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>> MAN: ♪ Bad boys Whatcha want, whatcha want?
Whatcha gonna do ♪ When Sheriff John Brown Come for you?
♪ Bad boys, bad boys Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do ♪ When they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys Whatcha gonna do?
♪ Whatcha gonna do When they come for you?
>> ANNOUNCER: Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement.
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
>> OFFICER JUSTIN GAUKER: When my son gets older I want him to view me as, you know, a good
person, hard-working, you know, just someone that has a respectable job.
You know, I want him to be able to look up to me and be proud of what I do.
Calls for service tonight have been a little slow, so we're going to go be a little
proactive.
This area has gotten a couple of recent calls for narcotic activity.
We're going to go check it out.
See what we can find.
Control 7 Charlie 45.
>> (over radio): Go ahead.
>> GAUKER: Yeah, Tam and Cleveland.
Let's check these two out, see what they're doing.
(garbled radio transmission) What's up?
>> What's up, buddy?
>> GAUKER: You live here?
>> Huh?
>> GAUKER: You live here?
>> No, I'm waiting on my girl right now.
>> GAUKER: Your girl?
>> Yeah.
>> GAUKER: What's your girl's name?
Got anything on you, you shouldn't have?
Not at all?
Step up right up here.
Right here, right in front.
Put your hands on the hood.
You ever been arrested before?
>> No.
>> GAUKER: Never? Ever?
How long you been in Vegas?
>> I been in Vegas for a couple months.
>> GAUKER: Okay, stand right here in front.
You live here?
>> No, I don't.
>> GAUKER: What are you doing here?
>> I'm here waiting for my sister.
>> GAUKER: You're waiting for your sister?
>> Yes, sir.
>> GAUKER: All right, step on out and talk to me for a second.
>> Sure.
>> GAUKER: Control 7 Charlie 45, copy two plates.
>> (over radio) 7 Charlie 45, go ahead.
Nevada plate is on the minivan.
Could you step in front for me?
Put your drink down on the hood of the car and grab the hood of the car.
>> So what's the problem?
>> GAUKER: You guys are just hanging out here.
You don't live here.
You're picking people up.
(garbled radio transmission) >> GAUKER: Put your hands behind your back.
Put your hands behind your back right now.
>> For what?
What did I do?
>> GAUKER: I'm going to drop you in a second.
You put your hands behind your back.
>> They behind my back.
>> GAUKER: All right, put this hand behind your back.
Put it...
>> What did I do, sir?
>> GAUKER: I'll tell you in a minute.
>> What did I do?
>> GAUKER: You turn around on me again I'm going to make that...
>> What did I do?
>> (over radio): Foot pursuit heading towards the...
We're going on to Tam from Cleveland.
Making a right on Tam.
All black, blue jeans, black shirt, BMA, braids in the hair, faded jeans.
Stop him!
Stop him!
>> (over radio): Male, all black, wearing black shirt, BMA with braids in hair.
>> GAUKER: 2204.
(panting) Let me see your hands!
>> OFFICER JOEL CRANFORD: Let me see your hands, now!
Come out.
Let me see your hands!
Both of them!
Both of them.
Come on.
Get them out towards me.
Crawl out towards me.
(sirens approaching) Crawl out towards me.
>> CRANFORD: You got one of them or what?
>> GAUKER: Yeah, the other guy was in the other car.
Code four, one in custody.
(panting) >> CRANFORD: Stand up, man.
>> GAUKER: Last I saw.
>> (garbled radio transmission) >> You want to throw him in the back of my car and I'll take him
over there?
>> GAUKER: Yeah, sounds good.
We're going to retrace our steps.
It's a big part of why people run, they have stuff on them that they want to get rid of.
No?
>> OFFICER JUNG YI: Look at this.
(laughing) What do you think this could be?
>> GAUKER: Oh, individually packaged and everything.
>> YI: Yep.
>> GAUKER: Now he's really going.
Good, good eye, brother.
(garbled radio transmission) >> YI: Looks to be about over two pieces approximately.
>> GAUKER: That's enough for trafficking.
>> YI: About 13 individually packaged crack ***.
We're going to have to go in and test this to confirm it.
>> GAUKER: Good enough, brother.
Good spot.
Right now we're going to go back and talk to the gentleman.
