(suspenseful music)
(dramatic music)
- The yellow house to the left.
- [Officer] Yep, watch this left side.
(suspenseful music)
- Quickly.
- I was gonna shoot from here
and when we go up, we're gonna come around.
(suspenseful music)
(hammer banging) - [Officer] Oh boy, oh boy.
(hammer banging)
- [Child] Why is our daddy going to jail?
- [Officer] Hands, hands!
Let me see your (bleep) hands.
- [Officer] Let me see your hands!
- [Officer] Get on the ground! - [Officer] Get down!
(suspect grunting)
- I have no clue. (heaving)
- [Officer] Oh boy, here we go.
Movement in the garage.
- [Officer] Okay, come this way.
Hands. Let me see your hands.
Turn around. - [Officer] Turn around.
Keep walking backwards.
- Got any weapons on you?
- [Brandon] No, man. - All right.
- Anybody else in that house?
- [Brandon] I don't think so, I don't know.
- [Officer] Have a seat, all right.
(dramatic music)
(intense music)
- There's people that are very frequent flyers
that can constantly come in at least once a month.
- Those ones, we're just kind of used to
seeing them a little more often.
- [Officer] Oh yeah, you were in the room.
- I was in the house for eight or nine hours.
Didn't come out,
so I was just gassed out of the house.
- That's why I'm wearing this nightgown.
- The SWAT team responded
on the calls for service at an address
where we're continuously pulling drugs, guns,
stolen vehicles from the address.
- [Officer] Come out with hands up.
This is the Mesa County Sheriff's Office.
- We arrived there.
We contacted a female in the front of the residence
and then we learned Brandon and Jordan,
who were inside the residence,
had several outstanding warrants for their arrests.
- Jordan had several drug related warrants for his arrest
and numerous felony warrants.
We knocked on the door, we gave several commands
they needed to exit the residence.
Still no compliance was gained.
And we called out our SWAT resources
and they started introducing CS gas into the house
to work on extracting Jordan and Brandon from the house.
- [Officer] Let me see your hands!
Get on the ground!
- Any drugs or drug paraphernalia?
- Let me go ask the nurse really quick
to see if you've been medically cleared
and then I get my process started.
- I'm here because I got some traffic warrants
out of Delta County and cops gassed the house.
So I picked up some charges since I didn't exit the building
when they requested me to, which I think is (bleep)
because I'm sleeping.
- Do you have anything that can poke me, stick me, harm me?
Do you have any drugs or drug paraphernalia?
- No.
- Stand up, face the wall for me.
- [Brandon] I've been through this rodeo a couple of times.
Probably my fifth time here.
I've lived all over the country.
This is the only jail I've ever really been in.
Okay, we're going to remove the handcuffs.
- Thank you.
- Well, if you can sleep through several police cars
with lights and sirens, sledge hammer to the front door,
that's pretty deep sleep.
All right brother, good luck to you, okay?
- You too, man.
Let's call a SWAT team for some traffic tickets
and some dumb (bleep).
Seems like a lot of waste of money and time and effort
for a couple of warrants for two dudes.
But that's Grand Junction for you.
(dramatic music)
- It's Sunday and it is Mother's Day.
- You're good. Thank you.
I''l put y'all back in the cell.
- Some holidays are busier than others.
- Hey. - How are you?
(officer laughs)
Sad to say we came to this encounter again.
- At some point, the cycle's gonna end.
(dramatic music)
I usually stay out of Virginia Beach
but you know, it's Mother's Day.
I had to go see the kids.
That's why I got that teddy bear over there.
I have a six and a four year old.
My four year old will be five in July.
Father of my kids and I are working on co-parenting.
We went to the beach.
We got ice cream, you know, having fun.
I was on the way back over here
and unfortunately I got stopped.
- She was pulled over for reckless driving
83 miles an hour on a 55 mile an hour stretch.
When they ran her in the system,
they found out that she had a active warrant
for violation of probation on a misdemeanor charge.
- Come on vacation, you leave on probation,
and they bring you back with a violation.
Stay out of Virginia Beach.
(Kat laughs)
Stay out of Virginia Beach.
