‘Never Get Busted’ Tells Wild Tale Of Ex-Cop Turned “Expert At Hiding Drugs, Evading Police, And Raising Hell!” – Sundance

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EXCLUSIVE: Barry Cooper can safely be called a renegade. He served in law enforcement – as a police officer in Texas, but some might say he then switched sides.

The documentary Never Get Busted, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, gets deep into Cooper’s story, one that has seen him “relocate” from Texas to Brazil, with authorities in pursuit.

David Anthony Ngo and Erin Williams-Weir directed the documentary, which bows in the festival’s Episodics section (the project was initially conceived as a docuseries, but it eventually morphed into a feature doc).

We have your first look at Never Get Busted in the clip below. “Barry Cooper is an expert at hiding drugs, evading police, and raising hell!” notes a synopsis. “But once upon a time he was a highly decorated Narcotics Officer, spearheading the War on Drugs in Texas for one of the most notorious drug task forces in American history. “After a raid goes wrong, destroying a family not unlike his own, Barry’s conscious gets the better of him and he quits the force.