{"id":21815,"date":"2024-08-07T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:20:21","slug":"cowboy-cartels-dan-johnstone-castor-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/cowboy-cartels-dan-johnstone-castor-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview: Cowboy Cartel\u2019s Dan Johnstone &#038; Castor Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new documentary series <em>Cowboy Cartel<\/em>\u00a0debuted last week on Apple TV+. It charts the true story of unlikely hero Scott Lawson, a rookie FBI agent from rural Tennessee, whose investigation took down the Trevi\u00f1o brothers, the leaders of Los Zetas, one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico. The doc series features first-time interviews with Lawson, who broke the case, as well as IRS agent Steve Pennington; Irving police officers Steve Junker, Brian Schutt and Kim Williams; Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner; Pulitzer Prize-winning\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>journalist Ginger Thompson; and Joe Tone, the author of\u00a0<em>Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream<\/em>, among many others.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 690px;\">\n \t                <div style=\"padding-top: 56.2504%;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<video data-video-id=\"6359637199112\" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-account=\"1120308147\" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-player=\"default\" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-embed=\"default\" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-application-id \n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"video-js\" \n\t\t\t\t\tcontrols=\"\"\n                    loop autoplay\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/div><\/video>\n\t\t\t\t\t<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1120308147\/default_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Johnstone and Castor Fernandez, executive producers and directors of\u00a0<em>Cowboy Cartel<\/em>, take\u00a0<em>TV Real Weekly\u00a0<\/em>behind the scenes of the new documentary series. 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