canvas bag. Moments after entering Room 909, he left again. As he walked toward the parking lot, a handful of armed DEA agents descended on him. Mike was arrested and booked on two federal drug charges. In the bag; twenty-one pounds of cocaine, with an estimated value of $242,000. A little later, DEA agents also arrested John White as he tried to enter the room. Mike was charged with taking the cocaine in lieu of legal fees to represent thirty-year-old Mark Monroe Northcutt. Known in gyms around the state as a steroid dealer, Northcutt was a body builder and power lifter who had been arrested six months before in Houston for possession of twenty-five kilos of cocaine. After his arrest, he had called a Dallas body builder named John Hoffman, whom Mike was representing on steroid charges, and asked his opinion of Wilson, apparently at the instigation of the DEA. “I loved Mike,” Hoffman says. Northcutt agreed to set up Wilson. He made audio tapes of conversations with Mike, saying that he wanted the lawyer to represent him, but he had no money, only “product” that Mike could use. On one tape, Mike reportedly says, “I can’t do that; then I’d get in trouble, too.” During a phone call Northcutt taped with Hoffman, Northcutt complains that he can’t get Mike to come to Houston or answer his phone calls. Wilson, meanwhile, had asked another body builder friend. Keith Rowe, his opinion of Northcutt. Rowe told him: “A con from the word go.” He warned Mike to be careful. “When [Wilson] was arrested, I knew instantly it was Northcutt, working his case off” Rowe says. Rowe says he can believe many things about Wilson, but not that he intended to sell the cocaine. “He wouldn’t deal drugs- never,” Rowe says. “But he got screwed up on that shit.”
Sage Northcutt’s next fight is December 10th when he takes on Cody Pfister (Whose nickname is “The Fist” but should definitely be “The Sister”
These photos are from Sage’s visit to Tri-Star.
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