COPS (1989) s24e08 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 watcha 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 Benjamin Lord: I moved to Springfield for this job.
It was the first time I'd lived in a city this big.
There's a college here in town.
Good downtown area.
Got a minor league baseball team.
Gives me lots of opportunities to get out and about and enjoy the city life without being too far out of touch from nature and hunting and fishing-- the stuff that I like to do.
Getting ready to make a traffic stop on this red Chevy up here.
He had a couple turn signal violations and a His rear license plate lights are defective.
I think I stopped this truck a few nights ago and got some narcotics off of the driver.
I'm officer Lord with the police department.
Do you have a driver's license on you? Yes, sir.
Can I ask you what I done wrong? Lord: You don't have any license plate lamps on your truck.
Oh.
(Lord speaks indistinctly) Lord: It's a red Chevy.
Code one.
(Over radio): One-nine.
(Over radio): - 329, I'm Lord: - Stick your hands up here.
Stick your hands up here.
You got anything illegal on you? No.
Just leave me alone, mister.
Please, please just leave me alone! Lord: Stick your hands up here! Come on, mister.
Lord: Stick your hands up here.
Do it now.
Do it now.
Stick your hands up here and don't move 'em.
Hey, Jenny! This is my wife.
Just leave me alone, mister.
Lord: Don't move your hands.
I ain't moving my hands.
Just leave me alone, please.
(Sobbing) I'm scared of you, sir! I'm scared! I got beat one time.
I'm scared.
Please, please, please, I'm scared.
Lord: Don't tense up on me.
Please, please, please, oh, sir, please.
Jenny! Jenny! Lord: Drop your cigarette.
Oh! Oh! Oh! Lord: Put your hands behind your back.
Jenny! Lord: Drop your cigarette.
Jenny! Lord: Drop Put your hands behind your back.
Don't hurt me! Oh, please don't hurt me! Lord: Don't tense up on me, man.
Oh, please don't hurt me, sir! Oh, my God, please don't hurt me! Sir, I didn't do nothing! Lord: Put your hands behind your back.
I'm hurt! Lord: Put your hands behind your back.
Do it now.
This hand, too.
(Man screaming) Stay just like that.
Get me another set.
Got it.
Jenny! Jenny! Aah! Oh, my God! Jenny! Please help me! Jenny! Jenny! Jenny! Is there anybody else in charge? Lord: No.
Jenny! Lord: Let's get him up.
Let's take him over here and lean him over on my car.
I stopped this guy because of an equipment violation.
He's a known drug character.
I really don't know what's going on with him right now.
Jenny! Lord: He just started acting out, as in maybe he was under the influence.
Stand up, stand up.
Lord: Hey, will you act right and stand up? I'm hurting.
Lord: You're not hurt, Charles.
He tried to hold this between his legs.
Oh, please don't hurt me no more.
Lord: Put him back on his back.
Sit him there.
Lay down, lay down.
I can't! Lay down, stop resisting.
Lay down, lay down.
What are you trying to hold? Lay down.
Lord: Pull his legs apart.
Stop, relax.
Oh, oh oh, my ribs! Oh, my God, my ribs! Lord: Methamphetamine.
That's the reason why he's acting like he's acting.
Officer Steve hartman: Relax.
Let's sit up, okay? I can't.
I got no, no! Hartman: You can walk.
I can't.
Oh, my God.
Lord: We dealt with this guy a few nights ago.
Sergeant Culley Wilson: Right, I remember him.
Lord: Pinching his legs in like he was holding something between his legs.
And when we were searching him down on the ground, found, like, some pretty big meth crystals, a little bit of tinfoil.
Wilson: That's some of the biggest crystals I've seen in a while.
Have we talked to his wife yet? Lord: I haven't.
He was screaming for her.
She came out for a short minute and then went back inside.
(Knocking) Hi, I'm officer Lord with the police department.
Hi.
Lord: Are you Charles' wife? Yeah.
Lord: Okay, he's in a little bit of trouble.
He's going to go down to jail.
What's going on? Lord: He had some stuff on him that he shouldn't have.
If he wants to talk to you about it when he gets out of jail, he can.
I think this is going to be the second night in a row for him, okay? He's fine.
He's not hurt at all.
He's yelling.
Lord: Well, he's just probably tweaking a little bit, it looks like.
It scared the (Bleep) out of me.
Lord: Does he have a substance abuse problem that you know of? Yeah.
Lord: Has he been getting any kind of treatment or anything for it? He was, but he hasn't been in treatment for a while.
Lord: Is he on probation? Um, no.
Lord: Okay.
Has he ever done any prison time? Yeah, he did.
Lord: For what? It was, um, for, um, meth.
Lord: Okay.
Yeah, manufacturing.
