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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 TODD PLOEHS: Myself and Officer Weigand have been riding together now for about
two months.
But we've known each other for a number of years.
Kind of makes it a little easier to get along.
Makes it a lot easier if you're friends with someone, I believe, even though you're going to
trust everyone you work with, 'cause you know they're going to be there to cover your back.
>> OFFICER THOMAS WEIGAND: We just ran the plate of this car.
The owner comes back with a, uh, an open warrant.
We're going to attempt to pull him over and investigate.
4331 traffic stop, Carplin and Harvey on a maroon Chevy Impala with three.
>> PLOEHS: Put your hands on the steering wheel.
Put your hands on the steering wheel!
>> They're on the steering wheel.
>> PLOEHS: Keep them where I can see them.
( garbled radio transmission) Watch your backseat guy.
>> WEIGAND: Copy.
( music playing ) How we all doing tonight?
>> All right.
>> PLOEHS: What's your name, sir?
>> David.
>> PLOEHS: David what?
All right.
You know you have a warrant on you?
>> How do you know I got a warrant on me already?
>> PLOEHS: Because I ran your license plate, that's how I know.
>> That ain't even my plate.
>> PLOEHS: Okay, well, you come back driving this car.
If you give me a hard time, you're going to jail.
>> You got it.
I respect that.
>> PLOEHS: All right, sir.
I'm just letting you know.
>> I can't do nothing but respect that.
>> PLOEHS: All right.
Step out here.
>> I can't do nothing but respect that.
>> PLOEHS: Turn around, put your hands behind your back.
Come back here.
You got anything on you you shouldn't have?
WEIGAND: Do you know you've got a capias on you?
>> For what?
>> WEIGAND: I don't know yet.
It's a misdemeanor.
If you don't give me no trouble, I'll give you a recite and get you on your way, okay?
( handcuffs clicking ) >> PLOEHS: He got a warrant?
>> WEIGAND: What's that?
>> PLOEHS: He got a warrant?
>> WEIGAND: Yeah.
Step back here.
You got anything on you you shouldn't have?
>> What y'all pull him over for?
>> PLOEHS: When we ran the license plate, he has a warrant on it.
>> Oh, do he?
>> PLOEHS: Yeah, this is his girl's car, he said.
>> Yeah, it is.
>> PLOEHS: So if he's gotten a ticket on this car in the past, so it came back saying he had a
warrant.
>> OFFICER MICHAEL GLENN: It's good, you want to see if there's anything in the car?
>> PLOEHS: Yeah, do me a favor, sir.
You don't have any warrants, so you're not going to jail, all right?
I just need you to step out here, okay?
Go ahead, you can undo it, go ahead, you're fine.
Like I said, as long as I can see your hands you're okay.
Okay?
Is that beer open or not?
>> It's open.
>> PLOEHS: Okay, let me...
Reach down and grab it and hand it to me.
All right.
( garbled radio transmission) >> I ain't got nothing, man.
>> PLOEHS: What do you got up there?
>> Nothing.
>> PLOEHS: Yeah, you do.
Don't do anything funny.
You got his arm?
Quit tensing up.
>> I ain't tensing up.
>> PLOEHS: Quit it.
Put your hands behind...
>> I ain't tensing up.
>> PLOEHS: Put your hands...
Put your hands behind your back!
>> I'm not tensing up!
>> PLOEHS: Put your hands...
>> I'm not tensing up.
>> PLOEHS: You're going to get tased man, you better quit.
You better quit.
( man yelling ) >> Don't!
( man screaming ) >> WEIGAND: Get down on the ground!
( screaming ) >> WEIGAND: Throw him on the ground.
( men grunting ) >> GLENN: Base...
>> Put out an assistance.
Put out an assistance!
>> 35, we need assistance.
>> GLENN: I got this one.
( man yells ) >> GLENN: Get on his back, Todd, put more weight on his back.
>> PLOEHS: 31, we need assistance now.
( man yelling ) >> GLENN: I'm just holding on to the arm, guys, I'm not even
moving it.
( man yells ) >> WEIGAND: Get his arm, Todd.
>> PLOEHS: I got it.
>> I said I give!
>> WEIGAND: Put your hand behind your back!
>> I said I give!
>> PLOEHS: Put your hand behind your back!
>> I give!
>> GLENN: All right, Todd.
Todd, get him in custody, man.
>> PLOEHS: You all right?
>> GLENN: Yeah.
>> PLOEHS: Mike, you okay?
>> GLENN: Yeah, okay.
>> WEIGAND: Stand up, man.
>> I can't see.
>> PLOEHS: Stupid, man.