We found this bag of crack ***, individually packaged.
We found a *** of money on him.
All right, so what's up?
>> I was buying some marijuana, sir, from the yard in the rear, sir.
That's what I was doing, sir.
And that is not, that is not my van, sir.
I swear to God.
>> GAUKER: It's not your van, but you're in the driver's seat?
>> I was buying the marijuana.
I gave the guy my money.
>> GAUKER: You had a whole *** on you.
>> He said, "Wait right here," and he said he'd be right back.
That's what he said to me.
>> GAUKER: He wasn't right back, though.
And I found crack right where you were.
>> Right where I were?
What do you mean?
>> GAUKER: Crack baggie.
>> You ain't find no crack where I was.
>> GAUKER: I did.
>> Sir, I swear.
>> GAUKER: Don't lie to me.
You lie to me I'm going to start tacking stuff on.
Think about that, all right?
I'll give you a few minutes to think.
What's going on?
>> Not much.
>> GAUKER: What are you doing here?
>> I was waiting for my sister.
>> GAUKER: Waiting for your sister?
>> Yeah.
>> GAUKER: All right?
That's all you were doing?
This guy is saying something else.
>> I don't know that guy.
>> GAUKER: You don't know him at all?
You're parked...
Look at it from our perspective.
You're parked right behind him, right?
>> I just pulled up.
>> GAUKER: You're parked right behind him, right?
>> Yeah?
>> GAUKER: All right, he's here, you're there.
It's a high narcotics activity area.
>> Yeah.
>> GAUKER: He told me he knew you.
He admitted it.
All right, you're not in trouble right now.
Just come out...
>> I don't know the guy.
>> GAUKER: You never seen him before?
You ever been arrested before?
>> Never seen him before, never talked to him before?
>> GAUKER: You ever been arrested before?
>> Yeah, once.
>> GAUKER: For what?
>> I been arrested for petty theft.
>> GAUKER: For petty theft?
What else?
>> Uh, I did drug aversion as well.
>> GAUKER: All right, stay there.
You're going to stay there for a little while.
>> YI: All right, I tested the drugs that we found.
Both came back positive for crack ***.
I tested two just in case.
>> GAUKER: Good enough.
>> YI: Yeah, ten pieces of rocks in there.
4.2 grams.
That's good for trafficking.
>> GAUKER: You understand you're a lucky man right now?
>> Yes, I do.
>> GAUKER: All right, you understand why you staying by the car cut you a big break?
All right?
You didn't get stupid.
You didn't run.
>> Yeah.
>> GAUKER: All right?
I'm crazy.
I'll try and run in both directions if I have to.
>> I hear you.
>> GAUKER: All right?
You got a good break today.
Consider that lucky.
What you're doing on your own time, and your own business, with whoever and however much
you're paying, that's on you.
>> Thanks.
>> GAUKER: Go.
You want to hear the charges?
>> Yeah.
>> GAUKER: All right, you're going for possession of a stolen vehicle.
It was stolen and you were in dominant control of it.
You're in the driver's seat.
You got there somehow.
You're going for the crack.
It was tested.
It's positive, individually packaged for sales.
You're going for obstructing a police officer.
All right, any other questions?
Anything I forgot you'd like me to add on?
Okay.
>> FTO JOHN MATHIS: I became interested in law enforcement when I was in high school, and I
went in the military and US Air Force, and got into law enforcement there and retired
from there and moved up here to Boise, Idaho.
I initially worked for the Idaho Parole Board, and after about a year and a half of letting
people out of prison, I decided I'd rather put people in or back in.
So I applied and was hired by the Boise Police Department.
We're going to a domestic threat.
We're going to assist an officer that's already out here speaking with the woman that's having
problems with her, looks like her ex-husband, making threats to kill her new boyfriend and
she wants some assistance with that.
So we're going to pull up and talk to her here.
How are you guys doing?
>> Good.
>> MATHIS: Good, you're Stephanie and you're...
>> Brian.
>> MATHIS: Brian? Okay.
Why don't you tell me what's going on?
>> Well, I guess it was right before April 2, I separated from him and on April 2 he broke into
his house...
>> MATHIS: Into his house?
>> Yes.
And had jumped him.
>> MATHIS: Okay.
Did you make a report about that?