- And you know what?
(dramatic music)
- 728 to 537.
We have one intake.
- [Officer] Copy.
- Flagler County is a smaller county,
but we have all types of individuals in this county,
all types of arrests.
- Go ahead and face this way.
- Anything from murder to driving without a license.
- All right, hand me your shoes and your socks.
- [Officer] Drug offenders, drug traffickers
that we deal with on a day-to-day basis.
- [Jacob] If they smell, don't get mad at me.
- [Officer] It's all good, man.
- I got pulled over because my license was suspended.
I had no idea.
I would assume it has to do with a toll maybe.
He searched my car and I had some marijuana on me.
He found like two ounces and some carts.
They were legally acquired,
but can't have it in the state of Florida.
So, honest mistake.
- Fish and Wildlife officer, which is rare for us,
picked him up driving at high rate of speed.
He was also cited for driving with a suspended license,
but the major charge is for the marijuana.
- How did I get it?
Las Vegas.
I live here, but I do travel a lot.
I do like crypto stock trading,
gambling.
Las Vegas is fun.
- [Officer] Couple questions before you come in.
Have you ever been in jail before?
- [Jacob] No sir.
- [Officer] Are you gonna withdraw or detox
off of anything? - [Jacob] No, sir.
- [Officer] Drugs, alcohol? Okay, do you have support
on the outside, family, friends?
- [Jacob] My wife is on the way. - [Officer] Okay.
- She should be here, actually. - [Officer] Okay.
- I like to believe in Jesus points.
I'm a very good person.
Good karma.
Just going to talk to my lawyer and we'll get through this.
- Hands outta your pocket, go straight ahead.
Just face that way.
Try to get your picture.
- Cool.
- Put your back on the wall there.
- Back on the wall. - [Officer] Yeah.
- In Florida, marijuana is not approved
for recreational use.
It is approved for medical purposes.
- I have Crohn's disease
so it helps me with a lot of my pain.
I had my medical card but, but expired.
We're so close to it being legal.
I can't imagine it being too insane.
It's just weed, so.
- Turn to your right.
- In the state of Florida, you cannot smoke
with an expired medical marijuana card
and charges depend on the amount.
Twenty grams is the marker. More, less.
Over 20 grams is a third degree felony.
- I can make bond.
Yeah, even if it was a million dollars, I can make bond.
Yeah, easily, no problem.
- Yes sir, yes sir.
Yeah, we're good. We're good.
I'm very blessed.
It's just more slap on the wrist.
It's gonna suck, but
what can you do, you know?
That's the law.
- [Officer] You can relax.
- Listen, we don't lock up a lot of Rhodes Scholars.
- We're gonna get you dressed out.
- Thank you, sir.
- Some people will come in laughing and joking
and then they hit you with felony charges.
- You're gonna take these.
I'm gonna need everything you got on, actually.
- If you get a felony,
then you might be with us for a little bit.
And once they realize, it's not that funny anymore.
(dramatic music)
- You're fast.
- Yeah, we're usually pretty good at this.
- You're the best at it so far. - Am I?
- [Brandon] You are, dude. - [Officer] That's rare.
Haven't seen you since last time you were in here.
- Me and my brother are 12 years different in age.
But he's always been the more irresponsible type
so that inmate knows my brother
and he speaks with my brother more often
than I speak with my brother
since we split ways.
- [Brandon] This a new machine?
- [Officer] Yeah, new machine.
- He doesn't like where he's at.
- [Officer] Oh, together?
- [Officer] Oh, I didn't know that.
- Woke up and there was smoke everywhere.
I thought the house was on fire. So I come running out the door
and then the SWAT team's right there, dude,
with fricking ARs pointing at me,
telling me they gonna shoot me in the face,
get on the (bleep) ground.
- They pull your doors off with the bear cat?
- The, the door was missing, so maybe.
- Yeah.
- It was unlocked. - It was unlocked?
They didn't even...
- They could've just turned the knob, man.
- Jordan, go that way.
How are you today? You look tired.
- [Officer] No?
Let me see your left hand.
- I've been a heroin addict for a long time, dude.