Lord: Okay.
The interior of this truck and the items in the bed are just typical of a meth user.
Lithium batteries is an ingredient used in the meth making process.
And it looks like he's got a bunch of them all taped together.
A torch up front.
She found a syringe in one of these bags back here.
Propane tank for a heat source.
Last night I contacted him as he was in a dumpster.
He was uncooperative with me then as well.
He was found in possession of methamphetamine.
Looks like he's got a pretty bad habit.
Leave me alone.
Lord: I just want to talk to you.
No.
Leave me alone.
Lord: - I just - Get away from me.
Lord: This guy's going to take you down to the jail.
I'm just going to let you know what's going on, okay? Yeah.
Lord: This guy's going to take you down to the jail.
And if you're cooperative with him, then it'll be just like the other time.
You'll get in there and you'll get right back out of there, okay? What did you do that to me for, man? I've been in jail.
Why didn't you just arrest? Lord: Well, mister What I need you to understand is that - you're on federal probation - Yeah.
Lord: For a weapons offense.
And whenever you start acting kind of hinky in the car like that on me, I don't know what's going on with you.
I know that I dealt with you before.
You had some narcotics on you.
Yeah.
Lord: You're on federal probation for a weapons violation.
And whenever you start acting like you did, it kind of puts questions into our mind.
- Yeah, but you didn't - I'm just trying to be safe out here, okay? Yeah.
Lord: All right.
He's going to be charged with resisting arrest and going to be another felony possession of a controlled substance charge on him.
Two nights in a row, from the meth that we found in his pocket.
Officer Kenneth Hardy: I became a police officer in Lafayette in 2007.
I worked at UL police department on campus for two years, and then I came over here as a reserve.
And now I've been working in patrol, South side of Lafayette for about two years now.
It's a white Honda accord.
Trying to catch up to a vehicle driving at a high rate of speed through the area.
Looking like they're ducking some corners.
(Radio crackles) Yeah, there they're here.
(Indistinct radio transmission) They're about to bail out in a second.
(Indistinct radio transmission) (Engine revving) (Over radio): 34-3.
Hardy: Got a 99, Be at Martha towards Cameron.
Be a white Honda accord.
Stand by for tweet.
Tweet.
Victor 25-2, we at a stop, (Door opens) Driver, exit! (Over radio): 10-4.
Hardy: Driver, exit! Step out, man.
Let me see your hands.
(Man muttering) Stand over here to the front of my car.
(Indistinct radio transmission) Huh? What you doing, man? I'm just chilling, man.
Hardy: No, you're not just chilling, bro.
You trying to duck me, bro.
No, we're coming back from the car wash.
Hardy: No, you ain't come back from the car wash, bro.
You trying to duck me.
I'm sorry, sir.
Hardy: Put your hands on the car.
You told me to get out the car, and it took me, like, a second.
A second or two.
Hardy: A second or two for what? Know what I'm saying? To get out the car.
I don't know who was there, you know what I'm saying, but I got out.
Officer James Gayle: Do me a favor.
Tip your head back and close your eyes.
All right, whenever I tell you to open your eyes, open 'em.
Close 'em, close 'em.
Keep your mouth shut.
Just close your eyes.
Whenever I tell you to open 'em, open 'em, all right? Open.
No, open your eyes.
Oh, thought you were doing my mouth.
Gayle: My man, you're on something.
You have no constriction of your pupil.
(Officer muttering) You're not gonna find brillo only so many places, you know? For only so many reasons, you know what I'm saying? Hardy: When I come across the railroad tracks, I seen you turn.
That's when I got behind you.
And that's when you started accelerating, trying to duck me.
So now you're gonna honestly tell me what you chewed up.
- I was trying to see what he was saying Hardy: - What'd you chew? I didn't chew nothing, sir.
Look.
Hardy: Why your tongue all white, man? Look, man.
Let him wipe it off first.
There ain't no drug on my tongue.
No, 'cause I came off Bienville, South Bienville like that.
I went around the street, I went like that.
I went straight.
Hardy: You kicking something over there.
You kicking something over there.
We do have a crack pipe.
Oh, yeah.
Hardy: That's what he did? - Oh, yeah, he just hey, check his Hardy: - All right.
I don't smoke crack.
I asked you what the brillo was for.
I just saw you kick it under the car.
I didn't kick-- I kicked something Yeah, it was glass.
This is glass.
Hardy: Loosen up your cheeks, bro.
- That weed scent getting stronger - Oh, yeah? Hardy: Yeah.
Uh-uh, that weed wasn't that strong a few seconds ago.
I smoked some weed today.
Hardy: Uh-uh.
I ain't selling no dope, man.
Hardy: Yeah.
I ain't selling no dope.
Hardy: Yeah, that weed scent got stronger as soon as I shook your pants.
