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.
in most jails. as thousands of men and women 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
either they re willing to fight to protect or because, in briceno s case he is such a 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 says 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. anytime we get decent intelligence, it s a good
or e.r.t. go ahead and grab your gear from the shelves. and then just take it outside. e.r.t. is used for the major disturbances. we re used to quell riotous situations. and we re used to gather intel. inside the armory at theo lacey, the emergency response team suits up to confront an inmate considered to be a dangerous threat. i m sending you guys into danger, i know. this is not a drill. this is an ad seg inmate. we all know what that means. correct? that means he s assaultive not only to other inmates but he s also assaultive possibly to staff. all right? that kind of amps it up a little bit. the inmate is albert briceno. he has been transferred to orange county from a maximum security state prison, in order to appeal his current sentence of more than 150 years on multiple counts of gang-related armed robbery. albert briceno is a gang member from hard times. that s a street gang out of the city of garden grove. he goes by the moniker of capone. he was mainly brought up
briceno says he hopes jessie will follow his workout routine but not his life as a gang-banger. you know, everybody wants your children to be successful and succeed in life and be somebody. you know? but you know, he s young. he s a teenager. sometimes he don t make the best decisions, you know? you can t force it. you know, it s like you can bring a horse to the water. but you can t make it drink, you know. ultimately, they re going to make their own decisions. though he has never been charged with murder, briceno made it clear that when he was jesse s age, some of his decisions ended in violence. i was just treacherous. you know? i was just a gunner. when fools hear my name, i wanted my name to bring fear, you know, to the depths of their soul, you know. but as far as, like, when i was going on hits, your intentions is to go and spray as many rounds as you can and bring you know? and bring the rain.