Breanna Morello - Sex, smuggling allegations involving intern, inmates in Butler County Jail

Episode Transcript

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Aniversary Wednesday, thirty two years ofmarriage to day and again a happy university

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to my better half Paul led Andwithout further ado, I'm pleased to welcome
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Brionnamarrella dot com is where you findher, host of the Brionna Morella Show.
Of course, Brianna Morella, Welcometo the fifty five Cassey Morning Show.
It's a real pleasure to have youon today. Hi, Brian,
Happy, happy anniversary. Congratulations.Thirteen years is a big accomplishment, it
really is. And knowing me andhow many faults I've got, I'm lucky

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that I found somebody who was willingto put up with me for that long.
So I outkicked my coverage. HonestlyI did. I got a big
kick out of your your your fluentand sarcasm common. You actually quit Fox
over the COVID vaccine mandate. You'reyou're known for having made a stand on
that one. Let me give youprops say for saying no, thank you,

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thank you. Yes, I knowyou know. Fox was trying to
comply with the New York City ofprivate sector vaccine mandate and I told him
ill, and I packed up andleft and been on this independent journalism journeys
instead. It's been good for me. Yeah, that's wonderful. Very successful
you are. And you, alongwith some others nationally, latched onto this
local story here from Butler County aboutthe intern program. We had a teenager,

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a seventeen year old teenager that wasdoing an intern program at the Butler
County Jail. I guess this wasdesigned to facilitate pave the way for a
possible career as a corrections officer.And I understand the logic of that,
getting people involved in a work situationso they know what it's like. But
you'd like to think there's some supervisiongoing on there, since it's a teenager

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in a jail. She had sexwith at least one of the inmates and
smuggled some drugs and other contraband intothe jail, and it's gotten caught for
it, being tried as a juvenilein juvenile court. How did you come
across this, Breanna, Well,it's a very interesting story. I was
working with Lauder with Crowder's investigative unit, which is known as the Mug Club,

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and they received a tip and he'sbeen investigating since then. It's been
very, very interesting because you know, like you mentioned, the key and
all of this is supervision if you'regoing to have a program like this.
Unfortunately, we have Butler County SheriffRichard Jones, who you know, I've
liked for quite some time, buthe doesn't understand the fact that when you

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have these types of minors or theirjuniors and seniors of high school, meaning
they could be fifteen, sixteen,or seventeen years of age in these jails,
we don't put in with violent criminalsand we're talking about people and this
fail because I got an interview withhim while we were on air with Ladaris
Crowder. He could walk over afterrefusing to do an interview with us at

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first, he could walk over todiscuss it with us after he disagree with
our coverage on his story, andso him and I on my Twitter page,
Kim and I kind of went backand forth disputing our coverage. But
the main point is this is hewill tell you that this was supervised,
this program, but again, ifit's supervised, then how does a minor

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end up going into a cell.And allegedly she originally admitted to, according
to reports, having sex with twofederal inmates. Now, the problem with
this is as well is a simplefact that these are federal inmates. So
the Butler County Sheriff's office is practicallyrenting me that to the federal's government.
And so when you have a teamwho number one said that she had sex

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with these inmates and number two issmuggling contraband into the jail allegedly, she
wants these remarks, these submissions tobe pulled out at the court records.
But she made them initially and thejudge told her no just recently. But
ultimately, what we're talking about hereis is something that's potentially a bigger issue.

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You know, one of these inmatesthat she allegedly had sex with is
a convicted murderer and so thankfully hedidn't try to kill her. And that's
the big point in all of us, and the shriff's office is just so
dismissive in all front. You know, initially when I went their jail to
talk to them about this and handover some incent we had, they threatened
to press timilar charges against me ifthey taught me recording our discussions and so

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and then you know, the Sheriff'stwo days later comes out to talk to
me on camera after he walked away. Originally she thought we were on air
and he thought we were off therehe came over and talked to me.
The issue here is that these peopleare sitting here saying, you know,
oh, it's supervised. Oh welearned the US Marshals. They won't give
us any physical evidence of that.US Marshalls and Stephen Crowder Call specifically said

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that they did not know about anyof it, and the shaff office did
not notify them. And so that'sthe concerning part in all of this.
Now US Marshalls has launched an investigationbecause they're still claiming they were never informed.
Although the Butler County Shriff's Office willtell you that they informed them,
they have not shown any evidence thatthey've done. So. Wow, well,
you know local since I inquired somereporting on this, and I'll give
Victoria more Wood, who wrote thearticle, props on it, just to

