After arrest and before trial comes jail. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. [snorts] Another night in the streets. Another night in this hell. I' been kicking and tripping. The cops threw me in jail. Got my fingers ink. [music] They got my head on the lights. Dear Lord, please get me out this jail tonight. Just give me [music] [music] grew up here in uh South [music] Texas here in the valley, Dalo County. Uh I grew up seeing lots of crazy things, especially, you know, with a border being right next door. A lot of things that we really wouldn't see upstate. We got a female [music] coming in. Deputy says that she's pretty rowdy inside the vehicle kicking out the windows. So, you just [music] don't know what to expect. We'll see what happens >> because you want me to get naked. Go >> ahead. Go switch. >> Can you get somebody to help me? >> Your honor, >> they're crooked. They're crooked. >> I'm not I'm not I can't go nowhere. >> Relax. Relax, >> Mr. Rivera. I cannot go nowhere. over here. >> Thank you. >> This one. >> Thank you. >> Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> We appreciate it. >> I am cooperating to the police. Okay. Turn around. Put your hands up on the wall. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Let me check real quick. >> Yes. >> Okay. No. No. No. No. No. No. Face. No. Move forward. Face the wall. Your legs. >> Okay. Turn around. Face me. >> I am. Turn turn around. Face me. Grab your bra. Push it forward. I need Okay. Stand up straight. >> What's your name? >> I I refuse to talk to you. >> Do you? >> Yes, I do. >> Okay. Are you going to provide a sample of your breath, ma'am, and then talk to you? >> I will talk to Mr. Gar. >> Okay, ma'am. Let's go straight over there. >> Hi, everybody. How you doing? >> Okay. Female only one. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you very much. You want me to put clothes on? >> You're so nice. >> Lady, you need to put it on, man. Please. >> Sure. >> Why they married? >> You married? >> NO. [screaming] >> She's good. >> I'm going to ask one more question. >> Are you willing to participate in the standardized field severity testing? >> Not tonight. Till I see the judge. You have a good evening, sir. May God bless you more than me. >> We're good questions. >> Abundantly, >> open female holdings, too. >> I'm the bad [music] person. Thank you very much. >> All right. >> You want to secure? >> You know why they brought your yellow in? What's going on? >> I was patrolling. I saw a vehicle pulling up at a great amount of speed. She saw my lights and she just threw herself into the ditch in with the vehicle. I made contact with her. >> I noticed she had a six-year-old son in there. I asked her if she had anything to drink. She said, "Not enough." >> Okay. >> Okay. So, I begin to talk to her, right? And she gets to become aggressive using vulgarities and racial slurs. I end up having to put cuffs on her. While she was in my unit, she slipped out of my handcuffs and started banging on the window with the unit. So, >> she was already getting aggressive on the wheel. >> She was highly aggressive. What I'm charging her is a DWI felony. >> Child endangerment. >> Child endangerment. There was no talking any sense into her. Hey, Lizette. Come here. Let me ask you some questions real quick. Sir, >> you always ask me a lot of questions. >> Okay. What's your name? >> You already went through my stuff, Mr. Dear. You have my baggage. You have my son. >> Okay, let's start off again. What have you taken today? Is it just liquor or beer or pills? >> Beer. >> What kind of beer? >> Chiliada. >> Oh, okay. >> Okay. Concentrate right here, ma'am. How much have you had? >> Not enough. >> Not enough. >> Go with you. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Are you done? >> You're so admirable. Are you done? >> Were you operating a motor vehicle in a public road? >> Well, technically yes and technically no till you got there. >> Okay, [music] that's fine. Thank you, ma'am. Have a nice night. >> You too. You have a good one, Dear. >> So, what exactly happened? >> I was just driving. I was checking my phone. Who was with you when you were driving? >> My son was asleep in the vehicle. We had gone to go see vehicles and then on the way back I had a small minor race. I won. We >> What happened after that? >> I decided to take the long route home so I could be able to text and I never made it because I got stopped and pulled over by Mr. Darosa. Mr. Darosa, yes, he did his job, but at the same time he gave me a hard time. >> When had you started drinking? >> Earlier. earlier. >> How much did you drink? >> Maybe like two 24 ozers at one spot, you know. >> And do you regret what happened? You know, drinking, driving, having