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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 SHAUN FORD: Working
the Las Vegas Strip on graveyard
is almost like having a front
row seat to a circus.
You never know on any given day
what you're going to run into.
Never know who's going to get
out of what car, who you're
going to roll up on, what the
next call's going to be.
You just never know.
It'll come about 3:00 or 4:00 in
the morning, some of the
criminals start hanging out
around and down the Strip.
Some of the tourists have been
drinking all night, and they're,
uh, a little bit more
vulnerable.
What is this guy doing?
This guy's messing with this
girl here.
I'm going to have to talk to
him.
Come here.
>> What happened?
>> FORD: Step over here.
Drop your cig. Keep your hands
out of your pockets!
>> I ain't got my...
>> FORD: Put your hands in your
pockets on me.
Step over here.
Get over the wall!
Keep your hands out of your
pocket.
Get over the wall.
>> All right.
>> FORD: Put your hands behind
your back.
Get on the ground!
Get on the ground.
>> All right!
>> FORD: Patrol 1DP13-4-16.
Get on the ground!
Stay on the ground!
>> All right, all right!
All right!
>> FORD: Stay on the ground!
>> All right.
>> FORD: Stay on the ground!
>> All right!
All right, you're choking me.
You're choking me.
>> FORD: At the Boulevard and
Sands.
Get on the ground!
Stay on the ground.
>> I got it. I got it.
>> FORD: Wow.
Okay.
Get up.
>> Oh!
>> FORD: Lean on the car.
(siren blares)
One in custody.
Keep me another unit rolling.
I'm at Boulevard and Sands.
Don't move.
>> All right.
>> (over radio): Do you need
medical?
>> FORD: 1DP13.
Go ahead and lift the...
>> What'd I do, sir?
>> FORD: Why'd you try to run if
you didn't do nothing wrong?
>> Because I don't want to go to
jail.
(sirens whoop)
>> FORD: Hey, take him.
Take him.
>> OFFICER AARON FINK: Go sit
down.
You already pat him, right?
>> FORD: I went out on the
subject here.
When we were driving down, he,
uh...
There was a guy and a girl
walking down the street here.
He, uh, went up and was grabbing
the girl.
Looked like he was trying to get
in her pockets just by grabbing
her.
Stuff like that, so when I went
out to talk to him, he started
reaching in his pockets.
I drew down on him.
Got his hands out of his
pockets.
Went hands on with him, tried to
put his hands behind his back.
As soon as I put his hands
behind his back, he tried to
take off on me, and a fight was
on.
Obviously, he has something to
hide if he's, uh, trying to
fight and willing to run like
that, so...
>> FINK: He just told us he has
a warrant 'cause he missed
court, so...
>> FORD: How old is he?
>> FINK: I don't know.
We're checking right now.
>> FORD: All right, give me all
his ID on him.
He said he didn't want to go to
jail, but he going to go to jail
for resisting, obstructing
anyway, so obviously he's up to
no good.
What were you trying to run for?
>> I'm scared, sir.
>> FORD: Scared of what?
>> I just bailed back.
>> FORD: You know those people
you were up there talking to?
>> Yeah, the ones who was on
their back?
>> FORD: Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> FORD: Who are they?
>> That's Lindsay and, uh...
I forgot the other dude's name.
I just met him.
I was just helping her up.
She didn't stop or nothing, sir,
I swear.
I was just pushing her up on her
back then I turned around and
you stopped me.
I pulled up my pants.
I'm scared 'cause I just bailed
out.
>> FORD: Pulled up your pants?
>> I swear to God I was pulling
up my pants.
>> FORD: Well, if you wondering
why, 'cause you were reaching in
your pockets, right?
Why'd you try to run?
>> I wasn't trying...
I'm scared, man.
I just got out of jail.
>> FORD: For what?
>> For, um, jaywalking.
>> FORD: For jaywalking?
>> Yeah.
>> FORD: So if you would've just
talked to me, not made this into
a bigger deal than it already
was, you'd be walking away from
here.
>> I'm sorry.
>> FORD: But since you tried to
run...
