Evaristo Salas Jr. (Junior)

They're my friends and that kind of stuff, which is, you just kind of latch on to whatever comes along, you know.

I remember there was drug use, but it was mainly like, you know, marijuana and drinking here and there if you can get someone to buy you.

It wasn't really kind of established as that.

Nobody was really making money.

We all were kind of probably poor.

You know, even the clothes that we wore were kind of pretty, they weren't up to par with the, you know, the kind of style that you would want, you know, that kind of stuff.

Now, when you look back at things, you know, those are the seeds of what grew into what is now.

It's different now.

But back then,

You would come across certain individuals that had money, that kind of stuff, and were selling drugs, but they weren't close to us and they weren't giving us anything.

So if you were elected, say you were to go to California, those gangs have been established for decades.

And so they have kind of a hierarchy of how things are to be.

But since it was so new in our community, there was none of that there.

And to a certain extent, it was not only a free fall, but there was...

There was nothing really established there at that time.

I think that came probably years after I was already in prison.

But those things were so new that everybody was almost like we're all around the same age.

There was no really hierarchy or structure.

We argued with each other more than anything too.

So it was almost like you would look at them as just a bunch of kids getting together, doing stupid things and fighting each other for no reason because at that time they were just like we were actually fighting.