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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.
>> DEPUTY SEAN McMICHAEL: Night
after night, I'm out here
hitting the streets, trying to
reduce the crime out here, and,
uh, you know, I go home.
My family is most important
to me.
They're very supportive, you
know, wife and kids.
And, uh, so that's what I think
about, you know, I know I'm
keeping them safe, and yet, I'm
keeping other families safe
while they're at home sleeping
and... or even on the roads.
Let's stop this car just went by
with no tag light on it.
Got a lot of drug sales, drug
purchasing going on around here
this time of night.
A lot of complaints.
Let's see if, uh...
Let's see what we got up here.
(beeping)
>> (over radio): 1033...
(garbled radio transmission)
1033?
>> Clear.
>> (over radio): Traffic at 2005
Alpha 81?
>> McMICHAEL: 26, uh, 65 tag.
What's up?
>> Hey, how's it going, sir?
>> McMICHAEL: Good. How you
doing?
Got your license on you?
>> Yes, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: Thank you very
much.
>> Yes, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: This your car?
>> Yes, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: And your name?
>> What's the problem?
>> McMICHAEL: Let me ask you
this: what you doing in this
neck of the woods?
>> Sir?
>> McMICHAEL: What are you
doing in this neck of the woods?
>> I get some, um, br...
For to get the, um... brake
light.
When I press on the brake, the
light go out, so I'm going to
see if they sell a little brake
light for the...
>> McMICHAEL: So, you had... you
had to come all the way over?
>> No, I been over this way.
>> McMICHAEL: Oh, okay.
>> Yeah, I been over this way.
>> McMICHAEL: Okay.
>> My job right there on the
next street...
>> McMICHAEL: All right, the
reason you're getting pulled
over tonight is because your tag
light... tag light doesn't work.
>> Okay...
>> McMICHAEL: You got anything
in the car I need to know about?
Knives, guns, drugs, drug
paraphernalia...?
>> No, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: You don't mind if
I search your car?
>> No... No problem, sir.
You want me to come out?
>> McMICHAEL: Huh? Yeah, go
ahead and step out of the car.
Just when you do, just put your
hands right up there.
Just right on top of the car.
>> You can call my job, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: Oh.
>> You can call my boss man...
>> McMICHAEL: Turn around.
Put your hands on your head.
>> Over my head?
>> McMICHAEL: Yeah.
Did you think you were getting
arrested?
>> Sir?
>> McMICHAEL: Did you think you
were going to jail or something?
>> No, it's just the principle,
man.
>> McMICHAEL: What?
>> Y'all are searching me for
what, for a brake light, sir?
>> McMICHAEL: I'm just making
sure you don't have any weapons.
>> Okay, no...
>> McMICHAEL: You know what I'm
saying? So relax.
>> Yes, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: You know, you're
outside the car.
Are you... You all right?
>> Yeah, I told you I don't...
>> McMICHAEL: There something I
should know about?
>> No, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: You sure?
>> Yes, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: The chest is
pounding, boss.
>> Yeah, 'cause I... This is my
first time getting pulled over
over this way.
I never got arrested over this
way, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: Okay, okay, just
do me a favor: come stand back
here.
You take your shoes off for me?
They just slip off, right?
>> Yes, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: Runner!
Better stop!
(suspect shouts indistinctly)
>> McMICHAEL: Stop or you're
getting a tase!
>> No, don't!
>> McMICHAEL: Sit down!
Get on the ground now!
Put your hands behind your back!
>> Please...
>> DEPUTY MARK LANIER: Do you
understand?
>> Yes, sir. I'm so sorry.
>> McMICHAEL: Put your hands
behind your back.
>> Yes, sir.
(McMichael panting loudly)
I'm sorry.
I made a mistake. I'm...
I'm...
>> McMICHAEL: We got a 1015. 23.
>> My...
My wife just had kids.
(McMichael panting)
>> McMICHAEL: He acted very
nervous, and... told him to
start taking off his shoes.
He took off running.
Right there, somewhere-somewhere
right in here, he got... got a
bag of crack.
He got a bag of crack right
there.
Mark, I got one bag so far.
>> LANIER: There was crack.
He's lying to us.
>> McMICHAEL: Listen, can you...
Can you look at me?
>> I did, though, I won't say
nothing.
>> McMICHAEL: What did you run
for, man?
>> I barely can't breathe.