>> Yes.
>> MATHIS: Okay.
>> And then from there on we've had nothing but problems.
He's threatened to *** me.
He's threatened to bash...
I mean he's like, "Oh, he deserved to get his head bashed in.
You'll get yours next."
He's been threatening to *** me.
>> MATHIS: Have you made reports on these all the time?
>> Yes, yes.
>> MATHIS: Do you have a protection order?
>> I have a no-contact order.
We did a protection order and the protection order, our lawyer was like, well, maybe let's not
try to carry that one through because of her.
>> MATHIS: But that's all, that's probably the only exemption, right?
Is dealing with her?
>> Yes.
>> MATHIS: Okay, and what was the threats today?
>> Today?
>> MATHIS: Was it today?
>> Yes, he was...
he answered my phone because we just got done eating.
>> MATHIS: Okay, cell phone?
>> My cell phone.
>> MATHIS: Okay.
>> He answered my phone and he's like, "You're not allowed to be calling her.
There's a no contact order."
>> MATHIS: You told him that?
>> Yes.
>> MATHIS: And what did he say?
>> He said, "I don't care anything about that.
I have nothing to say to you."
I said, "Well, if you would like to, you know, leave her a message, I'll be happy to, you
know, do that.
You're not supposed to be talking to her.
She does not wish to talk to you."
>> MATHIS: Uh-huh.
>> And then he called me a few choice names and told me that he would break both of my legs and
he was sending somebody out to kill me.
>> MATHIS: All right, we'll try to find him tonight.
We'll call you if we find him.
>> Thank you.
>> MATHIS: All righty.
All right, I'll see you over there.
>> (garbled radio transmission) >> MATHIS: We're going to the address of the suspect.
See if he's home and see if we can get an interview with him, and if not, get a productive
interview, we'll make an arrest on him based on the probable cause we already have for the
stalking.
The car's parked right down here.
Let's go knocking.
Hey.
When he slams the door, you fly through and knock it open.
(knocking) Hey, Tony.
It's the Boise Police.
We know you're inside.
All we want to do is talk to you.
So if you'd step out, we'd appreciate it.
That's all we want to do is talk to you.
>> Can you hear him?
>> MATHIS: Come on!
(knocking) There you go.
Step out here.
>> Hey!
Geez.
>> Get out here and sit down.
>> What are you guys...
>> Step out!
Sit.
>> MATHIS: Sit down.
Sit.
>> What did I do?
>> MATHIS: We've been knocking on your door for how long?
Why are you doing this?
Why you playing this game?
>> I was sleeping.
What did I do?
>> MATHIS: You don't know why we're here?
>> No, I have no clue.
>> MATHIS: Okay, who are you married to?
>> Well, I'm in the middle of a divorce from my wife.
>> MATHIS: Okay, her name's Stephanie, correct?
>> Yes.
>> MATHIS: What's going on with you and her as far as you calling her, text-messaging her
and so forth?
>> My wife calls me just the same.
>> MATHIS: Okay, she called you?
>> She calls me, yes.
>> MATHIS: Okay.
How many times you call her today, you think?
>> I probably called her once today maybe.
>> MATHIS: Once?
>> Yes.
>> MATHIS: It looked like a lot more on that, on that phone that I saw.
>> Okay.
Did I do something wrong?
Am I being charged with something?
>> MATHIS: Right now I'm just asking you questions.
>> Well, then I'm not going to answer anything...
>> MATHIS: All right, stand up.
>> If I'm being arrested...
>> MATHIS: Stand up.
You're under arrest.
>> For what?
>> MATHIS: Felony stalking.
>> Stalking?
>> MATHIS: Yeah.
>> That's what I asked you.
If I'm being charged...
>> MATHIS: Now you're under arrest.
>> Now you don't have to worry about talking to us.
>> Okay.
>> Is there anybody else in your house?
>> My mother is.
She's asleep.
I don't know why...
>> MATHIS: Let's go.
>> Can I get my shoes?
>> MATHIS: Nope.
>> Okay.
>> MATHIS: Let's go.
>> I'm being arrested for what?
>> MATHIS: Felony stalking.
>> Stalking of?
How am I stalking?
>> MATHIS: Of Stephanie.
>> How am I stalking?
