COPS (1989) s24e18 Episode Script

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 JEFFREY YOUNT: Started here in New Orleans, I, I rode by myself for a while and it was all right, but now, you know, having a partner is really great.
Him and I get along real good and now that we've worked together for about a year now, we really got to know how each other thinks and operates.
It works good, so we can, you know, use that to our advantage out here on the street.
OFFICER DREW DEACON: We're gonna stop this Monte Carlo right up here.
He just made a turn without using his turn signal.
Just gonna stop him and check out what's going on with him.
Also can't see his license plate.
YOUNT: He's taking off.
(tires screeching) DEACON: 1682.
We got a vehicle refusing to stop.
(siren wailing) We're at Danneel and Sixth Street.
Southbound on Sixth Street.
All right, we just, uh, turned eastbound on Dryades.
(over radio): Traffic? DEACON: Uh, low.
Speed right now is about 35.
(siren wailing) Red Monte Carlo with no plate.
We're at Lee Circle right now going about 40.
YOUNT: Speeds are 20.
(over radio): You said the suspect vehicle is going 40? We're at Lee Circle, going towards Howard.
He's going northbound on Howard right now towards Loyola.
(over radio): 1680.
I'll authorize it.
Any other vehicle (garbled radio transmission) YOUNT: He just tried to ram the unit, he just tried to ram the unit.
DEACON: He just tried to ram another unit.
We're still on Howard going towards Loyola.
All right, he's turning eastbound on O'Keefe.
(over radio): 1682, is that a light Monte Carlo? YOUNT: Red, silver at the bottom.
DEACON: Red Monte Carlo, silver at the bottom, no plate.
YOUNT: Tell 'em he's slowed way down.
He's only doing about 20.
(over radio): Red Monte Carlo, silver at the bottom, no plate.
(over radio): 1680 to everybody else.
Stay off the radio.
Let 82 work the chase.
YOUNT: He's got a front flat left tire.
DEACON: All right, northbound on Perdido.
YOUNT: Be prepared for a foot bail.
He's got a flat tire.
DEACON: Passing South Rampart, northbound on Perdido.
He's got a flat tire.
(siren wailing) (garbled radio transmission) All right, we're going eastbound on, on O'Keefe right now just past Union.
We're at, uh, O'Keefe.
We're at Common and South Rampart going westbound.
Get on the ground! (Taser crackling) (garbled radio transmission) Oh! Roll around, roll over! Stop resisting, stop resisting! (indistinct chatter) (Taser crackling) I got his other hand, I got his other hand.
Give us your hand.
(overlapping chatter) Give me your other hand! Give me your other hand! Give it to me! Good job.
Secured! Tan shorts, tan shorts.
YOUNT: The one guy that we chased-- we had a citizen-- he stuck his foot out and tripped the guy and he hit the ground and then we were able to get right on top of him.
He put up a good little resistance and he was fighting us a little bit, but for the most part, you know, nobody-- there was no injuries.
Okay.
I'm gonna have 1680 call in.
All right.
(Yount panting) YOUNT: I'm good.
My hands are cut up a little bit from wrestling.
(suspect speaks indistinctly) You caught him? Nah, that was Deacon.
YOUNT: It looks like, uh, Drew, my partner Drew.
It looks like he caught up to the third subject, he went ahead and made an apprehension on him.
He's going to be going and bringing him back here in a minute, so we've got three subjects in the vehicle and all three apprehended, so looks like it's a good night for the police and a bad night for the criminals.
Yeah.
No injuries.
We had two Taser deployments.
Mine was ineffective.
We were on Danneel Street, pulled up behind the car.
He starts to pull over, no license plate.
Immediately think 67A.
Just something didn't look right about it.
He pulls over at first.
When we step out the car, he does the old okeydoke, takes off.
a good-- I mean, I don't know how long.
Y'all heard, but We were chasing, we were chasing 'em for a while.
It worked out great.
Appreciate your help.
How old are you, Eric? YOUNT: 19, just made 19? Yeah.
YOUNT: All right, and you stay where? - I stay at - Okay, I'm gonna come back and talk to you in a minute, all right? All right.
YOUNT: You need EMS for your eye? Yeah, man.
YOUNT: Yeah? Hey, uh, hey, did they get my phone? YOUNT: I-I don't know, man, I couldn't tell you about that.
