COPS (1989) s23e11 Episode Script

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All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Deputy Tony Messineo: I've worked for the Pierce county sheriff's department for ten years now, and I've worked in many different assignments.
I've been in traffic, narcotics and patrol.
I've currently been on the streets for four years after getting out of narcotics, and I love it.
I can't think of any other assignment right now I'd rather be in than on the streets.
A caller reported that he's trying to impound a vehicle, but the owner got in the vehicle and won't get out.
I ran the subject's name, and it looks like he has a misdemeanor warrant locally for aiming or discharging a weapon.
So we're en route.
So there are other deputies to check this call out.
(Garbled radio transmission) Messineo: Hey, heath.
Stanley white male in his 40s.
I saw he had a warrant.
Deputy heath page: Let's detain him.
Messineo: Yeah.
Is he still in the truck? Page: Yep.
Messineo: Still in there? Page: Hey, Stanley? (Garbled radio transmission) Do you have any weapons on you? Absolutely none.
Page: Okay, I'm going to have you step out for a minute, okay? I will not step out.
Page: Okay, well, I think we have a warrant for your arrest.
Messineo: Get out of the car.
I will not step out.
Messineo: Okay.
Get out of the car! Grab him.
Page: Got him.
Messineo: Let me have your hands! Behind your back.
I got handcuffs.
Okay? When we say get out of the car, we mean get out of the car, Stanley! You understand us? Yes.
Page: You have any weapons on you? I don't even have my license on me, man.
Messineo: That'd be a no, wouldn't it? We have one in custody after pepper spray.
(Garbled radio transmission) Page: All right.
Well, are you going to be able to stand up? Not without help.
I mean, I'm disabled.
Messineo: Grab the here.
Page: Here we go.
Ready? Up.
And let's go back this way.
Watch the glasses.
Watch the glasses.
Page: Okay, I got them.
(Bystanders chatting) Let's get the name of your company on the side of your truck here.
Page: All right, Stanley, you have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to assign or talk to an attorney and have one present with you while you're being questioned.
If you cannot afford to hire an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you before any questioning if you wish.
And you can decide at any time to exercise these rights and not answer any questions or make any statements.
Go ahead and have a seat.
Messineo: Hold on.
Don't get in yet.
Let me switch these out.
We're just going to switch, uh, handcuffs off, Stanley.
Stanley, did you know about your warrant? If I have a warrant, yes, I know what it is.
It's, uh, failure to pay on a Pointing a firearm or something? Messineo: Yeah, aiming or discharging a firearm.
That's going to be it.
Pointing, not aiming.
Messineo: Okay, well, the warrant says "aiming or discharging.
" That's what the law says.
So, that's why you're under arrest.
How come you haven't taken care of the warrant? I was illegally convicted due to the complete incompetency of my so-called private public defender.
Messineo: So, are you saying you didn't know about your warrant? No, I I was aware of it.
Messineo: Okay, how come you haven't taken care of it yet? Because I will not pay for a stupid ticket.
Page: Okay turn.
Messineo: To your right.
Page: And then sit straight back.
Watch your head.
Messineo: Well, we'll take care of that warrant tonight.
Page: There you go.
And pull your feet in.
Messineo: Hey, Stanley, how come you wouldn't get out of your truck after we asked you to a couple times? I wouldn't get out of the truck 'cause I knew that (Bleep) Was going to tow it, and there's absolutely no reason for him to tow it when there's a disabled sticker in the window.
Page: Okay, well, my partner told you to get out of the car.
You said no.
I said, "Stanley, you have a warrant for your arrest.
"You need to get out now.
" And then you refused, okay? Was I violent in any way? Page: Doesn't matter.
Was I violent in any way? No, I wanted to argue the point with you.
Page: Well, when you got a warrant for your arrest, it's hard to argue that.
Well, yeah.
Page: Okay.
Well, have a seat.
Sit back.
Okay, I'll talk to the tow driver real quick and see what the disposition of that's going to be.
Messineo: All right.
What's your side of the story on the tow? My side of the story is that's an illegal tow.
