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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. this masked gunman was on the loose for more than a month targeting 15 fast food and convenience stores. >> a young couple comes to jail after a crime spree but their stories don't add up. >> i would never throw her under the bus for no reason. >> when i walked out the courtroom he was there and i said [ bleep ] you. >> one of the jail's most prolific contra band smugglers
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makes her return. >> when you search property they did a good search. >> it was in me. i always do it that way. >> but staff cracks down with the contra band pipeline. >> she started reaching in her bra to take out balloons that she had of marijuana, heroin and tobacco. >> her fate could lie with what her boyfriend tells authorities. >> i am going to be honest. >> save me from my thoughts. 70 miles from new york city, the small towns of eastern long island's suffolk county provide
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an escape from urban life. but for some the island's many offerings have given way to harsh realities. >> lovely day in paradise, right? >> drug addiction is a powerful force as the man in charge of the two jail facilities and largest law enforcement agency knows all too well. >> the biggest thing is heroin. people using heroin, people dying from heroin, but the other part of heroin or any other addiction is that you need money to buy it. so a lot of people who wind up here in the suffolk county jail are in here boss they committed burgla burglaries, robberies and maybe murders. the underlying theme to committing the crimes is heroin. >> most men and women incarcivated in the town and at the older main jail facility in riverhead are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of the cases.
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but today investigator hastings will act on tips that a drug crime will occur within the jail specifically in the visiting room where new york state law allows most the right to contact visits. >> they visit faster than you can breathe. they put the contra band in places that you wouldn't believe. in this room alone i have seen mothers open mouth kiss their sons to pass contra band, horrifying, but this is what they do. >> as the day's visitors begin to arrive investigator hastings and members of the sheriff's emergency response team will keep an eye on one inmate from a security room. >> we watch. it has the film on it. they can't see us. we have the cameras that we monitor to catch them. >> we have information from an informant that he might be passing heroin.
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two informants told me. >> that's her. >> the suspected inmate's girlfriend arrives and gives him a kiss. >> just keep an eye out. >> usually when you catch them they give themselves away. that is body language. >> she has nothing in her hands. he's pretty rock solid. he's not looking around. he is not looking around at all. as the visit nears an end it's apparent to investigator hastings that a smuggling attempt has not been made. >> he is not showing signs at all, from all the years i am doing this now i am questioning the two guys that gave me the information. >> nothing. >> so now i'm going to find out what these two inmates have against him. why are they telling me he is getting it in? we are watching him like a hawk and he has nothing. are these inmates telling me that so i get rid of him? this is how you have to think.
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are they telling me that so i take the attention off of them? are they getting it in? it's a game. it's a cat and mouse game. >> not every tip comes up empty. a few weeks later at riverhead jail officers received another tip much to the display of one inmate. >> feel like a real piece of [ bleep ] right now. today was just not the day. >> barney was recently convicted of possession of stolen property. at the time he was out on parole for burglary. two hours ago he had a visit from his girlfriend. it ended in her arrest. >> i met my girlfriend about six months prior to come in here. it is rough in here. you don't get to smoke like you used to back in the day. i kind of basically asked her to bring me tobacco and stuff.
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i'm not worried for myself. whatever happens, i'll do that. i am worried about her. >> he's an inmate that we have intel on that he smuggles drugs inside the facility. our intel was he had a visit last thursday and received numerous balloons of contra band. we heard xanax and he passed it the next day by moving his bowels, took the drugs out and then started selling them yesterday. >> normally investigators would act on such a tip by searching the inmate's cell. when they learned he had a visit today they decided to hold back. instead they focus surveillance cameras on him and his girlfriend. >> so approximately ten minutes into the visit she started reaching her hand into the bra
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to take out balloons that she had which we didn't know how many she had. she had three in her hand at that time. she was searched by the female investigator where they found another eight balloons in her bra. this was tested and proven to be marijuana, heroin and tobacco that they were trying to smuggle in. >> they say they had found that heroin on my girl. >> he maintains he knew about the tobacco but not the drugs investigator santa cruz is suspicious based on what his girlfriend told him. >> she stated she had somebody come to her house and drop off already premade balloons which she was told was maybe just marijuana which happens quite a bit, also, because these guys get females to bring in drugs. if i tell you would you bring me heroin or cocaine you are not going to do that. they have others and she trusts the boyfriend and brings it thinking it is tobacco.
