Cervantes testified that while in prison, he heard 'rumors' that certain VFL members were upset with him for another reason. When asked why VFL gang members wanted to 'check' him, Cervantes stated it was likely because he dropped out of the gang and went into protective custody while in prison. Cervantes testified that, after the January 2013 shooting, the district attorney's office provided him financial assistance and helped him move out of Fallbrook, where he had lived his entire life. Cervantes was released from prison in late April 2012. Cervantes testified a criminal street gang who believed one of its members was cooperating with law enforcement would 'try to do whatever it can to take that member out.' While in protective custody awaiting his release, Cervantes told law enforcement/correctional officers what he knew about VFL. Inmates in protective custody are kept separate from the general jail population because, according to Cervantes, people in the general population would attempt to harm inmates in protective custody because such inmates are perceived to be cooperating with law enforcement. With about five or six months of his prison term remaining, Cervantes told a prison guard he wanted to go to 'S.N.Y,' which Cervantes testified stood for 'special needs yard' and which was the same as protective custody.
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