There's a disabled sticker right there in the window.
Messineo: Are they reporting it or just towing it 'cause it's in a disabled spot? It's towed because it's in a disabled parking.
Messineo: Okay.
I told him I'd get out as soon as they put it on the ground.
Messineo: Okay, so it's being towed because it's in a handicapped spot.
Yeah.
Messineo: All right.
Do you have any disabled placards or anything on your, uh, truck? Disabled placard on the dash of my truck.
Messineo: Oh, there is one on the dashboard? Yeah, it wasn't on there whenever he hooked up to it.
Messineo: Oh.
I admit that it wasn't there.
It was laying in the floor.
Messineo: That's probably why they called the tow truck just 'cause your placard wasn't, uh, visible.
Yeah, and when I walked up and told him that I am a disabled driver, he should've put it back down, 'cause it was an illegal tow.
Messineo: You know, unfortunately, once they hook a car up like that, they won't put it down until you pay them.
I know it's a bad deal, but that's how they operate.
If that's how they operate, in that case, the apartment can pay them, because it's an illegal tow.
Messineo: So, what what exactly happened here? It's going to private impound.
Messineo: For the disabled, uh, placard? Correct.
Messineo: Yeah, he admitted that when you got here he didn't have the placard on his car.
Yeah.
Messineo: And he put it on once he saw it was already hooked up.
Yeah, yeah.
Messineo: Is that pretty much what happened? Well, he ran in the office.
I mean, you know, I looked when I first rolled up, and it wasn't hanging, so, uh, when I you know, I checked, and yeah, they said, "go ahead.
" So, hooked up to it.
Messineo: Sure.
And you just waited for us at that point? Yeah, yeah, I just called you guys up.
Messineo: Okay.
Cool.
Messineo: Thank you.
You bet.
Messineo: Unfortunately for him, he's going to owe the tow truck company money to get his truck back and he's going to jail on his warrant.
Page: And facing some criminal charges for resisting arrest, so he really took a bad situation and just made it worse.
Amarillo is a good city.
A lot of diversity in our department.
I'm assigned to the crisis intervention unit, and I get to work with a partner every night.
So we kind of won't get tied down to a beat, and we can answer some other calls and just kind of go wherever we need to go inside the city.
Officer Jaycin Smothermon: Right now we're headed to a call on a wanted person.
Got some information about a subject that got a probation-violation warrant.
He's supposed to be staying with this guy.
And we got an address.
We're gonna go over here and see if we can't locate him.
Vanover: That's gonna be the house right there.
Smothermon: That's just an open field right beside it, isn't it? Vanover: Yep.
(Dogs barking) Luna! Luna! Fto Chris Padron: Put your hands on the wall, okay? Don't move, buddy, okay? Vanover: Who is this? Smothermon: Is the female in custody yet? Padron: No, not yet.
Stay on the wall for me.
Watch this room right there.
It hasn't been secured yet.
Smothermon: Has the room been cleared? Padron: Yeah.
Bring your hands back here.
What's your name so I know who I'm talking to? Stay up against the wall for me.
Smothermon: Right now you're just being detained, okay? You're not under arrest, do you understand that? Okay, we're just putting these handcuffs on you for my protection and for yours.
Till we figure out what all is here, okay? Padron: Watch her? Smothermon: Okay.
Padron: All right, just hang tight till we tell you what's going on, okay? Lean up against the wall for me.
Smothermon: I'm sorry.
You just got off of work? Yeah.
Smothermon: Okay, where do you work at? Oh, okay.
We're just gonna double lock these real quick, okay? So they don't tighten up on you.
What's your first name, hon? Ashley.
Smothermon: Ashley? Padron: The wanted subject is out there, Brazz.
Vanover: Where at? Padron: He's right there on the porch.
Vanover: Okay.
Should be bags of weed in his pocket here.
Vanover: Okay.
What's your name, partner? Uh, Sam.
Vanover: Sam? Sam what? Okay.
Did you know you had a warrant out for your arrest? Yeah.
