with a lot that was going on, and i was only on the run for failing to register. dean had gone into hiding after a warrant was issued when he failed to register as a violent offender, a requirement for those with violent convictions in the state of kansas. he says he made it to california, where he began to re-evaluate his life. i started to see life for what it really was. i m seeing, i ain t getting no younger. you know, i got my kids out here. i was really feeling a whole lot of guilt. feeling worthless and feeling stupid, for real. i had a revelation of god s majesty. i m talking about, i just had an unexplainable state of peace overtake me. but one year later, dean was overtaken by u.s. marshals who arrested him in texas and returned him to wichita. dean received 20 years for theft, assaulting a police officer and seven counts of failing to register as a violent
ingredients, they put it together and make one meal, just like the nachos. this right here is gonna all come together. what you about to see is something real, real nice come to fruition. a little bit of nothing is gonna make something. you dig what i m saying? just the things they can make and the time they spend with it shows their creative side. y all try it out, let me know what you think. hold, hold on. in jail, dean says he knows how to interact with staff without being perceived as a snitch. even when you chew, it just step back like this. [ laughter ] we ain t going to be talking about no crimes or cases. we ain t fixing to get deep. of course they are you know,
got me. though pastor tina predicted the dismissal of dean s earlier murder charge, she is less certain this time. marquel s on another journey. but this time he s going to set a minute because he didn t get it right the last time. dean says he s innocent this time as well, but he would never identify the real killer, even if he knew who it was. though he says he has shed gang life, he still cannot violate the long-standing code against snitching. pastor tina preaches that s a code whose time is up. i want to talk to you about that. because y all got that thing in here that you not gonna snitch on nobody. you know what i m saying, both y all on the case, whatever the case may be, i m giving you a scenario. y all got in a situation, situation went bad, your friend shot the dude, and because you with him, you come to jail. i mma tell you all the time, we just can t gonna say, because i don t want to be labelled as a snitch.
man, it s awkward for real. he s one of them ones, you know yeah. i don t sit well with them. i don t hold no hate or nothing against them or nothing, but it s an uneasy feeling. can never lose that, i guess. they treating you all right in here? yeah, man, you know it s jail. yeah. you know what i m saying? i stay out the way. your mama doing all right? ain t seen her in awhile. mom s working. mr. dean was a gang member at a very young age and had numerous interactions with him. got to know his mother through that time as well. had different interactions with her because of some of the things that he was allegedly had done at the time we were looking for him. mama didn t know where you were. was worried that we would do
in jesus name, amen. dean had recently been sentenced to 20 years in prison for theft, assaulting a police officer and failing to register as a violent offender. in prison, he received a new charge of first degree murder for allegedly shooting a man at a warehouse party. he was transferred back to sedgwick county jail to stand trial in the neighboring courthouse. eight years earlier he faced a different murder charge, also for allegedly shooting a man at a party. nobody ever said i shot or did anything, you know. i guess since they just found out that a gang member was there, you know, they pinned it on me, but i sat in here for a whole year. man, he hit the ground, and the lord said, you just spun out of it! during that year, dean got to know pastor tina, who predicted what would happen with this case. because god sets you free.