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professionals and ordinary citizens can display when facing that danger. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." 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
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the bus for any reason. >> when i walked out the courtroom, he was there in front of my face and i said [ bleep ] you. >> one of the jail's most prolific contraband smugglers makes her return. >> they did a good search. >> it was in me. i always do it that way. >> that's your m.o. >> but staff cracks down in the contraband pipeline. >> she started reaching her hand in her bra to take out balloons that she had of marijuana, heroin and tobacco. >> the visitor placed under arrest and her fate could lie with what her boyfriend tells authorities. >> i've been a con artist all my life. why am i going to be honest? ♪
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70 miles from new york city, the small towns of eastern long island suffolk county provide 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 county's two jail facilities and large's law enforcement agency knows too well. >> the biggest thing is heroin. people using heroin. people dying from heroin. but the other part of heroin or any drug 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 because they committed burglaries, robberies, maybe even murders but the underlying theme to committing those crimes is heroin. >> most of the men and women
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incarcerated in the newer jail and at the older main jail facility in river head are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial with the resolution of their cases. 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 inmates the right to contact visits. >> they pass things in visiting faster than you can breathe and put contraband in places you wouldn't believe. in this room alone, i've seen mothers open mouth kiss their sons to pass contraband. 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 in particular from a security room inside the visitation area. >> this is the window we sit at and watch that has the film on it. they can't see us. we also have cameras we monitor
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to catch them. >> we have information from an informant that the girlfriend might be passing heroin to her boyfriend. >> actually two informants told me. >> that's her. >> the suspected inmate's girlfriend arrives and gives him a kiss. >> keep an eye out. >> usually when you catch them, they give themselves away. it's body language. she's got nothing in her hands. >> he's pretty rock solid. he's not looking around. he isn't 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's not showing any signs at all from the years i'm doing this. i don't know, now i'm questioning the two guys that gave me the information. >> nothing. >> so now what i'm going to do is find out what these two inmates have against him. why are they bringing, why are
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they telling me he's getting it in and we're watching him like a hawk and he has nothing. are these inmates telling me that so i get rid of him? they know i'm taking, it's a big circle. are they telling me that so i take 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 the river head jail, officers received another tip much to the dismay of one inmate. >> i feel like a real piece of [ bleep ]. i really feel like a piece of [ bleep ] right now. i should have known not to do it today. 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 six months prior to coming in here and it's rough in here. you don't get to smoke like you
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used to back in the day so i kind of basically asked her to bring me tobacco and stuff. i'm not even worried for myself, box time, solitary, i'll do that. i'm 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 contraband. we heard it was xanax and oxycontin he swallowed, went to the housing area and passed it by moving bowls, took the drugs out and started selling in the tier yesterday. >> normally, investigators would act on such a tip by searching the inmate's cell.
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but when they learned he had a visit today, they decided to hold back. instead, they focused surveillance cameras directly on him and his girlfriend. >> approximately ten minutes into the visit she started reaching her hand in the bra to take out balloons that she had. we didn't know how many. we grabbed her and she had three in her hand at that time. she was searched by the female investigator where they found eight more in her bra. the contraband was tested proven to be marijuana, heroin and tobacco they were trying to smuggle in. >> they say they found heroin on my girl, which i don't believe that. >> while she maintains she knew about the tobacco but not drugs, they are suspicious. >> when i talked to her after she was arrested, she stated that 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 who get their phil females to bring in drugs inside a jail, when i tell you
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would you bring me heroin or cocaine, they don't do that. they have others make it and trust the boyfriend and brings it in thinking it was tobacco whether it was heroin or xanax. she'll be arraigned tomorrow morning and if she can't make bail, she'll be brought into the jail. she's getting hit with three or four or maybe five felony charges. >> felony, absolutely. absolutely it is. i'm going to have to take the weight for her and hopefully that works that way. i don't know how that will work. i'll tell them i forced her to bring it up or threatened her to bring it up or something to get it off of her. she don't need a felony. she don't have any. why would i want to give her one now at 49 years old? coming up. >> go ahead, tell us what happened. >> says it was in my possession. it was never in my possession. >> barney defends himself. and. >> he kept telling me he wanted to do robberies. i kept telling him no. >> accused of 15 holdups, a
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the river head facility is one of two jails run by the suffolk county sheriff's office. on the eastern side of long island. there are about 750 inmates here, 160 of them are women. >> i don't play games like that. it's that simple, robin. >> among them is jamie greggo who says the only thing resembling luxury is the ability to buy cosmetics through the jail commisary. >> we got cheap makeup but you got to make it work. >> to get the dramatic look on the outside, she must improvise. >> i use a pencil and crack the eyeliner open and dig in. that's how i get my eyeliner on.
