Officer Smith found multiple items that together constitute a tattoo gun: a bleach bottle filled with black pen ink, a sharpened metal tip that resembled a needle, a few altered pens, and a few screws that were likely removed from a television. The makeshift tattoo gun was hidden inside the inmate’s protein powder.

Inmate Jamal attended Admission and Discharge where he underwent a skin frisk due to staff suspicion that he had items for tattooing in his possession. Inmate Jamal handed over a makeshift tattoo gun consisting of a hollow pen with a needle at the end, wires from a USB charger, and ink concealed in his underwear.