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she will be arraigned tomorrow morning and if she can't make bail she will get brought into the jail. she is being hit with five felony charges. >> absolutely it is. i'm going to have to take the weight for her. hopefully that works out that way. i don't know how that will work out. unless they force her to bring it up. she don't need a felony. she don't have any. why would i give her one now? >> coming up -- >> tell us what happened. >> in my possession. it was never in my possession. >> defends himself. he kept telling me he wanted to do robberies. i kept telling him no. >> accused of 15 holdups, a young man and exfiance face daunting consequences. ♪ roundup
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the riverhead facility is one of two jails run by the suffolk county sheriff's office on the eastern end of long island. there are about 750 inmates here, 160 of them are women. >> i don't play games like that. it's not simple. >> reporter: among them is jamie grego who says the only thing resembling a luxury is the ability to buy cosmetics. >> cheap makeup in here. you got to make it work. >> to get the dramatic look she likes on the outside she must improvise on the inside. >> i use a pencil and crack the eye liner open and then i dig in. that's how i get my eye liner on. >> if i didn't do it that way it wouldn't be dark and come off in a second. i get ready every day like one of the things i have left in here. they take everything from you. i try to keep myself up and
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positive in here as best i can because i looked a mess when i came in here. i looked a disgusting mess. it made me realize how bad things really were. i was extremely high. i was doing a lot of dope and i looked crazy. >> ten months earlier greco was arrested with her ex-fiance for her alleged participation in a robbery spree that made big news in the small towns. >> this masked gunman was on the loose for more than a month targeting 15 fast food and convenience stores in eight communities across suffolk, but police say the crime spree ended with the arrests of chris marino and his girlfriend jamie greco. >> unprecedented number of detectives and police officers involved. >> reporter: no one was hurt in
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the robberies. police say marino's weapon turned out to be a bb gun. >> i'm not going to hit anyone with a gun. that wasn't the plan. just to scare them. a lot of times when they got really startled i'm sorry. i'm not trying to hurt nobody and i would put it away. i just need the money, please and leave. i feel like maybe if i was polite it would help a little bit. >> chris marino is housed 15 miles away from his ex-fiance. this is his first time in jail. >> this is where i am so i started being friendly and talking to people. i got along fine. >> while both acknowledge involvement they entered not
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guilty pleas on 3 counts of robbery with a weapon. they say their crime spree was fuelled by heroin addictions. >> i can't tell you how much i was using. i really don't remember. all i know is i would do three to six bigs and a shot. ceph save me from my thoughts. >> i was using it before she was. it was in her face all the time. she ended up using it. >> did you shoot her up? >> yeah. it's my fault she is on heroin right now or was on heroin. >> what is the draw of this drug? >> it makes you feel great, just happy, no worries. you almost feel normal in a way like the way you should feel. you don't use it you feel worse than you could imagine. >> the couple eventually found themselves penniless and
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desperate for more heroin. >> robberies happen all the time. i have had stuff robbed from me when i was a kid. talk to the cops like you don't catch robbery suspects. we will try. >> he kept telling me he wanted to do robberies. there is no telling chris what to do. he was very controlling so a lot of nights i had to go in the car with him to do robberies. >> police caught up with the couple and after a painful detox period inside the jail greco says she was startled by what she read in local media reports. >> i thought the news reporters were messing up the report by saying i was driving but i found out it was him that did it and i didn't drive one car. i'm mad at him. i'm really mad at him. >> show me no love. >> she was not driving. she was just in the vehicle. she didn't want to be there. she didn't have anything to do
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with it other than being in the car. when the statements were written it stated her as being the driver, something i didn't pick up on when i saw it. i immediately contacted my lawyer and tried to take that back. he told me there is no way to do that unless we go to certain hearings pretrial and it's very scared of doing that because of the amount of time i get if i go to trial. >> if they were to be found guilty in trial they could receive three to 15 years in prison on each of the 15 counts, in other words, decades. so now both say they are working with their attorneys and prosecutors to eventually enter guilty pleas for reduced sentences. >> it doesn't really make a difference whether driving, in the passenger seat, in the trunk, she was there and didn't come forward. it does implicate her in its own way, but it's details i will have to try to work out with
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her. hopefully she understands this. >> he hasn't stuck by my side. he put me through a lot of hell that i was like blinded by. i don't know why i thought it was okay for him to do half the things that he did to me or put me through or made me do. >> i don't know if she can forgive me for the things i put her through in our relationship. i don't know if i can blame her for that, either. >> i just sent him a letter finally sticking up for myself and telling him i want nothing to do with him. i realize how much damage he has done to me these past four years. i said i'm done shedding tears over you. i'm done being with you. i realize the person that you really are. so i'm proud of me. jamie greco makes a deal with prosecutors. >> he was like you have 15 violent felonies you are lucky you got this taken.