>> I can't see.
>> PLOEHS: There it is, right there.
( phone ringing ) >> Please, please, answer that.
Please, please, answer that.
Please, answer that.
>> WEIGAND: Have a seat, okay?
>> I can't see nothing.
>> Have a seat, watch your head.
>> Hold on, hold on, which way I'm going?
>> WEIGAND: To the left.
>> My butt going down?
>> You search him?
>> WEIGAND: Go all the way in.
>> PLOEHS: This is what I felt when I patted him down.
That was on the sidewalk after.
It must have fell out of his pants.
>> WEIGAND: That's *** in there.
>> PLOEHS: Is it?
>> WEIGAND: Yeah.
>> SERGEANT DARRYLL DAVIS: Okay, Ploehs, give me an idea of what happened here.
>> PLOEHS: We made a traffic stop, ran the plate, it came back with warrants.
The driver was placed in custody for open child support warrant.
The backseat passenger also had a warrant on him, so he was taken in to custody.
>> DAVIS: Okay.
>> PLOEHS: We, uh, got the passenger, front seat passenger out.
He didn't have any warrants at the time.
I think we've now found one out of Kentucky, but at the time we didn't think he had any
warrants.
>> DAVIS: Okay.
>> PLOEHS: Just patting him down for weapons because we were going to search the vehicle.
Um, as I patted him down, had him spread his legs, felt what appeared to be, you know,
contraband.
>> DAVIS: Okay.
>> PLOEHS: And, uh, told him to put his hands behind his back.
He wouldn't put his arms behind his back and then the fight was on.
Officer Glenn came up and assisted and after the, uh, after we finally got him in
custody, found a baggie of some crack *** and what appears to ***.
>> DAVIS: I'm glad you guys are okay.
He's fine, so good arrest.
>> PLOEHS: Thank you.
>> WEIGAND: Hey, man.
>> Yeah?
>> WEIGAND: Was that just ***?
Or was it crack?
Or was it crack and ***?
Or was it something else, too?
>> All I do is soft, what I had.
It was soft.
>> WEIGAND: It was powder?
>> Powder, yeah.
>> WEIGAND: But there's some *** in there, too, right?
>> Yeah.
>> WEIGAND: Do you use ***?
>> Huh?
>> WEIGAND: Do you use ***?
>> No, I don't use.
>> WEIGAND: What's that?
>> No.
>> WEIGAND: No? So what were you doing, trying to sell it?
>> No, I don't sell nothing.
>> WEIGAND: So you don't sell it and you don't use it, what did you have with it?
>> Being a dum, a dummy.
>> WEIGAND: When we test that, when we test that *** and it shows up to be ***, it'll be
two counts of possession, okay?
And then it's going to be resisting arrest, also, okay?
>> Yes, sir.
I know, that's why I got the tight cuffs, I got maced, stung, this brace thing on me, all of
that.
I got all the...
I got all the...
I got the big one this time.
>> WEIGAND: Sit tight, okay?
We'll leave in a couple minutes.
>> CORPORAL MICHAEL GREEN: We're going down here to a known high crime area, a lot of drug
activity.
Usually I could usually find somebody out here up to no good.
So we're going to come around the corner here and see what we got.
See if anybody is up here doing no good.
Here's a couple people right here.
What's going on?
What are you guys doing?
>> I don't have an ID.
>> GREEN: What's your name?
>> Angela.
>> GREEN: And how about you, ma'am?
>> Dawn.
>> GREEN: All right, let me see some, you got any ID on you?
>> No.
>> GREEN: Okay.
>> You can pull it up if you want.
I live on Blair Lane.
>> I'm from Maine.
>> GREEN: You're from Maine?
All right, what's your first name again?
>> Angela.
>> GREEN: How do you spell it?
>> A-N... A-N-G-E-L-A.
>> GREEN: What's your middle name?
>> Renee G... Gail Renee.
I'm sorry, I have...
>> GREEN: Well, I like your real name, because obviously you're giving me a fake name.
You couldn't even spell Angela.
What's your date of birth?
>> May... May 8th.
>> GREEN: May 8 of what year?
>> I'm just turning 19.
>> GREEN: Okay, step out for me Angela, or whoever you are.
Go ahead and put your hands behind your back.
Okay.
You going to tell me what your real name is or are we going to play this game all night and I
just book you in as a Jane Doe and then you wait for your prints to come back from...
>> Sorry.
>> GREEN: You have a warrant or something?
>> No.
>> GREEN: Then why you telling me a bunch of bad names?
>> Want me to take my shoes off?
>> GREEN: No, no, no.
Look at me.
