he got all excited, you know? me and albert briceno have been around each other for like the last 22 years. we were neighbors in juvenile hall. briceno and bowles are not only old friends. they share long criminal histories. they are considered among the most dangerous and violent inmates in the entire jail. because of that, they will never have physical contact. they are housed in a unit where only one inmate at a time is allowed into the common area. we laugh at it now. we look at each other door to door. we re just laughing like, dude, what the hell are we doing? we re 34 years old. we re still like we re 10 years old in the heart. come on. come on. inside their cells the sinks provide the best sound transmission and serve as low-tech intercoms. good to see you again, though, man.
check in and out of jail, classification officers are constantly analyzing the population in order to house them in a manner that will help avoid conflict. next group is echo cube. hawkins. albert briceno is the latest inmate on the move. he has been transferred from the theo lacey facility to the central jail, three miles away. most inmates within the county jail are continuously on the move. we do have to screen and rescreen these inmates all the time. basically, how i look at it is, who can play with who. shortly after moving into his new cell, briceno discovered his neighbor was an old childhood friend, jeremy bowles. i recognized the tattoos. and then when he got up, i said, man, what s up, g ? he looked at me. and his eyes got all big. the recognition set in. the star threw him off, the tattoos that i got.
man, what s up, g ? he looked at me. and his eyes got all big. the recognition set in. the star threw him off, the tattoos that i got. he got all excited, you know? me and albert briceno have been around each other for like the last 22 years. we were neighbors in juvenile hall. briceno and bowles are not only old friends. they share long criminal histories. they are considered among the most dangerous and violent inmates in the entire jail. because of that, they will never have physical contact. they are housed in a unit where only one inmate at a time is allowed into the common area. we laugh at it now. we look at each other door to door. we re just laughing like, dude, what the hell are we doing? we re 34 years old. we re still like we re 10 years old in the heart. come on. come on. inside their cells the sinks provide the best sound
high-level threat that we take these precautions just to protect ourselves. with briceno safely restrained, deputies descend on his cell searching for contraband, like weapons or drugs. and equally as important, gang intelligence. sometimes they will hide kites in between the papers. if it is legal mail or legal paperwork they think we can t search it. we can search it. but we can t read it. does that happen a lot to you? what, this? yeah. yeah. how come? just procedure, their jobs, you know. within minutes, the deputies make a hit and discover gang-related documents. i m not really at liberty to say exactly how it could help us. it s sensitive material. but it s probably going to help investigations further down the road. this was a good one. any time we get decent intelligence, it s a good search. while authorities still consider briceno to be a
powerful gang leader, his time at orange county has been spent trying to disassociate himself from that past. i m not involved in the gang stuff no more. that s when i was young, you know. i left all that behind. it s childish. you know? it s the reason why i m here. but briceno might have a motive for distancing himself from gang life. his current armed robbery sentences come with gang enhancements that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life. he will soon be going to court in hopes of convincing a judge to drop them. we committed robberies, me and another individual. and that was it. got arrested. you know, and both of us being gang members, that s when they hit us with the gang enhancements. while briceno s most serious conviction has been for armed robbery, he later implied he might have gotten away with murder. a lot of people don t know this. but murder is one of the easiest crimes you can get away with. easy. yes. it is.