>> McMICHAEL: So you ran 'cause
you couldn't breathe?
>> Huh?
>> McMICHAEL: So you ran 'cause
you couldn't breathe?
>> I was scared.
>> McMICHAEL: What were you
scared of?
>> I don't know.
This is my first time ever being
on this end with polices behind
me.
>> McMICHAEL: Oh, really?
All right, stand up.
>> Wait...
>> McMICHAEL: Huh?
>> Say, hold on.
>> McMICHAEL: Did you run out of
your pants?
>> No. Barely couldn't breathe.
>> McMICHAEL: Huh?
>> I said, I barely couldn't
breathe.
(McMichael clears throat)
>> McMICHAEL: Have a seat.
Let me ask you this for... for
reference.
Did you take any ***
tonight?
>> No, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: Did you?
>> No, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: You need to be
honest with me, 'cause that's...
>> I'm positive, sir.
You can drug-test me right now,
sir.
>> McMICHAEL: So... So, what's
the *** you have now?
What was that for?
>> I had powder.
>> McMICHAEL: What was the
powder for?
>> Sir?
>> McMICHAEL: What was the
powder for?
>> The one guy who I dropped
off over there, he gave me a bag
of powder...
>> McMICHAEL: For what?
You don't use coke, though, do
you?
>> No, I don't use it.
>> McMICHAEL: So what do you
have it for?
Huh?
>> Sir?
>> McMICHAEL: And you put it in
your shoe?
>> I put it in my shoe.
>> McMICHAEL: What shoe did you
have it in?
>> I ain't have no powder in my
shoe.
>> McMICHAEL: You didn't have
powder in your shoe?
>> No, sir.
>> McMICHAEL: Where'd you have
it?
>> What I had powder... I had
powder in my hand when I got out
of the car.
>> McMICHAEL: What did you do
with it?
>> I dropped it by the car.
It was a little tin or
something.
>> McMICHAEL: Sarge, check that
wallet.
He's saying he had a blue bag in
his hand when he got out of the
car, and possibly put it with
the money.
The night could have gone a lot
easier for that guy.
All he had to do was own up for
what he had, a little bit of
dope.
He would have just gone for a
simple ride, but now, he's got
additional charges going on him:
resisting with... fleeing.
So, uh, you know, it's going to
be a night he's going to spend
in county jail for a little bit
longer time.
>> OFFICER JENNIFER HERTZLER:
You know, that first day of
being by yourself, I was so
nervous, and I remember every
time I'd hear the radio crackle,
you know, before the dispatch
would send a call, I'd think,
please don't be for me.
Please don't be my call.
But as the day went on I made a
few traffic stops and you get
used to it throughout the day,
and the next day was easier and
so forth.
But I remember that feeling of,
being real anxious that I'm not
going to know what to do when
this first call comes out.
It's kind of a funny memory to
look back on.
I'm going to make a traffic stop
on this green Ford Taurus.
It's got no license plate, no
temp permit and there is a
recently stolen one matching
this description.
(siren chirps)
975, we're going to be about
89th and Powell, and if there's
a close car, Code One cover,
please?
(indistinct radio transmission)
Hi.
>> Hi.
>> HERTZLER: Is this your car?
>> No, it's my friend's.
>> HERTZLER: It's your friend's
car? Okay.
How come you don't have a
license plate?
>> My driver's license is
suspended, yeah.
>> HERTZLER: Okay. Why don't you
take your keys out and hand me
the keys.
>> There's no keys.
No keys car, it's my friend's.
>> HERTZLER: No keys?
>> Yeah. It's not my car.
>> HERTZLER: How do you start
the car then?
>> What?
>> HERTZLER: How do you start
the car?
(speaking in Spanish)
>> HERTZLER: How do you turn the
car on?
>> It's broken-- look in, the
key is broken.
It broken car.
>> HERTZLER: Okay, so it's your
friend's car; you're suspended.
>> Yeah.
>> HERTZLER: Do you know why
there's no license plate on the
car?
>> No, besides, maybe...
>> HERTZLER: What's your
friend's name?
>> Pardon? What's that?
>> HERTZLER: What's your
friend's name?
>> My friend is... two name.
I don't know what name is
original.
>> HERTZLER: Okay, so you don't
really know your friend's name.
>> No, I don't know what his
name original is.
>> HERTZLER: Okay, so it's your
friend's car and you don't know
your friend's name?
