popularity in high school, jimmy seemed to have it all as a big fish in the river city of kankak kankakeeis, a blue collar town south of chicago. >> i was the star player. i was captain every year that i played. >> jimmy grew up in the shadow of his father, big jim, who was a cop and hero to his young son. >> he was my best friend. he was the backbone of pretty much everything i did. >> but he would be put into peril from a terrible choice he made. as a teenager, he began selling drugs. he started small, peddling bags of marijuana. then he expanded to to contaico went to chicago. he was now a big fish in a big pond. lake michigan, to be exact. he was his own "in" crowd. fast women, fast cars and souped-up living. >> all the owners i was in tight with. i would go there and have carte blanche everywhere i went. >> did your pop know? did he suspect? >> he didn't suspect until much, much later. >> it would be a rude awakening for both his dad and jimmy that day in 1996 when jimmy was just relaxing in one of his chicago homes. >> all of a sudden, ka boom, the whole door came blowing off the hi