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Pink smoke billows out the windows. an older woman had called and said she had been cut off by a white pickup truck. there was a cloud of pink mist coming from the car. she wasn't able to help us with a description of the offenders she couldn't see inside there was so much dust coming from the dye pack. despite the smoke and the explosion of dye in the car the thieves manage to escape. >> i don't know how they drove after it. i guess when you are panicing and you know police will be coming after you, you do what you need to do. we don't foe if they were able to get new interior from a junkyard...

Robbery. >> this is all done within two minutes. from the time they walk in the doctor to the time they walk out of the bank just under two minutes. so this has been plan ford a while. >> but there is one thing the thieves don't anticipate. a device called a dye pack is mixed in with the cash taken from the vault a. dye pack is usually found at the bottom of a cash drawer. it looks like money and weighs the same. bank robbers in a hurry usually don't notice they're taking it. >> once it goes outside the general vicinity, for example, you could set it up where if it's outside of the bank for a ...

Contreras, who came to prison after his drug problems spiraled out of control. >> one day i was tired working double shifts. i'm a supervisor and i was turned on to a line of meth. that was it. and it just consumed me. during my high, i started robbing banks. i have a tattoo on the back of my neck that says wicked. i go by "wicked" in prison. i have a dark side. so i wanted to be called wicked, and i didn't cover it up good enough. i was sloppy. i was really high that day and i walked right up to the counter, didn't stand in line. walked right up to it, pulled my .40 glock out of my pocket, an...

Them. but someone working at the bank is. >> the bank teller put in a dye pack. when you exit the bank, an electronic device activates the pack and explodes on the suspect as he was leaving the bank, so he dropped the entire bag of money in the parking lot. >> shortly after the videotape is release today the local media, an anonymous tip comes in and the police are table to track down the thief just 11 hours after the robbery. >> when i banged on the door, i could hear a voice from the inside saying, what do you want? so i said, hey, jim, i want to talk to you. didn't tell him why. just said, ...

.40 glock out of my pocket, and said, give me your money, no bait money, no dye pack, don't push the silent alarm and i want both first and second drawers. how do i know this? because i watch discovery channel. called my dad. i go, i'm being pulled over right now by the cops. and he goes, well, you're running, you have a gun in the car, you're high. it's over. throw the gun out, throw all your drugs out and give yourself up. so i did. >> clement found out the brutal consequences of trying to hide his sexuality in prison. >> i got to county. i claimed native american so i was put in with the so...