>> I'm sorry, sir.
>> FORD: You got something to
hide then, right?
>> I'm not hiding nothing, sir.
I was just... I just bailed out
not even two days ago.
>> FORD: Hey, does he got ID?
>> No.
>> OFFICER: 4-40.
>> FORD: 4-40, that's why he
ran, right?
>> What's that?
>> FORD: You got warrants.
>> FINK: Okay, what do want to
do?
There's warrants for...
>> FORD: Yeah, I'm gonna do him
for the warrants.
>> FINK: Are you gonna do
resisting, too?
>> FORD: Um, yeah, I'll
probably...
>> FINK: Did he hit you?
>> FORD: No, we just wrestled
around.
>> FINK: We gonna do battery or
nothing like that?
>> FORD: No, we just wrestled
around.
>> FINK: So resisting and then
$13,000 in warrants.
>> FORD: Good.
That's a good robbery warrant.
You're under arrest.
You got warrants.
You got a $3,000 warrant for
petty larceny from a person.
You got a $10,000 warrant for
robbery.
>> Can I say something, sir?
>> FORD: No.
What do you want to say?
>> I just got out of court for
that.
>> FORD: Listen, you can go and
explain it to the judge.
>> All right.
All right.
>> FORD: You got scratches on
you?
Are you hurt anywhere?
>> On my knees and elbows.
>> FORD: Well, that's your own
fault for running.
That's not from me.
That's from you running.
You trying to run, so we'll have
them clean that up and look at
it, but...
>> Can you not try to put the
run on there?
I swear to God, I'm sorry.
>> FORD: Huh?
>> I'm just scared, sir.
I just got out of jail.
>> FORD: You're scared 'cause
you got warrants and you tried
to run.
Now you got caught.
>> I swear, I didn't know about
the warrant.
>> FORD: Okay.
You put up a good fight, though.
I'll give you that.
Nice try.
Turn around.
Try to run again, it ain't gonna
work.
>> Where's he bleeding?
>> FORD: His elbow.
He tried to run and he fell in
the middle of the road.
If you could just look at his
elbow, just...
It probably ain't even nothing.
I just want to make sure.
Sit down.
Have a seat.
Your elbow's not even bleeding
that bad.
(siren whoops)
He's going to jail.
Running up this guy's record.
He's definitely out here up to
no good.
He's out here pickpocketing from
people.
By looking at his record, he's
got pages and pages of larceny
from a person, which can be
anything from pickpocketing to
stealing purses, taking stuff
from people.
So he's got $13,000 in warrants.
Here's the deal, man.
You're going to jail.
You got a $10,000 robbery
warrant, a $3,000 larceny from a
person warrant.
I know what you're up to out
here.
You got no business being down
here.
You're not working.
You're not old enough to gamble.
You're out here running up and
down the streets.
>> I was going to my house.
>> FORD: You got priors for
robbery.
You got priors for larceny from
a person.
You're out here snatching
purses, picking pockets.
>> I didn't ***...
>> FORD: You can deny it all you
want.
I know what you're up to.
It's not my first day on the
job.
So you got caught today.
You're going to jail.
(garbled radio transmission)
>> DEPUTY ROBERT GIZZI: I'm in
the Palmona Park area.
This neighborhood, um-- several
houses in here that I like to
watch for drug activity,
prostitution.
Kind of have a little rapport
with the homeowners, so I pop
in, make surprise visits.
Like to see who's there and
who's not, uh...
Um, see what's going on, because
a lot of times, they're in here
using drugs, and prostitutes are
working.
So you never know what you're
going to get inside there.
(door opening)
It's the one with the pickup
truck.
(dog howling)
Hey, what's going on?
Whose dog is that?
>> Uh, I don't, sir, but I
know... he will... will bite
you.
>> It's the guy that...
>> GIZZI: Is he vicious?
>> It's the guy that left him
here.
>> Yeah.
>> GIZZI: Michael here?
>> Yup.
>> Stop biting.
>> He's right there.
>> GIZZI: Can I come in, Mike?
>> He's talking with somebody.
>> He's in with somebody.