your son there. >> I regret bumping into him. That's the only regret I have. >> Yeah. Somebody that has no heart, no remorse, >> and me being the wrong skin color cuz I'm a lot lighter than he is. >> Yeah. You just got to stay calm. I still got to fingerprint you. I got to do your a fix. I got to do all stuff. I got to book you. And I just want to make sure you're okay. My son's in CPS. You're asking me if I'm okay. I want to be okay. I cannot feel like I'm okay because I really don't know where my son is at. >> Let me go get the number for you so I can get you out right now and that way you can make the phone call. Okay. And then we'll start aixing you and get the process started. Okay. >> Lazette, ultimately we'll be facing state jail felony charges for driving while intoxicated with child under 15 years of age. Now it's in the court's hands. [music] everybody else. [music] >> I've been a detention officer with [music] the El Paso County Sheriff's Office for 3 and a half years now. I was born and raised [music] here in El Paso, Texas. I went to high school here. I went to [music] UTEP, University of Texas at El Paso. I'm also a booking officer. This is what I like to do. Law enforcement is my thing, and I appreciate this job very much. >> [music] >> your socks on the wall. Spread your legs? What? Do you have anything else in your pockets? >> No. >> Any drugs or weapons? No. >> Are these steel talk? >> No. >> SP your socks or shoes? Stand on the red light with your hands behind your back. >> Let me see your tattoos. What's that Jetson for? Why are you like that cartoon characters? >> No, I just got music. >> They're not gang related or nothing like that. I mean, I'm not I don't I just got out of prison, honestly. >> Oh, yeah. How much time did you do? >> A year and a half. I wanted to for burglaries. Burglaries. >> Where were you at? >> Amarillo. >> Amarillo. >> Yeah. >> What' you try and steal? >> It was some stuff from my girl. >> Oh, yeah. For Valentine's or what? >> No, I got her some as the reason I was getting it. It was because I spent all my money on her. >> Oh, man. >> Dope ring, bro. spend all my money. It was all good and then we got a fight last night. >> So, you're going to call her right now to bail you out? >> No. >> Yeah. >> Hopefully. >> All right. You're all set. Okay. >> Come with us over here. >> Take your picture. >> Take your picture. [music] >> All right. You're good. [music] >> I don't know. It's just I see all that stuff and everything that you're telling me that you've been in prison and it's like I don't think you're you don't seem like a real bad guy, you know? >> I definitely never thought that I would be in prison. >> You could fix your act for sure. >> What made you steal these shoes that you stole? >> I had gone to the store just to get my watch fitted. Like I just bought a new watch and talked to the watch lady >> and she was like she was charging way too much just to take out some links and I knew a place that would do it for cheaper. So, I was like, "All right, I appreciate you." And on my way out, I don't know. Like, I just I don't even know why I did it. >> It's kind of odd to know that you just saw something and like took off with it. >> I don't know. There was just like no one in there. I was just right there and I just >> We don't get caught kind of deal. >> Just >> come on over here to this red line over there. You see that? >> So, before you got ink on your face, like what made you want to ink your face? Cuz I think you took it up a level there when you did that. Oh, >> let's see. It was just like it didn't really like hit me until I like like got into the free world and like >> with your girlfriend was stuff she was telling you. >> Yeah. Well, it's not just her. It's just like I'll be standing outside of a restaurant in the smoking area smoking. >> Yeah. Everybody's looking at you >> and no like people come out of the restaurant leaving and they'll like they'll walk like around they'll walk into the street around cars and they come back just walk around me. You know what I mean? Like I didn't realize how like how people would like really trip on me. >> It's got to be an ugly feeling. Yeah. >> Just like going through the mall literally my friends are like fool. How do you feel, dog? Because we feel bad for you. Like we walk through the mall with you. Literally everybody that walks past you is just like everywhere. Like people trip. I didn't really think about how it was going to affect my mom or anything. >> Why? What did she tell you or what? >> My mom's a cop. She was a homicide detective for like 10 years. She worked on the Ted Bundy case. You know Ted Bundy? Yeah, >> my mom like interviewed him when he was on death row. >> Wow. >> In Florida. >> But um >> I'm surprised you didn't file some applications to like law enforcement. >> It just wasn't for me. You know what I mean? I don't know. >> Everybody makes mistakes. You just have to actually start thinking about what you do. Like when you said you wanted to grab those shoes, you should have been like, "No, that's not worth it." Uh, >> you know, >> you seem like a smart guy, so just keep trying. Take it slow. >> For some reason, I take the long way around every time. >> You like the long way, huh? >> You'll be all right. [music] You're still young. You can make a lot of changes. >> He's not going to go anywhere cuz he has no [music] bond. Hopefully, he makes the right choice. Hopefully, he decides to make the change and stop stealing shoes. >> [music] >> I work here in Jefferson County Jail in southeast Texas. Here we're known for the first oil boom of the spinnel top area in Bowmont, Texas in 1901. It's called the [music] Golden Triangle area. I like living in this area because it's a small community. [music] Feels more complete to me. >> Jefferson County Jail. And you're going to take me away from my house, leave it unlocked with my animal and everything else there. I kind of worried, sir, traffic. Wah wah wah. I've had warrants for like 3 weeks. Why you ain't got me then? >> Total is $533.50. >> And what? >> Okay. Just want to let you know. >> And what? A few days? >> Five days. >> So way. Come on, ma'am. So way. Go lock my house up. Go lock my house up. Ho >> cracker jack. >> Ma'am, you have anything on you that'll poke and stick me? >> Do you want to see if I got something that'll focus ticket? >> What's your last name? >> Do I look like I got pockets? >> Ma'am, what's your last name? >> Ask him. He brought me here. >> All right, Sarge. Poking stick. >> What's the matter? >> Pumpkin stick. Huh? You ready? I pissed off cuz the man took me from the house. Okay. So, you can get all your piss off. >> And I have my dog and my house is unlocked. Come on, ma'am. >> And they ain't unlocked my house. >> All right, ma'am. That has nothing to do with us. >> What you going to [music] do? >> We ain't going to do you nothing but change your clothes. >> Hell yeah. >> Okay. >> I'm down. >> All right. You going to be down in a minute? >> I am cuz I'm going to help you. >> Oh, good. That's what I want you to do to help me. Nobody's trying to hurt you. We just need you to help us. >> You got to calm down when you come in here. Come on. She was a Peach Hancock. Why did you bring her here? >> I know. She was quite entertaining on the way down here. >> What is she charged with? >> Um, she's got a couple of class C warrants. Uh, tickets that she received, she didn't take care of. >> Are you trying? >> Total on that, >> I got called to an assault and she the whole time I was there, she was the problem. So, I I run her name. Of course, she's intoxicated. So, I run her name and she's got warrants. So, hooked her up. The problem kind of went away. >> Okay. She'll be out in a couple of days. Seven's open. >> Oh, that's my lucky number, too. >> Hope it brings Hope it brings you luck. All right. Just sitting there, calm down, and we'll put you on the phone. >> All right. >> Oh, hey, get out from there and button that jumper. Don't expose yourself again. You're going to make me restrain you. >> I saw what you trying to do to this guy. Don't do it. >> I don't care if you know him. Don't do it. [music] Hey, you know this lady? If you interact with her, then I'm going to have to deal with you. Okay. Go down there. Go down there to that cell. Put him up. >> I'm here for some warrants. Couple days worth. Left my house open. >> Shirley doesn't seem to be cooperating too well. >> Ma'am, step to the back of the sale. Step to the back of the sale. >> Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I don't want y'all to fall. You come to me. That's slippery. [music] All right. Turn around. You do what? >> No, I need you to turn around. Put your hands up here. >> You going to be rough with >> ma'am? Nobody's going to be rough with you, >> huh? You going to be rough? >> Put put Put the leg irons on first. >> That's for your own safety, ma'am. >> For what? >> That's kind [music] of turning me on. >> I like it. >> I like it. >> You like that? Come on, baby. >> All right, let's [music] go. >> Let's have it. Crazy [ __ ] Sunshine white [ __ ] CRAZY [ __ ] WAH WAH WAH [screaming] WAH WAH. >> WATCH OUT FOR THE CRAZY WHITE [ __ ] >> Go that way. >> I'm a dumb [ __ ] >> Why you say that? >> I've been called that all my life. But I'll be out here in a few days and I have my own house. >> But you shouldn't think that about yourself. >> Everybody else. I might go home and I might not have no animals left. >> I'm a dumbass fight that they got to deal with for a few days. >> Shirley was sacking up too bad in bookend throwing a tray and exposing herself and she's going to spend the rest of her time in Max. Oh, it'd be better for her safety. >> Okay, Miss Shirley, when you came in a little bit earlier, you pretty upset. You doing a little bit better now? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Why do you feel that everybody calls you stupid? >> That's what you >> But I'm not stupid. >> I don't think you are. That's what >> I don't think I am either. >> That's what I was trying to tell you. I don't think that >> I think that Bmont Police Department could do a lot of better of a job when they out here on the street. >> Okay. But we appreciate your cooperation. >> Thank you. Yes, ma'am. >> All right. Bye-bye. She just upset with the police. She did appear to be intoxicated when she came in. So sometimes it's hard to get them to calm down for a little bit. [music] Here at Jefferson County, I'm a corrections officer, but I'm also [music] an FTO, which is a field training officer. And it's my responsibility to make sure that these young officers learn a procedure in the jail. Today we're in bookend and we're performing pat [music] down procedures. >> What? They got you on a PI? >> Yeah. Got drunk on Jin and Juice. >> Jin and juice. [laughter] >> You know better than to come here. >> Yeah, man. >> Stay at home if you go drink, >> right? [laughter] >> I would stay home, but I'm homeless. >> You're homeless? What you mean you're homeless? You don't have anything homeless for a while, man. >> You don't have family or anything like that? do, but man, they they don't want to have nothing to do with me. >> You need to make it right with them folks so you could go home. >> All right, go cheese, bro. Let's get you changed up. >> He came in on a public intoxication [music] charge and you'll be spending probably 24 hours, maybe a little bit more. >> Hey, Eric, you think you're going to Max? >> Uh, yeah. >> Why? >> Because I I I've got uh my codefendants back there. >> You got codefendants in here? cuz I >> protective custody. >> Okay. >> I don't want to be around him. He He beat up a guy real bad and >> almost killed him. So, I want to stay away from him. >> Well, you want to stay away from [music] this jail. >> Yeah. >> Hey, did you bring in Eric? >> Yeah. Public intoxication. >> Where'd you find him? >> He was at Burger King sitting in a lock stall sleeping. I think it's like the third time we dealt with him today. >> Yeah. Today? >> Yeah. The officer, the last officer, took him somewhere so he can sleep it off, but he went straight back out. >> He's a pretty good guy when he comes in here, but he's got other guys in here that he has to watch out for. >> Oh, yeah. >> And I told him, I said, "This is not the place for you to be if you're trying to keep away from those guys." >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks a lot. I appreciate that. >> No problem. >> How many times you been in your PI? >> Shoot. I can't count how many times. Eric, the officer said they picked you up earlier >> and let you sleep at all. >> Yeah, I was I was drunk, man. They found me in the bathroom. He was going to take me to jail and then he was like, "Look, I'm not going to take you to jail." He's like, "Where can I drop you off at?" I told him. >> He dropped me off and then not even an hour later, I went right back to jail. >> You feel like you have an alcohol problem? >> Hell yeah. I I got out on that charge that I was in here on and then I went to my dad's house, stayed there for a little while. Me and him got into an alter altercation. He was like, "Look, you got to go. >> Need to make things right with your dad. I told you with your family." >> Yeah. He was the one helping me out while I was in here, giving me commissary money and put money on the phone and stuff like that. And I get out and then I just just went downhill after that. >> All right, Eric, you're good to go. >> Okay. >> Go over and try and work uh try and get yourself some help, man. >> All right, man. Good luck to you. All right, Eric, you got a public intoxication charge out of Bowmont. Your bond is going to be $150. >> You need to call anybody? >> All right. We'll >> get you on the phone as soon as they get off. >> Okay. [music] >> Have you encountered Eric before? >> Yeah, he's been here a couple of times before. Look [music] like he's having a bad time now. >> I hope he can go over there and find it in his grace to be able to make up with his father. >> Yeah, cuz there's one place [music] that you do turn to is you got to turn to your family. And the doors open up [music] and they leave me outside. I'm going to go home to my family tonight. [music] Give me up. Just give me [music]