>> MATHIS: Well, first off, you got a no-contact order.
>> Okay.
>> MATHIS: And by having a no-contact order, and you doing what you're doing, as far as
calling her, text-messaging her, making threats to her and her new boyfriend, that's stalking.
>> I made threats to her boyfriend?
>> MATHIS: Yep.
>> When?
>> MATHIS: Today.
>> Okay.
Says who?
>> MATHIS: Says both of them.
Says the recorder that they have.
>> Okay.
Okay.
That's great.
And I'm going to be able to see proof of all this?
>> MATHIS: Sure, in court.
>> Okay.
I can't get bonded out?
>> MATHIS: Nope, not until you see the judge.
>> Which would be tomorrow morning?
>> MATHIS: No, probably tomorrow afternoon.
>> Okay.
>> MATHIS: Okay, why don't you put that there?
The reason you're under arrest for stalking...
>> I've been set up many times.
The contact order is a setup.
I will go to court and prove that and not guilty on that.
>> MATHIS: Not guilty on what?
>> On the contact order.
>> MATHIS: What do you mean?
The contact order is issued.
It's not like it's something...
>> I never committed any kind of domestic battery against her ever in my life.
>> MATHIS: There are cases pending against you for that.
>> Well, that's fine.
>> MATHIS: The no-contact order is valid right now.
And with what you're doing, as far as calling, text-messaging and so forth makes it a felony
stalking.
>> As far as my...
>> MATHIS: By having a no-contact order in place.
>> As far as my daughters went, we were allowed to contact as far as that...
>> MATHIS: Right, I understand that.
>> And I was going to pick up my daughter tomorrow morning...
>> MATHIS: Doesn't mean you can threaten her.
Doesn't mean you can...
>> Threaten my wife?
And I never threatened her boyfriend.
>> MATHIS: Okay, and you can stick to that.
>> I made a promise to my wife to take care of her and treat her right.
That's all I've ever done.
>> MATHIS: Okay.
>> Do you have anything else for me, sir?
>> MATHIS: Yeah, I asked you numerous times to help me out here and you just seem to want
to keep going.
>> What can I help you out with?
>> MATHIS: Keep going about why you're calling her?
>> Are you prosecuting me?
>> MATHIS: Why you calling her?
>> Prosecuting me, is that what you want me to help you out with?
I think you can talk to my attorney about that.
>> MATHIS: All right.
We're going to take him to jail for felony stalking.
Hopefully he'll stay there a while and we can get this cleared up.
>> CORPORAL BRAD ADAMS: What I like the best about Central Florida is it kind of has a
little bit of everything.
You've got all the attractions over in Orlando.
You've got a lot of the beaches.
You've got Cocoa Beach, which is famous.
We've got Cape Canaveral where the shuttle goes off.
Um, it's a nice, nice place to live.
(garbled radio transmission) >> (over radio): 306, I'll be out at seven, or, two.
(garbled radio transmission) >> (over radio): 306, I'll be out at seven, or, two.
>> FTO BRAD BELLFLOWER: Where you coming from?
>> At the Days Inn.
>> BELLFLOWER: You're coming from the Days Inn right now?
>> Yes, Officer.
The Days Inn at Port Malabar.
>> BELLFLOWER: That's where you're coming from right now?
You're sure about that?
>> Yes, Officer.
>> ADAMS: Okay, I'm just going to pat you down for my safety, okay?
>> Am I under arrest?
>> ADAMS: No, I'm going to pat you down to make sure you don't have any weapons on you.
>> Yeah, okay.
>> ADAMS: Keep your hands out of your pockets.
Face that way for me.
Put your hands behind your back.
You're not under arrest.
I'm just going to pat you down, okay?
Put your hands behind your back.
No, the other way, there you go.
There you go.
Relax.
Why are you so nervous?
Just relax.
This is normal everyday stuff.
>> Yes, Officer.
>> ADAMS: If you had something to worry about, I'd tell you.
>> Yes, Officer.
If you were under arrest I would tell you, okay?
>> Yes, Officer.
>> ADAMS: All right, no weapons on you?
>> No, Officer.
>> ADAMS: Okay, nothing illegal on you?
Nothing I need to be concerned about?
Guns, knives, bombs, bazookas, nothing like that?
>> No, Officer.
