throat. you know what i mean? he was there when he went to the hospital, you know what i mean? javier moscedo, also a serrano, is nieves cell mate. his presence during the interview is required by the gang. their policy is to have a monitor whenever one of them speaks to the media. you know, the basic stuff. just stuff you can t say. you know. like the lifestyle, you know. prison politics, jail politics, it stays with us. it doesn t go nowhere. the gang life has led to more serious implications in nieves life, such as his mobility, he doest regret. i don t regret it. i don t regret it. the only thing i miss is fighting. that s it. fighting because i could defend myself.
he s more than that. i don t know, man, he s my mom, my dad, my brother, my son. he s everything that i got in this world. he s my reason for being. it s a lockup show, msnbc. we got to the jail one morning and we had a plan in mind of what we were going to do and a deputy comes up and tells us that gabriel, his brother ezekiel has been booked in. so immediately, our plans had changed for the day. we went into a holding cell where he was at and started talking to him. and he basically was just the person that gabriel described him to be. what s up, bro? ezekiel was back in jail due to a probation violation on his original conviction for burglary. he was assigned to the same protective custody unit as gabriel, because he too had recently sworn off gang life. we tell each other every day, if i walk by here, point at me and do a little heart to me. i m like you know, like he s
talking to him. and he basically was just the person that gabriel described him to be. what s up, bro? ezekiel was back in jail due to a probation violation on his original conviction for burglary. he was assigned to the same protective custody unit as gabriel, because he too had recently sworn off gang life. we tell each other every day, if i walk by here, point at me and do a little heart to me. i m like you know, like he s my girlfriend. we ve been together our whole lives. you can probably count on one hand how many things i don t know about him. he s my brother. we ve grown up together, through the foster system and group homes, both our parents are deceased. it came to a point where if he couldn t stay at the group home i was in or foster home i was in, we re going to run, we re going to meet each other in the same spot. we will sleep in a stolen car together or, excuse my french, i won t tell it on camera, but, you know, we would be sleeping, and he would give me som
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 th 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 don t know this. but murder is one of the easiest crimes you can get away with. easy. yes. it is.
woke up with morphine. i was like whoa. that s when it hit me, that it [ bleep ] happened. tubes and everything in my throat. you know what i mean? he was there when he went to the hospital, you know what i mean? javier moscedo, also a serrano, is nieves cell mate. his presence during the interview is required by the gang. their policy is to have a monitor whenever one of them speaks to the media. what are you listening for as far as what he can or can t say? you know, the basic stuff. just stuff you can t say. you know. like the lifestyle, you know. prison politics, jail politics, it stays with us. it doesn t go nowhere. the gang life has led to more serious implications in nieves life, such as his mobility, he doesn t regret.