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♪ whatcha want, whatcha want
-Sheriff's office, stop! -♪ whatcha gonna do
-Come on, man. We gotta go.
-♪ when sheriff john brown come for you ♪
-Honestly, whose dope was it? -Not mine.
-♪ bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do ♪
-Don't do it!
♪ bad boys, bad boys
-What am I going to jail for?
♪ 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.
-We're rolling two-man. It's always a lot more fun
To have a second officer in the car,
First and foremost just to know somebody's got your back
24/7 and it just kinda speeds everything up.
And especially when it's a partner, you know how they work
And they know how you work.
The tactics just go, you know, that much better
Than where it was when you're just by yourself.
-All right, so we've got a person with a knife call
Is what we have right now.
It's going to be a white male adult,
He's thirties to forties, 5'5" to 5'7",
And he's gonna have a black shirt and a black backpack.
He threatened an employee with a knife,
Or actually with a saw rather,
He's on the maroon bicycle.
-(doors opening) -(suspect muffled yelling)
Hey man, we just gotta ask you some questions
About a crime, dude.
-Hey, I wasn't even jaywalking, the light was green.
-Officer: Hey, hey you in the black.
-Hey, move, please move.
-Officer: Get the tactical.
-Officer: Keep your hands up, hands up.
-Suspect: The light was green, man.
-Officer: Okay, chill, keep your hands up.
-Roof: Thirty him. You get left, I got right, ready?
-Bringhurst: Okay.
-Roof: One, two, three.
(police scuffling)
-Suspect: Hey, man. -(officers indistinct)
Police brutality, bro.
(officers speaking indistinctly)
What are you guys gonna do to my bike?
Why you guys (beep) with me, man?
You guys are (beep) pieces of (beep).
(handcuffs click) -officer: Give me your other hand.
-Suspect: You piece of (beep). Man, (beep) you.
-Officer: We have a code 415.
-What the (bleep) are you pulling me over for?
I was just jaywalking, bitch.
-Officer: No man, chill out.
-Suspect: What am I doing wrong? Let me go then.
Are you gonna let me go?
-Roof: Hey montoya,
You wanna go make contact with the business?
-Suspect: Hey, hey!
- Go get a show-up on him? -Grazioso: Relax! Relax.
-Suspect: Are you guys gonna let me go--
-Are you gonna let me talk or are you gonna keep yelling?
-Relax. -Suspect: Will you let me go?
-No, you're not gonna go, you pulled a saw out on somebody.
-Suspect: That's a false accusation,
I didn't pull it out on nobody.
-Officer: That's what we're trying to figure out, dude.
-Okay, but I got, before we--
-Suspect: I swear to god. -Okay, I get that.
Before we do that, I gotta know your name, bro.
-All right? How you spell your-- -I'm scared of fighting.
-How you spell your last name?
-Suspect: Will you guys gimme a break, gimme a ticket?
-Officer: We'll worry about that in a minute, dude.
-Johnny, we'll take care of that in a second,
Listen to our partners' questions.
-Hey, listen, you wanna get outta the hooks?
You gotta cooperate with my partner.
You gotta cooperate with this investigation real quick.
-Officer: What's your first name? -Suspect: Navid.
-Officer: Navid?
-Please, man, I'm begging god to help me not go to jail.
-Officer: Hey look, so we got off on the wrong part, right?
-No, we didn't, no, we didn't. -Officer: Relax, you're good.
I yelled at you, right? -I'm just stupid.
-So what's going on today?
-Suspect: I don't know how to approach police.
-Why are we out here today? What's going on?
-Suspect: I just saw you...
Why'd you pull me over? I didn't--
-You tell me, man. -I didn't jaywalk.
-I never said you did. -Then what did I do?
-I told you what we're investigating,
You pulled out a saw on somebody.
-Who said that?
-You tell me, man, what's going on today?
-I didn't do nothing to nobody.
I just got the saw from walmart, it was in my backpack,
I didn't show nobody.
I put that on my god, sir.
-Officer: Hey, we're gonna go over to that car over there
So we're not in the street.
-So, our suspect, he matches the description
Of the guy that pulled the knife out.
We got this and at this point,
We're just trying to get good answers out of him.
-Bringhurst: So were you over at the,
The silver dispensary over there?