So I'm pretty sick right now.
It sucks.
It's hell.
It's like the devil.
- Stand up to this mat. - Yeah.
- Actually Jordan saved my life four days ago.
I had OD'd on fentanyl and him and my roommate
kicked down my door and they resuscitated me.
- [Officer] Look at the camera.
And then he actually came to, it was like 10 minutes.
- [Brandon] I was dead, dead they said.
So Jordan's been hanging around the last couple of days,
just, you know, making sure I don't relapse
or anything like that.
So I owe my life to Jordan.
- All right, I'm gonna need you to stand up
and stand in the red square.
We're going to get a photo of you, man.
All right, now you look right directly into the camera.
I've been here before.
I did two years in here. I can do it.
- That's it.
- That's it? - Yep, thank you, man.
(dramatic music)
- I think I got it all. - Got it all?
- I'm all dripped out now. We're all good.
This is everything I came in.
- Everything? No underwear?
- You keep this (indistinct).
- Okay, yeah, all right.
Let's, let's do this thing.
Lotion?
Oh yeah.
- [Officer] Face that.
Let me see your right hand first.
- [Jacob] That's pretty cool.
- I'm expecting to get my PIN, make a phone call to my wife
and hopefully they said bond is just about to be set.
So it's two felonies and a misdemeanor, which is crazy.
Honestly criminal that I'm here right now.
I don't think anybody should ever be locked up for weed.
That's, that's just, pshew.
- Rivas. Group holding?
- That is the most comical key I've ever seen in my life.
That is hilarious.
- You like that?
- Yeah, I, I do. It's pretty cool.
Do I go in here? - Yeah.
- I mean, I get paid a lot
and I don't even want to be here half the time
and I, here he is having a good old time with it,
which is good.
If it's gonna be your first experience,
it might as well be a good one, right?
(inmate yelling)
(dramatic music)
- [Arrestee] What am I being charged with?
- Not good, I need $150.
Come get me.
- You got a bond but you gotta post it for 150?
- [Kat] Yeah, because you know, it's 1,500 so 10%.
I need 150 bucks.
Can I get a phone call?
- [Officer] You absolutely will.
What size shoes?
- I gotta take my shoes off?
- Wait, wait, come on now.
- Five, let me get a five.
- I'm going to trade your Air Jordans
for BBC's finest...
- Air Force Ones.
- All right, do you have a belt or anything on?
- These are size 18.
They might fall off.
You might see something.
- Oh, please don't do that.
- I'm not, it's not on purpose.
That's why I had the belt for.
- I don't know, man.
- Yeah, I'm, I'm definitely, I gotta go.
We're going home tonight.
You know, it's Mother's day.
- All right, just come right in here.
Put your hands up on the wall
and they'll be right over to pat you down.
- Why are you smiling like you remember me?
- No! - You seem like it.
- You gonna be able to bond out?
- Okay.
Hands by your side.
Don't move, okay?
- A little bit, yes.
I, I don't, I couldn't remember her name
but I do recognize her.
- Hold up.
(tense music)
- (indistinct) from booking to annex housing.
- Yeah, so it's doing the same thing
that it did for the other people.
I was pacing in circles.
That's the only thing you can do really.
It sucks when you're in there with no human interaction.
All you hear is just a loud echo in that room
and it really destroys your, your mental psyche
especially knowing that you're,
for the most part you're an innocent good person.
Like why am I even in this cell right now
being treated like an animal, you know?
- Terrible, but those people are probably in here
for things that they shouldn't have done
and they had a choice, you know.
- On this arrest report, against your charges,
I post the bond amount.
- Cool, so it's like 5,000 something?
- Yeah, five hundred bucks.
- So this is a copy of charges.
That's gonna be your PIN number right here
in case you wanna use the phone.
- You know like $500 to me is okay, you know,
but maybe to someone else, possibly.
I just, I don't know.
I'm a little out of touch 'cause you know,
I do a lot of day trading and crypto.
So like money to me is more of just a concept, you know.
This whole thing is really stupid.
It's almost just like a, like a carnival, you know.