I don't know where it went, where it fell.
When I fell, it fell, like, right on the ground.
YOUNT: Yeah, that citizen tripped you, didn't he? Yeah, he got me.
YOUNT: He got you good, didn't he? I wasn't gonna even run, to tell you the truth, 'cause I was - really asleep in that car, yeah, until YOUNT: - How you was asleep when we had lights and sirens going for a good five, ten minutes? That's when I woke up.
YOUNT: When, when the sirens kicked on? And you asked what was going on? All right, all right, we're gonna talk to you again in a minute.
Hey, Sarge, request an EMS for a laceration on his eye.
When the, uh, when the driver fell, the driver got out the car and, and took off running, one of the other officers was able to catch up to him, um, deployed his Taser, which was effective, and upon his Taser deployment, out of his pocket fell his phone along with a casing, a bullet, a live bullet, which looks to be a nine-millimeter.
We're still looking for the gun.
It's possible that it could be anywhere around here, so we're just checking the area to see if we can locate it.
DEACON: You know, you never know what's going to happen.
Stop somebody for something as simple as not having a license plate, and who knows what's really going on inside that car, so Could be anything from a, a murder perp to a stolen car, you know.
Just glad nobody got in an accident, nobody got really hurt, you know.
YOUNT: We go home safe, perpetrators go to jail.
It's a good night, good night.
OFFICER DALE WELLS: I really enjoy working in the city of Spokane Valley.
We're close to where the action is, we get a lot of hot, in-progress calls, and we're close enough to get there while the bad guys are still committing the crimes.
And if you're working out in the unincorporated, usually by the time you get there, everybody's gone, and all you've got is cold paperwork, and you know, I'm out here doing this job, looking for bad guys and trying to catch as many as I can.
OFFICER JEREMY HOWE: We're going to a shots fired call.
A complainant called in and said his neighbor apparently fired a gun at the ground, but in his direction, so we're gonna find out what's going on with them.
WELLS: Yup.
WELLS: Go and step back for me, guys.
All right, who here originally called? Me.
WELLS: You did? Okay.
Where's the guy at? He's down the street there on the left.
WELLS: Is he in his house? Yup.
WELLS: Did he go back in his house? Yup.
WELLS: Tell me what happened.
Um, we were on my back porch smoking a cigarette.
My friends are looking at him, and he stares over and just flips off.
No big deal, right? We hop in his car, and we're just leaving, but since he flipped us off, we decide to roll by his house slow and flip him off like he did us, and that's when he came running out with him and his son, wanting to fight me, and I was, like, "I'll fight you guys any time you want, you know, right now, both of you guys at the same time, none of my friends involved.
" And then, he went in the house, grabbed the gun, said, "Do it.
" He goes, "Watch what happens.
Watch what happens.
" Bam! And then shot at the ground, and that's when I said, "All right, Steve, I'm gonna handle this," and that's when I called you guys, 'cause you can't obviously pull a gun on me - and shoot at the ground like that.
I mean - And it was Steve Senior that shot it? Yes, yes.
WELLS: Can you describe to me what the gun looked like? It was a black .
44 revolver.
WELLS: Okay, stay here, don't go anywhere.
Let's cut to the back, Jeremy.
HOWE: Yeah, Seth, go with Dale.
Let me see your hands! WELLS: Hands up! (distant shouting) HOWE: Don't move your hands! Keep 'em up.
(distant, indistinct shouting) Coming up on your left, Petey.
Face down on the ground now! WELLS: Ma'am, stay right there.
Ma'am.
I'm on the porch, sir! Ma'am, out here on the grass.
I'm on the porch.
Come out here on the grass, ma'am.
WELLS: Put your hands up.
Come out.
Hold it, right there, right there Down, down, down, down, down.
Okay, yes, sir.
WELLS: Watch that door, Nate.
Watch the door.
Guard the door.
Guard the door.
Oh! I got a broken back! I'm serious, man.
You got him? Yup.
WELLS: Supposed to be Dad and girlfriend.
You're not under arrest at this time, but you are being detained.
Where's the guns at? I don't know what you're talking about, man.
Okay.
Is there anybody else here? Talking to you, sir.
Is anybody else here? Uh, not that I know of.
- There was only myself - Not that you know of? No, not in the house.
this gentleman right here, and the boy, and that's it.
How about your garage back there? There was only three of us, that's it.