-I was in the store gambling.
-You were in the store gambling? Which store was that?
-That store right here.
-The corner one? -Yeah.
-The gas station? -Yeah.
-Okay, who-- -I only had a dollar.
Please don't take me to jail, everybody, man.
-Listen, you need a chance to tell your story, right?
So, you-- -I take my, I've had my meds,
My psych meds, I take 'em.
-Okay.
-There's nothing wrong with me, man. -Okay.
Did you have some sort of harsh words
With somebody over at the place who was,
You were gambling at?
-No, I ain't gambling really, I was just,
I just put a dollar in, that's all I had.
-Bringhurst: Okay did, like again, navid,
Did you get into an argument over there?
-With him? -Bringhurst: Yeah.
-Yeah, 10 years ago, I stole a ice cream from the store.
Same guy, the owner I think, he (beep) hit me, bam!
Back of my head, dude, where my nose is at, hella hard.
-Was that today? -Nah, 10 years ago.
-10 years ago, okay.
-Suspect: I still remember that (beep), it pisses me off,
But I didn't say nothing to him.
-Okay.
-New crazy people everyday comes here to vegas.
-Bringhurst: Yup, okay.
-Every day there's a whole bunch of new crazy people.
-Yeah, man, it's true. -Worse than that.
-Hunter: Hey navid, did you know you had the warrant?
-Let me get a break, I'll squash it.
I can tell you guys are pretty good at-- yeah, I knew it.
-Bringhurst: Hey, navid, you gotta understand
That when there's a warrant, we don't have any discretion.
When the judge says they wanna see you,
That's our boss, right?
-They wanna see me?
-When the judge says they wanna see you.
-Are they saying that?
-Yeah, that's what the warrant's for.
-Ah, come on, man. -You know what I'm saying?
-You can't let me go? I'll squash it and go to court.
-It is what it is, dude.
-Officer: So, he's got an active felony warrant.
I'd say that definitely matches the description
Of a saw, full handsaw.
So we're waiting for the witness to fill out some paperwork
Then we'll bring him over here and we're gonna confirm
Whether or not this is gonna be our suspect.
Go ahead, stand up real quick for me, boss.
-Suspect: I can't stand up, man, my back is bad.
-Roof: Joe, you got other arm? -Suspect: Why you dragging me?
-Bringhurst: Go ahead and stand up, bud. -Roof: There we go.
-Suspect: What's gonna happen to my bike?
-Roof: Gonna spin around.
-Suspect: Where do I get the bike from?
-Bringhurst: Have you face this way.
-Suspect: What is this, what did I do wrong?
-Bringhurst: Is this them?
-100? All right.
-Let's go to the car. -Let's bring him over to the back of the car.
-Which one under me? -All right, we're going this way.
-Suspect: Which one under me? -Roof: And the show-up for him
Was 100% positive.
Okay, we got probable cause,
You threatening someone with your knife
And then you got your outstanding felony warrant, right?
-Suspect: I didn't assault nobody.
-Roof: So we gotta deal with that.
Anything in your socks, boss?
-Suspect: My lighter. -Roof: Nothing in your socks?
-Suspect: My lighter! -Roof: I'll get it in a sec.
All right, hop on in, let's take a seat.
We're gonna turn the ac on for you,
I'm gonna get your lighter.
-Hey, check this bag, see if it's got dope.
-Suspect: I swear to (beep) god,
(beep), (beep).
-Roof: He had some sort of bags on him,
So we're just making sure it doesn't have anything else
We need to know about in it.
And it doesn't look it.
-Officer: So he's going
For the assault with a deadly weapon then?
-Roof: Yeah.
-He kinda peeked around as we were closing
The last little bit of distance,
But he didn't make any sort of moves to grab that,
What was it? A six-inch saw blade, basically?
-Officer: Yeah.
-Which we saw poking out of his shorts the whole time,
That's partially how we knew we had the right guy.
-Man, his focus was totally on you, so that helped,
Helped us going hands-on with him and I think that was
Probably the best-case solution with this.
We didn't have to use any sort of force on him,
We didn't have to tase him.
We got him in custody and, you know?
Our witnesses said he's 100% the guy and, uh...
-He'll be headed to jail tonight
And not causing any more problems.