(garbled radio transmission)
>> GIZZI: Hey, what's going on?
>> Hello. Ooh.
>> GIZZI: How you doing, sir?
>> Good. How you doing?
>> GIZZI: Good.
>> (over radio): ...Woodward.
>> GIZZI: Got some visitors,
Mike?
>> Yeah, a little bit...
>> Oh!
>> GIZZI: Do you guys have ID?
>> Yeah, I do.
>> GIZZI: What brings you...?
How you guys know Michael?
>> I actually rent here now.
>> GIZZI: Oh, you do?
>> Yeah.
>> (over radio): To be honest.
>> (over radio): Go ahead.
>> GIZZI: How you know all these
people, Mike?
>> They're friends.
>> GIZZI: They're all friends of
yours?
>> Yeah. I'm not allowed to have
friends?
>> GIZZI: No, you are.
(dog barking)
Just checking with the neighbors
and stuff.
It sounds like the activity's
still going on.
All the drug dealing and
everything.
>> No, no... No.
>> GIZZI: Drug smoking. No?
>> You know me better than that.
>> GIZZI: Well, then...
>> Nothing going on here at all.
>> GIZZI: So, the neighbors are
lying?
Well, just so you guys know--
'cause I've never seen you
before, okay-- I stop by quite a
bit to make sure everything's
okay here.
>> That's my buddy.
He always checks me out.
>> Is this the friend you're
talking about?
>> He's all right.
>> GIZZI: Basically, I came here
'cause Michael's been having
some problems with prostitutes
and drug users coming in and
out, so I thought I'd come here
and check out...
>> This is my buddy.
>> GIZZI: Spoke to some
neighbors and some other people.
I thought I'd come here and
check.
>> This is my buddy.
He comes here to just check up
on me, make sure I'm okay.
He's got a...
>> GIZZI: Oh, yeah.
>> Ain't giving me a good
reputation in the neighborhood.
>> GIZZI: Right.
>> Seeing these cop cars in my
front yard all the time.
The way my neighbors talk.
You know what I mean?
>> GIZZI: Nobody here's wanted
or anything?
>> No. I'm just kidding with
you.
>> That's your truck, correct?
>> Yes, sir.
(garbled radio transmission)
>> GIZZI: What's this green
straw?
(garbled radio transmission)
>> It's something I-I use...
>> GIZZI: Yeah, just leave it
there.
>> Something I made to, uh, blow
the-the dust and dirt and stuff
out from-from behind here
because...
>> GIZZI: Oh, okay.
>> When I vacuum, and... Yeah.
>> GIZZI: Did you know Michael
has all kinds of drug users over
here?
>> I didn't know anything until
tonight.
This is the first time I've ever
been here.
>> GIZZI: Okay.
>> Um, this is...
Tonight's the first night, swear
to God.
>> GIZZI: Do you use drugs?
>> No, sir, I don't.
>> GIZZI: Never, ever?
>> Yes, I have in the past.
>> GIZZI: When's the last time?
>> Nine months.
>> GIZZI: What's with the
digital scale?
>> I've had them for...
I've had them for two or three
years.
>> GIZZI: This is a, uh, digital
scale.
It's commonly used, by, you
know...
A type of scale this size is
commonly used by either drug
dealers or drug users when
they're buying.
Okay. Do me a favor.
Turn around.
>> Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: Put your hands behind
your back.
(garbled radio transmission)
Palms together like you're
praying.
Okay, you're under arrest for
the drug paraphernalia, okay?
>> Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: Do you understand we
got a big drug problem, okay?
>> Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: And your neighbors
don't like to see people coming
over here to buy drugs, use
drugs...
>> I-I understand you.
>> GIZZI: Okay, it's one of
those things called livability
issues.
>> Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: 'Cause there's
children in this neighborhood.
>> Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: Okay. Do you wish to
talk to me about what's going on
tonight?
>> Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: Why would you give me
permission to search your truck,
knowing full well that you got
drug paraphernalia in there?
>> I didn't know about the
scales.
I mean, I forgot that I even...
I-I rarely even played with
them, and I haven't used them
for over nine months.
