ephedrine. but savvy drug dealers found a work around creating a black market for cold pills. they get multiple people to make small purchases and then a bill broker sells the pills to method cooks in bulk. the suspects the unit caught in st. louis with cold pills were just that, pill brokers. ♪ >> you are being charged with conspiracy to po tess pseudo ephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture meth. if you are not the meth cook or have anything to deal with meth. you are just a pill broker. how much did they pay you?