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if i didn't do it that way, it wouldn't be dark and it would 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. you don't have anything. i try to keep myself up and positive in here as best i can because i was 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 fiancee chris for her alleged participation in a robbery spree that made big news in the small towns of eastern long island. >> 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
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ended with the arrests of chris moreno and his girlfriend jamie greco. >> unprecedented number of detectives and police officers involved in this investigation. >> but fortunately, no one was hurt in the robberies. police say moreno's weapon was a bb gun. >> i wasn't going to shoot anyone. that wasn't the plan. just supposed to scare them. started i'd just quick, i'm sorry, listen, i'm not trying to hurt nobody. i would put the bb gun away. i just need the money, please and leave. i don't like scaring people. maybe if i was polite it would help a little bit. >> chris marino is housed 15 miles away from his ex fiancee. at suffolk county's yapang facility. this is his first time in jail.
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while both moreno and greco acknowledge the robberies, they admit to two counts of attempted robbery and say the month-long crime spree was fueled 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 bags in a shot when i would do a shot. >> jesus lord, save me from my thoughts. >> were you pretty much high 24 hours? >> yeah. >> i was using it before she was. it was in her face all the time, and she ended up using it. >> did you shoot her up? >> yeah. it's my fault she's on heroin right now, she was on heroin. >> what's the draw of this drug? >> makes you feel great. just happy, no worries. you almost feel normal in a way,
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the way you should feel and then you don't use it, you feel worse than you could imagine. >> the couple eventually found themselves penniless and desperate for more heroin. >> it's not right but robberies happen all the time. i had stuff robbed from me as a kid. talk to the cops and honestly, we don't really catch robbery suspects. we'll try. >> he kept telling me he wanted to do robberies. i said no. there is no telling chris what to do. he's very controlling. a lot of nights i had to go in the car with him to do robberies. >> police eventually caught up with the couple and after a painful detox period inside the jail, greco was startled by what she read in local media reports. >> i thought the media reports messed up saying i was driving, but i found out it was him that said it. and i didn't drive one car. so i'm mad at him.
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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 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 signed off on the statements and i immediately contacted my lawyer and tried to take that back. he said there is no way to do that unless we go to certain hearings pretrial, and i was very scare ofd doing that because of the amount of time i can get if i go to trial. >> if greco and moreno were found guilty at trial, they could receive three to 15 years in prison. in other words, decades. so now both say they are working with their attorneys and prosecutors to eventually enter guilty pleas for reduced sentences. >> i don't know if she doesn't understand that but it doesn't make a difference whether she was driving, in the passenger
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seat, in the trunk or on top of the car. she there was and didn't come forward so it does implicate her in its own way but it's details we have to try to work out with 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 of 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 realized how much damage he's done to me these past four years. i said i'm done shedding tears over you. i'm done being with you. i finally realize the person you really are. so i'm proud of me. [ laughter ]
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behind the walls of suffolk county jail's riverhead facility on long island, it's been three days since bernie's girlfriend was caught attempting to smuggle in balloons with tobacco, marijuana and heroin during a visit. found more tobacco filled balloons in his cell. >> this is the evidence that was taken. this is the tobacco balloons that were found on the visitor. this actually the tobacco balloons and strikes of matches that were found up in his cell. he's been around the block a long time. he's 52 years old and he knows the system. he watches what we do and he tries to play the system against us. >> i've estimated over 150 times i've brought stuff in. how many times have i got in trouble? once. i only got caught once this past
