other than that, i don t know what it is. i don t know if it s going to be fake or not or i don t know. i m not bothering with it. i ve been clean for this long, you know. i really just want to give it a shot. if i can t stay clean in here, i ll never make it out on the street. suffolk county jail officials estimate they house thousands of heroin addict, and now an investigator decided to get to know one better. i m a heroin addict. i got abscess in my arm. i was doing 55 bags a day. you were doing 55 bags day? he put word out that he s looking to buy drugs from anybody who has drugs. this guy is putting the word out he is looking to buy drugs. richard valentino was arrested in a countywide heroin bust while on parole for attempted burglary. as a result, he will transfer back to state prison to complete a two-year sentence. when you buy your heroin, in here or up in the city? in bronx. [ bleep ]. i was paying a lot out there. yeah, i know. it s a lot more expensiv
i think he ll be more afraid of the lock than the good time at this point in his career here. valentino is escorted back to the hearing room to learn his fate. this is what we did. having the one hundred dollars bill on that charge, you lost ten days good time. for smuggling it in when arrested, we re going to put you on probation for the next 30 days. if you catch another ticket for anything, you ll owe us 20 days box time. plus the new ticket. if you stay out of trouble, nothing happens at the end of 30 days. last time you were in the box, how did you do in there? i was hungry. starving. i bet you were. that s why we didn t put you in the box this time. i appreciate it. i really do. i really thought i was going to the box. it s my fault, you know. it ain t ours. stay out of trouble, okay valentino. okay. hopefully he ll learn his lesson of losing good time and having box time over his head as probation.
when we go into the cell, that s we ll be talking about, but we re actually looking for money. the suspect is richard valentino. the ruse is to protect the informant s identity based on the assumption that he s only told a few inmates that he has cash, which in jail is considered contraband. do you have anything on you? you re not supposed to have? any roxycontinue tin? nothing? i have nothing. if i find something on you, it s going to be on. nothing at all? don t lie to me. no. did talk to you about roxys? not at all? money in a jail is actual power. they can buy things from it. they can buy drugs, buy whatever they want. phone call time. that s why we have no cash in the jail. one shirt at a time. hand me the shirt. once we hear somebody has cash in a jail, it causes problems. other inmates if they know he has it will beat him up, take the money. and what they ll do is drop it in an envelope and send it out to their families. that s how it gets out. hands down.
stop doing the drugs. you physically died and you re still there talking about how great they were to you. to me, it was just sad that somebody that that s not a wakeup call for somebody. dying isn t a wake-up call for you. i know how to remain happy in jail. i know how to be happy in jail. if i m happy, i m winning, like i said. coming up how do you plead? guilty with an explanation. let s hear it. richard valentino pleads his case. a sock-a-bam-boom who s in the room? love is dangerous but driving safe means you pay less switch and save yes, ma am excuse me, miss. does this heart belong to you? would you like it anyway? [ scatting ] would you like it anyway?
due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. at the suffolk county jail on long island, new york, investigator santa cruz has gotten word that an admitted heroin addict suspected of purchasing drugs inside the jail might be in possession of an illegal substance, but it s not drugs. valentino. we got information that he has hundred dollar bills that he smuggled in. the tip came from the inmate network of confidential informants. we receive information from an informant that an inmate over in pod 3 west north when he was arrested about two weeks ago came in with five $100 bills. last week he got rid of two of them. he s bought drugs supposedly. we re going in under the guise that we re looking for roxys, the pills.