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suffolk county jail's riverhead facility on long island it has been three days since the girlfriend was caught attempting to smuggle in 11 balloons filled with tobacco, marijuana and heroin during the visit. after the visit officers found more tobacco-filled balloons in his cell. >> this is the evidence taken, the balloons found on the visitor. this is the tobacco balloons and matches found in his cell. he has been around the block a long time. he is 52 years old. he knows the system. he watches what we do and then he tries to play the system against us. >> i have estimated probably over 150 times i show that i brought stuff in. how many times i have got in trouble? once. i have only got caught once. >> his history with the jail dates back more than 30 years.
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he served three state prison terms, as well. he is serving one year for possession of stolen property but since that was a parole violation of a prior burglary conviction he could be headed back to prison. >> do i like this? no, absolutely not. my sister tells me, you like prison? no. i don't like prison. >> he will have a disciplinary hearing for his role in the smuggling incident. his girlfriend who has no prior criminal record is charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors. she pled not guilty and was released on bail. >> i wrote her a letter and sent it monday. see if she responds back. >> what did you say in the letter? >> apologized, basically. number two, i just let her know that i didn't -- it was just a bad day.
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i told her i'm sorry if you decide to leave me because of this i guess i have to accept that. >> immediately after the smuggling incident he was determined to protect his girlfriend. >> i have to take the weight from her. she don't need a felony. why would i want to give her one now at 49 years old. >> today he has himself to think about. >> at no time did those balloons hit my hands. they were in my girlfriend's hands and she had them in her hand. in the court law and the case of when it goes to court if they were to say at any time did you have possession of it? of course, i had no possession of it and we can take it back to the films. we can go as far as the tape and show you no time did i have those balloons in my possession. i can't get a new bid. i can't get another felony. i am never going to come home from prison. they are going to put my lights
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out completely. >> jail officials have not decided whether they will file criminal charges or not. >> good morning. take a seat. >> for now they can impose other sanctions like putting them on lockdown status and taking away good time. >> how do you plead? >> guilty with an explanation. >> tell us what happened. >> first of all, they ran out on me and found balloons in my girlfriend's hands. they say it was in my possession. it was never in my possession. >> you attempted to but you didn't get it as of yet. >> supposedly it was heroin and marijuana, they said. >> supposedly. you didn't know what you were getting in? >> it was heroin and marijuana. and investigator ran up on her so fast that she kept it in her
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hand. that was it. the other charge i'm guilty with. >> you are saying you never got it. how about the stuff that was in your cell? >> i'm guilty of that. i had cigarettes and matches in there. >> were you selling this stuff? >> no, sir, personal use of my own. i'm an addict. >> heroin? >> i'm a heroin addict, yes. >> we will have you wait outside while we discuss and make a determination and call you back to let you know what it is. >> while he waits in the holding area sergeant and officer discuss his sanctions. >> he did admit that he knew he was getting it. i don't believe it's the first time. we looked her up. and she's been here 20 something
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times. it looks like his only visitor. i'm pretty sure she has been bringing it in pretty regular for him. he is determined. you want to do good time and lock. >> both? >> yeah. 20 and 20? >> maybe. >> moments later he is called back to the hearing room. >> on one charge it's a lot of stuff. that is 20 day loss of good time. on the other charge 20 day disciplinary lock for the match strikers and tobacco. it could have been a lot worse. >> disciplinary lock means he will be confined to his cell all but 90 minutes a day and lose 20 days of good time he has earned. >> you are spending christmas and new year's with us. >> i know that. i planned on it once i got the ticket. >> you planned on it?
