COPS (1989) s24e14 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 JUAN RODRIGUEZ: I work for Spokane Valley Police Department.
It's a great advantage being bilingual.
There's a little bit more Hispanic population up here now.
Sometimes it's a culture thing: even if they're a victim of a crime, they will not give out any information to my fellow officers.
But, you know, when I show up, being Hispanic, um, knowing Spanish and talking to them, and they open up and they feel comfortable giving me their information.
I want to take a look at this guy; he's going at a high rate of speed.
See what his deal is.
All right.
Looks like he's taking off on us now.
So we're gonna try to catch up to him here.
(siren wailing) Just passed Sixth now.
Still on Bowdish.
White male.
Still southbound on Bowdish.
On 12th.
(garbled radio transmission) Just passed 16th.
like, on 27th.
He's bailing southbound! Stop, police! (running footsteps) (chain-link fence clanging) (grunting) Stop! Police! (grunting) Get down! (panting) Get on the ground! Get down! Get on the ground! (banging against trash can) Get down! (Rodriguez grunting and panting) (blows thudding) Get down! (man grunting and groaning) (Rodriguez panting) Fighting with him in the backyard about 27th and Bowdish.
(man groaning) (Rodriguez grunts) (static crackling) DISPATCHER: Code 6.
RODRIGUEZ: Stand up.
You'll never prove (distant siren wailing) DISPATCHER: 509.
(siren grows louder) (man murmuring) (garbled radio transmission) (siren wailing loudly) RODRIGUEZ: Here.
(voice drowned out by siren) Stop it.
(siren stops) Got him in custody.
We got enough units here.
OFFICER LAMONT PETERSEN: You all right? RODRIGUEZ: Yeah, Yeah.
(indistinct chatter) PETERSEN: Where's his car at? RODRIGUEZ: Right in front.
PETERSEN: Spread your feet.
David.
PETERSEN: Huh? What's your name? David.
PETERSEN: David? Yeah.
PETERSEN: You got any weapons on you? Nope.
PETERSEN: Here's one.
(garbled radio transmission) PETERSEN: What gang you with again? It's a It's a group.
PETERSEN: Huh? What group? What group? David, what group? Sit him down somewhere.
Put himdown in the Back here in my truck.
PETERSEN: Let's put him on the back of the bumper.
RODRIGUEZ: Oh, yeah, never mind.
All my stuff's back there.
The other stuff.
That's it.
PETERSEN: What's wrong with you? Huh? RODRIGUEZ: Let's read him his rights real quick.
PETERSEN: Yeah, you been running.
RODRIGUEZ: I'm Officer Rodriguez; I work for Spokane Valley Police Department.
Okay? You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You understand these rights? Yes, sir.
RODRIGUEZ: Understanding these rights, are you willing to answer my questions? No, sir.
RODRIGUEZ: All right.
Let's go ahead and put him back in the car.
Stand up.
This way.
We're going this way.
Have a seat here.
All right.
At this time, you're under arrest for eluding, possession of a stolen vehicle, assault third on a police officer I'm afraid there're some other charges, too.
Watch your knee.
Basically, this vehicle is stolen.
He did end up throwing a punch and hitting me back there at the fence.
Right now, what I'm waiting for is for the registered owner to tell me if the if I can search the vehicle.
So, until then, we'll just leave it here like this.
When we started negotiating the corner southbound on Bowdish here, he was roughly going about turned the corner, he went too wide.
This blue vehicle here, Mazda here, was parked, legally parked on the south side.
He couldn't maintain control and went head-on with it.
We got a little bit of damage to the victim vehicle-- not too much-- right in the center.
So, this is your vehicle here? Yes.
RODRIGUEZ: Did you give anybody permission to take your vehicle? No.
No.
RODRIGUEZ: No? Okay.
- We found some keys - I got them.
He showed me, yeah.
Those are not my keys.
RODRIGUEZ: Those are not your keys.
Never seen those keys before.
RODRIGUEZ: Okay.
And, uh, I'm assuming that some of the damage-- have you taken a look at or anything yet? I haven't.
No.
RODRIGUEZ: All right.
Let's take a look here.
