i was getting sentenced, i would have rather just, you know if i could, i ll just go out to the firing squad or something, you know, just end it. in reality, all i m doing is dying a slow, painful death, you know? the victim was shot four times, face and chest area. briceno s childhood friend, jeremy bowles, will likely never see freedom again either. one more time in the head. after confessing to 29 murders, bowles has been asked by jail officials to detail the killings in writing. as the details come forward, our chain will basically be to gather all the information from him as much as possible, document it on paper. and then what we ll do is we ll start contacting the law enforcement agencies that it concerns. from there, those agencies will
consider briceno to be a 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 that 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. what gets peo
briceno s case, he is such a high-level threat that we take these precautions just to protect ourselves. with briceno safely restrained, deputies descend on his cell searching for contraband, like weapons or drugs. and equally as important, gang intelligence. sometimes they will hide kites in between the papers. if it is legal mail or legal paperwork they think we can t search it. we can search it. but we can t read it. does that happen a lot to you? what, this? yeah. yeah. how come? just procedure, their jobs, you know. within minutes, the deputies make a hit and discover gang-related documents. i m not really at liberty to say exactly how it could help us. it s sensitive material. but it s probably going to help investigations further down the road. this was a good one. any time we get decent intelligence, it s a good search. while authorities still
all the things that i ve been through, it s like i ve been walking through hell wearing gasoline shoes. i m telling you right now you ve got the green light to do what ert is known best for. nice and steady. nice and steady. the team is on its way to briceno s cell to launch a surprise shakedown for contraband. and they re taking no chances. get on the ground. get on the ground. get on the ground or we will use less lethal weapons against you. slide out. slide out. on your stomach. keep coming out. just like that s fine. start heading off to your left. that way. we do cell searches all the time. we don t always use this level of security. put your hands behind your back. we re doing this because
i would have rather just, you know if i could, i ll just go out to the firing squad or something, you know, just end it. in reality, all i m doing is dying a slow, painful death, you know? the victim was shot four times, face and chest area. briceno s childhood friend, jeremy bowles, will likely never see freedom again either. one more time in the head. after confessing to 29 murders, bowles has been asked by jail officials to detail the killings in writing. as the details come forward, our chain will basically be to gather all the information from him as much as possible, document it on paper. and then what we ll do is we ll start contacting the law enforcement agencies that it concerns. from there, those agencies will probably get ahold of the