What's that right there, man? I got a blunt.
Hardy: A blunt where? In my cheek, bro.
Hardy: In your cheek? Yes, sir.
Hardy: Let it out.
Let it out.
Give me your hand, man.
Put him in cuffs.
- It's tucked in his - For a blunt, officer? A blunt? Hardy: No, I'm talking about what's up in here.
No, I got a blunt in my pants.
Hardy: Yeah? It's rolled? Rolled in my pants.
- Rolled, but what I did Hardy: - What you got tucked in between your cheeks, bro? As soon as I grabbed right there, bro, you tightened up.
You said you had something right there.
No, officer, I ain't got nothing but I know I ain't smoking Hardy: What you stuck in between your cheeks, bro? No, I said I probably have some weed in my pocket or half a blunt or something.
Hardy: No, man, come on, bro.
You can search me, officer.
Come on, man.
Don't do that, bro.
Got a little bit of weed.
Hardy: Where? Here in my cheek.
Hardy: All right, get it out.
Officer, man, come on, man.
Don't do that, bro.
I ain't selling no dope, bro.
Hardy: That's all you got right here? Nothing more? That's all I have.
Hardy: See? Told you it got stronger.
All that for just for that little bit of weed? No, but officer, bro.
Come on.
I smoke weed, but I don't want to go to jail.
Hardy: Come on.
Come sit in the backseat of my car.
And I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna check the backseat of my car, and if there's nothing in there, then when I put you in there and I check it again, and there's something in there, you know that's yours, okay? We got a small bag of high-grade marijuana.
Some kind bud that he admitted to having concealed in his anal area that he retrieved for us voluntarily and gave to us because I detected a strong odor of marijuana around his waist areas.
Listen, you could have made it easier on yourself and told us right from the beginning that you had that.
Had what, man? Hardy: Man, that you had that crack pipe, my man.
That was your pipe, my man.
Crack pipe, man? Come on, man, (Bleep).
Hardy: Listen, listen.
Y'all gonna summons me, man.
Hardy: Listen, but listen, I'm trying to help you out.
Listen, I am gonna summons you, okay? But I still gotta go to jail? Hardy: Yeah, yeah.
Listen, listen.
You understand that you would have made it a lot easier if you had just told me, "officer, look what I got?" But still y'all gonna summons me.
Hardy: I know, but listen.
No, listen to what I'm saying right now.
If you'd just said, "officer, listen, I got this crack pipe.
" I didn't have no crack pipe, man.
Hardy: So that wasn't yours? That wasn't my crack pipe, man.
Hardy: Well, you gonna get charged with it, my man.
You made that hard on yourself, bro.
You made that decision.
Yes, sir.
Hardy: All right? What happened? I was kinda speeding.
Hardy: Yeah, and turning corner to corner, man.
You never know.
Hardy: Yeah, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause that's why I didn't lie to you.
I didn't tongue nothing, I didn't swallow nothing.
Hardy: I know, I know.
Make it easy on yourself next time, man.
Yes, sir.
Hardy: So you are going to jail.
Just hang tight.
We gonna talk about that in a second, okay? You're getting charged with the possession of marijuana, all right? But look, sir, I ain't selling no drugs.
Hardy: Listen, listen, you getting charged with possession of marijuana, all right? Yeah.
Hardy: All right.
Yes, sir.
Hardy: Both of 'em gonna end up going to jail tonight, man.
If they'd just been more honest, it'd been a lot easier on them.
Corporal Kevin Sweckard: I pretty much grew up in Springfield.
Um, it's a really nice city in the midwest that has a lot of home feel to it.
Uh, there's families here that are linked back for generations.
I'm actually a fourth-generation Greene countian.
A lot of outdoor activities here, fishing, hunting, hiking, canoeing.
It's a nice place to, you know, grow up and raise your own kids as well.
Ooh, there's two police cars in the area, and there's a man over here that's, uh, acting really suspicious.
He was on a parking lot walking toward a police car, and now he's walking away very quickly, and he's looking over his shoulder.
In this neighborhood, that's really His behavior doesn't add up at all, so we're going to see what's going on with this guy and why he doesn't want to see the police and if he belongs around here.
(Garbled radio transmission) Hey, there's a guy really interested in us.
He went around back.
He's got long hair.
Male, white, black shorts.
Come here, sir.
Come here.
Take your hand out of your shirt.
What? Sweckard: What's your deal? What's your name? Larry.
Sweckard: Okay, why are you running from us or walking away from us like that? You saw us coming, you went around back, and then you were moving this way.
I come down here, looked right out here and seen that my buddy is coming down the road.
Sweckard: Okay, do Do me a favor and walk with me, okay? All right.