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>> once i got the ticket i planned on it. once i got the misbehavior. >> don't get more stuff here you will be spending fourth of july with us, too. >> i'm done with that. >> stop bringing stuff in the facility. >> they gave me a break. i'm appreciating. it could have been worse. >> it was all for personal use? >> most of it, for the most part. some of it. i have to be honest. i'm with con artists. what am i going to be honest with him for. i can't tell him i'm selling it to anyone they will take my money. i'm not letting them dothat. i have been working hard for that. coming up -- >> angela, we caught her with a bunch of xanax, percocet inside her vagina.
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the hour's top stories. we are hours away from greece's crucial vote on a bailout package. the greek prime minister met with lawmakers today ahead of the vote. the united states macy's fourth of july fireworks show has come and gone without a hitch. thousands of people watched the show over the east river in new york. and a new hot dog eating champion to tell you about. matt stonie in ten minutes. he upset long-time champion joey chestnut. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. out on the eastern end of long island the two suffolk county jail facilities share something in common with others
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throughout the state. >> come here. >> they are designed to allow contact between most inmates and visitors, something growing rare in jails located in other states. >> this is the way the state runs it and officers will argue until we faint about having this because this is where so much contra band comes in. any other jail will tell you they don't have the contra band problems that jails like this have. can't change that. so we have to deal with the cards we are dealt. >> recently they were caught allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin, marijuana and tobacco into the jail. visitation is not the only entry point for contra band. many inmates are hiding weapons or drugs when booked into the jail. most are discovered. one of most prolific bookie smugglers returned to the riverhead facility. >> this is santa cruz.
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can you send her to medical and i will grab her down here. >> angela belionas has a history with security. she is a past smuggler from inside the facility. we busted her before in 2011 we caught her with a bunch of xanax, percocet all stuff inside her vagina. every time she comes into the facility we interview her. >> she has been booked into the jail several times since she was a minor. she is back after failing a drug test which is a violation of her parole on a prior conviction of attempted burglary. >> back in the facility. what happened? >> a pleasure. >> i violated parole this time. i dirty twice. >> whatever i had on me is gone. >> skated right underneath.
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>> you brought heroin in with you? >> i did them right away. >> i would have come up and got you. >> you would have. >> when you got searched they didn't find it. >> it was in me. i always do it that way. >> that is your m.o. >> exactly. >> it goes inside. >> it is 100% gone? >> it is 100% gone now. there is no cameras in the holding cell. >> right off the bench? >> you haven't changed. >> i haven't. no, i haven't. i feel like i have to this time. i feel like if i don't it's going to be coming in and out of here. you see the same people. no matter what. come on. >> exactly. i brought everything in here from tobacco to methadone to xanax to everything. you caught me almost half of the time. >> that's pretty good. you have nothing else on you right now?
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>> no. >> when i bring you down to medical everything is good. >> no surprises this time. >> i will be surprised if there is nothing there. >> right. i'm surprised if there is nothing there. >> we'll go with that. >> the judge will soon decide if she will return to prison arizona result of her latest parole violation. jamie greco, however, knows more about her future. in a plea deal with prosecutors her 13 charges of second degree armed robbery were dismissed in exchange for guilty pleas on two counts of second degree attempted robbery. she was sentenced to three years in state prison with credit for the time in jail. >> he was like they want to give you three years. i was like okay. can we get lower. like are you serious? he was like you have 15 violent felonies you are lucky you got this. take it.
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i was like all right. >> she says she was a victim of her co defendant chris marino who testified she was get away driver during month long robbery spree. greco admits to being in the car but denies any other role. >> are you sure you weren't driving? >> 100%. he did not let me drive. he drives. he doesn't let me do anything. he doesn't. everywhere he went i had to be with him. whenever he was doing anything i had to be with him. there wasn't a second i wasn't with him. that is why i got brought down to this. >> i explained that it was not intentionally done. i would never throw her under the bus. i understand it was not her fault. she didn't want to be there. she didn't want me to do it. >> marino is housed 15 miles away. he has been offered a ten year
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prison sentence in exchange to guilty pleas to four counts of second degree armed robbery. the other charges would be dismissed. while he admits to robberies he is reluctant to accept the deal. it would be his first time in prison. >> it is scary. it's a lot committing yourself too certain amount of time hoping for a better sentence cht not ready to give up hope on that yet. just going to keep trying as long as i can until it's at that point where there is nothing more i can do. >> marino admits to introducing greco to heroin and having been physically abusive to her but wrote to her to say he did not mean to implicate her in the robberies. >> i told you a while ago that they wrote that you were the driver and i didn't see it before i signed the statement. it was 13 [ bleep ] pages. it was hard to read every page while being rushed by the cops. you wrote a statement saying you
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were there for everyone. how much we got from each store. to clear this up i never said you were there. they wrote it in my statements. when you cop out you have to admit to doing what your statement said so we had to say yes. >> he is talking about the statements but when i walked out the courtroom he was right there right in front of my face. i said [ bleep ]. he was like why? i said why would you ever say i drove. he was like they said that in the courtroom so i said yes. i was like i'm done with you. i was like why would you say that? he tried to deny it. you just said you did it. >> bye. >> yes. >> gone. >> do you want to still be with her? >> absolutely. i love her more than anything. knowing that she was going to be by myself through this really made it easier to deal with.
