here he kind of was bragging about that incident and how he came forward and gave us the information, and vasquez said, well, you re a snitch. started from there. and escalated. vasquez says he was honoring the long-standing convict code which says snitches should be punished. telling them something about somebody else, technically it is snitching. he kept calling me a bitch. and i was like you a bitch man. what the [ bleep ] you say to the detectives. that was the right thing for me to, do was to tell. if anybody if anybody do anything to anybody s food they deserve to be told on. it wasn t a real thing. it was a joke. i mean, if anybody else would have said that in that pod, if they were giving their sandwiches away and said, oh, how s the extra mayonnaise on your sandwich, everyone would be laughing. but merithew is not just anybody else.
to get away from that pod because he had informed on them up there, and when he came down here he kind of was bragging about that incident and how he came forward and gave us the information, and vasquez said, well, you re a snitch. started from there. and escalated. vasquez says he was honoring the long-standing convict code which says snitches should be punished. telling them something about somebody else, technically it is snitching. he kept calling me a bitch. when we started to beef over lunch. and i was like you a bitch man. what the [ bleep ] you say to the detectives. that was the right thing for me to, do was to tell. if anybody if anybody do anything to anybody s food they deserve to be told on. it wasn t a real thing. it was a joke. i mean, if anybody else would have said that in that pod, if they were giving their sandwiches away and said, oh, how s the extra mayonnaise on your sandwich, everyone would be laughing.
anything that harmed anybody. that s for sure. this law isn t about really harming people. i mean, the dude s a married man. he s out having unprotected sex with complete strangers online. if he hasn t encountered something before, he s very lucky. merithew could face up to 15 years in prison. and this isn t his first offense. two years earlier he was convicted of the same crime with a different man but only had to pay a fine. that guy, i don t know what his deal was, but he was hard of hearing, and we were drinking the night when we met. so i made sure he was aware the next morning. ironically, merithew says he contracted the virus from a man who did not disclose his own hiv positive status. do you feel like the person that gave you hiv, that they should have told you? i take 100% accountability for me being infected. i knew about aids since, like,
to giving them, and the deputy sent me down here to the hole because of my own safety. he said they wanted to kill me. an individual came up to me and told me that jeremy had said that he was going to give everybody in the pod hiv. he had told people he put a special sauce on his sandwiches. extra mayonnaise. that s what i said. and that was like four weeks ago. you re saying you did not do that? no, i did not do that. bologna sandwiches are not part of the jail s normal meal plan. they re usually given to inmates who require an additional meal for medication. due to his hiv status, merithew was such an inmate. but he gave his sandwiches away. the sandwiches are popular because a lot of the inmates are indigent and he was giving them out for free, i guess. and if you can get anything free in jail, sandwiches or anything like that, you re going to take them. so they re going to be extremely popular. i have a morning snack for you. there you go. thank you.
i decided to have a screw it driver, i deserved it. i went ahead and ordered a second drink. i don t remember anything after that. i don t remember driving. i don t remember going into the ditch. i don t remember walking up to these people s houses that they said i walked up to and asked for help. i was arrested right there, handcuffed and brought to the kent county jail. and this is where i ve been ever since that night. she s been in jail three months. drinking that night led to her fifth dui conviction in the past ten years, and she is now awaiting sentencing. she once served 120 days in jail but knows this time it could be worse. my biggest concern right now is staying in county, not going to prison. i don t want to be far away. if i go prison, i won t see my family not very much. to where now at least i can, you know, they re 45 minutes away.