Open your mouth, lift up your tongue.
( woman chuckles ) Okay, so you going to give me your real name now?
>> Yes.
>> GREEN: What's your real name?
>> Tamera.
>> GREEN: Tamera.
>> Yes.
>> GREEN: Why don't you step out and step over here for me, will ya?
>> GREEN: ..."A" as in "alpha," she's a white female.
First name is Tamera.
T-A-M-E-R-A.
Can you just put her in your car for now so I can see what's going on over here?
I'm looking for mainly drugs.
I'm sure they're here buying drugs.
I found this in the, in between the passenger seat and the center console.
It looks like some sort of pills, obviously.
We'll check and find out what they are.
( garbled radio transmission) Dawn, these pills over here by your seat...
>> Uh-huh.
>> GREEN: What are they?
>> Soma.
>> GREEN: What are they?
>> Soma.
>> GREEN: What's that?
>> Muscle relaxers.
>> GREEN: Okay. Do you have a prescription for them?
>> Yeah, I do.
I just don't, I don't have it with me, but...
>> GREEN: Do you normally carry your prescription in a cigarette wrapper?
>> They were in a cigarette pack.
>> GREEN: Yeah, a little clear plastic bag.
It looks like a cigarette wrapper.
>> I put them in a plastic bag.
There was, like, five of them in there.
>> GREEN: Are they, if they're a controlled substance, you're going to be, you're going to be
in a little bit of a problem.
>> I don't think they are.
>> GREEN: Crack pipe.
Holy cow.
Crack pipe collection, yup.
Look at that.
Oh, my gosh.
She saves her crack pipes.
Which one is your purse?
>> This is the only purse I got.
>> GREEN: Why is there like 30 crack pipes in this little...
>> You've got to ask her.
I don't know.
>> GREEN: So you're saying none of this stuff in your car is yours?
It's your car, right?
>> Yes, but no.
Except for the Somas, that's it.
>> GREEN: Except for the pills.
>> Yeah.
>> GREEN: So she's saying all of them crack pipes are yours.
>> Well, let her ask me.
>> GREEN: I will in a second, but we're checking something out.
>> I hate liars.
>> GREEN: Well, I know she...
>> Yes, I smoke crack.
No, that's not true.
>> GREEN: Okay, yes, you smoke crack.
>> But I'm smarter than that to carry paraphernalia on me.
>> GREEN: With that much of it, too.
That was a lot.
>> I don't know how much she has in there.
>> GREEN: Okay, so all them crack pipes aren't yours?
>> No.
>> GREEN: Okay.
Right now you know you have that warrant, right?
You have a warrant.
>> I do?
>> GREEN: You do.
And, uh... I can also, I'm going to charge you also with obstruction for giving me a bad
name.
So you got two charges on you-- the warrant and obstruction.
Why don't you step on out for a second so we can figure out who owns what.
>> Okay, who owns what?
>> GREEN: Step on out.
Can you get out?
>> Watch your head right here.
>> GREEN: Watch your head, okay.
>> Who owns what?
Now, be honest.
>> All those pipes in there, why are you telling him that it belongs to me?
>> No, no, no.
I've had one pipe.
>> Brooke, don't...
>> And where's that?
It's thrown out the car.
>> Brooke, he's got a whole thing of it, and if they do fingerprinting they're going to
see all yours on there.
>> They can fingerprint it.
Because I had one pipe and I threw it.
>> GREEN: You threw it out the door?
>> Yeah.
>> GREEN: So I can go out there and look and there's a pipe somewhere on your side.
>> No, behind.
>> You are supposed to be a friend of mine.
I can't believe you would say that.
>> No, I did not bring all that.
>> Can you show... can you show her that?
That pink thing?
Because I've never seen it before.
>> You've never seen it before?
>> I've never seen it.
>> You brought it with us!
>> I am not lying, those are yours.
>> There's not one between your legs right now?
>> No!
>> GREEN: Is there something hidden?
>> No, that's the thing, no.
That's what makes me so mad.
>> You told me that's where you put it.
Then that must be yours.
Because I threw mine.
>> There's a whole big thing of crack things.
>> I did not bring that.
>> You got everything from Dee's house so you could go back to Coco.
>> I did not grab that pipe.
I grabbed my shower stuff.
>> GREEN: Okay, well, there's no prescription so I'm going to place you under arrest for
possession of a controlled substance, okay?
And if you do have a crack pipe in your crotch, it turns into introduction to contraband into
a facility.
>> DEPUTY TODD HOLLAND: This is when you need to come out with it.
>> Okay, okay, I do have it, yeah.
