COPS (1989) s23e01 Episode Script

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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.
We're out in the city of Boynton beach, also known as paradise.
Been here a little bit over four years.
It's a nice quiet city.
Every once in a while we get our little string of violent crimes.
There's a good amount of street level drug trafficking going on.
Um, just like any other small city.
We're going to try to catch up to this vehicle.
It just ran the stop sign.
He's been circling the area suspiciously.
These residential back roads are really commonplace for street level drug trafficking.
They like to stay off the main roads and avoid police.
Bravo 5-1, black male.
Northwest 4th street, 1100 block.
Northbound wearing a black tank top, black shorts.
Channel 20.
Northwest 4th street.
All units, I just heard a door open and close in one of these backyards.
Let me see your hands.
Get your hands up.
Let me see them.
Get on the ground.
Get on the ground! Don't you move, you understand me? Northbound.
Unit on 4th street.
Backup, I got him detained.
Just don't move.
Put your hands behind your back.
Bravo 71, need your current I'm in a backyard, dispatch.
I'm trying to get that for you.
Stand by.
Turn over on your back.
Sit up.
Get up.
Ready? One, two, three.
Come here.
Is there anything back there that you needed? Every other unit can slow down.
No need for code three.
Have a seat right here.
Have a seat.
Right in front of 611.
What are you running for, boss? Nothing? 'Sup, my man? You weren't running? You were just huh? I don't understand.
You don't know what I'm talking about? Stand up for me.
Just a simple traffic stop, bo.
Yeah, I know.
Ten-four.
Ten-four.
What you got, Mike? Just jumped out of a car.
Where's the car at? Should be right in front of mine.
In the driveway.
Charlie's with it now.
All right.
You want to tell me why you ran? You have a warrant, something silly? Suspended license? I don't know I just seen y'all.
Y'all Adrian.
Yeah.
There's no lying about it.
You know I'm a lying man, huh? If it was over something silly You run my name in All right.
Who's got a cage runner? Just put him in the car, please.
I'm going to go look for where he stopped.
Tango, lima, lima, 7-19.
He was behind this house back here.
All right, ten-four.
Just make sure somebody's out with you and that everything is ten-four.
What? Everything.
We are ten-four.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Tango 33.
Just be advised plain view on the passenger front seat large amount of marijuana.
Okay, that's why.
Perfect.
That is why.
There's supposedly a large amount of marijuana inside of the vehicle.
He's stating he has no idea what we're talking about.
Doesn't want to explain why he was hiding behind this house, or why, um I'm 100% positive that that's who I was chasing.
Hey, Mike, he's suspended.
All right.
He's suspended.
Let's go back to the car and see if we can find this large amount of marijuana.
Where's the, uh, weed at? Put it in the passenger's It's a big bag and then he had put it in a little bag.
It's in plain view sitting on the front seat.
Oh, on the passenger seat right here.
Nice.
A decent amount of marijuana.
It's individually packaged, apparently for sale.
And then a much larger bag.
It's probably at least 20 grams.
Not bad.
Explains why he ran.
He made it more than obvious that he did not want me behind his vehicle.
At 53, are you at 58? It's his mom's car, and what he said to me was this that he'll give a full statement why he was driving the car, why he ran, all his weed, as long as we don't forfeit his mom's car.
Ten minutes ago, he didn't even want to say he was even driving the car.
This is the marijuana that was located inside the vehicle.
We see a fairly large stash here.
But what's going to get him is the individually packaged looks like little dime bags, Nick bags.
Got a total.
Looks like About 15 individually packaged.
The problem with them being individually packaged for resale, is that it's going to be a felony charge, which would obviously give us rights for seizing the car.
That would explain his reason for running.
Originally, you were trying to tell me that wasn't you driving that I saw get out of the driver's side of the car and run.
That's my mama car, man.
All right, so you were driving your mom's car.
Can you run me through it? 'Cause I'm gonna I got to be the one to tell the story here.
And I certainly don't want to put anything against you that you don't deserve.
You see me at the stop sign.
I made a left.
You made a u-turn.
I pulled up, I got out.
That's when you cut on the lights.
I went around the corner.
So why were you trying to avoid me? I mean, you were sitting in the middle of the street.
I pulled in before you even cut off the lights.
Is there any reason why you were trying to avoid me? I mean, would that large amount of weed on the front seat have anything to do with it? I smoke weed, bro.
You smoke weed? All right.
What about the little baggies you got packaged in there? What's that about? I smoke weed, bro.
You got the felony charges on you already.
If there's something you want to do about that, you have to give us something.
It's an exchange system.
I did wrong, bro.
Nobody else ain't do wrong, bro.
