COPS (1989) s25e12 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 GERALD LANBERG: As a police officer, we just come in contact with so many different types of individuals.
You have to be able to talk to them about anything.
So I pride myself on having a vast knowledge of worthless information because you never know who you contact and what that conversation's gonna be be about.
So it just helps to be able to talk about anything.
OFFICER ROBBIE YOUNG: We see a guy who's kind of lingering - down here LANBERG: - How you doing, bud? Yeah.
LANBERG: You got him, you got him.
What did I do?! What'd I do?! YOUNG: - I got this one.
LANBERG: - Okay.
- He dumped something.
- What did I do?! YOUNG: He's got dope.
We got him last time.
LANBERG: Yeah.
I didn't do nothing! Please don't hurt me! What'd I do?! Oh, God, help me, please! YOUNG: Roll him this way.
LANBERG: All right.
Roll on your stomach.
Stop resisting.
- Lay on your stomach.
- I didn't do nothing wrong! LANBERG: Last time you didn't do anything wrong either, and you had dope on you.
- Oh, God! LANBERG: - You remember us.
Oh, what'd I do?! YOUNG: What did you throw out on me? - What did you throw out? - I got nothing.
LANBERG: We're gonna find what you just threw at me.
What are you talking about? (screams incoherently) LANBERG: Knock it off.
Please, don't do! LANBERG: - Knock it off.
YOUNG: - I like that.
LANBERG: You got him, you got him.
I just got scared! Don't take me, please! LANBERG: I'll talk to you in a minute, okay? It's fine.
Baby, I love you, why, babe? LANBERG: He's screaming for no reason.
But I love you! LANBERG: - What's your first name? - Johnny.
LANBERG: - Johnny, anything else on you? - No.
LANBERG: All right.
Stop yelling, okay? Okay.
I love you, baby.
Don't-don't don't leave me, please.
WOMAN: May I have the phone? I just got scared, I don't got a warrant or nothing.
You guys scared me.
LANBERG: - Come on.
- Why? LANBERG: Now we gotta walk all the way back to the car.
Oh, man.
I just got scared, oh boy.
LANBERG: - Last time, you had a little meth on you - No.
LANBERG: and you did, you pulled the same gag, you start crying and yelling.
Yeah, well, I-I know, but I ain't got nothing.
LANBERG: - 'Cause you threw it.
- I'm not gonna lie to you, sir.
LANBERG: Did you lie to me last time? No.
I told you, I didn't lie to you.
LANBERG: Okay.
Okay, do me a favor.
Lean against this car.
Take a couple deep breaths.
- Relax, all right? - Why would I lie to you? LANBERG: You lied to me last time.
- I didn't.
LANBERG: - Yes, you did.
- No, I didn't.
- Yes, you did.
My partner and I didn't arrest you about six weeks ago? No, was it Yes, you did.
But I'm not saying that I didn't tell you, I didn't know I had that in my pocket.
LANBERG: - Okay.
- Pull my pants up, please? LANBERG: Okay.
Do you want to pull his pants up? You can.
(over radio): Go ahead.
(indistinct radio transmission) (murmuring) LANBERG: Well, she pulled your pants up for you.
Hey, I love you, baby.
- Lean against the car, please.
- Yeah.
LANBERG: - Thank you.
- I didn't do nothing wrong.
YOUNG: You did do something wrong.
It's illegal to run from the police.
(indistinct murmur) YOUNG: Are you on probation, or parole? No, I'm not, sir I'm not on probation.
YOUNG: You are on probation, correct? No, I think it's I'm on probation yeah, I'm okay.
YOUNG: Didn't we have this conversation last time we talked, a couple months ago? - No, officer.
YOUNG: - We did, right? Okay? - You can't run from the police, you know that.
- I got scared.
LANBERG: How long has he been with you? - About almost a month.
LANBERG: - About a month.
So he hasn't been done drugs for a month? - Right LANBERG: - Okay.
We were supposed to get a place together.
LANBERG: Well, it's been about six weeks since I've arrested him, so maybe he hasn't done it in a month, but last - time we arrested him, he had methamphetamine on him.
- Right.
LANBERG: Why do you why do you think he ran from us? And he didn't he wasn't running to you, he was running from us.
