Chapter 1: How did PNO's criminal career begin?
I'm a burglar. I'm taking everything. I knock on the door first, and it's just to see if anybody's home. Like that, and the dog just goes away, right? I went up there and beat 1090 Jacob. I haven't told this story, like, to an extent like this, but I don't know what possessed me to do it, but I started, like, you know, it started small. I would go and I would hit cars. You know what I mean?
I would wait till like 9, 10 o'clock, wait till mom sleep. I'm 14, 15 years old, sneaking out the house.
Chapter 2: What methods did PNO use to commit burglaries?
I'll go three neighborhoods over and just start checking all the cars to see if they're unlocked. I'm taking credit cards. I'm taking whatever I could get my hands on. So it was a mass progression from there to houses. Right. And from like 15 to 18, my dad came back in my life here and there. And wild story, dude, I used to hit houses with my dad at 15. Right. You know what I mean?
He was strong out. I was just a bad kid involved with a bunch of other bad kids and had a negative influence from my father who was, like I said, he was strong out. He didn't know any better. He was robbing and doing all the ones, twos. And... Is he having you watch the house or you go in and he watches? Honestly, he wouldn't even be the one to say, let's hit a house.
I would be the one because I was 15 and I want to smoke. There was nothing really my dad could do about it. He was also, you know, like running the streets. He was strung out. So there was nothing he could tell me. So, like I said, I would offer. I'd be like, hey, let's go hit a house. We'll bust down half-half. And because, like I said, I'm 15. My dad knows people. He knows people with cars.
I'd be like, hey, man, call your buddy. Get the car. We'll go half-half. Dude, I've literally... Broke in houses with my dad and walked flat screens out with computers and all type of shit into the car. Like I'm moving somebody's house into the car. You know what I mean?
Chapter 3: How did family dynamics influence PNO's criminal activities?
And driven off. And I would say... Because I had an adult around me who was my father at the time, and my mom was by herself doing it, and I just had the negative environment around me, I would say it made me down spiral to... doing even crazier shit. From the age of 15 to 18, I've hit over 100 houses. With your dad or some without? Probably about two or three with my dad.
One of them consisting of his old boss. He was a manager at some construction company after he got out because he has some type of certification in plumbing and stuff like that. They made him a manager on the site. The people was an older Canadian couple.
and they used to after like at friday after work they'd tell everybody to come to their house and at their house they had like a desk kind of like this with a big briefcase that they would pop open and in the briefcase would be like a calculator and the checkbook and loose money here and there hundreds twenties and that's how they paid people out and
I don't know what made me, but like I said, nine out of every 10 times, it was always my idea. It wasn't my dad's idea. You know what I mean? And I could kind of see his angle. He was strung out, needed money, and he would rather be there than not be there because he couldn't stop me. Right. Um, but man, we, we ended up hitting this, these Canadians house and, uh,
So my dad walked, I rode a bike there first because I told him, I'm going to go hit these Canadians. And he's like, because he didn't work there no more. I don't work there no more because I had got a job for like two weeks there and I ended up getting sick on the job site and they fired me, which was more fuel to the fire to let me take everything they got because they paid me out.
I know where everything's at. And...
i told my dad i'm like hey i'm gonna go hit the canadians and he's like all right i'll catch up with you and i get on the bike and he walks and and i i ride over to the canadians house and i i do what they used to call a bob knock so i don't know if anybody knows this but if you're a burglar you know what a bob knock is you you knock on the door real quick and you're like hey if somebody answers the door you're like hey you look at the number if it says 210 you're like hey
is Bob here? And they're like, no, no, no, no. Isn't this 230? And they'll be like, no, this is 210. And I'll be like, all right, no. So what I do is a Bob knock. I knock on the door first, and it's just to see if anybody's home. And so I knock on the Canadian door. I get there. I put my bike on the side of the shed. I get there. I knock on the door. No answer. I pound.
I usually give it about two or three knocks first, you know, some nice knocks, and then I start, doom, doom, doom, doom. Sometimes I'll hit the window a couple times to see if somebody will come to the door. And I must have pounded on this door, I would say, like 15 times, and nobody answered. So I pull the knife out, and I jimmy the door. I get it open, and I start robbing the house.