-Roof: Perfect.
-I was in the military. I got assigned to an mp unit.
When you're in the military,
It just enhance your capabilities
And also gives you more training on how to deal with stress,
Things in that nature, as well as the weapons
And other techniques.
So it inspired me to be a actual police officer.
We're going to a stolen vehicle, they just found it,
They're gonna attempt to make a stop.
(indistinct radio chatter)
(door opening)
(door closing)
-Officer: (on megaphone) driver, slowly step out,
Face away from us.
Stop right there, hands high up in the air.
Keep your hands up in the air, walk backwards slowly.
Keep walking, keep walking.
Stop, walk to your right.
-Keep going until you hear my, to the sound of my voice.
Keep stepping back, keep stepping back.
Stop right there, hands behind your back, both hands.
-How many people are in the car? -Suspect: One.
-Officer: One? Says one more.
-Officer: (on megaphone) passenger,
Keep your hands high up in the air where we can see them.
Walk backwards.
-Officer: Keep your hands straight up.
-Officer: You still got a cuff team over there?
-Officer: Yeah, you can bring him here.
-Officer: (on megaphone) keep walking.
Keep walking.
-Officer: Hey, he said he has a pellet gun
Underneath the driver's seat.
-Murray: All right.
-In plain view we've got some drug paraphernalia,
There's a knife sitting there,
There's a pellet gun in here somewhere,
We haven't found it yet.
-Hey sir, can you step out?
All right, do you know why you got pulled over?
-Suspect: No.
-No? Where'd you get the vehicle from?
-It's just this old lady I be (beep) with.
-Murray: Okay, how old is she?
-Um, 67.
-Murray: Do you mean like, like a relationship?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Like sexual relationship?
She's 67, how old are you? -I'm 30.
-(laughing) 30?
-(stammering) hey, and it's crazy, man.
She cut the phone off and--
-Murray: She bought you a phone?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah everything, you know,
Supposed to buy me new car and--
-Do you guys live together? -Yeah.
-And she cut the phone off?
-Yeah, yeah. -Did she break up with you?
-No.
She think I be having a, like a party in the car,
Like other bitches.
She a dope head and she always, so she be trippin'.
She think that there's bugs crawlin'...
-Murray: So she thinks you're cheating on her
With other females?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everything's cool one minute and then, you know?
That's why I'm surprised right now.
-Okay. What's her name?
-Irma, (stammering) she go by irma.
-Murray: Yeah, yeah. -Because she...
-Okay, when did you get the car though?
-Well, I've had the car for like the last...
Well she don't drive nowhere, I drive her everywhere
Since I started talking to her, like two months now.
-Murray: Two months?
-Yeah, I have the car every day.
-Murray: And then when's the last time you've seen her?
-Suspect: Like two days, like two days ago,
Three days ago.
-Okay, so-- -(suspect stammering)
-Suspect: Like two days ago.
-So you haven't seen her for like two or three days,
She cut your phone off, so she probably thinks
You're out with another female?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly--
-Murray: So I'm gonna be honest,
She reported the car stolen, that's why there's all these--
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was like, "what the (bleep)?"
-Yeah, I'ma talk to my partner and see what's going on.
-Suspect: Yeah, yeah. -It's very common.
-Yeah, that's crazy.
If I show her ain't no one in the car, or, you know,
Everything's cool.
-Murray: He said this is his girlfriend's car,
She's a little bit older, she's 67?
-Suspect: Yeah. -67, lets him borrow the car,
Pays for all his bills and he assumes
That she reported it stolen because she thinks he's out
Messing with other females.
-Suspect: That's exactly why.
-Well, I don't know, we're both assuming, right?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no.
It's crazy, you know?
Like if I call her right now, she'll... (stammering)
-She ain't gon' be trippin'? -Yeah, no.
-Murray: Okay, what's the pistol for?
-Suspect: I found, I came, uh...
I came across it. -Oh, okay.
-Suspect: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-What about the, what's in the pipe?
-Suspect: I don't know.
-Is it yours? Just be straight up--
-Hers. -Murray: Huh?
-Ain't mine, probably...
I don't know, she be trippin'.
-Murray: Okay.
-Postle: How about your first name?
-Suspect: J-a-m as in mary, e-l.