>> HOLLAND: So you do have something in your...
>> Yes.
>> HOLLAND: ...private area?
>> Yes. Yes, I do.
>> GREEN: Can you get it out yourself or...
>> Yes.
>> If you found the one that's out... that she's talking about outside the car...
>> GREEN: Yeah, I'll let her get it out. I don't...
You got your gloves on you?
>> Yeah, but can I... can I...?
>> HOLLAND: You need some extras?
>> GREEN: Okay, don't be running anywhere now.
>> I'm not going to be running anywhere.
>> GREEN: Okay.
>> Can I please get my keys and stuff in my purse?
>> HOLLAND: Go ahead and get what you got to get.
>> Okay, but just... can I, like...
>> GREEN: Well, go in the...
Give it to the deputy.
>> There you go.
>> GREEN: Okay.
Is there anything else in there?
>> HOLLAND: Check the end...
>> GREEN: Other end, other end.
Yeah, there's residue all in there.
>> HOLLAND: Okay.
>> GREEN: Well, how long you know this girl?
>> Actually, like three months.
>> GREEN: Three months.
You guys known each other only for about three months?
>> Like, six.
>> GREEN: Six.
Boy, I can't get a straight...
>> How long you been with AC?
>> I would say about four and a half months.
>> GREEN: So you guys are not friends anymore after tonight?
>> Uh, no, no, not after she did that to me.
>> GREEN: All right, you'll see each other at the jail.
>> OFFICER MIKE GOODWIN: When I first got hired, one of my field training officers taught me to
try and prove people right.
And if you go into it with that mindset, you'll find them in the lies.
I've always gone by that policy, and more often than not, I end up arresting people for not the
offenses that they commit but for lying about the offenses that they commit.
And, uh, lying to a police officer is a misdemeanor, so they often go to jail for that
instead of their original offenses.
We've got a phone call from a confidential informant regarding some subjects that are in a
motel room up here.
We're going to get together with some other officers and go over and see who's in the room and if
actually there is drug use going on.
5-11, the enforcement unit is going to be out at one.
Okay.
( knocking on door ) Sounds like they're flushing toilets.
>> OFFICER CHRIS DUTHALER: Right, sounds like it.
>> GOODWIN: Water's running somewhere.
( knocking on door ) >> Hi.
>> GOODWIN: Hello, are you Kelly?
>> Yes, yes.
>> GOODWIN: Okay, the reason we're here is we got a little bit of a report there's a lot of
traffic.
>> No traffic here at all.
>> GOODWIN: As far as the phone, a lot of calls.
>> My daughter.
>> GOODWIN: Your daughter?
>> My daughter and his boss and that's it.
My daughter's in Moreno Valley.
>> GOODWIN: Okay.
>> That's it.
>> GOODWIN: Okay, we have a lot of problems with drugs at this hotel.
>> Okay.
>> GOODWIN: When we get reports, like a lot of phone calls coming back and forth, it kind of looks
bad.
Doesn't mean you're doing anything bad.
>> No, not at all.
>> GOODWIN: Are you on probation or parole for any reason?
>> No, I'm not.
>> GOODWIN: Our computer shows you're on probation for possession of methamphetamine.
Is that correct?
>> No.
No, I got off probation in...
March... no, wait.
>> GOODWIN: So you're not using drugs anymore?
>> No, sir.
I've been clean...
>> GOODWIN: Can we come in and talk to you about all this good stuff?
>> Yeah, you can come in and talk to me.
>> GOODWIN: Sure.
>> I've been doing really good, actually.
Don't mind the mess.
>> GOODWIN: As far as your conditions of probation, it still shows you are on probation
in the computer.
So that might be something you want to get ahold of the courts and take care of, okay?
>> Who should I call?
My ex-probation officer?
>> GOODWIN: That'd be a start.
>> Okay.
>> GOODWIN: Like I said, the reason we're here is because of drugs.
>> They dismissed my case.
>> GOODWIN: No drugs anywhere around here?
>> No.
>> GOODWIN: We can take a quick peek for any speed, needles, pipes, anything like that.
>> I just got here from work.
>> He just got in from work and I was, like I said, I was laying down because I've had a migraine
for the last three days.
>> GOODWIN: Okay, well, hopefully...
>> What is all this about?
I want to know, a lot of phone calls or something?
>> No, my daughter called and uh, my daughter called and Mike's called and that's really
it.
>> GOODWIN: Would you guys mind having a seat over here on this bed for just one second?
>> I'm not here to cause anybody any problems or nothing else.
You know?
I just don't, I don't like what's been going on.
>> GOODWIN: You know, it's not necessarily you guys.
