on it. i just pulled myself up there and flew out the window. i started running across the rooftops. i didn t know where i was going. i just knew that i had to get away from them. i saw a cab sitting there. i just got in the back seat and the driver turned around and heó goes, you are the man that escaped from the jail. i was running out of options. i had to do something. i had to trust somebody. and i said, yeah, that s me. and he said, well, where can i take you? do you have somewhere to hide?
write these letters. i had let them down quite a bit by getting myself involved in drugs in the first place. and then getting caught in a foreign country and thrown in jail. it was something i m sure to their minds was just an unthinkable thing. eventually i got about 2- or $300. we had it pretty well planned out, exactly what we were going to do. chako paid a guard to make a copy of the key to the gate through the bathroom that would let us outside. he kept it on himself.çó
i could tell that he thought something was wrong. i was justñi thinking, he s goto go back inside or we re done and this whole thing is just over with.
using cocaine. it wasn t that i intended to try it. it s just that it was available, and it wasñi justñi something ti hadn t done before, so i thought i d give it a shot and see what it was like.ñr you get this big jolt of energy through your body. you feel super powerful all of a sudden. nobody really thought about it as being an addictive-type drug. just a party drug. within a month, i was pretty much addicted to the cocaine. i was snorting cokqi pretty muc every day. sounds ñicrazy, but you fall in
something, and i was hoping that they didn t know that i had the lsd. but then i see one of them pull this book out of my backpack. he took that acid out of there and he knewñiñi exactly what itd i could tell by the look on his face that he had found what he came to find. i call it the we gotcha look. that s when i realized that my days were ñiover. he took me to a central police office and threw me in a room. but i could see out in the hallway,ñi and i saw steve and