Like, and no disrespect to the officers here.
I'm sure that even they feel the same way.
Like this is just dumb, you know.
Felony is still just mind blowing,
but I know that that's gonna get dropped to a misdemeanor.
You know, I, I know that for a fact.
I'm obviously not a criminal.
I'm not a bad person, you know.
I shouldn't be here right now, so.
- They're a little bit more lenient if it was like
not more than 20 grams, they'll throw that case out.
Whatever. They don't get convicted for that.
Something like this for more than 20 grams,
I seen convictions on those.
I mean, you selling it.
- Even not found guilty or whatever
for the remainder of his life, he has to put down,
he was arrested for a felony.
If he is found guilty,
then your voting rights are compromised,
ownership of firearms is compromised.
- I'm just trying to get out of here.
You know what I mean? I can't be in a jail cell.
They're not gonna give me my supplements that I need
to break down food, you know.
Like I can't even eat the food that they're offering me.
I'd have to sit here and starve, it would kill me.
It would be bad.
I will bail out of whatever it takes, you know.
I shouldn't be here right now.
(dramatic music) (sirens)
(inmate yelling)
- Hello? You coming to get me?
Huh? You coming to get me?
Yeah. Come, come get me.
As soon as possible.
ASAP.
(inmate yelling)
Yeah, you gotta get a bondsman.
You got, I, look, this is new to me, too.
- [Inmate] You're a piece of (bleep).
- Google "Virginia Beach bondsmen."
I got stopped on Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
It was cold.
It was, the sun was going down.
It was a little windy.
I'm like, hey, I'ma get my jacket.
I thought my jacket was in the trunk.
Who jacket was it?
An ex?
Why did you have an ex jacket in your trunk?
No, the (bleep) it wasn't in there when I cleaned up, see...
It's an ex jacket in the car.
It's that jail (bleep) right now.
No it was not. I know it wasn't.
I cleaned the car.
See that's that (bleep) where I hang up.
That's that (bleep) where I hang up.
- You can hang up.
and he started prolonging answering the question,
the phone said you got one minute remaining.
After it does that, I can't get a dial tone now.
Why is the ex jacket in the car?
Sir.
You (bleep) up.
You definitely (bleep) up.
(dramatic music)
- Tacos tonight.
- They really used to feed you anything.
You're starving here all the time.
So caught me stealing trays last time.
- One water.
(Brandon laughs)
And if they don't, I get to stay here.
Then that's probably what's gonna happen
is I get to stay here.
- I have you in here on a couple warrants.
One out of Lakewood County, one out of Delta County,
and you have some new charges with us.
You're going to go to court for,
I believe it's the Lakewood County case
and our local cases today at 1:30 in the afternoon.
- About to go see the judge.
Hopefully he gives me some PR bonds
and I walk out of here around 5:00.
- You know, I should've just went to court.
I would have already been done,
but me catching more charges on top of that,
that's what's (bleep) me.
- PR bonds, man.
PR bonds for all.
(dramatic music)
(tense music)
- These guys want to talk to you real quick
before you go to court tomorrow.
(indistinct conversation)
I should be out in a couple weeks.
I guess until my cases are done.
- [Producer] Well?
- Still in jail.
So, plus I'll be getting housed pretty soon, I think.
I'm detoxing still so.
So I'll be here for another couple days
and then they'll send me into housing.
It's a real bummer of a situation
to be coming back into Mesa County jail.
It's the only jail I've ever been to, you know.
I lived in California for 12 years, never got in any trouble.
It's this town.
There's too many cops, too few people.
I don't know.
They're trying to make it a better town.
They're trying to like gentrify the, the town.
They're trying to, you know, make it more presentable
to higher end folk, you know,
trying to get all the riff-raff out of here.
Everybody I know is in here.
Yeah, last time I came in here,
there was 18 people inside the booking.
I knew every single one of them.
(dramatic music)
- (indistinct). Gotta have a backup.
Got me about to beat somebody up over a jacket.
I might have to stay in here.
- When did you clean that car?
- Cleaned that car just last week.
That jacket wasn't in there.
That jacket wasn't in there a week ago.