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week. >> his history with the suffolk county jail dates back more than 30 years. most of his convictions are for burglary and he served three state prison terms. he's currently ser village one year for possession of stolen property. but since that was a parole violation of a prior burglary conviction, he could soon be headed back to prison. >> do i like this? no, absolutely not. sounds like my sister, do you like prison? that's what my sister kathy tells me. no, i don't like prison. he'll have a disciplinary hearing for the smuggling incident. and the tobacco found in his cell. his girlfriend with no prior criminal record is charged with two felons and two misdemeanors. she plead not guilty and was released on bail. >> i wrote her a letter the other day, sent it out monday, hopefully she'll get it either today or tomorrow and see if she responds back. >> what did you say in the
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letter? >> apologized, basically. i apologize number one. number two, i just let her know that i didn't -- it was just a bad day in time i told her and i really i'm sorry if you decide to leave me because of this. i guess i got to accept that. >> immediately after the smuggling incident herbs was determined to protect his girlfriend. >> i'll take the weight for her and hopefully that box out that way to get it off her and keep it on me. she don't have a felony, why would i want to give her one now at 49 years old? >> at no time did those balloons hit my hand. they were in my girlfriend's hand and she had them in her hand. but in a court law, in a case of when it goes to court, they would say well, at any time did you have possession of it? of course i didn't have possession of it and we can take it back to the films. we can go as far as the tape, and it will show you at no time
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did i ever have those balloons in my position. i cannot get another felony. if i get another felony, i'm never going to come home from prison. they will put my lights out completely. >> jail officials haven't decided whether they will file new criminal charges against sanjomino or not. >> take a seat. >> for now, they can impose other sanctions like putting him on lockdown status and taking away good time. >> how do you plead, guilty, not guilty, guilty with an explanation? >> guilty with an explanation. >> okay. >> go ahead. tell us what happened. >> they ran out on me and found balloons in my girlfriend's hands. it says it was in my possession. it was never in my possession. not saying it wasn't going to be. >> you attempted to but didn't get it as of yet. >> yes, sarg. >> it was heroin. >> supposedly heroin and marijuana, they said, right? >> supposedly? >> yes. >> you didn't know what you were
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getting in? >> yes, heroin and marijuana. >> okay. all right. so go ahead. >> and investigators ran up on her so fast she panicked and kept it in her hand. the other charge i'm guilty with -- >> so you're saying you never got it. and how about the stuff that was in your -- your cell? >> yeah, i'm guilty of that charge. i'm guilty of that. cigarettes and matches and strikers in there. >> were you selling this stuff? >> no, sir, personal use of mine own. i'm an addict. >> it was quite a bit. >> i'm an addict. >> heroin? >> heroin addict, yes. >> we'll have you wait outside while we discuss it and make a determination and we'll call you back and let you know what it is, all right? >> while sangamino waits in the holding area, the officers discuss his sanctions. >> he did admit that he knew he
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was getting it. i don't believe it's the first time. we looked her up, and she's been here 20 something times. >> yeah. >> it looks like his only visitor, pretty sure she's been bringing it in pretty regular for him. and he's determined. you want to do good time. >> and lock. >> both? >> well, yeah. yeah. >> 20 and 20? >> maybe. >> moments later, sangamino is called back to the hearing room. >> one charge trying to bring stuff in here, 20 day loss of good time. on the other charge, you got a 20-day disciplinary lock for the match strikers and tobacco but it could have been a lot worse. >> disciplinary lock means sangamino will be confined to the cell all but 90 minutes a
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day. he will also lose 20 days of good time he's earned off his sentence. >> you know this means you're spending christmas and new years with us? >> i know that anyway. i was planning on that once i got the ticket. >> you were planning on it? >> once i got the ticket i planned on spending that with you. once i got the misbehavior is what i mean sarg. >> don't get more stuff in here, you'll spend fourth of july with us, too. >> no, no, no, done with that. >> that's it. stay out of trouble, right? stop bringing stuff into the facility. >> thank you, sarg. >> you got to stop bringing stuff in the facility. >> he gave me a break, you know. i'm appreciative. it could have been worse. >> you said it was all for personal use. >> most of it, for the most part, some of it. i didn't have to be honest. i'm not here for honesty. i'm a con artist all my life. 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. think they will go into my account and take my money? no. i'm not going to do that. i've been working hard for that for the last four months.
