Drew Peterson's Scared Snitch: 'I'll Do Anything You Want to Get Your F---ing Conviction'

CHESTER, IL — The snitch who worked for the feds to get Drew Peterson charged with plotting to have a prosecutor murdered said he was scared of prison guards and other inmates.

“I’m not going to yard. I stay in my cell all day, me and my cellie,” 25-year-old Antonio “Beast” Smith said in a video-recorded interview with two Will County prosecutors and an investigator.

Smith explained from the witness stand Thursday morning that he and his former cellmate, gay-hating rapist Adrian Gabriel, 28, were housed together in the protective custody section of Pontiac Correctional Center.

Smith ratted on a guard assigned to protective custody and — fearing retribution — he and Gabriel moved to the prison’s general population. But the other prisoners in general population suspected he and Gabriel were snitches, he said, and he feared for his safety.

Smith said he was equally afraid of the guards in protective custody and the inmates in general population, who would come to his cell and taunt him with calls of “bitch ass snitch.”

“I’ll do anything you want to get your f---ing conviction,” Smith told the prosecutors and investigator.

Smith was moved from Pontiac to Stateville Correctional Center, and then sent to Menard Correctional Center, where he wore a wire for the FBI in hopes of catching Peterson plotting the murder of Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow.

Glasgow led Peterson’s prosecution in 2012 and got him sentenced to 38 years in prison for drowning his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Peterson’s murder-for-hire trial started Monday and Smith has been on the witness stand every day. During the trial’s first three days, prosecutors also played hours of Smith and Peterson’s secretly recorded conversations.

The recordings captured Peterson, 62, speaking at length about his hopes to someday smuggle drugs from Mexico for a cartel, that time he got it on with three Russian hookers in a Florida swimming pool, and the movies he likes to watch. One thing he does not do is explicitly order Glasgow’s murder.

Smith testified that — during a private chat by the prison commissary urinals — Peterson told him he didn’t care whether or not Glasgow’s killing was done “execution style.” Smith failed to catch that particular conversation on his recording device.

After recording Peterson in late 2014, Smith was taken from Menard and eventually landed in a federal prison where he comes and goes from his cell as he pleases, gets to lift weights, plays fantasy football and enjoys a “better environment, better food.”

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is keeping Smith’s location secret.

Smith was also paid $3,200 by the FBI to replace property that was lost when he was shipped between prisons.

Smith said he was placed in the cushy federal pen for his protection.

“I wore a wire in a maximum security joint,” he said. “It’s the worst thing you can do.”

While he was sent to a softer prison and paid off by the feds, Smith actually wanted much more to help them get Peterson. He sent illicit messages to Gabriel about how he was going to get them both released from prison and placed in a witness protection program. He also expected to be paid tens of thousands of dollars.

“We still have to play hardball and get what we want,” he wrote to Gabriel in one of the messages. “Not me, we. It’s you and me against the world.”

In another note, Smith wrote, “We will be home together.”

“We demand freedom and some money immediately, and we stand on that,” Smith said. “I told them bitches, if they don’t haul you out with me the deal is off.”

Gabriel is currently incarcerated at Pontiac. After Peterson was charged with plotting Glasgow’s murder, he wrote a letter accusing Smith of setting Peterson up.