Okay.
RODRIGUEZ: Obviously, this stuff here, up in front-- that wasn't there before this, right? Oh, no.
RODRIGUEZ: Okay.
All right.
Well, basically, we ended up getting a guy that was in your vehicle, took off at a high rate of speed, started eluding, lost a corner here, and hit the front of this parked vehicle.
And as far as right now, all we know is that the front part of the vehicle is damaged.
Yeah.
RODRIGUEZ: I'll ask Peter here to check up the bottom, make sure that everything seems like it's all right enough to park it.
Okay.
RODRIGUEZ: Okay.
Hey, Pete.
PETE: Huh? RODRIGUEZ: Do you see any damage to her vehicle that would prevent her from driving it home? PETE: No.
Headlight's out, but that's it.
RODRIGUEZ: He already has a felony warrant for his arrest and some other obviously, the eluding, possession of stolen vehicle, a bunch of other charges, too.
DEPUTY MIKE ROBERTS: Growing up in Florida is different than growing up in other places, especially Hillsborough County.
I mean, you have parts of Hillsborough County that's country and you can hunt.
It's real rural, and the strawberry farms and the cattle pastures.
Then you also have the city element.
You've got the best of pretty much everything here in Hillsborough County.
(over radio): He's wearing boxers.
ROBERTS: 23-90.
Hold at station.
I'm coming 97.
(over radio): 23-90.
ROBERTS: We're going to a, uh, appears to be a domestic in progress, but evidently the male half just shot a long gun at his girlfriend.
And then the line disconnected, so we're not sure what we got right now.
This might get hairy.
(over radio): Station range 10-46 for 23-90.
Wait, wait, wait.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
This is him.
He's right here.
ROBERTS: Who? Where? The guy right here with the BB gun.
I thought he was trying to kill me.
ROBERTS: Where's he at? He's right here? ROBERTS: Him? He's okay.
ROBERTS: Him? He showed me the BB gun.
I thought it was a regular gun.
I'm sorry, but I thought he was trying to kill me.
ROBERTS: Get out, man.
Get out, William.
ROBERTS: Get out.
You shouldn't shoot a BB gun.
- That stupid (bleep) ROBERTS: - Turn around.
Turn around till I figure out what's going on.
Till I figure out what's going on.
Chill out.
ROBERTS: 35 to station.
I got one detained.
Lord have mercy, man.
Ain't shot nothing at nobody.
ROBERTS: Okay.
- I only ROBERTS: - Stay quiet for right now, okay? Stay quiet.
Get me my wedding ring and my wallet.
ROBERTS: Okay.
And my keys.
ROBERTS: Look, do me a favor-- just lean right up there on that bumper, okay? Okay.
ROBERTS: And relax.
You'll get yourself in jail if you shut up.
ROBERTS: Now what happened? He scared the living (bleep) out of me.
- I came over there ROBERTS: - Who is he? William-- he's a friend of mine sugar daddy, whatever.
- Anyway, he ROBERTS: - He's your sugar daddy? Mm-hmm.
He's married.
His wife's out of town.
Yeah.
ROBERTS: Hold-hold on, let's start over.
I got to figure all this out.
Okay, you live with him? No, I don't live with him.
ROBERTS: Okay, so he's here with you for what reason? 'Cause his wife's out of town? Yeah, that's his house.
ROBERTS: Okay, so you're over here at his house? Yeah, I came to his house.
ROBERTS: And he's your sugar daddy? Yeah.
ROBERTS: Okay.
Does his wife know about you? No.
Anyways, I came over.
(garbled radio transmission) He's flipping out 'cause I'm with him.
ROBERTS: Yes? Ten-four.
And I'm like, you got to chill.
He's like, don't cut him off, don't cut him off.
I said, "What? You're tripping.
It's nothing like that.
"I'm just with Les.
" I said, "You know who (bleep) Les is; quit tripping.
" As soon as I go there and I knocked on the door, he's looking out the window.
I go to the window.
He sees me.
ROBERTS: Who? He does.
ROBERTS: He does? What's his name again? William He says, "Don't come in my house.