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out on the eastern end of long island, the two suffolk county jail facilities share something in common with others throughout the state. they are designed to allow contact between most inmates and visitors, something that is growing increasingly 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 contraband comes in i bet you than any other jail they will tell you they don't have the contraband problems that jails like this have but can't change that, so we have to deal with the cards we're dealt. >> recently, barney sangimno and his girlfriend was caught trying to smuggle marijuana, heroin and tobacco into the jail. visitation is not the only entry point for contraband. many inmates are hiding weapons or drugs when they are booked into the jail. most are discovered but one of
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suffolk county's most prolific smugglers recently returned to the riverhead facility. >> this is santa cruz. send eight bottom, send her to medical and i'll grab her down here. >> angela bellionis has a history with security. she's a past smuggler from inside the facility. we had busted her before, i think, back in 2011. we caught her with a bunch of xanax, percocet, stuff inside her vagina. ever since then, when she comes into the facility, security gets a phone call, comes in and we interview her and see what's going on. >> angela has been booked into the jail several times since she was a minor. she's back after failing a drug test, which is a violation of her parole on a prior conviction of attempted burglary. >> bellianos. >> hi, santa cruz. >> back in the facility.
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>> i violated parole this time. i peed dirty twice. >> you have nothing on you now? >> whatever i had on me is now gone. >> yeah? >> skated right underneath. >> so you came in and brought heroin with you? >> yeah. i didn't right away because i thought you would come after me. >> if i was here i would have. >> when you got search in property they didn't find it. >> it was in me. >> up inside of you. >> i always do it that way. >> that's your m.o. >> that's my m.o. it goes inside. >> so 100% gone. >> it's 100% gone now. right off the bench. there is no cameras in the holding cell. >> so you sniffed it right off the bench? >> off the bench. >> you haven't changed. [ laughter ] >> no, i haven't. >> no. >> no, i haven't but i'm trying. 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 as a revolving door. you see the same people no matter what. you know. come on. >> exactly. >> i brought everything from tobacco to methadone to xanax to everything.
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you've caught me almost half of the time. >> almost half, 500 that's good. and you have nothing ed on you now. >> nothing. i didn't know. >> when i bring you down to medical. >> no surprises this time. >> no surprises. >> nope. >> i'll be surprised if there is nothing there. >> right, i'm surprised that there's nothing there. >> all right. we'll go with that. >> all right. >> let's go. >> all right. >> a judge will soon decide if she'll return to prison as a 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 her guilty pleas on two counts of second degree attempted robbery. she was sentenced to three years in state prison with credit for the time she's been in jail. >> my lawyer, he was like they want to give you three years. i was like okay, can we get lower? he is like are you serious? >> yeah, get it down a little
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bit. he was like you have 15 violent felonies, you're lucky you got this, take it. i was like all right. >> greco says she was a victim of her co-defendant and former fiancee chris marino who testified she served as get away driver during their heroin-fuelled month-long robbery spree of local convenience stores and fast food restaurants. greco admits to being in the car but vehemently denies any other role. >> are you sure you didn't drive the car? >> i'm 100%. he doesn't let me drive. he never 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's basically why i got brought down for this. >> i explained that it wasn't something that was intentionally done. i would never throw her under the bus for any reason, you know. i understand that it was not her fault. she didn't want to be there.
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she didn't want me to do it. >> marino is housed 15 miles away. in suffolk county's yapang jail. he has been offered a ten-year prison sentence in exchange for guilty pleas to four of the 14 counts of second degree armed robbery. the other charges would be dismissed. >> those are 20s. >> while he admits to the robberies, he's reluctant to accept the deal. it would be his first time in prison. >> it's scary. it's a lot. committing yourself to a certain amount of time hoping for a better sentence. not ready to give up hope on that, so i'm just going to keep trying as long as i can until it's at that point and there is nothing more i can do. >> marino admits to introducing greco to heroin and having been physically abusive to her. but he wrote to her after their most recent court appearance to say he did not mean to implicate her in the robberies. >> i told you awhile ago that they wrote that you were the driver, and i didn't see it before i signed the statement.
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it was 13 [ bleep ] pages. it was hard to read every page. while being rushed by the cops. either way, you wrote statements saying you were there from every one and how much we got from each store and named every store we hit. 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 what your statement said so we had to say yes. he's talking about the statements in this letter, but when i walked out the courtroom, he was right there and i said [ bleep ] you and he was like why? what's wrong? i was like why would you ever say i drove if i didn't drive? he was like they just said that in the courtroom so i just said yes. what? then i was like i'm done with you. he was like, i was like why would you ever say that? and he tried to deny it right after that. you just said you did it. >> yeah, uh-uh. bye. >> bye. done. >> do you want to still be with her? >> absolutely.