Three people, that's it.
OFFICER TIM JONES: Did you see what happened? HOWE: I didn't see it.
I just heard it.
JONES: Pete says well, he's talking to a bunch of kids, and this is the house, so, Pete-- him and I come up and fan off.
Well, it's not the house, so, somebody calls the elder male.
I cross here.
It was kids right here the whole time.
HOWE: Oh, no kidding.
JONES: 'Cause Ian catches him trying to hop the fence with one gun.
So, he's trying to get over the fence with the gun.
HOWE: Okay.
JONES: So, it's funny, 'cause then I come over.
I'm standing right here with Pete actually covered down on me, on this kid, and I don't know where he must have popped out from here.
HOWE: Is that a spent round right there? Yeah.
JONES: No, that's a live round.
WELLS: What happened tonight? I don't know.
WELLS: You don't know? Well, why don't you just tell me what you do know? I fired off an M-80.
WELLS: I'm sorry.
You fired off an M-80? See the little fragments that's on my foot? WELLS: Actually, I don't, but we'll work there.
Okay, so, you fired off an M-80? Yeah.
WELLS: Where'd you get the M-80 at? I had it.
WELLS: Okay.
How come? Look, I'm sorry.
WELLS: Okay, here's the problem I have, is I've got three people I've already talked to, Steve, said that you came out the door with a black-colored revolver, pointed the gun at him, threatened him with it, and then pointed the gun and fired a shot.
Now I'm not trying to say you tried to shoot him, I'm not trying to say that you tried to kill him, and they're not, either.
But they're all really consistent with their story that you pointed it at the ground and fired a shot.
Did you have a gun in your hand tonight? - Yup.
I WELLS: - Okay.
Where's that gun at now? I don't know.
WELLS: Where was it when you last saw it? Well, they all got moved, because, uh, they're not mine, because I bought 'em all for my son.
WELLS: Okay, where were the guns prior to tonight? Have they all been stored in your house? Well, they were for a little while.
WELLS: Okay, and we're talking three? Three-- one muzzle loader, seven mm, and what was the third? Well, there was a pistol, too, I didn't lie about.
WELLS: Where's the pistol at? I don't know right now.
I-I told him to take his stuff out.
WELLS: You told your son to take this stuff out? Yup.
WELLS: What point did you tell him to take the stuff out? Tonight.
WELLS: Tonight.
Would that be after you had the confrontation with your neighbor or before? No, that was before.
WELLS: Okay.
What do you got, Darren? Just a bullet right there, buddy.
WELLS: Yup.
Definitely a bullet.
And that's a pretty big slug.
My guess would be, it's probably a .
44 magnum.
Think so.
WELLS: So these are all the guns you guys found? JONES: Correct.
The younger male was putting this over the fence.
Um, this is the one he apparently fired.
That was also over the fence.
These three guns, the muskets, and the two other rifles here, were on the other side on the property.
So it looks like he was just kind of hauling 'em, putting 'em over.
Um, I was thinking Dad was telling him to get rid of them.
WELLS: And is this the .
44 magnum? JONES: It is.
WELLS: What can I do for you? It's my fault.
WELLS: It's your fault? Does that mean you want to tell me the truth, that it wasn't an M-80 you had in your hand? Was that the Ruger Pistol you had in your hand? Yes, sir.
WELLS: Okay.
Did you fire the pistol into the ground? Accidentally, yes, sir.
WELLS: Accidentally? - Yeah WELLS: - Okay.
Is there any possibility anybody else could have been hurt by that bullet, or is it gonna be in the ground up there? No, went straight into the ground.
WELLS: When did you give the guns to your son to dispose of? Was it after the argument? Yes, sir.
I'm sorry.
WELLS: I appreciate you being honest with me.
At this time, though, I do need to advise you, you are going to get charged with felony possession of a firearm.
Okay.
Can I? WELLS: You're a convicted felon.
You can't have any of the guns in your possession.
Is there a bail on me? WELLS: No, it's not gonna be a bail.
You're gonna have to see the judge.
You're also gonna get charged with reckless endangerment for shooting into the ground.
It's not an attempted homicide, it's not an assault against them, it's just firing into the ground, 'cause like I said, that bullet ricochets, it's a danger to everybody else.
Yes.
It's on my foot.
WELLS: - You're saying that - You almost shot your foot? Almost.