" I said, "What the (bleep)?" Next thing I know-- and thank God I moved-- he went and shot a damn gun.
I thought it was a real gun.
I thought he was trying to kill me.
But it was He showed it to me-- it was a BB gun.
ROBERTS: So it was a BB gun? I guess.
But I don't know the difference.
ROBERTS: What was the purpose of him shooting it? He thinks I'm messing with him, I guess.
He wanted That was the whole point.
I said, "Well" ROBERTS: So he thinks you're messing around with this guy? He's That's what he's thinking.
But he knows him.
He's friends with both of us.
ROBERTS: Okay.
"Why are you using him for?" ROBERTS: I got ya.
Okay, let me go talk to him real quick.
You got any I.
D.
on you? No, I don't.
ROBERTS: You don't have any form of I.
D.
at all? - No, but my tattoo shows ROBERTS: - I need an I.
D.
I don't have one.
Y'all took 'em.
ROBERTS: All right.
Willie, I know you've been drinking a little bit tonight, right? - Yeah, I - How much you had to drink tonight? Four or five beers.
ROBERTS: Four or five? Okay.
Yeah, I do it a little bit.
Right or wrong.
ROBERTS: So tell me what happened.
'Cause she's saying everything's fine now.
I'm trying to make sure I don't understand what's going on.
I ain't did nothing wrong to nobody, you know? She came to my house.
I said, "Don't come in my house, you know, 'cause I'm watching TV.
I'm going to bed.
"Don't come in my house.
" She came by, knocked on my door.
I said, "Don't come inside.
" So I took a BB gun and shot it up in the air.
ROBERTS: Inside your house or outside your house? No, outside the house.
ROBERTS: Why would you do that? 'Cause I told-- I told her leave, you know? ROBERTS: So did you point it at her? No.
I pointed it up in the air.
ROBERTS: So you just shot up in the air? Yeah.
A BB gun.
It's a nice little thing there.
ROBERTS: Well, why would you want her to leave? I didn't want to talk to her.
ROBERTS: It's your girlfriend, ain't it? I didn't want to talk to her at the time.
ROBERTS: Oh, okay.
Were you mad 'cause she showed up with the other guy with her? No, I know him, too.
He's my friend.
ROBERTS: Oh, you know him, too? Yeah.
I know him.
He's my friend.
ROBERTS: 'Cause she thinks that you might be upset that you think she's with that guy now.
No, no.
I ain't upset with him.
I know him; he's my friend.
ROBERTS: All right, give me a second, okay? Okay.
ROBERTS: Y'all don't live together, right? Y'all have any kids together? Uh-uh.
Have you ever lived together? Uh-uh.
ROBERTS: So when do you-- when do you see him, when his wife's gone? Mm-hmm.
When she's at work.
ROBERTS: When she's at work and when she's out of town? Um, so what do you-- what do you want done with him? Just for him to go home, and to stop pulling out that (bleep) and scaring me.
He scared the (bleep) out of me.
I didn't know what it was.
I would have been scared, too.
Don't kill me.
Was it loud? Not really.
ROBERTS: Want to go back to his house and then see if he'll let us go find it and look at it and make sure it's a BB gun? Make sure it's a BB gun.
ROBERTS: Yeah.
He's fine.
ROBERTS: So what are you? I'm just going home.
ROBERTS: You're going home now? I'm going home.
I'm going to let him chill out for the night.
ROBERTS: Yeah, I got it.
'Cause I don't want no BB in my ass or none of that.
ROBERTS: Okay.
You don't mind if we go inside, right? No.
I'll show you the gun.
Hold on a second.
Hold on.
I'm over here.
Right over here.
Step back.
ROBERTS: Is that it right there? Yeah, that's the gun.
ROBERTS: It ain't even got no handle.
I know it.
ROBERTS: Well, come on, man.
That's the gun.
That's the gun.
I always shoot that.
I shoot it all the time.
That's the gun.
I shoot at my dog one night.
Hit my dog one night.
I broke it.
I just want to go home.
ROBERTS: Well, you are home right now.
You're getting a good outcome tonight.
I know.
ROBERTS: It could have been a whole lot worse.