- Well LANBERG: - So I'm really asking you Technically, I he-he probably did get scared.
And but technically, I thought he was running to me, because he's kind of like, you know, you hear him.
"I love you" - You know? LANBERG: - Yeah.
So that's why I thought he was actually 'cause I said, - "fuck off!" LANBERG: - Okay.
- 'Cause we were fighting.
LANBERG: - Okay.
- And so he was I thought he was running to me.
- Okay.
It's not a role, that's really how he feels.
At the time.
LANBERG: - Well, okay.
- You know what I'm saying? LANBERG: - So you're saying he's a very emotional person.
- Yes.
LANBERG: - All right.
- Yes.
LANBERG: Would it be possible he had methamphetamine on him tonight? - No.
And I and we're - And you're sure he's clean right now? - Um yeah.
LANBERG: - Okay.
As far as I know, he's clean.
Yeah.
LANBERG: Last time we contacted him, he pulled this exact same he didn't run, but he pulled the exact same thing.
- The crying, the yelling, the "please please please.
" - Yeah.
LANBERG: - So I just think it's an act.
- Yeah.
Or or it's I don't, I don't really I'm not going back to jail! (screaming) - Just don't beat me up.
LANBERG: - It's right there.
- We're not - It's hurting my leg.
YOUNG: - Stop, Johnny.
I got dope in my pocket, they're gonna take me back to jail again! - I can't do it! YOUNG: - Stop.
I don't know, it's somebody else! What are you doing? Stop.
Why don't you stop? I don't know.
I'm gonna stop now.
LANBERG: Johnny! Cross your ankles and keep 'em crossed.
- Baby, call me YOUNG: - Johnny, you need to listen.
- Just do what he tells you.
- Call them baby, call them.
Victory Outreach, tell them that I-I want to go rehab.
I'm gonna go get cleaned up.
Please? I just want to change.
LANBERG: You want to change? Okay.
I'm in trouble now.
God, why do I have to go to jail to change? Why? My wife was telling me I love her so much.
God, I'm in trouble.
Lord Lord, ain't gonna give me my ball rammed in my fucking pocket.
YOUNG: That's not going to help out your relationship with your girlfriend.
I want to marry that woman.
Baby, I want to marry you! You know I do.
I'm I'm, I want to God, why do I have to go through this? YOUNG: - John - I love you.
YOUNG: John, you would have one less charge if you had just stopped and said, "Officers, I have this narcotic on me.
" I know.
I'm I want to marry my woman.
- I'll - Are you gonna wait for him? Yes.
YOUNG: - She's gonna wait for you, okay? - I love you, baby.
- Please don't YOUNG: - She's gonna wait for you.
I'm gonna go to jail, baby! I'll miss you! YOUNG: Okay, we're gonna get you in this car over here.
Come on over here.
- I will be there.
- Can I give her a kiss good-bye? YOUNG: - Go ahead and give her a kiss.
- I love you, babe.
YOUNG: - Okay.
- I love you, want to marry you.
- I'll wait for you.
YOUNG: - We got to go.
We got to go.
She said she's gonna wait.
Over here.
I've messed it up and I'm going to jail now.
Oh, man, I messed up! God, I'm stupid! What am I supposed to do with your dog? I don't know, well, go call Paul and tell him to take the dog, please.
Baby, when I get out YOUNG: Have a seat, John, okay? Hold on a minute.
(Lanberg speaks indistinctly) No, I don't.
Yeah, that's why I had dope in the first place.
YOUNG: Yeah, we've stopped this subject before and he's been in possession of methamphetamine, and, uh, when I started searching down by his feet he got a little frisky, and I saw the top of this bindle sticking out.
It's crystal methamphetamine, and there's probably about a gram of methamphetamine in here.
These guys are gonna transport him to jail.
Do you have anything to say to him before he leaves? - I love you, babe.
- I love you, too.
(laughs): I can't reach you.
- I love you.
Will you marry me when I get out, baby? - Yes.
YOUNG: Are you proposing right now? I made a mistake and she knows I love her with all my heart.
LANBERG: - What's the answer? - What's the answer? LANBERG: - Yeah.
- Well, of course I will.
YOUNG: - Oh.
I got it.
- Yeah.
YOUNG: That's the first police car proposal I've ever seen, Johnny.