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it's hard. it was a lot more stress to deal with knowing she wants nothing to do with me, blames me for everything which i do, too, in a way. to have someone you love tell you things like that it hurts. i want to marry her. i want her to be my wife. i want to be with her for the rest of my life. i am hoping she can forgive me. i am hoping things will work out, but the reality of all of this is it probably won't. coming up -- >> a letter from jamie the day after we got back from court. extremely upset. >> chris marino's future comes into focus. >> great at what she does. >> i'm a licensed cosmetologist. >> and she applies a different trade.
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inside the riverhead facility inmates who break rules can wind up confined to cells in the segregation unit. most everyone refers to segregation as the box. it's a place where making a phone call is a little more difficult than normal. >> talk to me about using this phone. >> this number shape back here. we have to dial it backwards. i feel for this little bump on the 5 like the braille. that is how i know that's the 5 and then i dial around it. >> is this in every unit? >> in general population you can see the whole phone so you don't have to do crazy [ bleep ] like this. you have to press one for english.
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i dial the number. not as difficult as it looks. once you get used to it. >> recently given 20 days in the box. and now investigators have more questions for him. >> can you take this down? >> his girlfriend recently paid him a visit and was arrested with 11 blue balloons full of tobacco. >> we are bringing in barney and find out how long he has been doing it and the information he has done it before and see where it goes from there. >> already received 20 days on lockdown status and lost 20 days of good time off his sentence. officials are deciding whether to file new charges against him for the contra band. >> she told me it is not the first time she brought stuff
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into you. is that true? >> yes. >> how many times has she brought stuff in roughly? >> 20. >> over how long? >> a few months. >> she told me a lot of times the balloons were dropped off to her. is that true? >> most of the time. >> the heroin. >> dropped off. >> that was dropped off. >> do you know who dropped it off to her? you have no idea. what about oxies? i heard you had that at one time. what are you doing with the pills upstairs? >> using them. >> i'm an addict. >> you haven't sold it? >> no. >> what were you going to do with those balloons? you were going to swallow them? >> swallow them. >> you were going to swallow big balloons of tobacco? you are not selling them. >> all these guys know you have this stuff and not sharing. how do you live up there? >> nobody has taken anything from me.
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>> no. >> i'm not a punk. >> you know she got in here and got arrested and bailed out. you know that? >> have you talked to her? >> no. >> she did get arrested. she was charged with felony, criminal possession of controlled substance, felony controlled substance prison contra band. misdemeanor in the second and possession charge in the second. two felonies, two misdemeanors. i don't know who paid her bail but did it because of you she said. how do you feel about that? >> what was the bail? >> i can't tell you. it was pretty high. she got bailed out. she was in here for one day. >> all right? >> you can go back upstairs. >> you said her charges were felonies? >> two felonies, two misdemeanors. >> it's a lot for somebody who has never had a record before. >> she has never had a record.