I come around the corner, and you're still outside holding that gun-- I don't know if that gun's real or fake.
Right.
I understand.
ROBERTS: It could have been a bad night for you, you understand that? I thank you wholeheartedly.
ROBERTS: Now what are you going to do about the situation with your wife and your your lover on the side? How's that going to work out for you? Don't ask me.
Don't ask me, man.
(laughing) ROBERTS: Well, you got all kind of things going on, man.
No more drinking tonight.
No more.
ROBERTS: No more shooting off BB guns.
No more.
ROBERTS: - No more - God, no! Please! ROBERTS: No more, uh, drama with your lover.
Thank you, Jesus! ROBERTS: We don't need none of that, okay? Thank you, Jesus.
ROBERTS: All right, and do something about them red lipstick boxers, all right? You should put some clothes on.
You like my boxers? ROBERTS: Go-go-go get some different boxers on, all right? All right.
All right, listen, he's not going to jail tonight, 'cause you're saying that no crime occurred.
You're saying that you thought it was a gun, but I thought it was a bad gun.
ROBERTS: It wasn't.
My advice to you is leave him alone.
You're not married, are you? You don't have a boyfriend or anything? So at least you ain't got nothing to worry about.
No.
ROBERTS: He's got to worry about his wife finding out, but you ain't got nobody to worry worry about.
Make better choices.
I will.
ROBERTS: Okay? Thank you.
ROBERTS: All right.
SENIOR OFFICER MIKE WERTANEN: Corpus is a, uh, pretty big size town-- there's about 300,000.
We have approximately There's definitely enough here to keep you busy as a law enforcement officer.
Not small enough to bore you to death, but, uh, not so busy that it's going to burn you out.
Uh, there's plenty to do here.
Well, here we go.
A bit of weaving action going on there.
Charlie 321 in traffic.
(over radio): Charlie 321, location.
WERTANEN: I got this vehicle weaving pretty good here.
We're going to stop him, check him out.
There he goes again.
(siren whooping) Go ahead and start one more.
He just dumped some kind of liquid out the window.
Man, is this guy ever going to stop? Okay, I think he's turning in here.
(garbled radio transmission) (over radio): Charlie 452.
Stopping right here at, uh (over radio): Ten-four.
WERTANEN: Zebra five six.
(over radio): Ten-four.
WERTANEN: Put the car in park.
Turn it off.
There you go.
Evening.
My name is Officer Wertanen.
I work for the city.
The reason I stopped, you were weaving pretty good.
What did you dump out the side of your car there, partner? There's all this liquid on the side of your car.
You got liquid on your pants.
I've been, uh I've been working on my car today.
I have brake I have my brake lights that are not out.
WERTANEN: Mm-hmm.
Didn't I arrest you the other day for having some marijuana on you? Maybe.
WERTANEN: Yeah, I think I did.
Yeah, maybe.
WERTANEN: Tell you what, man, do me a favor and step on out of the car.
Where's your shoes at? I have sandals on.
WERTANEN: Okay, here.
Come on over here, partner.
There you go-- over here to the to the back of the car.
To the back of the car.
There we go.
Put your hands up there.
I got nothing up my sleeve.
WERTANEN: Okay.
Take your hands off the car.
Just face me.
When I was behind you, you threw some liquid out the window.
What was that? Was it an alcoholic beverage? No, sir.
I'm all right.
I mean, I can talk to you straight if you have any questions to ask me.
(garbled radio transmission) WERTANEN: Okay.
If you have you have any questions to ask me How much have you had to drink tonight? Don't tell me two.
No, no, I've only had one.
- I got off work - Do you always talk with a slurred speech? I don't have a slurred speech right now.
You don't have a slurred speech? No, sir.
Do you got a speech problem where you got a problem talking? No, sir.
You don't? No, sir.
Your eyes always bloodshot and red? I mean, I work a lot.
WERTANEN: At one time this was a full 12-pack, man.
You got one left.
- Well, I mean, I WERTANEN: - You got one left.
I mean, I don't drink and drive, I tell you that.
WERTANEN: You don't drink and drive? No, sir.
No, sir.