- Hey, John.
- Yeah? YOUNG: So, you know what you're going to jail for, right? Resisting arrest and drugs.
YOUNG: Okay, resisting arrests and drugs.
- But why - But listen, we're not no probation violation, okay, so that's good.
But look at the bright side-- you just proposed to your girlfriend, right? And what'd she say? She said what? - I'm gonna marry, I'm gonna stop doing YOUNG: - Yeah.
She said yes? I need help.
But I'm gonna stop.
YOUNG: No more drugs, then, right? 'Cause she's not gonna want that in her life-- nobody does, okay? I love you, baby.
OFFICER TODD TEMPLETON: 13 years ago I started playing police softball.
Kansas City Guns is the name of our softball team, and we play in five or six tournaments every summer all over the Midwest and different places around the country and meet different people, so It's a great time.
We meet a lot of officers from around the country and even Canada.
OFFICER NICK CARDONA: We're gonna go to the east side of town here.
Uh, looks like we got a burglary in progress.
Don't know if we've got the guys in here or not, but, uh, we'll see what we have when we get there.
(indistinct radio transmission) TEMPLETON: Dude, there's a flashlight right there.
Gonna go in the basement.
Can you see? (dog whining, howling) Police department, announce yourself! TEMPLETON: Basement's gonna be your best spot.
I don't know how you get to it.
Police! You good, McKinney? There's the basement here.
Answer up! Police! Get out of there or I'm gonna release a dog! Last chance! Police! Get out of there or I will release the dog-- he will bite you! (metal clanking) TEMPLETON: Something's all Hey, Nick, here's all his burglary tools and stuff.
CARDONA: Oh, he's stealing copper.
TEMPLETON: You know, he's been in here probably two or three hours going through stuff and cutting all this wiring out, and we just cost him some money.
(over radio): the K-9 out and possibly TEMPLETON: McKinney, where you at? I was right.
We could see the flashlight down in the basement.
He was shining the flashlight down there, trying to cut out copper wire, and we've got every exit locked off.
We just We got an attic upstairs? Uh, we can go look again.
(over radio): when you're ready.
(indistinct radio transmission) TEMPLETON: This is the attic access.
The only place we haven't checked is the attic.
I don't think we got there.
(banging) He's in there.
He's sitting on it right there.
Dude, you better get down.
The dog's gonna bite you.
Get down.
Get down right now.
He's right there.
Get down.
(over radio): Oh, dear, he's in the attic.
TEMPLETON: Let me see your hands-- get down now.
Don't move.
(dog whining) Get down.
CARDONA: Come on, come on, get down.
Come here! I'm coming down, sir.
TEMPLETON: Dude, I'm gonna pull you down.
I'm coming down.
TEMPLETON: Get down.
Get down.
Drop your shoulders.
Let go.
Let go.
I'm hung, I'm hung TEMPLETON: Turn in your arm and shoulders-- turn.
Let me put my foot up first.
TEMPLETON: No.
Turn.
I'm coming down, sir.
TEMPLETON: Get down.
Let go.
Let go.
- Is there anybody else up there with you? - No, sir, they left.
TEMPLETON: - Huh? - They left.
TEMPLETON: Nobody left.
We've been outside.
Nobody left.
They left before y'all got here, sir.
TEMPLETON: No.
Nobody left.
- Who else is up there? - Nobody, sir.
TEMPLETON: If I send the dog up there and they get bit, it's on you.
- Go up there and see, sir.
TEMPLETON: - I'm going to.
Go up there and see.
TEMPLETON: Someone walk him out.
You can climb up there, stick your head up, and look? There's no one else up there.
TEMPLETON: You think I'm gonna take your word for it? You've been hiding from us for 45 minutes.
Think I'm gonna take your word for it? CARDONA: Come on, we're going downstairs.
(dog barking) Downstairs.
Well, you got up there quick, didn't you? You have a seat.
Hang on one second.
I got some weed in my pipe.
CARDONA: Anything else? Uh, a weed pipe.
CARDONA: What pocket? Uh the change pocket, sir.
CARDONA: - Don't dig.
- I'm not.
Weed's in the left pocket.
(dog whining) TEMPLETON: How long you been hiding from us? I don't know.