Vanover: Okay.
What's your warrant for? You want me to clear him? I'll do it real fast.
Vanover: Okay.
How long have you been staying here? Is this your address? (Indistinct radio transmission) Smothermon: It's a bunch of of weed.
That's what it came in, though, right? Yeah.
Smothermon: Y'all got a little bit more than just a little bit.
How much is that right there? I'm not even sure.
Smothermon: Are y'all selling, 'cause this is a digital scale right here, right? Yeah.
Smothermon: Y'all sell weed out here? Is this your house? This is our house.
Smothermon: Oh, this is y'all's house? Okay.
What's your first name? My name's Francisco.
Smothermon: Francisco? Okay.
Bring him in here, Sheldon? Vanover: All right, hop up, Sam.
Smothermon: So you're telling me there's a quarter pound in here, right? Yes, sir.
Smothermon: Okay, and where's that quarter pound at? The quarter pound that I know that's stashed in here is, well, I know there's somewhere in the back room right over here.
Smothermon: Okay, and who put it there? I'm not sure.
I mean Smothermon: Okay, are y'all selling weed out here? Y'all sell? No.
Smothermon: What's the scales for? Uh, I guess it is for Just weighing out.
Vanover: Are those digital scales yours? No, that's not my digit Smothermon: Okay.
So that's not your phone or your keys? That's my wallet and that's my keys.
Vanover: Okay.
So, Francisco, you want to show me where the rest of this dope's at? Where's the weed? The only place I know where he stashes is in the room that, like, is over here in the corner.
I mean, I'm not sure where that is, but it's over here.
Smothermon: So you don't have a problem with me going back there and getting it, right? You can go and check it out.
I'm not sure where it's at.
Like I said, I know it's in the back.
Smothermon: But this is your house.
This is our house.
Smothermon: Okay, so can I go back there and get it? You're gonna have to.
I mean, yeah, you're in the house.
Smothermon: Okay.
Just hang tight for me real quick, all right? Vanover: Right now the owner of the house has given us consent to search.
The guy that we were looking for that was wanted, that was supposed to be here was in fact here.
He was going out the front as we were at the back door.
Stopped by other officers out front.
He had a pretty good-size couple of baggies of marijuana on him.
So we came back in and talked to the homeowner about the weed that we had found on him.
Obviously, you can smell the marijuana, the burnt marijuana here in the house.
Smothermon: He's got digital scales and the plastic baggies to put it in.
They do that.
They get large amounts, break it down into smaller quantities and sell it out on the street.
That's what it looks like he's doing right there.
I'm hoping to find a little bit more.
Okay, here it is right here.
You find it? Smothermon: Yeah.
You can see Beckham, did you take pictures over here? Beckham: On the counter in the kitchen? Smothermon: Yes.
Beckham: Yes.
Smothermon: Okay.
Yeah, he's got his plastic bags, he's got his digital scales, he's got the knife he's cutting it up with.
Then there's that right there.
So we need to get some pictures of that.
(Indistinct radio transmission) We got enough vehicles to keep both parties separate.
Vanover: Is there a gun in this house? Uh, there's not one in the house.
Vanover: If he had, where would he keep his gun? Always on him.
Vanover: He always had it on him? He would never leave it around because Vanover: Are one of these cars his outside? The gray one.
Smothermon: Which one? The gray one.
Padron: This gray cougar? Vanover: Is it the one that's parked her at the back? Yeah.
Can I get up? Vanover: No, that's fine.
If it's the gray cougar with the bashed-out window, that's his.
Ours is on the (lndistinct).
Vanover: Okay.
A revolver's sitting there on the driver's seat.
This is where he was coming when he came out the front door.
Padron: It doesn't look like it's loaded.
But that's where he would be-bopping to.
Vanover: He was coming out to the car here.
You never know when something's gonna happen, I guess.
Yep.
Everything in the house is mine, everything.
Smothermon: Everything is what? Everything: The weed, the scales, everything that has to do with any drugs.
