get down! hey, i need that dude up there strip searched. the special response teams at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, have a broad range of responsibilities. they respond to crisis situations. go, go, go! conduct cell inspections for weapons and drugs. once they re strip searched they re going into the rec yard. and escort high-profile inmates to court, to name a few. but sometimes these elite law enforcement officers find themselves taking on very different duties. gentlemen, get up. one minute it can be exciting and one minute it can be you re looking through garbage. it s got its ups and downs, but for the most part, it s got its ups. having recently shaken down albert cermano let me see your hands. let me see your hands. who they incorrectly suspected of having a homemade cuff key, they re now in search of another key.
oh. all right. let s get this stuff secure. with their plan in place, the team heads to the sleeping inmate s cell. his name is albert cermano. don t move. don t move. let me see your hands. let me see your hands. roll on your back. roll on your back. relax. cermano, right? uh-huh. all right. okay. i m going to roll you on your side, all right? okay. put your feet over here, man. hold on. while you got him flat, i want his trousers off and socks off. put your hands up against the wall. pick up one leg. out. i got him. i m going to back him out. over here, sarge. check his boxers. pat him down real quick in case he s got it somewhere on him. i got it. we re going to check his boxer and stuff. while cermano is strip searched, the intelligence unit
the population are housed. albert cermano has lived in one of these extremely sparse cells for nearly four years as his case has lingered on in the courts. it s like i m never going to get out. it s my home the rest of my life. i m only 23 years old. i ve been here since i was 20. he s accused of taking part in a heinous murder. they re trying to say i m the one that planned it out and i m the one that had everything to do with it, i m the ringleader basically, and so on. and the prosecutor wants him to pay forhe crime with s life. he says it was a bral crime, that we didn t have no remorse in what we did, how we beat this dude up, like we just didn t care. but it wasn t like that, you know what i mean? it s just we were up on dope and didn t know when to stop. no one meant to hurt this dude like that, it was a robbery gone bad, basically. while prosecutors contend he was the ringleader, they say he wasn t alone. the jail currently houses four
out. unlike kunkel, albert cermano, facing a possible death sentence for murder, was hoping to avoid a jury and cut a deal for 25 to life. but he s just gotten word that the prosecutor said no way. so now it s on to plan b. letting his lawyers submit a plea bargain for natural life, meaning he will never be a free man. i ve asked my lawyer to ask for it because they denied the 25 to life. so i asked him to put in for the natural life, and he was telling me that s probably my best bet, too, because he says he don t even see a 50/50 chance of me winning my case. i just said [ bleep ] it. but there was a development with one of cermano s co-defendants. his mother connie, housed four miles away at maricopa women s facility, has pled guilty for her role in the murder. but she says now she s more concerned about albert than she is herself.
the real monster s going to come out. unlike kunkel, albert cermano, facing a possible death sentence for murder, was hoping to avoid a jury and cut a deal for 25 to life. but he s just gotten word that the prosecutor said no way. so now it s on to plan b. letting his lawyers submit a plea bargain for natural life, meaning he will never be a free man. i ve asked my lawyer to ask for it because they denied the 25 to life. so i asked him to put in for the natural life, and he was telling me that s probably my best bet, too, because he says he don t even see a 50/50 chance of me winning my case. i just said [ bleep ] it. but there was a development with one of cermano s co-defendants. his mother connie, housed four miles away at maricopa women s facility, has pled guilty for her role in the murder. but she says now she s more concerned about albert than she