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There are only two ways in -- either boat for several days down river, or aboard a jungle bus, which is what locals call the world war ii-era dc-3. i've flown worse. i've been brought here by pablo mora, a teacher at medellin university and a particular enthusiast for this classic of golden age aviation. you've taken this flight before? >> pablo: yes. every time i have a chance, i come here and fly one. it's a romantic thing. >> anthony: he sees the work that these hulking great airships and their pilots do as daredevil humanitarian missions for the more remote colombians. do they have an in-f...

Its decades of civil unrest have left vast swaths of colombia relatively unknown, even to its own citizens. to reach a place previously considered a no-go area, i'll fly out of an airport in villavicencio, 45 miles southeast of the capital city of bogota. on first inspection, this is an airplane bone yard, where unwanted props from "romancing the stone" corrode artfully. but in reality, this sleepy hangar is an important gateway to the more impenetrable parts of the country. the remote settlements in the amazon basin are cut off from the country with neither rail nor roads connecting them. the...

>> whoever come up to me, c-3, no, i'm not c-3 no more. i'm marquel. >> dean regularly attends church services in the chapel. >> marquel, i've known him for quite a while. pretty wild kid. addicted to gang banging. when i saw him, i knew he was a preacher. i knew he was from the first time i saw him. even as bad as he was, what he was in there for. i believe got's going to give him favor. >> dean's past is very much a part of his present and could haunt him for the rest of his life. two years earlier, dean was on the wichita pd's ten most wanted gang members list. at the time, he was an active...

Today he's the sheriff of sedgwick county. >> we did about a year and a half investigation, we were the lead agency on it, convicted about 50 crip gang members from distribution of cocaine, to rico, rico conspiracies, homicide, a whole plethora of things. eradicated the crip gang here, the largest gang we had. >> along with other duties, sheriff easter oversees the sedgwick county jail. most here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial and resolution of their cases. among them is a man regarded as wichita's most notorious gang leaders. markle dean is known on the streets by his gang ...

He led a task force that landed dozens of gang members in federal prison. today he's the sheriff of sedgwick county. >> we did about a year and a half investigation along with atf and fbi. we were the lead agency on it. we were able to convict about 50 crip gang members for various charges from distribution of cocaine to ric owe, to rico societies, a plethora of things. eradicated the crip gang, the largest gang we had. >> along with other duties, sheriff jeff easter over sees the sedgwick county jail. most of the 1200 inmates here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial and the reso...