WERTANEN: Okay.
What happened to the other They were all when I when I drink, I stop, and I don't drive.
WERTANEN: I got behind this guy over there on Holly, and he was weaving, you know, pretty pretty noticeably.
OFFICER JUSTIN SANDERS: Across the line? WERTANEN: Yeah, yeah, he was he was in the the left lane, and he was weaving over into the right.
When I got behind him, when I lit him up, he threw some liquid out the window.
I don't know what it was, but he definitely threw some liquid out.
I arrested him the other day for having some weed on him.
SANDERS: Okay.
WERTANEN: Officer Sanders is one of our, uh, DWI enforcement officers.
In other words, he specializes in DWIs, so he's going to run him through a sobriety test here.
SANDERS: No, you have five more seconds left.
WERTANEN: He's supposed to hold his foot six inches off the ground for 30 seconds without dropping it.
SANDERS: Okay, put your foot down.
WERTANEN: Obviously, he failed to do that.
No, come on, Officer.
WERTANEN: All right, partner.
Right now you failed the standardized field sobriety test, okay, and you're under arrest for driving while intoxicated, all right? You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in court.
You have the right to stop answering questions or terminate the interview at any time.
Do you understand that? I need a yes or a no.
Do you understand what I just told you? Why do you need a yes or no? WERTANEN: Do you understand what I just told you? Why do you need a yes or no? WERTANEN: Okay, well, that's fine.
We won't ask any more questions.
No, no, no, I want to know why you need a yes or a no.
WERTANEN: I just need to know if you understood your rights.
No, I want to know why you need a yes or no.
I got a lawyer, and I want to know why you need a yes or no.
WERTANEN: Okay, well, that's all you need to say.
I'm not going to ask you any more questions, okay? No, no, no, no, I need you to ask me more questions.
WERTANEN: There you go.
Oh, see, now you're not going to ask me any more questions.
WERTANEN: There you go.
No, no, no, no, no.
I need you to ask I need to know.
SANDERS: Do you have his you have his driver's license? WERTANEN: Uh, he's got an I.
D.
card is what he's got.
I'm not going to (bleep) run from you.
I want to (bleep) pick up my pants, man.
WERTANEN: Actually, we haven't searched him.
We patted him down.
- You don't have anything - Search my car.
Search me, man.
WERTANEN: You don't you don't have anything you shouldn't have, right? No, I shouldn't.
I have to work every day, man.
WERTANEN: All right.
I'm too hard at work, man.
WERTANEN: Okay.
SANDERS: As of right now, you need to go down to the CDC and we'll get we'll go ahead and get a sample of your breath, okay? Can I at least get somebody to come in I mean, come get my car or something? SANDERS: Your vehicle's going to be impounded.
You're going to do that to me for real? SANDERS: I'm not doing anything to you.
- We don't want people coming - You are, though.
SANDERS: No, you did this to yourself.
I didn't do this to myself.
I'm not intoxicated.
SANDERS: Well, then, you get another chance to prove it to me, but from what I've seen right now Another chance to prove it to you would be my car will be already impounded and I will not get another chance.
SANDERS: Look, I've already determined you've been driving while intoxicated.
I'm not going to have anyone else come to this scene, okay? I just paid you, man! SANDERS: Calm down, man.
What the (bleep) your problem, man? Why you (bleep) being like this for? SANDERS: Come on, come on.
Come on.
Man, this is not even cool, man.
I'm not going to be like this.
SANDERS: Stop.
Dude, why are you being like this to me? Can I talk to you? SANDERS: Yeah, we'll talk in the car.
No, I don't want to talk in the car.
SANDERS: Have a seat.
Have a seat.
I don't want to talk in the car, man.
I already paid you money, man.
Officer, I already paid you money.
I already paid you money, man! Why you being like this? SANDERS: There we go.
Hey, stop treating me like an animal! Let me go, man.
SANDERS: The second time in a week that he's been arrested.
WERTANEN: Yeah, I arrested him a couple days ago.
Caught him with some marijuana.
He's, uh, digging himself a hole.
OFFICER (over radio): I've got him at gunpoint.
DISPATCHER: At gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.