It's the hotel, really.
>> They actually told me when, uh... they told me when...
Oh, what the hell?
>> GOODWIN: Whoa! Yeah.
>> What the hell is this?
>> GOODWIN: Just comes out of nowhere.
>> You guys, I swear to God...
>> Swear to God, you guys.
I just walked in from work.
>> He's from, no, I swear to God.
He's trying to get off...
>> Hair is dry as a bone, the shower wasn't running, the shower wasn't running when we
first got here.
>> Feel his hair.
It's soaking...
Officer, no, I swear to God.
>> I just got out of the shower.
>> You guys, I swear to God you guys.
>> Smell my body.
I just got out, I just got done working eight hours with my boss.
>> GOODWIN: Okay, so when we fingerprint the pipe...
>> That's right, go ahead.
>> Go ahead, please do.
>> GOODWIN: Who's going to be on it?
>> Please do.
>> It won't be mine, or hers.
>> I swear to you.
Please, fingerprint it.
>> Officer, I just got home from work.
I just walked in probably 20 minutes ago.
>> I swear to you.
We just moved in to this room just a few hours ago.
>> GOODWIN: I believe you on that.
But I don't believe you is that you guys have no clue that there's a speed pipe underneath
your bed.
>> I had no idea.
I laid down.
When we moved in to this room, he went to work and I laid down because my head has been
pounding so bad.
I've had a migraine.
Apparently probably from all this stress.
>> GOODWIN: If somebody wants to be honest and man up and say, you know what, the pipe's mine,
the dope's mine, that's one thing.
If nobody wants to say anything, we'll take you both to jail and we'll take all your property and
put it in to safekeeping. Okay?
It's called constructive possession.
>> Sir, can I say one thing?
>> GOODWIN: You can say anything you want.
>> I swear to God we just moved in this room.
>> We just moved in to this room.
>> These aren't ours.
Obviously they didn't clean in here at all.
>> GOODWIN: Okay, well, then...
>> I swear to God, you guys.
I'm not lying.
I've been doing so good for the last year.
>> If you're going to take anybody, just take me.
Leave her here.
>> I've got my kids back.
Please, don't do this.
>> I just walked in.
We just walked in.
I just walked in from work.
If you guys would've came five minutes earlier you would have seen my boss pull out...
( cell phone ringing ) >> GOODWIN: You have a known drug dealer's name in here.
>> Who?
>> That phone was given to her by my boss.
That phone was given to her by my boss.
>> GOODWIN: And the story just goes on and on and on.
>> Don't say another word.
If you guys want to arrest me, it's mine, take me to jail.
>> GOODWIN: Stand up, turn around.
>> If that's what you want.
>> You guys, I swear to God...
>> GOODWIN: This is ridiculous.
>> It's ridiculous, that's right.
>> I'm not lying to you guys.
I swear to God.
>> GOODWIN: Well, somebody's lying.
>> No, sir, we're trying to tell you the truth.
>> I just got my kids back.
>> You're telling me my hair's not wet, and yet I just got out of the shower, sir.
>> His hair is soaking wet right here.
Please, fingerprint it, because you won't find my fingerprints.
>> GOODWIN: Whose would it be?
>> Whoever who was in, the same person that left these, I would imagine.
These are gay magazines, sir.
These are not ours.
I swear to God.
>> OFFICER WILLIAM HUTCHINSON: You got stuff all underneath and then on to the bed and the
magazines and they're not yours.
We've heard that a million times already.
>> I'm sure that you have.
>> HUTCHINSON: We don't believe you.
>> I know.
Everybody's innocent, I know this.
But that's why I'm asking you to please fingerprint that, because my prints are not going to be on
them.
>> GOODWIN: Okay, go on and stand up.
>> We just didn't have anyplace else to go.
>> GOODWIN: He's saying they belong to him, so we'll just take him.
>> No, they don't belong to me.
They don't belong to neither one of us I'm saying.
Neither one of us.
But if you're going to arrest somebody...
>> GOODWIN: Okay, then let's take her, too.
>> Will you please arrest me?
>> GOODWIN: No, no.
We'll take you both in if you guys don't want to be honest.
>> ( crying ): Officer, please.
My daughter.
>> HUTCHINSON: Put your hands behind your back.
>> Officer, you're not being right at all.
>> GOODWIN: No, you're lying to us.
>> No, I'm not, I'm not.
I'm not lying to you.
>> Please.
>> HUTCHINSON: Ma'am, you've made your bed, now you've got to lay in it.
>> Please...
>> OFFICER ( over radio ): 132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
>> DISPATCHER: At gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
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