Why tell on somebody else, 'cause they don't do wrong, bro.
I did wrong, bro, you know what I'm saying? All right, Adrian.
Being a police officer is something I always wanted to do since I was a kid.
Been working here for about, uh, little over three years now.
Love Boynton.
Love coming to work.
People say that all the time, but I truly do like this place.
It's definitely a melting pot of cultures and people here, and it makes for an interesting day and/or night at any given time.
We're on our way to a animal complaint call.
Seems that there's a huge python in someone's house Approximately 12 feet long, so we're gonna go over there and check that out and see what we got.
They're, like, "shh-shh-shh!" Zulu 41-97.
Do I want to see it? I don't know.
What are we, what are we looking at? A python.
A python? I think.
Is it yours? No.
Oh, it's outside? Yeah, it's outside.
It's, uh, well, you can see the body is, is behind here.
I don't know if behind Yeah, I see it.
You see it? Yeah, he's going this way.
Yeah, it's going that way.
Do you know whose snake it is? No, no.
Probably about 12 feet, it looks like.
Do you guys have a garbage bag? Like a, like a big black garbage bag or something like that? Or an old pillowcase? Fish and wildlife are on their way.
They are? Yeah.
When did, when did you guys call 'em? They'll be here in, like, Okay, then we'll just wait for them.
We can put it in a bag.
Yeah.
Yeah, we can put it in a bag, if you guys got one.
Is that a python, though? Yeah, it looks like a boa.
Here's his head right here.
He looks domesticated.
Why don't you just grab it, go in there and get him? How long is he? His tail is right He's huge.
Kimball, you want to bag him? Yeah.
You want to open the bag and I'll grab him or what? I'll bag whatever you want to do.
You pull him out.
All right, he's starting out.
Pull him back.
Keep the light on him.
He's right here.
He's gonna strike us.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Watch it! Watch it! There's the head! He's right there.
Watch him.
Somebody get the the bag.
Why don't you grab his head? Jeff, grab his head.
Watch her teeth.
Try to bring him back up here.
There.
We're gonna be living with this forever.
Perfect, perfect.
You get him? Oh, you had him! All right.
Got him? Yeah.
I don't know where his head's at, but what I want to do is I want to slide him from the bag into the pillowcase 'cause I don't want him to suffocate.
But I don't know where his head's at.
That's the, that's the only tough part here.
This pillowcase really isn't big enough.
He can get some air out of that plastic bag.
Where's his head at? There's his head right there.
His head's right there; Hold on.
Just get underneath there.
Perfect, perfect, perfect! Yeah get under All right, pull the bag.
Pull the garbage bag.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
That's the top.
There's his head.
There's his head all right.
Here, hold on, hold on, hold All right, that's good.
It's somebody's pet.
Probably got too big, and didn't want to fee him any more rabbits or couldn't bear the sight of seeing that, so they just let him go.
Yeah, very, uh, very common household pet, but then, like the iguanas, people got tired of keeping 'em around the house, and end up just letting 'em go in people's backyards.
In the tropical climate of Florida, they take over and Reproduce.
So, so how'd you guys find that thing sitting in the bushes? Driving back from the game Uh-huh.
And it was actually laying in the street.
Oh, it was in the street.
I couldn't see the head.
I thought it was a like a palm frond or something 'cause it looked like, you know, the pointy thing.
Right, right.
Then it started to move.
So how do you feel now that he's bagged in a little pillowcase? I wonder where the mother is.
The mother? Yeah.
Uh, well, they usually don't travel in packs, I don't think.
I hope not.
It's just scary.
It's scary.
The first one you seen like that in the neighborhood? Yeah, I've never seen anything like it.
Like, in the wild, yeah.
There are probably king snakes, but Yeah, yeah, they're always in the grass doing something.
What's up, boss? What's up? The head's down here in the front.
The head's down here in the front.
Right here.
Oh, man, is he fat.
Yeah, he's a fat, yeah, he's a fat one.
Nice.
That's longer than eight feet, huh? Oh, yeah.
12 feet.
He's, like, 12, yeah.
There it is.
He's not gonna hurt ya! Huh? He's somebody's pet.
It's somebody's pet, yeah.
He's not our pet! He's not our pet.
The key word in there is "somebody.
" It ain't mine.
Hold on.
We don't want to hurt him.
Okay, I got, I got the back of the cage.
Tilt it down just a little bit.
Tilt it down? There it is.
Smells like cat.
There it is.
Oh, there's the head.
You guys getting a lot of these calls lately or no? Yes, but, uh, what we'll do is we'll take this one back to, uh, one of the pet shops and let 'em scan him, find out.