-Hey, you mind stepping out and talking to me?
So whose car is that?
-Irma's. -Murray: Irma's?
-Yeah. -Murray: That's his old lady?
-That's his old lady, yeah. -How old is she? He said she's pretty old.
-Yeah, she's pretty, she's older, huh?
-Does he mess with her just for the,
Like the stuff she provides for him?
-Well, you know, they cuddle and (beep),
So I mean...
-(laughing) they cuddle. -You know?
I don't know, I don't know what the (bleep)
-Going on, you know? But... -You have any warrants or anything?
Probation, parole, anything like that?
-I'm on probation. -Probation?
-But I don't (beep) around, I just know him and...
-All right, just have a seat for me,
We're gonna figure out what's going on
And then we'll get back to you, all right?
-[passenger] all right, man.
(door closing)
-You good? -Yeah, yeah, thank you.
(door closing)
-I just talked to the owner of the vehicle,
She states that she only knows the driver.
She was paying him to help her move,
She allowed him to borrow the vehicle
Sometime last Thursday or last Friday
And he didn't return, so she sent him some messages
Asking for her vehicle back and he replied back
That he wasn't returning the vehicle to her.
-Murray: Does she want him arrested?
-Yeah. -Oh, she wants arrested.
-She asked if he's going to jail.
Uh, the other guy I don't have anything on,
He's got no warrants.
-Murray: Kick the passenger loose?
-Yeah. -All right.
Hey, so like I said, what it sounds like,
You deprived her from her vehicle for a while
And she's upset.
She said Thursday or Friday you've been borrowing it
And she's been trying to get you to bring it back
And you won't bring it back.
-I just seen her, like I said, yesterday morning.
-Murray: Yeah?
-Like I said, when she takes the sleep aid and the dope
And her meth, so it causes her hallucinating and tripping.
-Murray: Yeah. -Like I just seen her.
-Murray: Yeah so, she reported it stolen.
-Suspect: That's crazy, man.
-Murray: So we're gonna take you
Back to the station and talk to you some more
And then we'll go from there, all right?
-Suspect: All right.
-So I was born and raised in colton, this is my community.
It's a small town, so know quite a bit of people here.
So it's nice being able to do something positive
For the community.
Even when I'm on calls I see people that I know
And it's nice being able to positively impact their life
Or help them with whatever they're going through.
Okay, I'm gonna do a traffic stop
On this suv in front of us.
It's swerving in and outta the lanes.
(radio beeping)
I copy, I'll have that vehicle stopped
On mount vernon and esperanza.
-(door opening) -(indistinct radio chatter)
Hello.
-Driver: I know, I don't got no tags
-And stuff like that. -Martinez: Yeah.
-Driver: I got my tags but they're at my mom's house
And I haven't gone to pick them up.
-Okay, you have your license, registration,
Insurance on you?
-Yes.
-Martinez: Where you headed to right now?
-I was gonna go back, back to his house.
-Martinez: Okay. Who is that to you?
-He's my boyfriend.
I got my doggy with me.
You look so young, you look like you could be my daughter.
(both laughing)
-Martinez: Anything illegal in the car,
Like a meth pipe, anything simple like that?
-Um...
Yes, I do have that.
-Yeah? Okay, again, honesty goes a long way.
-Yes.
-Martinez: Do you have your license on you?
-Um, no, that I--
They just mailed it-- I got my license, give me my license.
-Martinez: It's okay, it's okay.
-They just mailed it, my license, to my mom's house,
But I got my temporary paper one on me.
-Okay, that's fine.
If you don't have your license then, I mean...
-Ma'am, I do have a warrant.
-Okay, okay. Again, you...
What, is it a misdemeanor warrant or something?
-Driver: Yes. -Okay, it's not a big deal.
-I just bought my car, I just got my car.
-Is there anything else I'm gonna find other than that meth pipe?
-No. -Martinez: Again, I could work with you guys,
But just...
-That's about it. -Martinez: Yeah? Okay.
What's your first name? -Roberta.
-Martinez: Roberta? Whose car is this?
-Driver: This is my car. -Martinez: Yours?
-Driver: Yes, I just barely bought it.
-Martinez: You both still use?
You still use too? -What?