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acknowledge that she had something to dowith it. This this is incorporated into
the article. It was the BubblerCounty Sheriff's Office chief deputy Chief Deputy Anthony
d said that this girl was notleft alone in the jail's holding pods.
A guard was in the building.However, the student said in her confession
that she went inside the inmates cellwhile the guard was walking away from the

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cell. According to Dwyer, theChief Deputy also said it was his understanding,
and here's where the scary part comesin his understanding that another inmate was
keeping watch for the guard during theencounter. So we're relying on inmates,
convicted felons, or whoever they happento be to keep an eye on a
seventeen year old intern. Yeah.Yeah, First off, I spoke the

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twire directly. He was actually theone who would refused at first to come
on camera with me, and healso threatened this press criminal charge against me
if I was recording him. Andthis happened on several occasions during the my
time of dropping off more evidence forthem to stay. The interesting part is
is this Dwyer is number one dismissiveimof this girl's age. He continues to
tendly she's an adult, even thoughshe was not during the time of the

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incident. But she was confused bythe inmates as a CEO. It's what
he told me, So the inmatesthought she was an officer working there at
the jail. They had no ideathat she was a minor. They had
no idea that she was an intern. That's the first thing. The second
thing is is he showed me thecameras. I asked actually for a tour
of their jail, and they couldn'tgive me a tour, so they brought
me over to the cameras to takea look. Keep in mind, this

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is a massive pod where they keepthese federal inmates. In this pod,
he explained to me that there isninety eight inmates in this pod, and
that's to that officer. There's oneofficer too, by the way, only
one officer to watch ninety inmates.That officer is in charge of opening their
doors and closing their doors so hecan let twenty out. He's let thirty
OUDSI let all ninety eight out.Whatever amount of office but it makes he

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wants to let out, he cando so. It is humanly impossible for
any person to wash over ninety eightin mace plus two college interns. Now.
I specifically also asked the Sheriff's office, well, I know you got
this on camera, her going intothe cell. You have to have it
on camera because I saw all theircameras, all of their cameras record all
those doors. So let me seethe footage. And he wasn't very dismissive

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of it, but he never showedme the footage. You know. Again,
he said that he alerted the USMarshals. I asked him how,
and he said, by via phone. He called someone to the office called
to inform the US Marshals of whattook place. And I asked for phone
records. He won't hand over thephone records. So there, it feels
like a cover up. Although theydon't like the word cover up or the

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term cover up, it feels likea cover up when they're not being transparent,
when they're threatening to press criminal chargesagainst journalists who are recording them potentially,
and they're not showing you any evidenceof anything else. And so I
think for those who are familiar withButler Tech need to really ask these serious
questions. I went to the boardmeeting and sadly there were no parents there,
but I spoke to the board,and even if the board was very

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dismissed on us, two board membersactually when they walk down the board meeting,
my producer for them in the parking, not saying if it bleeds,
it leads as if we're being dramaticabout this report. Any parent should be
concerned if they're putting their child inthis program because they think these children are
adults and they are not adults.Now, also keep in mind, and
they wrote this girl, they wroteletters to her house, they called her

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cell phone, and this is highercommon. They were doing this. The
jail had no idea and idea thiswas going on. The jail's responsible for
scanning these letters, the jail's responsiblefor reading these letters, and they are
also responsible for monitoring phone calls.So they missed several opportunities to intervene before
this young woman is manipulated to bringdrugs and having sex with federal inmates.
Lovely well, and I know parentshave to give them permission for the children

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to children. I say, Ihave seventeen year old. There was a
child to enter this particular this program. But are the parents notified of the
conditions, the working conditions that youjust explained with one guard response for for
ninety seven some odd inmates and openingand closing the jail cells. And I
think it's anybody could reach the conclusionthat there's no way one guard can keep

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track of all of them at alltimes while also keeping track of a teenager
working in the jail as an intern. But was their full disclosure up front
to anybody on this well, Iasked that too, and we didn't really
get into our canswer. But ifyou look at this Butler Coudtis, the
Butler Tech website, you'll notice thatthey only really admit that the only interaction
that these students are supposed to reallyhave with inmates is through the booking program,

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and so there's nothing that sets overto me walking around freely around pods
with federal inmates. Now, itwould be one thing that these were low
lowes funders, people who maybe youknow cwis and thinks of that nature.
But the fact that the sheriff,and he's very defensive in the video that
we posted of my interview with him, the fact that the sheriff thinks it's
okay still to this day, thathe put minors, women, young women,