'Cause they're required to have pet tags in 'em.
And, uh, find out who he belongs to.
He doesn't look like he's a very aggressive, so he must be somebody's pet.
Yeah.
All right, guys.
Thanks, boss.
As you said, they're getting more and more calls every day on 'em.
So this won't be the last we see of a boa in the local neighborhoods.
I like this job a lot.
You get to take a guy off the street for a murder warrant or, you know, a sexual assault warrant, or something like that.
Being out here on the street this is where it starts.
This is where a lot of Detective work stems from.
'Cause we're the first ones there.
Your homicide units and stuff like not taking anything from them, but, you know, when we get out there, it had just happened.
So He ran that stop sign.
So we're going to see what their deal is.
This vehicle stopped a stop ran a stop sign.
So we're going to stop them and see what the deal is with them.
What's going on, fellas? The reason I stopped you is you didn't, uh, you didn't stop at that stop sign back there.
I didn't? You just rolled right through it.
You got a driver's license and insurance on you? I got my I ain't got a driver's license, sir.
Well, why are you driving? I went to go get my driver's license, sir, and they told me I can't do it.
Why? Because I have a warrant.
But For what? The warrant's out of Florida.
For what? I went to go What's the warrant for? It's for, uh, grand theft auto, out of Florida.
Is it open right now? Yes, sir, but they won't I went to the DMV and they put me in handcuffs, but they wouldn't take me to jail for it.
Okay.
Why, they didn't confirm your warrant or what? They said that they won't extradite me out of there.
Okay.
Go ahead and hop on out for me.
Put your hands up here on that car.
Let me have your left hand.
Let me have your other one.
Come on over here.
Lean up against this car here.
Lean up against the car.
Go ahead and hop on out, bo.
Walk back over here.
Get up there next to your buddy.
Walk backwards.
Keep your hands on the car.
Do you have I.
D.
On you? No, sir.
Excuse me? No, sir.
Why not? Uh, I left it at my mom's house Don't come off of that car for no reason at all.
You come off again, I'm gonna put you on the floor.
You understand? Yes, sir.
Let me have that left hand.
Let me have your other one.
Come on back over here.
You have problems walking or something? No.
These cuffs are tight.
Come on back over here.
Kick your sandal off, bo.
Kick your sandals off.
Kick the other one off.
Lift up the bottom of your feet.
Let me see your feet.
The other one.
Okay.
That's why.
Good move, bud.
Go ahead and slide your sandals back on, bo.
You come off that car, I'm gonna tase you, you understand? You understand me? What? I said don't come off of that car.
You understand? Come on back over here.
Yes, sir.
en route.
Hop in and have a seat.
He was holding that, and that's why he was walking funny.
Anything in that car you might want to tell me about? Nothing I know of, sir.
Not that you know of? There shouldn't be nothing in that car, sir.
Shouldn't be? There is nothing in that car, sir.
I rephrased it.
Okay.
Okay.
What's the problem? Your buddy's your buddy's pills.
Didn't think I was going to find them.
Come on, walk around this way.
Walk around this way.
The passenger I get the passenger out and he's walking funny.
He stuffed some pills in his sandal, trying to hide them from me.
I hadn't I hadn't gone in the car yet.
Hey, bo, I have some bad news for you, chief.
What's that? I found the rest of your pills.
He had these in his in the driver's side on the seat.
Looks like he tried to stuff them in between the seats when we turned around on him.
He's got he had these on his side.
Hydrocodones? Yeah, these are codones.
I'm going to call poison control and verify both of them.
Just check this thing out? Double check the numbers.
Yeah, could you run through it for me? I-I don't know if he stuffed anything else, but Let me call and get the initial charge.
If we're going to jail, then my real name is Robbie.
So you don't know your real? So you lied to me about your name the first time? I've got traffic warrants.
I was going to take care of my warrants this coming up weekend, because because I'm on probation.
He was going to take care of his warrants this weekend.
I'm going to get him out, Brian.
Okay.
Want to put him over there in your car? Yeah.
My guy the one I have has an I.
D.
Okay.
Go ahead and hop out.
Going to move up Turns out this guy's having an identity crisis.
And it's because he's got warrants.
Which makes I'm a failed-to-I.
D.
Fugitive.
Which is another charge.
Go ahead and slide on.
Slide over.
At the beltway.
He said it's got a Houston, Texas, sticker on the Hey, I don't know if they've explained to you what's going on.
Have they told you what's going on? No? Okay, both of you are under arrest for possession of a dangerous drug.
What is that, a felony? They'll explain it to you when you see a judge later on.
Officer: I've got him at gunpoint.
At gunpoint, Cover is code three.

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