range. execution style. all this, led investigators to think that this could be an organized crime hit. rumors are sweeping the town. talk of mexican drug cartels and prison gangs. we are open to every avenue right now. reporter: nbc s channel five in dallas covered the case from the beginning and the reporter ken kaltoff was there for it all. mexican drug cartels were suspect immediately because he had been involved in drug cases over the years. reporter: and investigators also suspected another group. less publically known but very dangerous. the arian brotherhood of texas. a prison gang of white supremists. why was this a group that b group that may have done this? there were rumors that said that they may want to get even with people in law enforcement. reporter: get even because
you don t know the report we re talking about? roughly 20 days ago? for your safety? no, someone else was in fair view. fear of you. you don t know about that? the report says that this guy fears that you and a bunch of other inmates are basically strong arming him and other inmates within the unit and that you re ex-mexican mafia. the problem with this report is you also have a history of being identified as a gang member in the past. i m not i understand that but why would this inmate say this about you? the thing is, there s 44 units in that unit. he has 44 people to pick. he identifies you. why would he do that? i don t know who he is. it doesn t matter who he is. the point is he identified you. i m not doing that obviously something is happening in there if he s identifying you. we want to go ahead and try to weed out the major prison gangs from general population because these particular gangs are predatory gangs and they prey upon the weaker inmates. in the facil
we couldn t tell what was going on with the other units. if we keep them all locked down. so it gives the cops a chance to see how the other inmates are interacting with each other. it gives the cops a chance to interact with the other inmates. it isn t like that all the time. it s just how you conduct yourself among the inmates and how the inmates perceive your actions. but at any given time, at any given moment, something could go wrong. all it takes is just something to let it off and it becomes a forest fire. though the staff believes they ve resolved the current situation with the southern hispanics, the politics of race-based prison gangs will always be cause for tension between inmates and officers. in prison, it s not crypts against bloods. even though you ve got different groups, it s black thing and everything else. yeah, i m a crypt. they are blood. but i still speak to them. our war is either with the police or the other races. it s more race riots than anything, than g
his time and going home, robert has assaulted more than a dozen inmates, lengthening his original sentence. because of all of them assaults, my points again rose to a level four inmate. and the classification committee decided to give me a indeterdeter indeterminate cshu term, and put me up with a aryan brotherhood member, and that began my life as a prison gang. the aryan brotherhood used robert to carry out their dirty work. prison gangs involved everything from stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons, whatever needed to be done. i did it. we warn you. the details of his violent acts is extremely graphic. there was an inmate that came up here. he was accused of raping a woman out on the street. because i was up in coming in a
he was put in a holding cell and put on potty watch, where a day later, the balloons came out. they were found. if caught smuggling drugs, a visitor could end up doing time in a prison, much like the one they re visiting. many smugglers are actually victims acting out of fear in response to threats from prison gangs. they will prey on a weak individual and force that individual to have their visitor bring in drugs because they re not suspected. but they re told that your visitor is going to be visited by somebody, they re going to give them something, and they have to bring it in. and they won t tell the inmate that they ll do something to him, they ll tell them, we ll do something to your loved one. this is tar heroin. this was found in the possession of a visitor. she was bringing it in to her fiance. she had this wrapped up in the plastic packaging here and then that was wrapped in a balloon or