>> GIZZI: Okay.
>> Since I quit.
I-I quit doing everything.
I wouldn't say it...
>> GIZZI: You mentioned to me
that little straw was a device
to-to help clean the vehicle,
correct?
>> That's-That's correct.
>> GIZZI: Okay. So, you seem
pretty meticulous with your
vehicle?
>> Well, yeah, I like to get it,
uh...
>> GIZZI: That might be
something you would notice--
having a digital scale with-with
*** residue on it.
You didn't bring any narcotics?
>> No, sir.
>> GIZZI: Okay, how about this?
>> I don't... I don't know.
I don't know.
>> GIZZI: You don't know?
>> No, sir.
>> GIZZI: Okay.
>> I know what it is, but I
don't know anything about it.
>> GIZZI: What is it?
>> It's a Chore; it's what they
use for, uh, putting in crack
pipes.
>> GIZZI: Okay.
Do you have any crack pipes in
the vehicle?
>> No, sir.
I-I don't know, honest to God.
>> GIZZI: Okay.
>> I don't know now.
>> GIZZI: Why don't you come
over here?
(dog barking)
(garbled radio transmission)
>> GIZZI: Anything else you want
to tell me?
>> What do you want me to say?
What-What do you want now?
I'll tell you anything.
Just ask me.
>> GIZZI: Okay, why don't you
have a seat?
You know where the drugs are in
the house?
>> No, sir, I don't.
>> GIZZI: No idea?
>> No, sir.
>> GIZZI: No? Okay.
(garbled radio transmission)
I'm just going to go check that
bathroom one more time.
>> Okay.
>> GIZZI: Okay? Thanks, man.
>> Sounds good to me.
>> GIZZI: All right.
Person I arrested for the drug
paraphernalia in his vehicle--
he came out of the bathroom when
we first came in the house, so
I'm looking to see now if he's
dumped anything back here.
And here's a cigarette pack
with a, uh...
crack pipe.
This glass-- called a stem or a
glass pipe that they use as the,
uh...
Pack the Chore Boy in here.
Put the, uh, crack *** in
this side here, light it up, and
smoke it from this end.
And this is in a cigarette pack
just like the, uh, Chore Boy is
found.
And we got two pieces of crack
***.
So, what I'll do is, I'll, uh,
field-test that.
If it comes back positive for
***, then, uh, that
gentleman will be also arrested
for that.
You need to pick better friends,
okay?
>> Why?
>> GIZZI: Because the guy out
there is under arrest for drug
paraphernalia, and now he's
going to be under arrest once
this tests positive for crack
***, okay?
You told me... Listen...
>> In my bathroom?
>> GIZZI: Yeah, in your
bathroom, okay?
Listen, you told me...
>> (bleep).
>> GIZZI: That you're trying to
clean things up and everything
else.
Well, you know what?
You're not doing a very good
job.
>> I have been. I'm sorry.
>> GIZZI: 'Cause we don't need
this problem in this
neighborhood, you understand me?
>> It's somebody's... All right.
>> GIZZI: Michael, do you
understand me?
We don't need this problem here.
>> All right, 'cause it's only
the second time...
>> GIZZI: You have neighbors
with children and everything
else.
They don't need this stuff.
>> That's only the second time I
ever met that guy.
I really didn't know that.
>> I didn't know him.
>> Hell, no.
>> GIZZI: Slide your legs out.
Okay. What's the deal with the
***?
>> It's mine. It's mine.
>> GIZZI: Why'd you lie to me?
>> I don't know.
>> GIZZI: You didn't think I was
going to find it?
>> No, sir.
>> GIZZI: How's that make you
feel?
>> Well, now, I feel like
(bleep).
I do, honest to God, because...
It doesn't matter what I say
right now.
You wouldn't believe-believe
anything.
I've already lied to you twice.
You wouldn't believe anything I
said to you, so...
>> GIZZI: You're right; you're
right; I wouldn't believe you.
>> Right.
>> GIZZI: Yeah.
Okay. Put your foot in there.
>> I'll tell you anything.
