danger from other inmates who are upset that the poorly planned crime has cut off a major avenue of contraband trfficking. i m not stupid. if it s up to me, you ll be gone by friday. don t do that to me. i promise you, it ain t nothing like that. i ain t got no enemies. maybe you don t even realize it. i m not that dumb. i ain t done it. that s what i m saying. i ain t done it. you re starting to stutter a lot now. i stutter anyway. not like that. sometimes we re forced to do things that we really don t want to do. i feel like i had no other way out. would i do it again? yeah, i d do it again. concerns over contraband, especially cell phones, have
the jail s visitation center, but they can speak to their loved ones through a telephone monitor. this is why they do video visitation because it s better than having contact visits. we don t have to worry about contra band entering and exiting into the believe. protection of officers as well as inmates. i get visits from my fiance, and i also talk by the phone. it s good to hear a different voice compared to the voices that you hear all day. when you hear something soft, it makes you feel good. it really does get you drunk like we say. it gets you drunk. once you get in there, it s, like, oh, man, it s good to hear this. once you get off the phone, it s like i m back to this world. today nathan yell s sister tracy burgess has arrived for a visit. she s not here to see her brother. rather, she is visiting her fiance. both are charged in the double murder case. it s tough to have to visit
out on the eastern end of long island the two suffolk county jail facilities share something in common with others throughout the state. come here. they are designed to allow contact between most inmates and visitors, something growing rare in jails located in other states. this is the way the state runs it and officers will argue until we faint about having this because this is where so much contraband comes in. any other jail will tell you they don t have the contraband problems that jails like this have. can t change that. so we have to deal with the cards we are dealt. recently they were caught allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin, marijuana and tobacco into the jail. visitation is not the only entry point for contra band. many inmates are hiding weapons or drugs when booked into the jail. most are discovered. one of suffolk county s most prolific bookie smugglers returned to the riverhead facility. this is santa cruz. can you send her to medical and
crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of the cases. but today investigator hastings will act on tips that a drug crime will occur within the jail specifically in the visiting room where new york state law allows most the right to contact visits. they visit faster than you can breathe. they put the contraband in places that you wouldn t believe. in this room alone i have seen mothers open mouth kiss their sons to pass contraband, horrifying, but this is what they do. as the day s visitors begin to arrive investigator hastings and members of the sheriff s emergency response team will keep an eye on one inmate in particular from a security room. we watch. it has the film on it. they can t see us. we have the cameras that we monitor to catch them. we have information from an
girlfriend. so approximately ten minutes into the visit she started reaching her hand into the bra to take out balloons that she had, which we didn t know how many she had. she had three in her hand at that time. she was searched by the female investigator where they found another eight balloons in her bra. this contraband was tested and proven to be marijuana, heroin and tobacco that they were trying to smuggle in. they say they had found that heroin on my girl. he maintains he knew about the tobacco but not the drugs investigator santa cruz is suspicious based on what his girlfriend told him. she stated she had somebody come to her house and drop off already premade balloons which she was told was maybe just marijuana, which happens quite a bit, also, because these guys get females to bring in drugs. if i tell you would you bring me heroin or cocaine you are not going to do that. so they have the other people make up the drugs, tell her it s