Pittsburgh police have charged a man in connection with the fatal shooting on Wednesday morning in Marshall-Shadeland. Jason Woodall, 29, faces charges of criminal homicide, robbery and firearm violations, police said in a posting on social media. Investigators identified the victim as Mieko Devaughn. No age or address was listed
how does it happen? it s because that the things that they re making the weapons out of, they re sometimes allowed to have while they re around. and it s already inside the institution itself. when you talk about the hanging or the file holders that holds the file folders, you talk about toothbrushes, razor blades that are melted into the toothbrush that the inmates are allowed to shave with. there are so many things they can use that s already there. it s not the fact that so much you bring something new in, it s already there. jason, tell us what you have in front of you. you have some shefranks, right? absolutely. these are a small example of some confiscated. hold those up. that was made in prison? absolutely. and it s ready for business. and the fact that it s been sharpened, robbly on concrete and has the sheet torn wrapped for the handle. and where would that piece of steel come from? from a variety of sources.
i have a total of ten commissioned agents that work for the department including myself. we conduct administrative and criminal investigations throughout the prison system in the state of tennessee. we have 12 prisons and we have three privately owned facilities that we go to as well. so your job is to go inside and take care of the crimes that happen inside the prison? correct. how does this differ, jason, the work you would do inside a prison than it might if you were a police officer, say, on the outside investigating a crime? it has its pros and cons. one, when a crime is committed, it s at a facility. you know where your subject is. you don t have to look in the neighboring town or worry about him being in the next state. you know they re there somewhere. the problem, though, that we face that law enforcement on the street doesn t necessarily have to is cooperating witnesses. you know, you re relying on convicted felons to come forward and do the right thing and tell the t
it ain t just no certain one. you put some iron in a guy. welcome back to larry king live. jason, are gangs just unavoidable in prison? i think so. i mean they re part of society now, unfortunately. they re a large part of the criminal element of society. so when you bring that criminal element of society or part of it into a prison environment, it s only natural to let that carry over. jerry, what if i don t want to be in a gang. i want to live a clean life and get out? you you may not have that choice. if you choose to stand alone, you stand against many time the entire inmate population. either one gang or another. and rather than do that, then most inmates will usually choose to associate them self with one gang or another.
area because it s such a small area. so we put three finds in here. you look inside the shoe, it s actually tobacco. and this is actually a find we found inside the prison. another thing we have in california that is illegal is tobacco. so we ve trained our dogs not only to find cell phones but also to find tobacco. so far in the last couple months we found probably over 300 pounds of tobacco throughout our prison system. and that s all based on the ability of our dogs to get in there and do searches inside the institutions. all right. you yell when he has that phone. jason, what is the penalty if you get caught? you re already if prison and then you find i have a cell phone. it can carry six years additional. six years for a cell phone? absolutely. what about a bag of pot? a lot less. so a cell phone is more is worth more time all right. we ve got it. we ve got the cell phone. we found the cell phone. let s see.