-Martinez: Do you still use? -Yeah.
-Martinez: What do you guys use, meth? -Yeah.
-Martinez: When's the last time you guys have used?
-Honestly, I used yesterday.
-How long have you been using for, let me ask you that.
-Honestly, to be honest with you, me?
You really wanna know? (chuckling)
I've been using since I was 14 years old,
But I'm working on it.
-Okay. -I really am.
I finally got me a car now.
-Dispatch: That's gonna be clear
On the '03 chevy.
-I copy.
And you said there's nothing else
Other than that pipe, right?
Be honest.
-Yeah, I do have a bit of dope.
-Martinez: You have a bit of dope? No big deal.
What, meth?
-Meth. -Martinez: Okay.
All right, so you don't care if we check then, right?
-No. -No? Okay.
That's, again, honesty goes a long way, right?
Step out for me. -Driver: My dog?
-Martinez: Once I take you out,
You could grab your dog.
Where's the dope at?
You have a lot of clothes back here,
You live outta your car?
-Driver: Yeah, right now I am.
-Okay.
Just, just--
You'll get your dog right now, let me just search you,
Make sure you don't have weapons on you.
-Driver: Am I going to jail, ma'am?
-Huh?
-Am I going to jail? -No.
If you're, again, if you're honest with me then no.
What's your dog's name? -Driver: Chiquita.
-(laughing) oh my god. That's his dog's name.
-Driver: Whose? -Mine's chiquito.
-Driver: Oh, really? -Yeah.
-Driver: Oh, that's her name too.
-Chiquita and chiquito.
-Martinez: Why do you have those?
-Passenger: I was gonna eat 'em with my dinner,
But I forgot 'em. (chuckling)
-Jipp: You got jalapenos?
-Your dog's chiquita?
-Jipp: Chiquito.
-Oh it's, why do call her chiquito?
-I don't know, it's just, I think it sounds better.
-Driver: Chiquito? -Yeah.
-And go ahead, sit right next to her.
(driver and officer speaking indistinctly)
And kick your feet out and then cross your legs.
So while looking through this,
You could definitely see they're drug users;
Several needles containing black substance,
Most likely heroin, there's several of them.
Got a meth pipe in there as well.
She said that she only had drug paraphernalia,
Like a meth pipe, but inside purse pouch
I found about a gram of heroin,
So they're both doing heroin and methamphetamine.
You said you went to prison for drug sales, right?
How long were you in there for?
-About two years. -Martinez: How long?
-Two years.
-Martinez: Is that part of the reason
Why you didn't really see 'em grow up? Your daughters?
-Yeah, that's part of the reason, yeah.
Part the reason, yeah.
And just other things that I've been through.
Been through my, from child.
-Uh-huh.
So, as you were straightforward with me,
Told me what was in the car...
Again, we would've probably found it anyway,
But it goes a long way that you guys are honest, okay?
You guys are gonna get issued two tickets.
So on those tickets, you guys are being charged
With just being in possession of a methamphetamine pipe
And then being in possession of heroin.
You guys are gonna get, be given a court date.
If you guys don't show up to that court date,
Then a warrant will be issued out for your arrest, okay?
-Is possession of heroin a felony now?
-It's a misdemeanor. -No, it's a misdemeanor.
But with that being said, it's still something
You could have got your vehicle towed for, but...
-Driver: Thank you.
-Martinez: Again, I feel like you've been through
Enough and that's your house, you know,
I'm not gonna do that to you.
If you wanna come up and sign your ticket, okay?
I would've liked to know about the heroin earlier, okay?
I really hope that what I'm saying is registering to you.
-Driver: I do wanna see my grandchildren grow up
Once I clean up and--
-If you were my mom, I would really not want my mom
Doing hardcore drugs like heroin
And spending her money on heroin
And living out of a car, okay?
-I'm working on getting my life together.
-Martinez: I hope you mean that.
-Driver: I really am. -Martinez: Okay.
I have a little baby myself, I know how important they are.
Bye, chiquita.
-(over radio): 132 and bush, I've got him at gun point.
-Dispatch: Okay, gunpoint, 132 and bush.
-Cover's code three. -Thanks, 10.
-(indistinct radio chatter)
-Okay, we'll still send a code three.
-(theme music playing)