inmate worker status. okay. are you a gang member? no. you re not a orejoan. no, sir. do you understand you re monitored for gang member activity? you are not a gang member? no. okay. go back to your unit. thanks for your time. officer rodriguez and corporal garcia will continue to monitor perales and for now would like to see her pen pal relationships continue. one reason why we re not jumping on that right at this point is we don t want to expose the fact that we know she s receiving mail. once we expose that they ll cut her off and this may be something that we could potentially use to learn information, so, so far we ll go ahead and give her the benefit of the doubt that she s not doing anything, however we did warn her if anything comes out we ll take appropriate action. perales has no intention of giving rodriguez and his team any more to work with. she says her brief experiment with pen pals has been more
she s like you don t got nothing to do. your boyfriend ain t writing you, i was like, i guess, somebody just to make my time pass quicker, i was like all right. at this point i don t think the men are aware they re both communicating to the same person. it is possible but i don t think they re aware of it. once they find out, the only person that could be punished from this is the female receiving the two letters, we have to walk on this with kid gloves. in addition to perales safety, officer rodriguez has a new concern, the last letter written by her orejone pen pal was intercepted by mail room staff but suspicious content. she wrote to two different inmates, two different gangs but written in some sort of code. you see that? i need someone to go through her bunk and pull the letters she s writing this guy because if they are coded messages, we need that. and they could simply just be love letters.
scholarship to send a child from a low-income home to a local performing arts school. sammy loved to perform. it was sammy s safe place and we re gonna fight this ugly, horrible event by providing as much love and positivity as we can. the ochoas were arrested the morning following the fire and the story was widely covered on local news. brother baron ochoa was interviewed and police found scratches on his neck, head and shoulder area. the little girl s father conrad ochoa smelled of the same strong odor of the karen lane fire. the person that was interviewing conrad stated very clearly that he smelled like the house, the burned, charred, sooty remains that it had that same odor. both brothers deny all these allegations. the officer, he says that i smell like smoke, i have ash on my shoes.
gang members often use such codes to trigger criminal activity like drug deals or even hits on rival members. so officer rodriguez decides that all of perales mail will be further examined for further additional codes or incriminating information. it s very possible that she may have some negative involvement in the letters she s receiving but at this point it s too early to tell which way we re going on this. so we ll continue the investigation and see how far we get. coming up according to the letter this was on there. what does this mean? peggy perales is confronted about her mail. and i saw myself on the news and they re saying all these horrible things against me. two brothers are charged with chilling crimes and find themselves suspected of even more sinister acts. but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they ll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car?
inmate worker status. you are not part of any gangs? no, sir. do you understand you re monitored for gang member activity? you are not a gang member? no. go back to your unit. thank you. thanks for your time. officer rodriguez and corporal garcia will continue to monitor perales and for now, would like to see her pen pal relationships continue. one reason why we re not jumping on that right at this point, we don t want to expose the fact that we know she s receiving mail. once we expose that they ll cut her off and this may be something we could potentially use to learn information. so, so far we ll go ahead and give her the benefit of the doubt that she s not doing anything, however we did warn her if anything comes out we ll take appropriate action. perales has no intention of giving rodriguez and his team any more to work with. she says her brief experiment