It's darn close, huh? OFFICER JOHN CARGILE: Our squad's very unique.
We're one of the senior squads on the police department, so a lot of the guys that currently work with us are coming out of SWAT experience, narcotics experience.
Officers that have trained officers for quite a few years.
We do a lot of our own search warrants and telephonic warrants, that a lot of other squads don't have that experience base to be able to do on their own.
(indistinct radio dispatch) OFFICER BECKY ROOKS: Yep.
I got it.
Okay, we're going to pull over on the Boulevard.
(indistinct radio dispatch) We got behind this vehicle, ran a record's check on the plate and it's coming back as a stolen vehicle.
CARGILE: Driver, turn the vehicle off! Keep your hands up where I can see them! There you go, right there.
Stay right there.
ROOKS: Put your phone down! Step out of the car, look away from us! Face forward! Face forward! Walk backwards towards the sound of my voice! Keep your hands up high! Take two steps to the right! Go down on your left knee.
Go down on your right knee.
Cross your feet, at the ankles.
Keep your hands up! Put your hands on your head.
If you move, you're considered armed and dangerous.
Do not move.
(handcuffs clicking) Stand up.
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
(sirens approaching) ROOKS: Is that your car? No, ma'am.
ROOKS: Whose car is it? My friend, Mandy, let me borrow it.
ROOKS: Spread your feet.
Do you have any ID on you? Yes, I do, ma'am.
ROOKS: Do you have any weapons on you? - Uh, I might have a pocketknife, but that ROOKS: - Is there anybody else in the car? No, ma'am.
ROOKS: Okay.
Where's your ID? It's in my wallet.
ROOKS: Can I take everything out of your pockets? Yeah, go-go ahead.
ROOKS: Why do you have a meth pipe on you? 'Cause I'm a meth user, ma'am.
ROOKS: I asked you if you had anything on you.
Oh, I'm sorry.
ROOKS: Did you not hear me ask if you had anything on you? Do you have any meth on you? No, I don't.
The car's stolen? ROOKS: Did I say that? No.
ROOKS: I never told you the car was stolen, did I? Did I say that you were here? I'm asking.
ROOKS: Why would you ask me if the car was stolen? I never said that car was stolen.
You're acting like if I'm dangerous or something.
ROOKS: Okay.
I said you'd be considered armed and dangerous.
Did I ever say anything about the car being stolen to you? No, ma'am.
ROOKS: Okay, so why would you ask me if the car was stolen? CARGILE: Is there any more meth, besides what you have on you? Any more in the vehicle? - No, that's it.
Just CARGILE: - Okay.
ROOKS: All right, so I have a few questions for you.
You willing to talk to me? I'm willing to talk to you.
ROOKS: You want to sit over here, on the curb.
Yeah.
ROOKS: All right.
Have a seat.
Have a seat.
Okay, how did you come in possession of this car? My friend, Mandy, gave it to me.
ROOKS: Mandy? A female? Yeah.
ROOKS: When? Today.
ROOKS: What time? Uh, around 2:00 a.
m.
or something like that.
ROOKS: How do you know Mandy? Mandy? She's just from the block, you know what I mean? - She just ROOKS: - Kind of like Jenny? Yeah, you know.
ROOKS: Yeah.
Okay, so where did you pick the car up at? She dropped it off at my house.
ROOKS: Do you have a key to the car? Yeah, right there.
ROOKS: She gave you the key? Yeah.
ROOKS: Okay, the key was in your pocket, though.
No, that's, like, an extra key, or something like that, she said.
ROOKS: Okay, so why would she just give you a Porsche? Well, she didn't give it to me.
I took it from her.
ROOKS: You took it from her? How? Because Like, she she was driving around with it, and this and that, she couldn't sleep and I needed a ride.
ROOKS: Okay, how long have you known Mandy? I've known her about two weeks.
ROOKS: So you've known Mandy two weeks.
She came over to you and Have you seen her driving this car the whole two weeks? Yeah, she said she's (bleep) had it.
ROOKS: No, have you seen her driving this car for the whole two weeks you've known her? Uh, no, but she said she had it parked somewhere.
ROOKS: So you asked her if this was her car? I asked her if it was her car, yeah.
ROOKS: Why would you ask her if it was her car? If I saw you in a car, I would just assume that it was your car.
