addiction also drives some inmates to feed their habits in jail. not what it happens often but there are occasions when the mail will be used to try and bring contraband into the facility. inmates become very ingenious and get relatives to try and mail them contraband, drugs. officer domenico was recently on mail room duty when he came across a suspicious birthday card. the card was soon turned over to one of the jail s investigators. officer obajinski. two cards glued together with four decks of heroin taped inside. it was addressed to inmate battaglia. the recipient of the card, nick battaglia, was immediately removed from his housing unit and confined to a single-person cell. no details with him inside the facility. very quiet inmate. seemed to be very respectful, but the way heroin takes over
max is ten years on my charges that i have. there may be criminal charges filed against inmate battaglia. more than likely not because of the small amount that was coming in. and being that the the return address was phoney, there s no way to determine who actually sent it in. battaglia does not know that yet. if they find me guilty, i m going to be upset because i can t risk another charge. instead of criminal charges, battaglia and his cellmate, who requested to remain anonymous, and each will be investigated and receive disciplinary hearings. how are you going to fight the case? my words. i m just going to tell the truth. the first place i would look is the bunky. coming up when you moved into the cell with battaglia, are you aware of him doing that? battaglia s bunky speaks out and william bernard is the subject of a jailhouse rumor. he is a [ bleep ] snitch. and then the rumor leads to
there s been rumors going around about suboxone, which is a synthetic type of heroin, sent into the jail, and i m going to talk to inmate battaglia, see if he knows anything about it. nick battaglia, has spent the last seven days in disciplinary segregation after he was caught smuggling a small amount of heroin into the jail. what s up, man? nothing. what s up? you remember me? yeah. what happened? i was found guilty. did you know about it? like i said, i didn t know the content. i knew that he asked, but i didn t know the contents. i never did heroin. never did heroin? never. what about all the suboxone? that was it was there for a while. but i don t know, man. how how did you get the suboxone in? are they going to reduce my sentence? what sentence?
but you don t know for sure that he no, i don t i can t be 100%. if i would have known that it was coming in my name beforehand, i would have said something. step outside in the hallway. i ll call you back in in a few minutes. there s really no way i can get around it. it had my name on it. the only thing i have working for me is my background. and hopefully that works out for me. while battaglia s hopeful, there s a lot about the extent of the investigation that he doesn t know. during the course of the investigation it was proven that inmate battaglia and his cellmate were in cahoots in an attempt to get the heroin in. at the county jail, this call may be monitored or recorded. the jail says it has phone recordings of battaglia and his cellmate setting up the scheme. in this particular case, some information was developed through the use of the phone system to conclusively determine that he said two gentlemen were trying to bring in heroin into the facility util
jail officials have conducted an investigation. they have decided not to pursue criminal charges but will conduct internal disciplinary hearings starting with battaglia s cellmate, who has requested anonymity. there was a birthday card sent into the facility through the mail. the birthday card was tampered with. there was actually four bags of heroin in between the two birthday cards. the birthday card had the e number of your roommate. so can you make a statement on what your involvement is with this or i have no involvement at all with that. at all. only involvement i can see me having is being his celly. are you aware of him doing this? i was not aware of anything like that. so you had no involvement with this at all? at all. ou can step back out. i ll come see you in a few moments and let you know our decision. okay? yes. now the panel will hear from nick battaglia. there was a birthday card mailed in that had four bags of white powdery substance, possibly hero