TEMPLETON: What'd you come in here planning on doing? - Be honest with me.
- Me? TEMPLETON: - Yeah.
- Get me some money, man.
TEMPLETON: - I know.
How were you gonna make money? - I don't know.
TEMPLETON: - Be honest with me.
- I don't know.
TEMPLETON: All right, I'm gonna be honest with you, right now it's a vacant house.
All right, you're looking at a trespass charge, all right? - You got a crack pipe.
- No, that's a weed pipe.
TEMPLETON: Weed pipe, it don't matter, it's a pipe, all right? I know you needed money.
What were you doing in a vacant house? Really, where I live at, we're going through some - problems out there, for real.
TEMPLETON: - I know.
- And, uh I'm homeless, for real, man.
- Okay.
But you know, I go and do a little work here and there for the guy, you know, but the guy got fucked up.
TEMPLETON: Well, listen to me, there's a bag of tools down there.
I know what you're doing, they know what you're doing.
All right, I want you to tell me what you were doing.
I was I was getting something to eat, man.
TEMPLETON: - What? - Getting me wire and stuff.
TEMPLETON: I understand you need something to eat and drink.
- What were you doing down there? - Stealing.
TEMPLETON: - Stealing what? - Wire.
TEMPLETON: Wire, copper wire? All right, this isn't our first day.
- We know what you were doing.
- That's what I was doing, man.
TEMPLETON: - Did you see us walk around the side with a flashlight? - Yeah.
TEMPLETON: - That's when you ran upstairs? - Yep.
Yes, sir.
TEMPLETON: How did you fit in that little hole in the attic? Look at me, I'm little, man.
I'm a little guy.
TEMPLETON: I know you're little-- you ain't that little.
I know I couldn't fit in there.
He couldn't fit in there.
I'm a little guy.
I got I already got a warrant on me.
All right, more likely, you're gonna get a trespassing charge.
I don't know what your warrants were-- we're gonna check that in a second.
You're gonna get a trespassing charge for being in there, all right? It's a vacant house, all right? There's signs all over the side of this building that say "No Trespassing," all right? I know what you're doing in there, all right? You get charged with the marijuana, all right, and any old warrants you got, all right? You're gonna end up going to jail tonight.
All right.
Don't hide from the police-- they will find you.
I understand.
FTO TROY ROBERTSON: I have been a police officer for 20 years now.
I spent 12 years at a sheriff's department before coming to the Amarillo Police Department.
I love the job.
You can go from a calm call, just taking a theft report, to, you know, a full-blown family fight the next minute.
You never know what you're gonna see.
OFFICER DEVIN CANTWELL: We're going to a family fight.
Uh, caller says that her husband was strangled by her brother-in-law, who went next door, I'm assuming to his house, and, uh, now I'm getting updates that the suspect has come back and is fighting with the caller's 18-year-old son, so sounds like we've got quite a fight going on.
ROBERTSON: 466, did There's a vehicle just left the scene at a high rate of speed.
Is it involved? (indistinct radio communication) CANTWELL: Blew his drive shaft.
Put your hands on the wheel.
ROBERTSON: Were you fighting with somebody down there? Yeah, I was.
ROBERTSON: Why? My uncle was trying to get in a fight with my dad.
- ROBERTSON: Your uncle? - I was trying to stop it.
ROBERTSON: You was trying to stop it.
Yeah.
ROBERTSON: Okay.
And my drive shaft just dropped.
ROBERTSON: I noticed that.
So, what's going on down there? Um, my uncle had just got in a fight with my dad over the rent houses and stuff, and they got in a fight, so they called me.
I went over there and he just hit me, like, four, five times.
ROBERTSON: We're gonna get another unit over here and take you back.
I was hoping to figure out what's going on.
Okay.
Can I take my keys out? ROBERTSON: Yeah.
I don't think anybody's gonna steal your truck-- the drive shaft's laying on the pavement.
Yeah, I doubt it.
I came I came over there barefooted.
ROBERTSON: Okay, well, hop on out.
All right, let's go.
CANTWELL: We're just trying to get back over to the house.
ROBERTSON: We just need to take him back to the house.
CANTWELL: Over here, man.
Think he's got a knife in his pocket.
This guy is apparently the nephew of the suspect, and he's claiming he was assaulted and that's why he was driving so crazy to get out of there.