I probably wouldn't ask you if that was your car.
Well, because she's always driving different cars, you know what I mean? ROOKS: So you're not sure if it's her car, or you're not sure so you had to ask her if it was her car? Because she's always (bleep).
You know? She's got different cars.
Like right now, I know I'm in handcuffs because of that.
Something's up with it, I bet.
ROOKS: Where does she live? She's not she's got nowhere to live.
ROOKS: She's got nowhere to live but she's driving a Porsche? Yeah.
ROOKS: That would make me, like, wonder, you know.
Okay, you're homeless, but you have a convertible Porsche? There's probably something not right with that.
But you know how some girls got sugar daddies and stuff like that? ROOKS: So, if you had a suspicion that it was stolen, why would you be driving it around? Because the keys, you know, were there and everything.
She has paperwork right there and everything.
And ROOKS: I know, but why would you take that chance? It's not her that's going to get in trouble, it's you.
You're the one driving it.
You know? 'Cause you know, I'm just s-stupid, you know.
ROOKS: Tell me exactly what she said.
She said that she needs to get rid of it.
ROOKS: Okay.
I appreciate you being honest with me.
I'm being honest.
ROOKS: So she said she needs to get rid of the car, and you said what? I said, well, let me use it, you know.
Let me use it.
ROOKS: Did you ask her how she got it, or where she got it? No, I did not.
ROOKS: How did she have the key did you ask her how she had the keys? I did not.
ROOKS: 'Cause my friend had a stolen car, I'd want to know.
That's why I asked, like, my friends after, you know what I mean? ROOKS: Right.
Like, what do you think she's doing, you know? ROOKS: How's she getting all these cars? Exactly.
ROOKS: What did you think whenever you saw us behind you at the stoplight? That it was going to get taken.
ROOKS: Because you knew it was stolen.
Because, yeah.
SERGEANT GEORGE MIDDLEBROOK: The computer is saying that it was taken in a home burglary.
So it was taken about a week and half ago.
So it was taken from a burglary.
ROOKS: So that would explain why the keys are with it? MIDDLEBROOK: Yeah.
ROOKS: Yeah.
MIDDLEBROOK: So they probably got a whole bunch of stuff out of that house, too, where this car came from.
I'm not a bad guy, you know what I mean? Please.
I just want to go home, you know what I mean? I got a job, you know.
ROOKS: Right now, you are under arrest for possession of this vehicle that is stolen.
I got here as quick as I could with traffic.
ROOKS: No, you're perfectly fine.
This is your vehicle? Yeah.
CARGILE: Must be? Yeah.
There's my license 'cause they stole all my other stuff, so ROOKS: How you doing? How long has it been here for? ROOKS: Uh, no, we actually pulled somebody over on a traffic stop in it.
Oh, really? ROOKS: We ran the plate and it came back stolen, yeah.
Um, when did it get stolen from you? Uh last Saturday.
ROOKS: Okay.
On Friday-Saturday night.
So between Friday at 10:00 and Saturday at 5:00 in the morning, when we noticed it.
ROOKS: Do you mind telling me how the car got taken? They stole two of them out of our garage, with a bunch of other stuff.
ROOKS: Okay, were you home at the time? Yeah, we got the detached garage, we were asleep in our house.
ROOKS: Okay.
- They broke through the garage and ROOKS: - Right.
What other vehicles did they take from you? They took another black Porsche.
ROOKS: Okay.
So that's still outstanding and that has not been returned to you? No, they found that one.
Um about three or four days ago.
ROOKS: Well, we have both keys for you.
You know what, I didn't expect to see it again.
Definitely not that one.
(engine starting) CARGILE: It was the silver one that started this one? Yes.
CARGILE: And the bronze one's going to start the black Porsche? They put almost they put almost 1,700 miles on, so they've done some riding.
CARGILE: 1,700 miles? MIDDLEBROOK: Wow.
CARGILE: All righty, sir.
Thank you very much.
ROOKS: Try and have a better day.
See you, guys.
ROOKS: Glad he could get his car back.
The suspect's going to be transported to the North Las Vegas detention center now and then booked on the charges.
Our detectives can follow up on the other vehicle that he had stolen, hopefully we can get two crimes settled at once.
OFFICER (over radio): I've got him at gunpoint.
DISPATCHER: At gunpoint, Cover is Code Three.