What-What do you want to know?
>> GIZZI: Okay, you're going to
be under...
You're under arrest, obviously.
You're going to be going down
for possession of drug
paraphernalia, which is a
misdemeanor.
>> Okay. Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: You're in possession
of, uh, the crack ***, which
is a felony.
>> Yes, sir.
>> GIZZI: I appreciate your
honesty.
>> OFFICER O.J. BECNEL: This
cemetery is just north of our
police station.
A lot of the officers come here
to pay tribute.
Sergeant Wolfley responded to a
call of suspicious subjects at a
gas station.
One of them ran from him and
when he chased the guy, the guy
was waiting for him around the
side of a building.
Hit him and took his gun and...
shot him.
We just received a call of a
possible burglary in progress.
It's at an apartment complex
that's pretty much in the center
of our city here.
Description given of a male that
has broken into apartment.
(garbled radio transmission)
>> JOHN BLACK: Security is
saying the guy broke in the
window right here, went in
through the window, went inside,
he came out the front door, and
went back inside.
He's all cut up on his hands and
everything right now.
He's all tatted up, white guy.
>> BECNEL: Okay.
>> BLACK: So we got two guys
going to the west side right
now.
>> I don't know if he went back
in the house.
Did he go into his apartment or
he went back in this apartment?
>> BECNEL: Last word we had is
he went in his own apartment.
>> BLACK: He went back into his
own apartment.
>> Oh, all right.
>> BLACK: 113 is under the
stairs.
>> Okay.
>> Occupant in 113, this is
Rialto PD.
Come out.
>> BECNEL: 31... we have knocked
at the door of 113, requesting
for the occupants to come out.
>> Occupant in 113, Rialto PD.
Come out.
>> BECNEL: Ready?
I'm moving.
Door is locked.
>> Open the door!
It's stuck?
>> BLACK: All right, hold on,
Mike.
He's secured it.
>> He's got something behind it.
>> Step back, step back, step
back, step back.
>> He's got something...
Yeah, it was going and then it's
pushing us.
He's got something against the
door.
>> 'Cause it was going and then
he pushed it.
>> It's stuck?
>> It's stuck he's saying.
>> Okay, this is what I want you
to do.
I want you to step back away
from the door with your hands
up!
You understand?
Step back away from the door!
He's got his daughter.
Okay, go all the way back!
Step all the way back away from
the door!
Step all the way back!
Let me know when you're away!
He's in the window.
Stay right there!
Stay right there!
Don't move!
Get me a gun on that window.
>> I got it. I got it. I got it.
>> Stay right there!
Don't move!
Now.
Let's go.
>> Take it nice and slow...
>> Come on out.
Show me your hands!
>> Give me lethal.
Give me lethal.
I need lethal.
>> Get in there.
>> Come out!
Show me your hands!
>> Move in away from the door a
little bit.
>> Put the child on the couch!
Put the child on the couch!
>> Push in.
>> Put the child on the couch!
Put the... get on the ground.
Get on the ground now!
(girl crying)
>> Relax, sweetheart.
>> Somebody grab the child.
>> Put your hands behind your
back.
>> It's okay, sweetie.
It's okay.
Hang on.
Get him out of the way.
>> Pull him up.
Pull him all the way out.
Just take him out, take him out.
>> I'm gonna go left in there,
Chris.
I'm gonna go left in there.
Ready?
>> You two go.
>> Mike, search him when you get
him out.
Right there.
>> Where you bleeding from, bro?
You got a cut on your wrist?
>> I have all kinds of cuts
'cause I, I got jumped.
>> BLACK: What's going on?
>> (sobbing): I don't know.
>> BLACK: How come you didn't
answer the door?
>> Because I was totally scared.
I didn't know what to do.
>> BLACK: Well, you should
answer the door.
We're trying to talk to you.
We're trying to figure out
what's going on.
Okay?
Somebody seen you go into this
apartment.
You got all cut up going into
the apartment.
What were you going in the
apartment for?
>> I wasn't.
>> BLACK: You did.
Your blood's all over the window
that you broke into.
