documents they believe are linked to a tax fraud scam. singletary denies that. i just needed to have that legal work. he s been demanding the return of his legal papers, but his aggressive behavior has prompted officers to put him in a restraint chair. i was banging on the door because they wouldn t come talk to me about my legal work. they were just telling me it was confiscated. that wasn t a good enough answer for me because i m entitled to my legal work. i wanted someone to talk to me. that is the way to get them to talk to me. but they didn t have no understanding. so it was the chair. you know, put you in the chair for beating on the door. i don t like the chair. i can say that much. it s purely a time-out. it can go anywhere from a few minutes up to four hours. but it s very effective. singletary has been in the restraint chair for three hours. sergeant sarah herman will determine when he is calm enough to be released back to his cell. if it says calm across the boar
you think that guy you were holding it for, your buddy, is that what he s into? i guess. you re an educated guy. but, yeah, it would be an opinion. i m saying educated guess. if that s what he do. one plus one is equaling two. i m saying as far as i m concerned. i m not saying i already know. my gut feeling is if he s not running the tax scam, he s got close associates up in state prison that are doing this. you want to know about the tax forms. make it easy for me. he s willing to give us some information but, of course, with brian singletary he wants something in return and what he s wanting is something i can t give him and that s help on his current appeal is why he is in state prison right now and that can t happen. as of right now it s pretty much a dead issue with brian singletary unless i m hoping
i ve known him on and off for a few years. i m hoping he will open up to somebody like myself. i have been kind of studying the whole tax fraud thing that goes on in prison. are you aware that that stuff goes on in state prison as far as tax fraud scams? i ve seen it on the news. i ve read up on it. i know as far as the 1040 forms and the 1040 ezs and they use other people s names and all that stuff. i was just wondering if there s other angles that they take. like i say, i don t know honestly i don t know. i don t get into that. all right. all right. it s frustrating for me to talk to brian singletary. he is intelligent and well-read on the law. he likes to beat around the bush. he never wants to give you full truth answers and you got to try to extract a little bit of truth from what he is telling you. between you and i, you had to know when somebody looks at that paperwork how it looks. i just was holding it. i didn t know what it was. i stuck it in my stuff.
so once he s out of their custody, we try to bring it down just a little bit emotionally so that he doesn t cause any disruption in my area. thank you, gentlemen. we appreciate it. we ll talk as soon as we get you secured in the cell. here it is. bring your hands forward. there you go. thanks, sarge. all right. the inmate is brian singletary. he s serving a 30-year prison sentence for crimes including assault on a law enforcement officer, carrying a concealed firearm and possession with intent to sell. his return to the jail is to appeal his sentence. what is your complaint? my complaint is i have been getting treated bad since i got here. i feel like i ve been singled out. what happened? my legal stuff that went through and tore up. you know, i mean, so i don t know what has been taken and what s not been taken. okay. we have no interest in taking any of your legal stuff. you do understand that, right? it is taking me out of my
jail officials confiscated suspicious tax forms that he claimed were part of his legal paperwork. now he wants them back. i m missing a big part of my legal work. the only thing she did not put in there is some type of tax form. is that what you were talking about? the tax stuff, see, all that stuff is part of my case. see, i got a lot of my stuff in here already. okay, well, just relax. just relax, singletary. i m going to go down myself. i got more of the same stuff right here. all this is part of my case. this is my federal case. i got more stuff down here but what i m saying is i have a motion and some more pertinent documents that i need that i talked to my lawyer about. okay, relax. bring the tone down a little bit. just relax. let me take a look. but as deputy mims looks into his complaints, he continues his disturbance, eventually banging on his cell door and drawing the attention of sergeant herman.