-Huh! ♪ bad boys ♪
-Stop! Ma'am, hands up! -♪ whatcha want, whatcha want ♪
-♪ whatcha gonna do ♪ -get on the ground!
♪ when sheriff john brown come for you ♪
-You are going to jail today. -(sobbing)
-♪ bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do ♪ -get out of the car!
-♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you ♪
-No matter what, I'm going to jail. -Why is that?
-Because I'm a criminal, man.
-♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
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-Fto john ninneman: One of my favorite aspects about this job
Is the teamwork that goes with it.
My team, we try to plan trips together during holidays.
We get our families together,
And in my opinion, it just allows us to be a better team.
I feel grateful that I can be part of that.
We are heading to assist another deputy.
He's located a stolen vehicle,
And it sounds like it might be occupied
Or getting ready to go mobile.
-Dispatcher (over radio): 10-7.
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Fto ninneman: That's gonna be it.
-Dispatcher: North windham.
-Fto ninneman: 2-6-8, I'm now behind it.
We're approaching federal, speed's at 42,
Coming up to a red light.
No traffic in front.
(siren wailing)
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Fto ninneman: Northbound federal, has the green light changed.
Speed's currently 29.
Coming up to 80th.
It does at least have three flats, possibly four.
-Automated response: Your incident has been updated.
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Automated response: Your incident has been updated.
-Fto ninneman: And going northbound at 80th.
Speed's 37.
Looks like possibly all four tires are getting low.
Rear door's opening, possibly hands coming up.
Gonna be going westbound, 84.
One just fell out, female, stopping.
Turn off the car! Turn off the car!
Turn off the car, do not step out.
Hands up. Get on the ground.
You on the ground, you on the ground.
Get on the ground!
Female in black, on the ground.
Ma'am, on the ground.
Ma'am, all the way on the ground, lay down.
Hands out like an airplane.
-She wouldn't stop, I jumped out.
-All the way down on the ground.
-I cannot, my legs... -Stay there, don't move.
You don't need to turn, you don't need to roll.
-Officer: All the way down on the ground. Just stand up and watch me.
-Ma'am, in black, hands out like an airplane.
So we got one right there, one right there.
I don't know if they're still working on theirs.
State, are they calling her out?
-Officer 1: Move, move. Yes, put it down.
Move. Move.
Take a couple steps left. -Fto ninneman: What's your name?
Officer 1: Move, keep coming back.
Move.
-Fto ninneman: Is it lana? Okay.
-Officer 1: Is there anybody else in the car?
-Is there anybody else in the car? -No.
-Officer 1: There's only three of you?
Is there any weapons in the car?
-Woman 1: I don't know.
We were just going to... (indistinct)
-Officer 1: We'll talk about it.
-Woman 2: I don't wanna go to jail.
I just (bleep) got out.
I'm sorry I ran. I had to. (crying)
I don't wanna (bleep) go back to jail.
Officer 2: Don't answer that. Don't answer that.
-He's a (bleep) liar.
-This is the second time he did this to me. -Officer 2: Are they secured?
If they're not secured, we need to wait.
(sobbing)
-Officer 3: Alright, ma'am, slowly go ahead and stand up.
Face away from me, okay?
-Face away?
-Officer 3: Yes, face away from me.
Keep your hands where I can see 'em.
Good. Doing good.
Go ahead and lift your shirt slightly
So I can see your waistline.
Come back to the sound of my voice.
Left. Keep coming back. Keep coming back.
There you go. Good, good.
Good job.
Hands behind your back.
-Officer 2: Are we set? Code 503?
(indistinct radio chatter)
Fto ninneman: Alright. Are you okay?
-Woman 3: It just stings a little.
-Fto ninneman: Okay, I saw you were a backseat passenger.
-I had no idea what was going on, you know.
I just got scared and I jumped out of the car.
-Fto ninneman: Okay. -Because she wouldn't stop, that's all.
-Wh... When did you first get scared?
