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JAILS AS THE
ULTIMATE CAGES,
WHAT A GUARD
ALLEGEDLY
JAIL RECENTLY
DESCRIBED AS
CAGE FIGHTS.
AND THE INMATES
WAS ONE OF THE
FIGHTERS.
ON SPECIAL
ASSIGNMENT.
YOU EXPECT TO
FIND MIXED
MARTIAL ARTS.
IN THE OCTAGON,
ORGANIZED
LICENSED
REFEREE.
BUT WHAT ABOUT
HERE AT THE
CENTER?
horrible, horrible
abuse of power.
THEY WERE
THIS MAN.
ONE OF THE MEN
WHO WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE
THIS IS JAIL
GUARD ANTHONY
Esli Dominguez: I'm
the inmate, he's the
guard. I have to listen
HE WAS A
OFFICER AT THE
COUNTY JAIL.
lucas culin: he liked to
was strong.
LUCAS CULIN WAS
IN THE JAIL
YEAR ON A
VIOLATION AND
HURTADO.
culin: he had big ears.
So I would mess
his big ears and kinda
call him names. And
he would call me
names back. And it
really wasn't a big
deal.
RIBBING TOOK AN
EARLY MAY.
culin: that day, I don't
him. He called me out
in front of the whole
pod. And he told me --
he's all I can choke
dean standup: Culin
says Hurtado took him
cameras and did
exactly that. Not once
culin: that time he
bad..
ESLI DOMINGUEZ
-- A FORMER
PROFESSIONAL
BOXER -- WAS ONE
OF THE INMATES
THROUGH THE
WINDOWS.
dominguez: he was
Lucas.
DOMINGUEZ SAYS
HE STUCK UP FOR
AND THAT IS
WHEN HE CLAIMS
THIS JAIL GUARD --
WHO WAS USING
OWN PRIVATE
HIM IT WAS HIS
TURN TO FIGHT.
dominguez: at first he
started wrestling me.
He got me in a
pass me all the way
out. And when I flipped
couple times ...
DOMINGUEZ SAYS
AFTER ABOUT 10
HURTADO HEARD
COMING.
dominguez: he came
in the next week, on
his next shift, talking
jail was saying that I
SO DOMINGUEZ
CLAIMS HURTADO
DEMANDED A
SOMEONE WAS
dominguez: we go for
like 10 minutes the
first time, going at
each other.
DOMINGUEZ SAYS
THEY TOOK REST
BREAKS EVERY
LIKE ROUNDS,
RESUMING THE
FIGHT.
dominguez: finally we
got so tired that we
just had to end the
this total? A: 40
minutes.
do it. But I felt that I
had to hold back
because I didn't want
to get in that much
trouble if something
did happen to him.
dean standup: When
jail officials heard what
Hurtado on leave and
later fired him.
However, no one from
would talk to us on
camera because the
have threatened legal
action.
NEWS 13 ASKED
SANTA FE COUNTY
GARCIA THAT
HIS OFFICE
CRIMES AT THE
NEITHER THE
INMATES NOR JAIL
HIM ABOUT THESE
garcia: I would think
that someone should
have reported it to law
investigate.
ASSIGNMENT,
DEAN STALEY,
KRQE NEWS 13.
ANTHONY
GUARD, DID NOT
MESSAGES
ASKING FOR AN
INTERVIEW.