series at maricopa we told the story of 20-year-old john antonucci, awaiting sentencing for manslaughter and arson. prior to his arrest, he was a popular black belt karate instructor for a company that taught sports to children. one of his co-instructors is now his co-defendant. moniza murillo. i met john a couple years ago when he first got hired. we just started talking. he s overall a good guy. as a friend, we ve always been close. we re like a team. one of the challenges in getting the inmates to reveal sometimes very personal stories is creating this connection with them. and with moniza, one of the things that we shared in common was a real affection for martial arts. i had studied martial arts and i was very interested in the martial arts that she had studied so we talked about that. i asked her to put me through some moves.
get on the ground now! get on the ground now! get down! 23, get down. with his wild west reputation, we didn t expect to meet two young people at maricopa who not much earlier were considered role models as opposed to felons. no matter where we are you need to be serving god. right now we re all sitting in jail. i m a very devout christian. i ve gotten back to my walk with god. i was working in my church and everything before coming here. it s not jailhouse conversion or whatever. i just followed a friend and shouldn t have done that and helped him do something that i shouldn t have done. and it s going to cost me several years of my life. during our extended stay series at maricopa we told the story of 20-year-old john antonucci, awaiting sentencing for manslaughter and arson. prior to his arrest, he was a popular black belt karate instructor for a company that taught sports to children. one of his co-instructors is now
have a conversation about perverted sexual things using a swear word every three minutes and they come over to you and gamble for 20 minutes, those two personalities clash. they clash. i mean, one is carnal and fleshly and one is spiritual. antonucci s crime received substantial local press in phoenix. and much of it was negative. as a result, some inmates here don t believe his claims of remorse. you should recruit that hard every day for bible study, not just for the cameras. i do but i just got to get it right away. you know what i mean? that s real, real show some humility, brother. doing that for the cameras, man. just a year earlier, antonucci was a popular 19-year-old with a black belt in karate and known to the many children he taught as sensei jon working as a karate instructor for a company in phoenix called young champions. young champions is basically the they offer low-cost sports programs for kids.
they clash. i mean, one is carnal and fleshly and one is spiritual. antonucci s crime received substantial local press in phoenix. and much of it was negative. as a result, some inmates here don t believe his claims of remorse. you should recruit that hard every day for bible study, not just for the cameras. i do but i just got to get it right away. you know what i mean? that s real, real show some humility, brother. doing that for the cameras, man. just a year earlier, antonucci was a popular 19-year-old with a black belt in karate and known to the many children he taught as sensei jon working as a karate instructor for a company in phoenix called young champions. young champions is basically the they offer low-cost sports programs for kids. antonucci was fired when his employer suspected him and another instructor josh robinson of embezzling.
they clash. i mean, one is carnal and fleshly and one is spiritual. antonucci s crime received substantial local press in phoenix. and much of it was negative. as a result, some inmates here don t believe his claims of remorse. you should recruit that hard every day for bible study, not just for the cameras. i do but i just got to get it right away. you know what i mean? that s real, real show some humility, brother. doing that for the cameras, man. just a year earlier, antonucci was a popular 19-year-old with a black belt in karate and known to the many children he taught as senseijon. he was working as a karate instructor for a company in