>> Look it, look it, look it.
I got cuts all over my hands...
>> BLACK: Hey, listen.
>> ...on my face, I have a
broken nose.
I-I got jumped.
>> BLACK: Your blood's on the
window.
You broke in.
People saw you.
Hey, look, look at me.
What were you going in there
for?
Go ahead and stand up straight.
Stand up.
Look at me. Look at me.
What were you going in there
for?
>> There were those bottles in
there.
>> Here, come over here.
Turn against the wall.
No, turn around and face me.
Turn around and face me.
What were you looking for?
>> She was looking for her Play-
Doh.
Ask her.
Ask her if her Play-Doh was...
she was looking for it.
She wanted to go.
That's why she got dressed.
>> BLACK: Okay, but why did you
go in here-- break the window
and go in here?
>> I wasn't trying to break the
window.
I was just trying to open it so
I could get her Play-Doh.
>> BLACK: Her Play-Doh is in
here?
>> Well, not no more, no more.
It's in there now.
>> BLACK: What was it doing in
there?
>> Before this guy moved out,
his kids borrowed some of our
kids' toys and I helped him move
out.
>> BLACK: Okay, but why not go
to the manager and ask the
manager?
Say, "Hey, can you come over
here and open this so I can see
if my kid's Play-Doh is in
there?" and stuff like that.
>> I didn't think about that.
>> BLACK: Well... come on.
All right?
>> I wasn't trying to do nothing
wrong.
>> BLACK: Well, you should have
came to the door.
That concerned us.
Stay there. Don't move.
Stay right here, okay?
Why didn't you come to the door?
>> Because my daughter was
scared.
>> BLACK: Okay, but don't you
think you should have came to
the door and said, "Hey,
everything's okay.
I can come out"?
You could have told us what you
were trying to do.
>> If I go back to jail, my
wife's going to leave me.
>> BLACK: Well, we need to
figure out what happened here,
right?
>> I don't want to lose my
family.
>> BLACK: Well...
>> I've been doing so good.
I was out for, like, three
years.
I got on parole.
I was doing everything right.
I don't do drugs.
I don't do nothing.
>> BECNEL: This is the window
that the witness saw him
breaking into.
I mean, you can see the blood on
it.
We didn't know how bad he was
cut.
If you look on the inside on the
windowsill, you can see that he,
he was bleeding out pretty good,
so we were concerned for his
safety.
You all right, man?
>> Yeah, I just want to see my
baby, please.
>> BECNEL: What's that?
>> Can I see my baby, please?
>> BECNEL: Your baby's safe.
She's inside the house watching
TV, man.
>> Is my wife here yet?
>> BECNEL: You think that was
the brightest thing, to put her
through all that stuff?
>> No.
No, I know it wasn't.
I'm sorry.
>> BECNEL: Did you think we were
just going to go away?
Seriously.
>> I didn't know what to do.
I didn't have a clue.
It's like-- my daughter was
scared and I didn't know.
I, I knew you guys were gonna
grab me as soon as I opened the
door and I didn't want her to
see that.
>> BECNEL: Well, just think,
man, we walk up in there and
she is absolutely petrified,
man.
If you could have just opened
the door and just let us in, we
could have dealt with this man
to man, but now we have to go
through all this stuff.
Don't you think that was
unnecessary?
>> Yes, but I didn't realize
that.
>> BECNEL: Totally unnecessary.
All right, sir.
Transport him to 19?
>> BLACK: Yeah.
>> BECNEL: All right, sir.
He had something up against the
door 'cause when I checked it
initially, I could move it.
When we checked it again the
second time, it was solid, so he
put something up against the
door.
He didn't want us in.
All he had to do was open the
door.
It'd have been all good to go.
Okay?
All right, we're going to give
you an incident number of
something like that that you can
follow up on.
>> Okay.
>> BECNEL: Okay, but he's gonna
be arrested for the warrant and
whatever else is pending.
>> Okay.
>> BECNEL: Okay?
>> OFFICER (over radio): 132 and
Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
>> DISPATCHER: At gunpoint, 132
and Bush.
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