>> No.
>> HERTZLER: Have you ever had
an Oregon driver's license?
>> Hmm?
>> HERTZLER: Have you ever had a
driver's license?
>> What?
>> HERTZLER: Have you had a
driver's license in Oregon?
>> Yeah.
>> HERTZLER: Yeah? Okay.
So you should be
in our system in DMV.
>> Yeah.
>> HERTZLER: Yeah. Okay.
What is your first name?
(indistinct)
>> HERTZLER: Can you spell that
for me?
>> Huh?
>> HERTZLER: Spell your first
name.
>> My name?
>> HERTZLER: Yeah.
>> What, what is spell?
>> HERTZLER: How do you spell
your name?
>> What is a spelling?
My two numbers?
>> HERTZLER: Oh, you're killing
me.
Step out of the car, and just
keep your hands out where I
can see them, okay?
Step out of the car.
>> Okay.
>> HERTZLER: You don't have any
weapons, nopistolas?
>> Nothing, nothing.
>> HERTZLER: Okay, put your
hands on back of your head.
Interlock your fingers.
Separate your feet for me.
I'm going to set him in my car,
or should I set him in your car
until we figure out who he is?
He has selective English.
What's this?
>> This is my friend's.
>> HERTZLER: All right, let's go
set him in your car.
Let's go have a seat in this
car, okay?
>> Into the car? Everything.
>> OFFICER DAVID RASMUSSEN: You
don't understand what I'm saying
so just have a seat right over
here.
>> HERTZLER: I'm just checking,
running the VIN on the car.
The license plate that was in
the windshield actually comes
back to a Ford Thunderbird.
Um, which this is a Ford Taurus.
So we're going to find out who
this, what this car is, who it
belongs to... and it's a stolen
car.
It's actually the one on the hot
sheet that I've been looking
for.
>> OFFICER JAMES BOTAITIS: All
right, I'm Officer Botaitis; I'm
going to figure out who you are.
Do you have ID?
>> No, my ID is...
>> BOTAITIS: It's at home?
>> No. Right now no house.
>> HERTZLER: He says he has a
suspended license.
>> BOTAITIS: Did you give your
true name to the officer
already?
>> Yeah.
>> BOTAITIS: You did?
That's your name?
Okay, I'm going to make sure
that that's your name.
If it's not your name and
you're not telling me the truth
to the officer, you can be
charged with separate crimes.
Do you understand that?
>> It's my name.
>> BOTAITIS: It's called an IBIS
machine.
It takes fingerprints from the
individual that we have detained
and then it tells us if it does
belong to somebody and then it's
identified by one of our ID
techs up in our identification
division.
>> HERTZLER: Did you already
print him?
>> BOTAITIS: No.
Okay, what I'm going to have you
do is I'm going to go ahead and
have you place your right thumb,
right thumb; there you go.
And I'm just going to have you
relax it, okay?
Just relax.
Let me push, okay?
You don't push.
I'll take care of pushing.
All right?
(beeping)
Okay, all right.
>> HERTZLER: Did you get it?
>> BOTAITIS: Yeah.
Let me make sure that this thing
is connected.
It'll transfer the thumbprints
over to this machine and then
once it has the information, it
will send it up to the computer.
>> That's not my car.
>> HERTZLER: I know.
It's a stolen car.
>> No is my car.
>> HERTZLER: I know it's not
your car, okay?
You were driving it.
Possession of a stolen vehicle.
It's a stolen car.
>> Yeah, no is my car.
>> HERTZLER: Okay.
>> It's trouble; it's trouble
with everything; it's trouble.
>> HERTZLER: You took it from a
friend you don't even know the
name of.
(speaking Spanish)
It's trouble for me.
It's trouble check it.
It's trouble computer.
It's trouble for me, the people
I don't know.
(speaking Spanish)
>> HERTZLER: Did you get the hit
back?
>> BOTAITIS: Yes, looks like I
just received it.
Let me take a look and see what
it says?
And there's our SID number, so
we can identify him by state
identification number.
Let's plug... go ahead and
plug... yeah, plug in that SID
number as well, just to verify
it, but according to what it's
saying here, the name that he
provided is, in fact, him.
>> HERTZLER: Okay, very good.
Thank you.
All right, ... you understand
you're being arrested, correct?
>> What?
>> HERTZLER: You're under
arrest, okay?
