of security. put your hands behind your back. we re doing this because these guys have information that 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 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
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. 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
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 d
briceno says he hopes jesse 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 cheer 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
watching video games and working on computers. they have to get busy working out. because they re actually in pretty sad shape for their ages. let s do a few pushups. oh, man. one, two, three. but not all inmates find camaraderie in jail. due to his classification by the state prison system as a gang member with a violent past, albert briceno is locked in a single cell 22 hours a day. here we have albert briceno and he s down here on appeal for his 150 years, the eight counts of robbery. right, right. he s the one that s trying to get some of the gang enhancements dropped so he can get some time shredded off. yeah. my guess is the gang enhancements are probably going to stick because it was found true during the jury trial. a lot of new tattoos, too. yeah. he got those up at delano. because he didn t have them back in 2001 when he was with us. he didn t have the horns.