>> ADAMS: All right.
Nothing illegal in your pockets?
>> No, Officer.
>> ADAMS: You don't mind if I check?
>> No, Officer.
>> ADAMS: What's that?
>> A syringe, Officer.
>> ADAMS: Okay.
Relax.
Because if you get jumpy...
>> No, Officer.
>> ADAMS: There's going to be a huge problem.
If I get stuck, there's going to be a huge problem.
Cuff him in back.
The syringe is in your pocket?
>> Yes, Officer.
>> ADAMS: Does it have a top on it?
>> Yes, Officer.
>> ADAMS: Is there any other syringes on you besides that?
>> I don't think so, Officer.
>> ADAMS: All right, is there anything else on you besides what I just found?
>> No, Officer.
>> ADAMS: What about your partner in there?
She have anything illegal on her?
>> Not to my knowledge, Officer.
>> ADAMS: Anything illegal in the car?
>> No, Officer.
>> ADAMS: What is that?
>> ***, Officer.
>> ADAMS: Come back here.
All you have is that shield back there, right?
>> BELLFLOWER: Yeah.
>> ADAMS: I'll take that out and put that in the back of my car.
Have a seat.
>> Yes, sir.
>> ADAMS: Megan, step out for me.
How long have you known your friend here?
>> Um, six months or so.
>> ADAMS: Six months?
Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> ADAMS: Do you have anything on you I need to be concerned about?
Guns, knives, bombs, bazookas?
You got no pockets?
You have anything in your pockets?
>> No.
>> ADAMS: All right, do me a favor, just stand right here for me.
Face that way.
Well, we just found a bunch of *** on the driver.
He had some powder, some rock.
They just came from a drug area.
He had a good amount on him, so he might have it all.
There's a Chore Boy that they stick in the end of their pipe.
It acts as a filter.
A scale.
>> BELLFLOWER: Oh, a scale, too, some more paraphernalia.
>> ADAMS: A scale and it's got coke all over it.
>> BELLFLOWER: Nice.
>> ADAMS: Scale is normally used for weighing out their coke.
And it's got *** all over it.
(garbled radio transmission) It's got coke all over it.
Before they recently weighed it.
>> BELLFLOWER: Go ahead and turn around.
Put your hands behind your back.
You're under arrest for possession of drug paraphernalia and we're going to look at that
pipe and see if there's actually crack in it.
>> It's not.
>> BELLFLOWER: It's not?
Then you may end up being actually charged with possession of ***.
I'm sorry?
>> It's not mine.
>> ADAMS: It's not yours?
Are these your cigarettes?
>> (indistinct) >> ADAMS: I'm sorry?
>> They're his.
>> ADAMS: The cigarettes are his?
>> Yes.
>> ADAMS: Okay.
What did he say to you when you were getting pulled over?
Nothing? He didn't say a thing?
>> No.
>> ADAMS: Is this your purse?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> ADAMS: Got to pick better friends.
>> (sobbing) >> ADAMS: You've known him for six months.
You know he has a habit.
>> But I didn't know he had anything on him.
>> ADAMS: Did you also not know you had his pipe in your purse and his Chore Boy in your purse
and his...
>> He said, "Put those in your purse."
>> ADAMS: Oh, he said that at the last second?
I just asked you a few minutes ago what happened when I pulled you over.
You said, "Nothing.
He just stopped."
>> And he threw the stuff in my purse.
Put that in my purse.
I said that to you.
>> ADAMS: No, this is the first time you're telling me.
>> No, when he, when you said "Where did the cigarettes come from?," I said they were his.
You said, "Well, how did you get it?" I said to you that he said to
put all this in your purse.
>> ADAMS: Have you done coke tonight?
>> No.
>> ADAMS: You just been drinking?
>> I don't drink.
(garbled radio transmission) >> ADAMS: Right here is why he's so nervous.
When I went to pat him down he's got a pretty good amount of powder *** here.
We tested it and this reacted right away and is very bright blue, so it tested positive for
***.
He also had a syringe on him, which we don't like for obvious reasons.
He'll be going up to jail and his female partner had some paraphernalia and stuff on her
so she'll be going, too.
That's what happens when you ride dirty.
You go to jail.
>> OFFICER ( over radio ): 132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
>> DISPATCHER: At gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
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