You're going to be charged
with...
>> (speaking Spanish)
>> HERTZLER: Okay, hey!
Listen to me, okay?
>> Sorry.
>> HERTZLER: You're under
arrest; you're going to be
charged, with not only driving
with a suspended, which you
obviously admitted right away,
but also for unlawful use of a
motor vehicle and possession of
a stolen vehicle, okay?
>> Am I arrested?
>> HERTZLER: You're arrested.
(beeping)
>> DEPUTY ANGEL ARTOLA: 2695.
We're going to stop this vehicle
here.
We're at the traffic stoplight.
It looked like the passenger was
rolling up a marijuana
cigarette.
So we're going to stop the
vehicle and see what's going on.
(garbled radio transmission)
Do you have a driver's license?
Put your hands up here so I can
see them, please.
Thank you.
>> Should I turn off the music?
>> ARTOLA: Please.
>> Okay.
>> ARTOLA: Okay, just hang back
here for a minute, okay?
>> Okay, sure.
>> ARTOLA: When we were at the
traffic light...
>> DEPUTY PATRICK ENGLISHBY:
Right.
>> ARTOLA: The front passenger
was rolling up a marijuana
cigarette and I smelled
marijuana in there, too.
So we're going to get them out
'cause that's our probable
cause to search the vehicle.
>> ENGLISHBY: He was holding it.
He was holding a rolled-up
cigarette.
>> ARTOLA: Then we're going to
get them out.
Just go ahead and step out.
>> (mumbling): So this, um, I
don't really feel comfortable...
>> ARTOLA: Do you have anything
on you?
No weapons or anything?
>> No.
>> ARTOLA: All right.
I'm just letting you know that
I'm going to bring everybody out
and we'll search your vehicle,
okay?
'Cause number one, I saw him
rolling the marijuana cigarette
at the traffic light, and number
two, I smell marijuana in your
vehicle.
So that gives me probable cause
to search your vehicle, okay?
>> Yeah, I don't...
>> ARTOLA: Let me ask you
something.
Have you ever smoked marijuana
in this car?
>> Yes, I've smoked marijuana in
this car before.
>> ARTOLA: So that's the smell
that I'm getting.
Okay, why don't you do me a
favor...
>> I don't anymore, actually.
>> ARTOLA: Go ahead and step
back with that deputy, okay?
Hey, Pat.
>> I haven't done it tonight or
anything though.
>> ARTOLA: All right, go ahead
and step back with that deputy.
I smelled marijuana.
That gives us probable cause to
search the vehicle just off the
smell.
It looks like a package of
syringes.
See, usually it could be for
***.
Let's see if they have a...
Got a pill bottle down here.
I'm not sure if it's full or...
Okay.
And that's probably what they
were hiding.
I will call Poison Control, but
apparently, I think those blue
pills might be Oxycodone.
And of course, there's no label
on it.
Come here, please.
Remember how I started my
conversation with you, right?
About the honesty, right?
>> Yeah.
>> ARTOLA: So we're on the same
page with that.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> ARTOLA: I found something in
the car.
I found several items in the
car.
Pills... okay?
Whose are those?
My boyfriend's prescription,
most likely.
>> ARTOLA: His prescription?
Who's your boyfriend?
>> Eric, well, he's not really
my boyfriend anymore.
We broke up, but I still call
him that.
It's only been a couple of
weeks.
>> ARTOLA: Is he the gentleman
in the front seat?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> ARTOLA: Do you think he's
going to man up and be straight
up?
>> Oh, I don't-- that's why I
don't understand why the bottle
wouldn't have a name on it.
It should.
I don't understand why it
wouldn't.
>> ARTOLA: Okay, all right.
Let me go talk to him then.
>> Okay.
>> ARTOLA: Go ahead and stand
over there and let me call...
Eric?
The pills that I found
underneath the seat...
>> The pills?
>> ARTOLA: Whose are those?
>> Probably mine.
I have a prescription for them.
>> ARTOLA: You do?
>> Yes, I do.
That's it.
I don't know why-- the cap just
fell off, that's probably why
there might be some on the floor
back there.
Here's the cap for it.
>> ARTOLA: Why was a pill
bottle underneath your seat?
>> What-- a pill bottle?
>> ARTOLA: Mm-hmm.
>> No, I don't know about a pill
bottle.
That's my prescription with my
name on it.