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i love her more than anything. knowing she was going to be by my side through this really, i don't want to say made it okay but made it easier to deal with the time i'm about to do. it was a lot more stress to deal with knowing she wants nothing to do with me and blames me for everything, which i do, too. 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'm hoping she can forgive me. i'm hoping things will work out, you know, but in reality, all this is it probably won't. coming up. >> a letter from jamie. apparently she wrote it the day after we got back from court. extremely upset. >> chris marino's future comes into focus. >> she's great. she's great at what she does. >> i'm a licensed cosmetologist. >> angela bellianosplies a
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inside the suffolk county jail's riverhead facility, inmates who break rules can wind up confined to their cells 22.5 hours a day in the segregation unit. most everyone refers to the segregation as the box. it's a place where even making a phone call is a little more difficult than normal. >> talk to me a little bit about using this phone. >> i got this number shape back here to tell us how the phone is because we got to dial it backwards. i just feel for this bump on the five, like the braille, right there. that's how i know that's the five and then i'll just dial around it. >> is this for everyone? >> in general population you can see the whole phone. you don't have to do crazy [ muted ] like this.
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>> one for english and two for spanish. press two if you have a calling card so you not calling nobody collect. so i press two and then i dial the number. and i got to put in my pin number so they know it's from my phone card and [ bleep ]. it's not as difficult as it looks once you get used to it. >> bernie was recently given 20 days in the box, and now investigators have more questions for him. his girlfriend recently paid him a visit and was then arrested with 11 blue balloons full of tobacco and drugs. >> we're bringing in barney sangamino and find out how long he's been doing it. if he's done it before. we have information that he has done it before. and we'll see where it goes from there. >> sangamino received 20 days on lockdown status and lost 20 days of good time off his sentence. >> step into your right. >> officials are still deciding whether to file new criminal
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charges against him for the contraband as well. >> she told me it's not the first time she brought stuff in to you. that is true? >> yeah. >> she told me a number how many times she brought stuff into you roughly. doesn't have to be exactly. >> 20. >> 20 times over how long a period of time. >> a few months. >> she told me a lot of times she didn't have the balloons made up, they were dropped off to her. right? >> most of the times. >> the heroin? >> dropped off. >> that was dropped off. do you know who dropped it off to her? you have no idea? what about the oxys? you had oxycontin one time. >> one time. >> what are you doing with them? >> using them. >> you haven't sold them? >> no. >> to anybody? >> no. >> what were you going to do with the balloons? >> swallow them. >> you were going to swallow the big balloons of tobacco? >> you're not selling this to anybody upstairs? >> no, i don't need to sell it. >> all these guys know you have this stuff and you're not sharing with anybody, how do you
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live up there? because you're not the biggest guy in the world. and these guys would take this [ muted ] from you. >> nobody has ever taken anything from me. i'm not a punk. >> so she got in here and arrested and bailed out. you know that? >> no. >> have you talked to her? >> no. >> she did get arrested. she was charged with felony criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third, felony controlled substance prison contraband in the first, misdemeanor prison contraband in the second and possession charge in the seventh. so she had two felonies two misdemeanors. so i don't know who paid her bail but she did it because of you she said. how do you feel about that? >> what was her bail, do you know? >> i can't tell you. pretty high. but she got bailed out. she was here for one day. all right? >> go back upstairs. >> and you said her charges were felonies? >> two felonies, two misdemeanors. >> oh, man. >> a lot for somebody who never
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had a record before. >> she's never had a record. >> you pretty much put her in that position. >> i know. >> all right? it is what it is. you can go back up stairs to your housing now. >> [ bleep ]. >> he feels bad he got caught. he didn't feel bad when he was doing it. he knew what he was doing. he was using her. she's a mule but feels bad he got caught and his racket is done and his girl is jammed up. we have a big visiting room and limited staffing so everybody can't be watched and most of the contraband seizures are caught by internal security who receive tips. and we can set cameras to different spots and put inmates in different positions. and because they were fast, this girl would bring them in the bra and hand them and swallow them