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Chapter 4: What led to PNO's first significant arrest?
Like I said, I would give it a bob knock. And if nobody answered, I was finding my way in. And after I found my way in and I found my way to the jewelry box, the safe, whatever you had in there, your guns, whatever it may be, some DVDs, it didn't matter. Anything was valuable to me. I took it out in pillowcases.
I took it out in garbage bags, brought it to the golf cart and went to another house and started robbing it. Where are you getting rid of this stuff? Oh, man. I mean, is there like a fence or like a pawn shop? If you go to a pawn shop, you've got to leave your license. From 15 to 17, I would say I really didn't have any legitimate –
fencing plugs to like you know off the merchandise so a lot of it went into the streets you know i would just hey man i got a tv for sale which you give me 40 bucks you know what i mean so a lot of it from 15 to 17 but at the age of 17 i met a pawn shop owner out of hollywood florida and all the jewelry that i would steal i could bring to him And he would melt it down.
He would do whatever needed to be done and pay me out and take his 25% on top. So jewelry, by the age of like 17, 18, jewelry became a number one priority for me when I hit houses. What are you getting for it? He kind of weighs it. He's kind of loose. It depends. It depends, dude. I've... I've actually, you know, participated in stuff where I've had to drive two hours north to hit a house.
And this is when I was like 17, 18, you know, fresh out of my juvenile program. And I started meeting new people. A lot of my friends, homies from the block, they've aged. So with the crime they were doing when we were little, it's only developed into bigger crime. Yeah. So we would pile up in the car, two, three deep, and we would drive two hours north, and we would hit jewelers.
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Go to ForThePeople.com slash Matthew Cox. That's ForThePeople.com slash Matthew Cox. We would hit private jewelers because you'll be amazed how many private jewelers there are in the state of Florida. There's a ton. And we would literally go and stalk a private jeweler. So we would basically...
If we go to the Boca Mall, they have the National Jewelers Exchange where people just walk around with their jewelry and they sell their jewelry. They have their little stands. Some sell diamond rings, engagement rings. Some people sell only Rolexes. Some people sell Invictas, so on and so forth. we would stalk them. So we would find out where they live.
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Chapter 5: How did PNO's legal situation escalate while in jail?
um so my mom and my grandma like i said we're not we come from a lower class middle class family and like they scrounged up what they could to retain me a lawyer and i sat in the county jail for 10 months before the lawyer gabriella novo comes up to me and she comes up to me and she says just sign for the 15 years they got you dead to the wrong
This is what my paid... You could have had a public defender tell you that. This is what my paid lawyer is telling me, right? I snap. I go off the hooks. I've already been sitting in the county jail, hot minute, Only was out five months. Three years incarcerated before that. I snap. I go off the hook. Get the fuck out of my face. This, that, and the third. I call my mom.
I tell my mom what she said. My mom starts crying because they scrounged up their last to retain me, this lawyer. Starts crying.
Chapter 6: What led to PNO's change in legal representation?
For a couple months, I had no lawyer, bro. Sitting in the county jail. No lawyer. No representation. Not knowing when I'm getting out. State offering me 15 mandatory years. At one point, I've even called my wife, who I'm with right now. I knew her back then, too. I called her and was like, just go live your life. They're trying to give me 15 mandatory. Just go live your life.
You know what I mean? It only progressed and it got worse. On my 12th month in the county, I go before Judge Levinson, who was a sit-in judge on my case. He wasn't even my main judge. And I put my hand up and I asked to speak and the judge is like, what? And I'm like, Your Honor, I've been sitting... in jail 12 months. I'm ready to go to trial on the new charge.
And then, you know, handle the violation after that. He said, who's your lawyer? I said, I don't, I don't have one. He said, state, what does he face? And the state was like, Your Honor, he violated probation with everything accumulated 50 years, Florida Department of Corrections.
Chapter 7: What significant events occurred during PNO's time in adult prison?
That's 5-0. That's 50. 50. I've never heard a Buck Rogers date offered to me like this. This is what the state tells the judge. Your Honor, he faces 50 years at trial. The judge looks at me. The judge says, I'm setting this for two weeks from now. We're going to do your violation of probation first, and there will be no jury with your violation of probation. I will be the jury.