>> ARTOLA: So you don't know
about the pill bottle?
>> No, obviously this-- yeah,
this is my prescription bottle.
I just got that done today.
>> ARTOLA: So the pill bottle
that's underneath the front
passenger seat, that I found
underneath the front passenger
seat...?
>> Unless it has my name on
it...
>> ARTOLA: You have no idea
about it?
>> The only way it'd be mine is
if it had my name on it.
I have my prescription with my
name on it.
You know what I mean?
>> ARTOLA: You know, also that
people-- I've been doing this
for a lot of years.
They put their own pills, if
they have a prescription,
'cause you know these go for a
pretty penny.
>> Yes, absolutely.
Oh, you mean for selling wise?
>> ARTOLA: Yeah, uh-huh.
>> Oh, no.
I understand what you're talking
about, yeah.
>> ARTOLA: Because you're not
going to go and sell this to
somebody and open up your pill
bottle and, you know...
You're going to put it in a pill
bottle like that with no label
and stuff.
>> You mean if you were actually
selling, if I was giving him the
bottle or something like that, I
wouldn't give him a prescription
bottle with my name on it.
Obviously, okay.
>> ARTOLA: Exactly.
>> Okay, but like I said, I'm...
like I said, I'm doing...
There's paperwork right over
there for the summons.
I went to court this morning and
I'm going... like I said,
I'm starting rehab over at CARP
and everything like that.
>> ARTOLA: Come here.
Come here.
>> Oh, I'm sorry.
>> ENGLISHBY: Put your feet
together for me.
Put your feet together.
Put your hands behind your back.
>> Oh, my God, dudes.
>> ENGLISHBY: Relax.
>> Jess?
>> Why is...
>> I don't know.
You got to tell him.
>> ENGLISHBY: You're supposed to
be going to CARP, right?
>> Yes.
>> ENGLISHBY: You don't think
it would be unrealistic that
those pills under your seat in
an unmarked prescription bottle
could be yours?
>> I have my prescription
bottles right there.
>> ENGLISHBY: I understand that,
but the same type of pills that
are in the bottle you showed us
are the same pills that are in
the unmarked bottle.
>> Someone has to come clean
right now, guys.
>> ENGLISHBY: Are you telling me
it's unrealistic that you're
going to drug treatment, the
same type of pills that are in
an unmarked bottle, the same
type you have...
>> The paperwork's right there.
>> ENGLISHBY: Do you have
anything in your pockets?
>> Just my... just the pill
bottle that I had and everything
like that.
>> ENGLISHBY: Okay.
>> And then I also...
Go ahead.
That's, just, that's right
there.
That's the one of the Buprenex
syringes.
>> ENGLISHBY: Are you kidding
me?
Are you kidding me?
I just asked you if you had
anything in your pockets, and
you told me no.
>> I told you that, I said I had
something right in there.
>> ENGLISHBY: You did not say
you had a syringe.
>> There's also... it was all
capped up.
That was from the Buprenex
injections.
I said there's a whole bunch of
syringes over there.
Someone is going to let me go to
jail.
>> Who?
>> How do you even know...
>> I'm finally getting it back
together and I'm... you know?
>> Eric, you got a syringe in
your pocket, dude.
>> Dude, that's not what...
>> You're not getting it
together.
>> Dude, they're talking about
that right there, Ray.
>> Listen to me, bro, what
they're going to do, they're
going to do regardless.
They might take us, too, but
listen, you got to get...
>> So you want me to take and
admit that for everyone else and
you guys...
>> I'm not saying that, bro.
>> ...let me go in a blaze of
glory?
>> No, no.
>> I'll take the charge for the
syringe.
I'll take the charge for that,
but someone better take the
charge for that pill bottle.
That's not mine.
>> I'm already saying the same
thing.
Now, listen...
>> That makes no sense, Ray.
Why would I take pills and throw
them in another bottle and stick
them down there?
>> I don't know.
I don't know, that's why I asked
them two because they were
sitting behind you.
>> Oh, my God.
This is-- I can't believe this.
>> I'm not putting it all on
you.
>> Dude, someone answer.
>> ARTOLA: He's going to go to
jail for the possession of a
controlled substance.
He was going to a rehab facility
and now he can go to our rehab
facility, the county jail.
>> OFFICER (over radio):
132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
>> DISPATCHER: At gunpoint,
132 and Bush.
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