were caught smoking tobacco, she decided to search the entire unit in a shakedown disguised as a fire drill. fire drill! fire drill. fire drill! let s go! everybody out! come on! the ruse is intended to get inmates out of their cells into the recreation yard without time to dispose of contraband. yes, back wall. face the wall! deputies also be assisted by the jail s newly arrived dog. it s a deterrent. it sends a strong message, do not bring drugs into our jail. when i get suspicious, i don t have all the senses it makes to find what i need to find, but i have tools, called canine.
receiving end know this is the cart. it might be something as simple as flipping a shirt over or taping a piece of paper to the side of the cart. but the techniques inmates use to smuggle drugs into jail are constantly evolving. the jail recently acquired a new team member. she s a narcotics dog. she s trained to find all the different forms of cocaine, meth, heroin, cannabis and we recently trained her on oxycodone. she s going to be off her leash and i m going to let her do her thing. she s a big puppy. i think a lot of this job is going to be presence, just the inmates knowing that this dog is here and that we will be out looking for the drugs. i think we will deter it a good bit. whether directly or
indirectly, drugs have led to the incarceration of many of the inmates at the county jail. my drug of choice is crack. i ve been charged with two robberies. i have no recollections whatsoever of doing these crimes. all i remember is leaving a crack house, waking up in a field. that s it. steven caponi s troubles didn t end there. in jail, he was extorting other inmates he says were child molesters. he would threaten them with violence if they didn t put money on his books. for one, it was $40 a week, from the second one it was about $80 a week. the hustle landed caponi in confinement. another day in paradise. he says he s enjoyed the solitude. but after nine months is ready for a change.
he might be trying to manipulate, but that s part of the game every day we go through. i know hell can t be too bad. we ll probably keep him a couple more weeks at least, but there s always that possibility if his behavior is good that they give him a shot back out in general population. here s the request slip. make sure you fill it out asking to go to general population. tell her that you ve been behaving. worst case scenario if they let me out, i go back to extorting child molesters. i ve got to leave them alone, i know that. coming up, under investigation for dealing drugs in jail, jessica turns the tables on her accuser. i had seen her on the phone earlier. you could hear her, she was saying six this maybe pill numbers? yeah, it was numbers. timeline. i ll nod in agreement so my wife thinks i understand what you re saying. i look forward to questioning your every move.
javier perez has been working in the laundry a couple of weeks now. like many of the inmates at the jail, perez is here after getting caught up in tampa s prescription drug epidemic. he s pled not guilty and is now awaiting trial. the opportunity came across to make extra money and i tried to take it like an idiot. i made like $130. shows you i m not that good, huh? i m ready to change. it s definitely a wakeup call. but not everyone who comes to jail sees it as an opportunity for change. the drug trade exists even on the inside. drugs are most commonly smuggled in through visitors or the mail. and once they re in, inmates create their own sales and distribution systems. the laundry room, as well as the kitchen, are the central hubs for contraband throughout the facility. they ll put the contra band, whether it s drugs or weapons, they ll put it in a cart and tag the cart in such a manner that the other inmates at the