-When I... When the tires popped and I told her to pull over.
-And that was pretty quick from you guys leaving? -Woman 3: Yeah.
-Yes. -Okay.
-And you told her to pull over?
-Woman 3: Yeah, I told her multiple times.
-Yeah, I saw your door come open
And then I saw her getting ready to turn and I was like,
Uh-oh, I don't want you falling out of a car.
Of course, you know, I don't want you getting hurt.
You got some scrapes on your legs.
-Woman 3: I didn't wanna die, you know.
I see... My husband died from a car
In a similar way, you know.
-Fto ninneman: In a pursuit? -Yeah.
-Fto ninneman: I'm sorry. -That's okay.
-Fto ninneman: I can see why you'd be scared, then.
Well, give me a minute. I'll probably come talk to you again, okay?
-Can I get some toilet paper?
-I don't have toilet paper. -Okay.
-Woman 1: And she's like, "I'm so sorry.
-Fto ninneman: She's apologetic? -"I can't go to jail,
I can't go to jail, I'm not stopping."
And we were like, "let us out, please.
Just let us out."
And she was like, "no, no, I can't go to jail."
Just freaking out, and I was like,
"you're gonna wreck, you're gonna kill us."
She just wouldn't stop.
Fto ninneman: Is she saying, like, why she would go to jail,
-Other than running or... -No.
-Fto ninneman: Okay, do you know whose car this is?
-No. -Fto ninneman: Okay.
-I thought it was hers.
-The girl that you met in the backseat,
She fell out of the car while you guys were driving.
-She jumped. -Wait, what?
-The girl in the backseat.
-Where?
-Right here.
-What do you mean she jumped?
-Fto ninneman: She opened her door over at the light.
-Uh-huh.
-Fto ninneman: ...And as the car was turning,
She jumped out or fell out.
-But when we got here, she was still in the car.
-Fto ninneman: She was back there.
-Really? -Yes, she jumped out.
-Oh, my god.
She was begging her to stop.
-She was? -Hmm.
-Sounds like it was pretty chaotic.
You didn't even notice that she had jumped out.
-Woman 1: No.
-Uh, just hang out right here for a minute.
We'll find a car.
(indistinct chatter)
-Found a blue pill sitting on the seat,
-And underneath the seat, there's a box. -Fto ninneman: Oh, a box.
-Officer: Well, it looks like blue pills inside of it.
-Alright.
So these blue pills here are stamped as if they're oxycodone,
But they usually tend to be fentanyl.
Alright, so just a question,
Is there anything in that car that...
Woman 3: Everything I did--
-...Would be in your area that we should know about?
-Everything that was mine in that car was just me,
Myself and my purse, and that's it.
-Well, we did locate some fentanyl pills
On the seat that you were in, as well as under the seat, okay?
-I was-- okay, well... It don't have nothing to me.
I don't have anything. Everything I have is in my purse.
-Fto ninneman: That stuff's super dangerous.
-I'm sure you've seen it around. -Yes. Yes.
Fto ninneman: You know, if jumping out of a car isn't gonna kill you,
-Fentanyl will. -Okay.
-You are gonna be charged with those tonight, okay?
We're gonna get you outta here.
Dominique, let's get you out of handcuffs.
Sounds like you're gonna go find yourself some new friends.
-I'm too old for this. -Too old for this?
-How old are you? -37.
-Well, you didn't have to do any physical activity.
-You're just too old for the-- -I almost died, you know.
-You almost died? You're laughing about it.
-I'm just, if I can't laugh, I'll cry.
-Why not laugh? -Okay.
Maybe start doing background checks
On the people you wanna hang out with.
-You've had some troubles, right? -Dominique: Sure. Mm-hmm.
-Deputy taylor zackman: I started my law enforcement career in new jersey.
I've been with hillsborough for about a year.
Our agency has a street crimes unit
Which focus solely on proactive stops,
And so I hope to one day be involved with that unit
And be able to assist the citizens of the county.