Smothermon: So none of that's theirs? Do you want to write me a statement saying it's yours? Yeah, all that's mine.
Smothermon: Okay, will you write me a statement saying that? Yeah.
Smothermon: Okay.
Padron: All right, we just gotta get some paperwork started, get some pictures taken care of, and we still got to talk to Francisco and ask you a little bit more.
And like I said, I'll be taking you out to Potter county, okay? Smothermon: Appreciate your cooperation.
Padron: They understand what you're under arrest for? I didn't want to mess up my clothes.
Padron: You got a warrant out for your arrest, and obviously you're under arrest for the narcotics violation as well for the possession of marijuana.
Officer Chris pollock: I like being a cop here in Las Vegas and in Bolden.
Great group of guys that I work with.
Everybody's always helping each other out.
Every time we go on a call, we know we have somebody behind us.
And it goes back to when I was back in the marines, back in the early '80s, is everybody knew what everybody was doing.
Working here at Bolden takes me back to that, and that's what I enjoy most of all.
(Siren wailing) Officer's got a vehicle stopped.
It possibly matches the description that's been used in a robbery series that's been going on for the past couple weeks.
He's asked for another unit.
And at first, the vehicle wasn't stopping.
Uh, it's stopped right now, so we're just about there.
(Car door opens) Officer William watt: Now with your left hand, open the door from the outside.
All right, step on out.
Keep your hands up.
I have a phone on my lap.
Watt: Listen to what you're told! Do it now! Put your hands up on top of your head, turn around.
Turn around! Do you have probably cause to pull me over? Watt: Yes, I do.
Walk back to the sound of my voice.
Pollock: Don't move.
I've done absolutely nothing wrong.
Pollock: We will tell you in a minute.
Call my dad's number.
Watt: Yeah, I got the car right here; We'll clear it.
Absolutely.
If my plates run dirty, look at my insurance Pollock: Stand up.
Stand up.
By all means.
There's nobody in the car I can't; My legs are crossed.
Can you? Pollock: Uncross them, then, there, silly.
I can't actually lean forward to uncross them.
Dang.
I've done nothing wrong here.
Watt: He's coming southbound initially Michael I'm going northbound.
Sergeant David Gifford: Okay.
Watt: I see him it looked like he had, like, a hoodie or something on.
Gifford: Okay.
Watt: Okay, his windows were tinted, rims black, four-door Honda.
Gifford: Okay.
Watt: Okay, so I turn around to do a records check on it.
Now he's coming westbound Sheila driving pretty quick.
Gifford: Okay.
Watt: Well, once I get behind him, he slams on his brakes, slows way down.
Now he's just doing, like, ten Miles an hour.
Well, he gets set up at Jones, no turn signal, starts to go left, and then changes and goes right, so I light him up right there.
Goes on the cycle probably six, seven different times, nothing.
So I'm like, "all right, give me a code red.
" Fits the description, you know Gifford: Okay.
Watt: Good chance of it, so that's where we're at.
Gifford: Oh, cool.
Pollock: We're gonna be looking for, uh the mask.
Um think they're using, uh, bandanas and everything.
To conceal their faces.
One of the descriptions was a tall, thin black male.
And he's, like, dead on.
I didn't feel I did anything wrong.
Watt: Well, you may not have.
But you still broke the law by, let's see, speeding, not using your turn signal and failing to yield to my signal.
Okay? When my siren cycles through six or seven times and you pick it up to normal speed, that makes me think that you have something to hide or you're trying to evade me.
I told you (Garbled radio transmission) Pollock: He's got some skimmers, or scanners.
He's got other people's ids in here.
Gifford: Really? Pollock: Yeah.
(Garbled radio transmission) Gifford: Hmm.
Well, well, well.
Pollock: So, um, that's what you know, the credit card skimmer things.
Gifford: Yeah.
Pollock: He's got all these cell phones from metropcs.
Um, wasn't one of the places that was hit a metropcs place? Gifford: They've been hit several times.
Watt: Whose safe is that in your car? It's I don't know.
It's not it's a friend's.
Watt: Friend's? I mean, yeah.
