Inmate allegedly paid for not testifying in court – NBC Los Angeles

A handwritten letter was intercepted stating that inmate Austin Nabeck had offered someone else money to prevent his victims from testifying in court.

Captain Robin Romero, of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, specifies that “just because someone is in prison, it doesn’t mean that their criminal life stops.”

Which is that Romero, like other corrections officers, knows that being behind bars and under strict supervision is not an obstacle for some prisoners to maintain their criminal behavior.

“Even if they are here they might have something up their sleeves, I’m not saying all of them but some. That is why we are here to prevent it,” says corrections officer Bekendi Turin.

And it was precisely this officer who, after a routine cell check, found a handwritten letter from prisoner Austin Nabeck, who was arrested in 2017 for breaking into a home in Stewart, and violently beating the couple with an iron cross.

The letter found by the corrections officer indicated that the recipient was going to receive a sum of money for something. “I read the letter and said: Oh my God, this is a bribe.”

The officer handed over the found message to another officer who, in turn, handed it over to a detective.

“The subject wanted to give him between 20,000 and 30,000, which he thinks he will receive another inmate, so when he comes out, he convinces the victims not to go to court to see their day. These two bailiffs were clearly able to intercept this written message and could not do so.”

The letter was intercepted before Nabek’s trial, a trial in which he was convicted of attempted murder and armed robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment.

“What this man wanted was not to bring these victims to court and our state attorney was thinking otherwise. They thought this handwritten letter on this subject was so serious and dangerous that they gave it more time.

To the life sentence Austin Nabeck is facing, another 15 years in prison have been added to this fact.