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>> you pretty much put her in that position. >> i know. >> all right. it is what it is. you can go back upstairs to your housing now. [ bleep ]. >> he feels bad that he got caught. he didn't feel bad when he was doing it. he was using her. he feels bad he got caught and now his girl got jammed up. limited staffing so everybody can't be watched and most of the contra band seizures are caught by internt security who receive information from tips. and because they are very fast this girl would bring them in her bra and hand them to her and he would swallow them. if you weren't right on top of that guy you have 50 people in the visiting room with limited staffing it is easy to swauly it right away. >> he admits to recovering the balloons after they pass through
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his digestive tract but he is not the only inmate with a reputation for smuggling. >> you have nothing on you now? >> whatever i had on me is now gone. >> angela belianas is one of the more prolific smugglers. she is popular among inmates for another reason. >> i can't remember the last time i had short hair. >> she volunteers in the jail barbershop on the days dedicated to female inmates. >> i worked in this barbershop for a long time. they request you and come here and so we anticipate this day because we have split ends. >> she is great at what she does. >> i'm a licensed cosmetologists. i dropped out of high school in the ninth grade to go to beauty school. >> she has been in and out of jail several times since then
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often with drugs hidden inside a body cavity and hopes to revive a career. >> my license was taken away from me. now i have to go through a certificate of good conduct and a certificate of release through new york state parole to get my license back to practice again. >> i trust in you. >> i got you. >> been here for almost -- >> believe me. it is worse upstate. those girls will fight you in the yard. >> she thought she would return for her latest parole violation but her judge offered her a drug rehabilitation program which she has accepted. >> i came in jumping for joy like i was on cloud nine. i was doing the q tip dance and all. i broke out the sprinkler. >> she is scheduled to leave for her rehab program within the next few days. >> you're all set. >> thanks. >> you're welcome, girl.
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>> where's the tip. >> i got you on a banana cake when we get back. >> word. >> all right. come on. let's go. >> coming up -- life changing events for both chris marino and angela belianas. he'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. as you were... where were we? 13 serving 14! service! if your boss stops by, you act like you're working. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do.
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located in one of the rural farming communities of eastern long island the branch of the suffolk county jail system has been temporary home to chris marino for nearly a year now. >> have you been prosecuted before? >> i got detained on warrant for like a day and released immediately. >> what was it for? >> driving infraction. i just didn't pay a ticket. >> marino would find himself with what law enforcement authorities describe as a common entry point to crime, an addiction to pain pills.
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>> it was when the pain pills started getting to be too expensive heroin was cheaper. for $10 you can get something equal to one $30 pill. addiction just got worse and worse and worse. so i ended up having to rob stores for the money for it. >> charged with robbing or attempting to rob 15 stores and restaurants marino now faces the decision of his life whether to accept a plea deal offer to serve ten years in prison. >> i talked to my lawyer and everything. >> i think you can. >> i hope i can. it's a lot of time. >> if prosecutors refuse to negotiate further marino could stand trial and face much more than ten years if convicted. now he has more troubling news. >> a letter from jamie. apparently she wrote it the day after we got back from court.
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she's extremely upset. >> marino's former fiance will transfer to state prison on a three-year sentence for her involvement in the robberies. >> she is basically done with me and thinks i went against her in this case and triggered a lot of bad memories about things that happened during our relationship. it's a really bad letter. broke her heart and apparently she hates me more than she can ever love me. congratulations, you allowed us to be ripped apart. >> if you don't shutup -- >> though marino introduced greco to heroin she had a prior addiction to opiates. as she prepares for her first day in prison her thoughts are with her 6-year-old daughter who lives with greco's mother in arizona. >> i don't want to lie to my daughter. i don't want to teach her to lie, but she is only 6. i can't explain it to her.
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i try explaining it to her in her terms. i didn't tell her i was in jail. i told her i was in riverhead where people go when they get in trouble and that when i get out i will do everything i can to make things right. >> angela was recently given the chance to make things right in her life after she violated her parole by testing positive for drugs. instead of sending her back to state prison gave her the opportunity to participate in a drug treatment program. a month later she was dismissed from the program and ordered to self report back to jail. >> so she came in off the street but had time to get drugs to bring in with her. she will try to get drugs anytime so we knew she had something in her. you can tell she had something on her. it was secure but we couldn't get it at that time in her prison purse.
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her prison purse is her vagina where she brings contra band in. she takes it out at nighttime. we let her go back to housing unit on the night of the 16th and roll rred in on her while sleeping. we grabbed her and did a shake down of her cell. when the female officers did a strip search of their body they discovered 63 pills. she was charged with promoting prison contra band felony and a misdemeanor and criminal possession controlled substance. she had tobacco but we didn't charge her for that.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. a special response team overcomes an apparent act of sabotage on a fight call. >> there was so much water and soap on the floor. it was meant for us to slip and slide. >> a female inmate is accused of misconduct. >> if you're standing here and accusing me, of stealing, give me a lie detector test. i will pass it. get me a lie detector test.
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