I've-I've had it for a long time.
Watt: How long have you had it? I've been holding it for a friend.
Probably six months.
Watt: Six months? Something like that.
Watt: You know what's in there? No, I never opened it.
Watt: You never opened it? He gave me the key, but I never opened it.
Watt: Okay, why you hanging onto somebody else's safe then for six months if you're not sure what it is? He was, uh, a friend of a friend, so I was like, you know I didn't assume there was anything bad.
I mean, it's just a safe.
Watt: What else is in that car that I need to be concerned of? There's nothing in the car that you need to be concerned about.
The only thing that I do have in there is some gym passes that I use to work out with, 'cause frankly I can't afford it.
And that's just being honest with you.
Watt: How'd you get those? I-I found them.
Watt: You found them? Yeah.
Watt: Where'd you find them? Huh? Watt: Where'd you find them? I found them at the gym.
'Cause sometimes people leave them behind in there in the locker Watt: You're a good, upstanding guy, but yet you're using somebody else's identity.
Think about that one for a minute, all right? Not identities, just Detective d.
Williams: Do you have any reason why you have these in your car? No.
They where did you get those? They I Williams: You have a bunch of ids; That's illegal to have on you.
The-the pass I found all those.
Williams: Why'd you keep them? Because I was gonna give them back, honestly.
At some point, I was gonna, I was gonna give them back.
I don't know why I was holding on to them.
I was gonna give them back at some point.
Williams: You know that some of them have been gone for over two years? When were you gonna get around to getting them back to them? They I haven't had them for over two years.
Williams: How long have you had them? Maybe three, four months.
Williams: Have you contacted anyone? I-I've contacted my boy actually works at the Fitness.
And I was gonna, I was gonna contact him, but I haven't been able to reach him.
I call him, he hasn't picked up.
And like I said, all those passes I found, as far as what's in the safe, I was holding it for a friend.
I honestly Williams: Do you know that some of the people that those cards that you that you have, have actually filed police reports because someone's obtained their personal information through those cards and opened bank accounts? Through all those passes I found? I-I know nothing about this, I promise you.
Williams: Okay, I'm just telling you, that's-that's what we know so far.
I know Williams: I'm guessing the guy that he's probably working with is just probably giving him personal information.
Pollock: Right.
Williams: Giving him copies of their fitness cards, or they leave them in the locker room or whatever.
He gets them, gives them to this guy.
This guy records the information, does the credit he doesn't need to do the credit card numbers.
All he's got to do is have the credit card number itself.
He doesn't have to take credit cards.
Pollock: Yeah.
'Cause he's got that scanner.
Or skimmer.
Williams: He's calling the banks from the gophones, so every time they call back to the gophone, 'cause now he believes that we can't find out who he is.
'Cause he can go into, uh, any phone store and say, you know, um Pollock: Joe blow Williams: Joe whoever and say, you know, "I need a gophone.
" He gets a gophone, and now he's obviously got seven of them, so Pollock: Okay.
Williams: And whichever ones go through and he gets money, then he just goes to that bank and withdraws that money, and there it is.
I don't even know where those gophones came from.
Pollock: Okay.
I-I just don't want to be charged with something that I didn't do, like Pollock: Okay, I tell you what, right? Christopher.
Yes.
Pollock: Okay.
You scratch my back, I'll scratch your back.
I-I've been 100% honest.
Pollock: Do you understand what I just said? Yes.
Pollock: All right, so just sit there and think about that for a second, okay? Watt: Five, uh, driver's licenses, which is a felony in this state.
Um, three of them which were used in a burglary.
So we're gonna take him down to county jail and, uh, he'll get booked there and processed, and go from there.
Pollock: Okay, very good.
Very, very good.
Watt: Detectives are gonna do some follow-up on the, uh, card reader, the credit card reader.
If anything comes of that, then, uh, more charges can be pending here in the near future for him, so Pollock: Hopefully, he'll have learned his lessons and will get a conscience throughout this.
Officer (Over radio): I've got him at gunpoint.