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Fugitive Talks Politics, Religion In Video

YouTube Video Sheds Light On Gang Leader

POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
UPDATED: 7:42 am EST March 11, 2010

An escaped inmate's video might shed some light on the man police call a violent criminal.

Police said the widely viewed 2-year-old YouTube video probably will not help them catch Michael Rigby, who rose through the ranks of a local street gang and was being held in the jail Osceola County Jail on attempted murder charges, among others, police said. Rigby made a bold escape from the jail in Kissimmee last month.

But the video offers a glimpse into the mind of the fugitive. In it, Rigby talks about the eye on the dollar bill, which he calls the "all-seeing eye of Lucifer, AKA the devil. Satan." He also talks about religion, politics and the dangers of secret societies, such as Yale University's Skull and Bones, of which former President George W. Bush was a member.

"This is Bush throwing up a devil sign in church," Rigby says in the video, showing a photograph of Bush. "It doesn't get no more eviler than that, a'ight?"

Later he says, "If you were to join a secret society, that's like a gang."

When Rigby escaped from the Osceola County Jail by digging a hole behind his cell toilet, authorities did not mention the 21-year-old was the head of the Bloods street gang in Poinciana.

On Wednesday, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office told Local 6 that they generally do not bring extra attention and publicity to gang activity, fearing that might empower gang members.

But the agency said that Rigby's leadership role in the Bloods gives law enforcement extra concern.

Investigators believe Rigby is now somewhere out of the state using a car given to him by his father, Brian Rigby. He and the escapee's 79-year-old grandmother, Regina Ralph, were both arrested on charges of providing assistance to the fugitive.

It is unknown whether Rigby is using his gang ties to hide from authorities.

"I dig deep. When I do something, I go all out," Rigby said in the video.

Later this week, 21 Osceola County Jail employees will learn their fate. They face possible discipline for mistakes and policy violations that led to Rigby's escape.

The escape prompted Osceola County Jail workers to do a better job of searching inmates' cells. That has already yielded results -- five inmates and one additional person have been charged with hiding contraband in the jail.

On Tuesday night, corrections officers found a loose toilet paper holder in one of the cells. When they removed it from the wall and looked in the hole, they found a pipe, several cigarette lighters and a bad that contained homemade alcohol.

It's unknown how long the contraband had been hidden behind the wall.

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