We're gonna go back over to the scene at the house and find out exactly what's going on.
So, what happened? Well, uh, you know, uh, after my nephew come over and, uh, try to kick my ass, uh, you know, when I'm over at my property, uh, I kind of told him, uh, "Go and get the hell out here," - and, uh CANTWELL: - Who's your nephew? Uh, Jack lives in that place that they called me in.
All I did was come over and tell my brother that, uh, "Hey, look, you know, we're supposed to be, you know, coworkers on these damn houses, and, uh, if you don't, you know, do me like you're supposed to, then we got a problem," and, uh, he CANTWELL: What do you mean like that? Well, he got mad at me, and he jumped up on me, and I went, "I'm not going anywhere.
You know, I'm out there in the damn shop, uh, y'all came and got me and, uh, this is what's going on," and, uh CANTWELL: - So, are you injured anywhere? - No, I'm fine.
CANTWELL: What did he do to you? Oh, he, uh, tried to, you know, hit me and stuff, and I - just I blocked him, yeah.
CANTWELL: - You did what now? He tried to hit me and I blocked him, and I just CANTWELL: How did you block him? Uh, hold my hands up and, uh, make sure he, you know, couldn't - hit me and CANTWELL: - Okay.
- Have a seat in this car.
- Okay.
ROBERTSON: - You guys all saw this happen? ALL: - Yes.
They just bolted in the dang door.
ROBERTSON: - Who bolted in? - Rick.
ROBERTSON: How are you involved in this? I'm the come-along wife and this is my son.
ROBERTSON: - Of this guy in here? - Yes, sir.
And I was sitting here playing music and we're watching a (indistinct).
CANTWELL: What happened? There's a, uh, dispute over an estate, and he just walked in the house.
I expected him to say something.
I was sitting in the chair, and he got mad of it, jumped on me, started choking me, and kept swinging.
ROBERTSON: Now, when you were choked, did you have a hard time breathing? - I mean, was he really choking you? - Yeah.
ROBERTSON: - How was he choking you? - One hand.
ROBERTSON: Like he was in front of you like this? Yeah, he was his left hand was on my throat, and he was swinging with his right hand.
CANTWELL: - He was choking you while he was punching you.
- Yeah.
CANTWELL: Did you have a hard time breathing? Did you feel like you were gonna black out? ROBERTSON: Now, hold on, ma'am.
- And he's your brother, correct? - Yeah.
CANTWELL: Okay.
'Cause that has bearing on what we can do with him.
You know, that's a different charge.
I don't want him stuck in jail for a long time or nothing.
I just want him the hell out of my place.
CANTWELL: It's domestic violence, so it's out of your hands.
It's not your You know, it's not up to you to press charges.
The state picks up the charges, okay? ROBERTSON: Well, we'll get him out of here for tonight.
Where is James? CANTWELL: James is in the car-- we just picked him up.
I got his ID ROBERTSON: Once we get all done, we'll turn him loose to y'all, and y'all can go get that truck.
make him sleep on some couch.
ROBERTSON (chuckling): Okay.
CANTWELL: Uh, yeah, two, three.
ROBERTSON: When you came over here, you charged straight into the house, right? Uh-uh.
No, I haven't charged any into anybody's house.
I knocked on the door and waited for somebody to answer it though.
ROBERTSON: You knocked on the door and waited for him to answer the door? Okay, that's not what they're saying-- you just went straight in.
Well, what do you expect them to say? ROBERTSON: Well, at this time, you're charged with burglary, with intent to commit another felony.
Really? Okay.
ROBERTSON: Along with, uh, family violence strangulation.
Well, so where do we go from here? ROBERTSON: Uh, you're gonna be transported to a Potter County jail and booked in.
Right, and, uh, post bail and, uh, I have a lot of relays, so, uh, I'll be out in two hours, you know ROBERTSON: It's two felony charges-- you have to see a judge.
That's pretty funny.
Uh ROBERTSON: The brother comes over here, charges in the house, knocks him down, chokes him to the point he was turning blue, according to the wife, and has to be taken off of him by the older son.
He needs a couple nights in jail to think about what he's done.
All over a civil dispute.
OFFICER (over radio): 132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
DISPATCHER: At gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.