Hey (indistinct), you know a bail bondsman?
Apparently from what I was told, you have to call them
to give them the 150 to bail me out.
- Say 1,500 bond.
If you're gonna use a bondsman, you gotta pay 10%.
So that would be 150 to the bondsman
and then he'll vouch for you to get you out.
- So you have to have a bail bondsman
in order to get the 150 to get me out.
Am I liking it in here? Bitch, you real funny.
Hell no, I ain't liking it in here.
I'm, I'm shackled to one arm and talking to you on the next.
Get down here.
How long?
- So you're worried about the jacket
but you had somebody else coming to bail you out?
What if they both show up?
- Then that's fair game.
That's fair (bleep) game,
because who the (bleep) jacket is that?
That jacket was not in that car.
I know that jacket wasn't in that car.
(dramatic music)
(inmate chatter)
- This is the longest process for no reason.
So everyone else has been able to call people
like within an hour of being here
and I've been here for about six hours on weed
and I can't call nobody.
It's like, I just like committed the worst crime ever.
- [Officer] Were you able to get ahold of your wife?
- Not yet.
- [Officer] It's on speaker.
(phone ringing)
- [Isabella] Hello?
- Hey baby, it's, it's me. You're coming?
- [Isabella] I'm coming to get you.
- Okay, cool.
Bond was set to like 5,000, so it's only 500 bucks.
- [Isabella] How are you doing? Are you okay?
- This (bleep) sucks, but I'm ready to get out of here.
We'll talk more later, but just get me out of here.
- [Wife] I know, I'm trying.
- All right, well, I'll see you soon then.
- [Wife] Okay.
we will move him down to the housing unit.
- All right, that's yours.
This is yours.
Now you can go.
- Cool, thank you sir.
I'm supposed to be getting bonded out.
I'm not sure why I have a bag and all this.
She's trying to get me out of here as fast as possible.
The bondsman is working as fast as he can.
- All right gentlemen, we're going to go upstairs.
It's gonna be cell eight.
Cell eight.
- I don't know what, why it takes so long.
I've never been incarcerated before.
(dramatic music)
- I guess this is it until they get me.
- [Cellmate] Yeah, looks that way.
- Pretty cool. This guy's cool.
- I'm just here for trespassing.
(man laughs)
- This is metal.
- [Cellmate] Yeah, and that's concrete.
- Yeah, if I slip I'm (bleep).
I'm good though.
All over a little bit of weed, too.
That's insane.
- As soon as booking gets your bond,
they'll call down to us.
We'll pull you out and bring you back down to booking.
But, I don't know.
- Guess that's really the best it's gonna get.
(dramatic music)
- I'm not in booking anymore, you know,
got out of the booking cells
and now I'm in a general population,
well, almost anyways, where it's called intake here.
- I was. I was bored.
I am sober now.
That's a much better feeling than coming off of drugs.
"There was a wind.
We should be going on ourselves."
I'm doing better.
My brain functioning much better.
I'm reading books. I got good cellmates.
That's the best you can ask for around here.
That cell, they don't like my whistling, yeah.
- One water.
"I, Deputy Abe, consulted my camera recordings
and watched inmate Brandon take a tray from the cart,
return to his cell and return for a second tray
at approximately 11:53.
For this, Brandon should be written up
for the following rule violation,
theft of anything or possessing of anything,
stolen property, hence stolen tray."
So after the hearing today, we turned the recording off
and I'm like, you know, you guys
should probably give Abe a promotion
because I've been doing this the whole time
and you got, he's the only one that caught me.
He's the only one doing his damn job.
They started busting up laughing, dude.
So since I was so honest, they were very nice
and they only gave me half the time
that suggested punishment should be.
Whoopdy do, I'm in jail.
What a punishment, you know?
- Usually when they're on sanctions,
they're in stripes in here or any other pod, too, so.
- Well, now I'm gonna order them for you
since you reminded me, so. - [Brandon] Oh, it's like that.
I don't normally leave here anyways so we're good.
I sit here and read books, you know.
I got issues with other inmates
and I don't have to beat anybody up, you know.