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seventeen sixteen year old women potentially incells with violent criminals is deeply,
deeply concerning. I mean, it'stwo individuals whose names came up during all
of this once a convicted murderer andone was convicted of violent robberies, and
this is a very serious issue,and he doesn't see it that way.
He said, you know, shewas only three months away from being a

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so we would have hired her inthree months potentially. Well, that doesn't
help the situation. That just makesme question your judgment even more as a
sheriff. And again he's saying thatin the new school year they're going to
bring this crowgram back up, andwhen I asked him if there's been any
changes, he had no answers.Well, that's disturbing. Now, I

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guess the other component of this isshe was allowed in the cell. I
mean, there's evidence that she wentinto the cell. So that's a breakdown
in and of itself. As youpoint out, obviously, if thirty two
year old Willie Adaway is one ofthem and thirty three year old Larkin McGowan
is the other guy that she hadthese encounters with, what is strange is

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the exchanges, the letters that werewritten, the text messages that there was
obviously, and the sexual relation.Excuse me, that they were able to
develop a connection with her. Thiswasn't sort of a one off encounter where
a young girl got molested when theguard turned his back and it just happened

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all of a sudden. This isclearly something that developed, or at least
it appears to be something that developedover time. Yeah. Yeah. The
letters which are available right now forthose at home who want to read them,
actually are available on Louder with Crowderdot com. He'd made us all
available, seemed crowd, and it'sall available for you guys to look over.
These letters are very clearly showing thatthis young girl was manipulated. Now,

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I get it. You know,she shouldn't have the communicating with them.
I understand that, But when you'rea child and you know there,
you've got a lot going on inyour world, especially nowadays, at social
media and stuff, insecurities, anythingthat could take place makes you a potential,
you know, victim to be manipulated, right, and it is up
to the jail to protect you fromthat. And so I do view her.

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I know, we view her asa victim and all of this.
We don't view her as somebody whoshould be held accoutable at all at this
point. You know, I thinkshe's learned her lesson and I don't think
that she should be the one whohas to face criminal prosecution right now.
But the fact of the matter isthat there are letters that are specifically and
they're very vulgar. So I willrepeat what's in it, but I highly
recommend your audience heading over to lookat those themselves. But the point is

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that this young woman could have beensaved if the jail did his job at
the jail in Derven with the letterthe jail in devw with the phone calls
are being made home to her cellphone allegedly, if they would have actually
supervised her, because the jail willtell you that she was supervised. But
ultimately, come on, how doessomebody sneak into a jail cell to have

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sex allegedly twice on two occasions andyou have no idea that they've done this
until and this is according to thechief stwire that they found out when an
informant informed them. Yeah, andthat's the only way that they found out.
So that doesn't help. Well,jails are kind of open places,
so if she's in there having sexwith one of these inmates, it seems

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logical and reasonable to me that alot of the other inmates might really be
aware that that's happening. So atleast one of them came forward and rotted
them out on this, or wewouldn't even know about that this has happened,
that this had happened. Now wekeep going back to the letters that
were exchanged, the text mails andthe like that the Butler County Sheriff's Department
should have known about that. Arethey at liberty to do? Does the
student in this particular program give upthe rights to any so called privacy that

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they might have. Are they supposedto disclose or hand over their phones and
other things to the Butler County Sheriff'sDepartment on a regular basis or is that
just something we're looking at with hindsightBrehanna, Yeah, well, we don't
specifically know. I asked specifically ifthey were allowed to bring their cell phones
into the pods, and I wastold by Dwyer that some do bring their

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cell phones into the pods. Buther phone when all this went down was
confiscated. I was told by Dwyerthat a copy of her cell phone affront
of a copy of her cell phonewas made. So they have all for
data available, so they're very wellaware of what was taking place. That
day. All right, well,this story ain't over. Yeat Briona Morella
of the Briona Morella Show, whichyou can find again online at Briannamarrello dot

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com. Keep up the great work. I appreciate you elevating this to the
level of attention that deserves along withthe Louder with Crowder program, and I'll
encourage my listeners to check out allthe details, which at least we get
from you since we can't get themfrom the sources locally. I know it's
really disappointing that coverage has been reallybad, but thank you, Brian.
I appreciate your time. It's beenmy pleasure. Beon to keep up the

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