Sweckard: Geiger, where's that guy that was pointing? You got any weapons on you? No, sir.
Sweckard: Can I check you? Put your hands on your head.
Why is your pocket turned inside out? What pocket? Sweckard: He might have dumped something.
His pocket's hanging inside out.
Officer Klynt Geiger: Where'd he come from? Sweckard: He came He came around the building.
Okay, come on.
Did you throw something? No.
I sure didn't.
Sweckard: His pocket's Left side's out.
Looks fine to me.
Sweckard: He saw you guys coming, and he went fast to the to the west, and then this guy is pointing frantically at him, and he was out here in front, so he circled all the way back around.
Do me a favor.
Have a seat, please.
Do you have your I.
D.
? Uh, nope, it's at my house.
Sweckard: Are you from Missouri? Yes, sir.
Sweckard: What were you doing over here on this property? I was I was over on the other side of the fence-- me and a friend of mine.
Sweckard: Oh, wait a minute.
I saw you jump that fence the other night when I was on a call over here, and I wondered why you were jumping the fence.
Hi.
Howdy.
Sweckard: Do you know this man? No, I don't.
Sweckard: Okay.
You're under arrest.
Put your hands behind your back.
Don't stand up.
Did he throw it? Officer Justin Thorn: Yep.
Sweckard: Larry.
Yes, sir.
Sweckard: Now is the time not to play games.
Do you understand? Yep.
Sweckard: Now is the time for you to be a stand-up guy and talk truthfully to the police.
Do you understand that? Yep.
Sweckard: The officers recovered some things that came out of your pocket.
Didn't come out of my pocket.
Sweckard: All right, when we fingerprint those things, is there any reason that your fingerprints would show up on those items? Get the fingerprints on them.
Sweckard: No, I'm asking you a question-- is there any reason that you can explain that your fingerprints would be on them? No, sir.
Sweckard: No? Uh-uh.
Sweckard: Okay.
Thorn: What is this? Geiger: Looks like meth.
Be my guess.
Got digital scales here as well.
Thorn: Where'd you find this? Geiger: This was over there between the two houses where that guy saw him go and trying to dig in his pockets and empty his pockets out.
Sweckard: I'll I'll watch him, and if you want to just park over here, we'll load him up.
Are you, uh, smoking it or shooting it? Shoot it.
Sweckard: Where at? Wherever I can.
Sweckard: Do you need help with your problem? Probably do.
Sweckard: What kind of time you facing? Sweckard: 30 years? Mm-hmm.
Sweckard: Okay, Larry.
Stand up for me.
I'm going to double-lock your cuffs so they don't get any tighter.
Pull your hands away from your body.
Okay.
Geiger: Nothing else on you? Nope.
Geiger: Have a seat there.
Watch your head.
This fella come over the back fence here.
He's riffling in his pockets.
- I'm figuring he's getting ready to jump Sweckard: - Which pocket did he seem to focus on? Both of them.
Sweckard: Okay.
I think he had something in both Both pockets.
Sweckard: Okay.
He run over there in between the houses and, I guess, dropped his load, and about that time was when you guys come around the corner there, and I was like, "he's over there.
" And then another officer caught him out there on the, uh, sidewalk, I guess, in front of the other house.
That's when you guys brought him over here and put him on the sidewalk.
Okay.
When he was over here, was he * those plants? No, he running between the buildings there.
Okay, well we really appreciate your help.
I mean people like you help us to get people like that - off the streets, so - I used to be one of them, - but I finally quit.
- Good for you.
- Good for you.
Proud of you.
- Thank you, officer.
- Take care.
- You have a great day.
You too.
Larry, who's your PO? I feel bad for you, man.
I mean, you say you going been dirty a few days and your claiming for three.
How long did you use before you got busted? Back 3 *, * prison? How long did you do in prison? Four and half years.
You were on parole? How long were you on parole? Three years ago? - About two ** three.
- Two and a half or three? Just in the last week you said you got dirty again? Yeah.
You're facing 30 years? Yeah.
- how old are you? - 37.
- When did you start using? - 8 of age.
What were you using at that age? *** you shot methamphetamine when you were 8 years old? - Yeah.
- Who gave you meth when you were 8 years old? Some people.
*** - yeah.
- Is there a little bit of crank in there? Yeah.
Why did you have the scales with you? - I hadn't.
- No? When you have scales and you have that much * I mean, you know what I'm gonna charge you with, don't you? - No.
- Possession with intent.
You know you can't carry scales around ** how much the bond is gonna be? There's not gonna be any bond.
Why not? Because you are on parole.
Good luck.
This gentleman told me that he was given meth when he was 8 years old.
He's been using 'till he went to prison.
Did 4, 5 years in prison.
Got back out.
so, he's going back to prison more likely.