You move from booking, which is a, you know,
pretty much the worst part of jail, you know,
then you get into here
and people are a little more tolerable
because they've gone through the drug addiction
and all that.
Then you start seeing your homies.
- Look at this. - What's up, homie?
- [Producer] You guys are gonna get together, you think,
when you get out? - Oh yeah, always. Always.
We'll always be friends no matter what.
- Chewbacca and Han Solo, bro.
Owe him the life debt, dude.
- (laughing) That's for real.
- I've been using drugs since I was 10 years old, man.
I grew up in a trap house.
For the first time in my life,
I think I'm actually gonna see what it's like to be sober.
I've always been a pretty functional addict,
construction company, you know, like I'm a foreman, so.
If I can do it while high,
think how much better I can do when I'm not high.
Home, sweet home.
(dramatic music)
- Hello? I hate that.
- Yeah.
Pants might fall.
- Just hold on to them.
- Thank you.
(indistinct chatter)
I'm waiting. I'm ready to go.
- You're gonna look at the gray camera.
- How's my hair?
- [Officer] Looks good.
(laughing) All right, you're good.
(indistinct chatter)
- It's not cute!
- Sometimes you just gotta make the light out of the dark, so.
- Left hand first. (beeping)
(alarm blaring)
- The fire alarm went off.
(door banging)
(dramatic music) (alarm blaring)
- Fire alarm.
It could be a natural fire that's going on
or it could be one of the inmates popped a sprinkler head.
Any word on what's going on?
- All right, so this is, we're gonna step outside.
(alarm blaring) (dramatic music)
- Remote bond, okay.
Kat was able to secure a bond at the end of the night.
It would've been great to see the outcome
of her jacket story,
but that's something that we are, we won't know.
(dramatic music)
(indistinct chatter)
- Turn around, I'm gonna pat you down real quick.
Get you down to booking.
- Thanks. - Stay out of here.
- I'll do my best, buddy.
- This is your (bleep). - Thank you, dude.
- As soon as that door pops up, you're good to go, sir.
- All right, thanks.
Twenty days can seem like a lifetime.
It seems like I was in there forever
and I don't want to go back to jail.
That sucked.
There's my mother.
Mom, do you have a cigarette?
I need one badly.
You should be over it by now.
I just, I just need something all right.
I'm off drugs so I need something.
- No more.
Hey, you got that on record?
(Brandon laughs)
Yeah, no more drugs for this kid.
Thanks, dude. - Just got it on camera.
(tense music)
- Picking up my husband from jail.
- Hey, just to let you know, we have Jacob being released.
Looks like his significant other came through.
So right now we're just going to be processing his paperwork
and then we'll be getting him out shortly.
- Much better.
I was really feeling like throwing up in there.
It's not cool.
Some people are in there for much longer.
I don't know how they do it. It's really not a good thing.
There's some dude just, I like, I can't even sleep
because the lights are on,
and some dude's just screaming in there.
- [Officer] Go around the left here.
- He's gonna hear it. (laughs)
- I think she's somewhere out here.
- Yep, straight out.
(pensive music)
I missed you.
It was only, you know, a day,
but you know.
Everything about it like, not cool.
- [Producer] Good luck to y'all.
- [Isabella] Yeah, definitely not.
(tense music)
Copy that.
- [Producer] What's going on today?
- Getting out.
All right, everything you're wearing, toss it in there.
He was housed about a 30 day jail sentence
and then become an inmate worker,
helped earn him a couple extra days of credit
so that way they can get out a little sooner.
- [Officer] You gonna come back? - No.
- [Officer] Have a safe day. - Take care.
Oh man, I still have this.
It was kind of like, wait, I'm getting too old for this
and realizing where I need to go and what I need to do.
Yeah, they did wash it.
That's crazy.
Being an addict was really hard.
You could either beat the disease
or let it kill you, one or the other.
I seen people come out of here, go and get high and die
first day, and that ain't gonna be me.
Today, I guess I got reborn.
Oh, here's my dad.
(indistinct chatter)
- Yeah.
- All right.
- [Dad] See you guys later.
(tense music)