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so if you're not on top of him, 50 people in the visiting room with limited staffing. it's easy for them to swallow them and you don't see it unless you're looking at him at the time he does it. >> he admits to recovering the balloons after they pass through his digestive track but he's not the only inmate with a reputation for smuggling. >> you have nothing on you now. >> whatever i had on me is gone. skated right underneath. >> angela is one of the more prolific smugglers among female inmates. but she is popular among inmates for another reason. >> i can't remember the last time i had short hair. maybe my sixth grade. >> she volunteers in the jail barbershop on the days dedicated to female inmates. >> i've worked in this barbershop for a long time. a lot of these women i cut their hair years ago and request you and come here. we all anticipate this day because we have split ends. >> she's great. great at what she does. >> i'm a licensed cosmetologist. i actually dropped out of high school in the ninth grade to go to beauty school. that was the same year i caught
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my first crime. >> bellianus has been in and out of the jail several times since then, often with drugs hidden inside a body cavity. but she hopes to someday revive her cosmetology career. >> my license was taken away from me, my new york state license. now i have to go >> i'm trusting you. >> i gotcha. >> even though i've got to live in it. >> believe me, it's worse upstate, you know that, when you cut hair upstate, those girls will fight you in the yard if you mess up their air. >> she thought she'd return upstate. for her latest parole violation. but her judge offered her a drug rehabilitation program which she accepted. >> i came back jumping for joy, i felt like i was on cloud nine. i was doing the -- jumping up and down. >> i was doing the q-tip dance and i broke out the sprinkle and everything. >> bellianus is scheduled to leave for her rehab program within the next few days. >> you're all set. >> thanks, angela. >> you're welcome, girl. >> where's her tip?
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of the suffolk county jail system has been the temporary home to chris marino for nearly a year now. >> have you been incarcerated before? >> i got detaped on a warrant for like a day, released on it immediately. >> what was the warrant for? >> a driving infraction. nothing major at all. just didn't pay a ticket. >> marino would soon find himself with what law enforcement authorities describe as a common entry point to crime. an addiction to pain pills. >> when the pain pills, the oxy, started to be getting so expensive, heroin was a little bit cheaper. ten bucks you can get something that equalled one $30 pill. the addiction just got worse and worse and worse until 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. >> talk to my lawyer and everything, see if i can do better than ten. >> i think you can. >> hope i can. that's a lot of time, you know? it's a real lot of time. >> if prosecutors refuse to negotiate further, marino could stand trial and face much more than ten years if convicted. but now he has more troubling news. >> it's a letter from jamie. apparently she wrote it the day after we got back from court. extremely upset. >> yeah, sandwiches and that thing is man heavy. >> marino's former fiancee,
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jamie greco, will soon transfer to state prison on a three-year sentence. >> in a nutshell these basically done with me. she thinks i went against her in this case. it's triggered a lot of bad memories about things that happened in our relationship. so a really, really bad letter. broke her heart. apparently she hates me more than she could ever love me. congratulations, you allowed us to be ripped apart. >> if you don't shut up -- >> though marino introduced greco to heroin, she also had a prior addiction to opiates. now as she prepares for her first day in prison, her thoughts are with her 6-year-old daughter who currently 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. wouldn't be right for me to lie to her. but she is only 6 so i can't
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explain it to her. i try to explain to it her in her terms, you know. i didn't tell her i was in jail, i told her i was in riverhead. and where people go when they get in trouble. and that when i get out, i'll do everything i can to make things right. >> angela bellianus 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 they gave her the opportunity to participate in a drug treatment program. a month later she was dismissed from the program for behavioral reasons and ordered to self-report back to jail. >> so she came in off the street but she had time to get some drugs to bring in with her. she will try to get drugs in any time she can get in jail so we kind knew she had something in her. i talked to her. you could tell she had something on her. but it was secured where we couldn't get it at that point. in her prison purse. prison purse is a vagina. she usually brings in contraband overnight.
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she takes it out at nighttime and hides it somewhere in her cell. we let her go to the housing unit and rolled in on her while she was sleeping. we grabbed her, we did a shakedown of her cell, we found nothing in her cell. when the female officers did a strip search of her body they recovered 63 pills inside her sweat pants she had wrapped in a latex glove. so she was charged with those 63 pills. she got charged with promoting contraband one, which is a felony. promoting contraband 2, a misdemeanor. she also had tobacco but we didn't charge her with that.
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