See you in two weeks. So in so many words, he's telling me, I'll see you in two weeks, and I'm going to wham-bam-boogie you with 50 years. I'm fucking terrified. call back out to my mom. My mom calls out to several lawyers and she managed to give the sob story of what happened to us to Michael Gottlieb. Anybody who knows Broward County knows that's a top defense lawyer.
She gives the sob story to Michael Gottlieb. He's like, you know, I'll work with you, do some payments with me and I'll take your son's case. So Michael Gottlieb takes my case and then As soon as he took my case, it was like everything in my life started turning for the better. You're going to think this is crazy, but as soon as he takes my case... Two weeks later, my co-defendant dies.
The girl that pointed me out and was like, he's got warrants. Go get him. This is where it's at. She dies. She's state's witness number one. She was not charged. She was placed in a program in agreeance to testify against me because they wanted to stick that 15 mandatory to me. She dies. So I get on the phone.
I get on the phone and I'm talking to my old lady and she's like, I got something to tell you. At this time, I'm in the main jail on the sixth floor. And she's like, I got something to tell you. And I'm like, what's up? She's like, I was scrolling through Facebook earlier and somebody made a post and said, Rebecca's dead. I said, what? They said, yeah.
Somebody made a post and said Rebecca's dead. I said, contact them right now. Make sure it's real. Make sure this is not fake. Because, again, she's their own state's witness number one. She's their only witness. She's the reason why they're holding me. The case is not falling apart, right? So my old lady, I call her back like five minutes later, five, ten minutes later.
She's like, yeah, it's confirmed. She's dead, right? So...
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Chapter 8: How did PNO's life change after prison?
That night, because your lawyer's number is usually free on the county jail phone, so your lawyer usually has an account with Securus or whatever, T-Netics, and you don't have to pay, and it's not recorded either. So I get on the phone, and I call my lawyer that night, and I'm like, dude, you'll never believe this. And he's like, what? I'm like, Rebecca? She died. And he's like, no.
I'm like, yeah. And he's like, isn't that their only witness? And I'm like, yeah. He's like, bet. I'm setting a court date for next week. So Michael Gottlieb, like I said, this dude's top of the line. He sets a court date for the next week. And when he sets the court date, we go in and they call my case. I'll never forget. Michael Gottlieb walks up there and he just has this strut of confidence.
And he walks up there and he gets up to the podium and he's like, your honor, we're ready to go to trial. And the judge was like, looked at the state and was like, state, are you ready to go to trial? And the state's like, no, we're not ready to go to trial. And he's like, your honor, we're ready to go to trial by next week. The only testifiable witness is now deceased.
So we would like to take this to trial. Literally, he said it just like that. The only testifiable witness is now deceased, so we would like to take this to trial. The state started fumbling with their papers, and the judge set a court date for the next week. I get back to my jail cell. I call my mom. Later on that night, my mom tells me, hey, Michael called me.
They're waiving the minimum mandatory. They're offering you eight years Florida State Prison followed by five years probation. And at this time, you know, I'm like, I'm thinking about it. You've been locked up already a year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm thinking about it. I'm weighing it. I'm like, with game time, 85%. I have to do this amount of time. And I'm like, you know what?
Call him and see if he can get it down to seven years. And she calls him. He calls the prosecutor or emails her or whatever they were doing, how they were contacting each other. And I call back my mom later on again, and she's like, they said seven years. I'm like, I'm taking it. Tell him I'm taking it. And the next week I had a court date.
I was signing for seven years, followed by five years probation. um seven years florida state prison so this time i'm on my way to the big boy house now it's no more youthful offender and in a way i'm kind of relieved because
As you hear the stories about youthful offender prison and all the violence, and as you participate in all that, you also hear stories of how adult camp is so much different. How you can mind your business in adult camp, and you can stay in your lane, and you can shift under the radar, and it's totally different.
Because in wild camp, as soon as you get into that compound, if you don't gangbang, you're getting pressed. You're getting pressed. There's three or four individuals coming up to you, sitting on your bunk next to you and asking you where you're from. You're going to break it off if you don't fight. And then you're going to have to fight all four of them, three of them.
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