I observed a vehicle plate wasn't coming back on file.
My partner was able to catch up to it.
The passenger just fled on foot,
So we're gonna go assist him.
23-45 back.
If we can get more units here,
We had the passenger just flee from the vehicle.
-(indistinct radio chatter) -you know who this dude is?
You know his name?
-Man: Just call him bubba, that's all I know.
-Deputy zackman: Bubba? -Man: Yeah.
-Deputy zackman: Stay there.
You got your license?
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Officer: Sheriff's office, be advised, come out.
-Deputy zackman: Put your hands behind your back for me.
You're not under arrest, you're just being detained, okay?
-(pounds on door)
-Dispatch (over radio): Look for a guy with black shirt,
White male, black shirt, black shorts
In between the trailers.
-I'm not sure.
Oh, that's gonna be a lot of meth.
Alright.
-(indistinct radio chatter)
A big chunk.
-Dispatcher: With black shorts.
Maldonado, did you see a shirt color?
-Deputy alexander maldonado: Black shirt.
I just found a blue plastic bin with a bunch of meth in it.
There's another one.
-Dispatcher (over radio): That's all we got. We're...
-Deputy maldonado: There's a ton of meth.
That was probably what he was pulling out of his waistband.
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Deputy sarah ernstes: Sheriff's office, k-9.
If you're in that shed, come out now.
I'm gonna send in the dog, you're gonna get bit.
If there's a dog in there, you'd better secure that dog.
Somebody's holding the door shut,
Or it's latched or something.
-You pull it, okay? I'm gonna go by this tree.
Go ahead.
Black tarp, black tarp, black tarp.
Officer: You see what's going in? Deputy zackman: No.
-Officer: Just a black tarp.
-Deputy zackman: Black tarp completely over the door.
-Like somebody's in there, and people we just talked to
Said this is where that meth guy lives.
-Yeah, there's a dog and there's a black tarp
Covering the door on the inside.
Deputy michael tedford: You don't know if it bites?
-Deputy ernstes: Like, if you can get over by that tree...
-Deputy michael tedford: We can't even open the door.
...And look in while he tries to open it.
-(dog barking) -deputy maldonado: You see anything?
-I can see him.
Hey, sheriff's office. Come on out here.
(dog barking)
-You checked on the...
-Huh? -On the car?
-Deputy tedford: Secure your dog.
I'm telling you right now.
Before you open this door, secure your dog.
-(dog barking) -hey, step out.
Step out.
Open this, open the door.
-Come out! Let's go! -Come out!
-Let's go!
Come out now.
-(dog barking) -step out.
Come here. Hey.
-Turn around.
Turn around.
-Man: Okay, okay, I got a bad leg.
I got blood on my leg, man.
-What have I done? -Officer 1: Sit down.
-Officer 2: Shut the door. Shut the door.
-Officer 1: Shut the door. -Officer 2: Shut the door.
-What did I do, man? -Officer 1: Shut the door.
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Man: What have I done?
-Officer 1: You ran from me, bro.
-But what am I doing wrong, man? -Officer 2: Come on, bro.
-Yeah, okay, bro.
-Man: I haven't done nothing, man.
Officer (over radio): Good job, guys.
-Man: Man, I haven't done nothing. -Officer 2: Come on, bro.
-Deputy taylor zackman: You got all that meth on you.
-No, I don't have no meth on me.
Not now. Have nothin' in.
I'm scared, I just did a year in the county jail.
-So you ran, so how you gonna tell me you didn't run
-When I watched you run? -Man: Done nothing wrong, man.
-Deputy maldonado: When you were digging around in your waistband,
-Throwing stuff around? -Man: I ain't dug in my waistband or nothing,
I promise you. I ain't done nothing wrong, man.
-Deputy maldonado: What's your first name though? -Man: Clarence.
Tell me, man, what am I going to jail for, bro?
-Why am I going to jail, dawg? -Face the car.
-I done nothing wrong, man.
-You got basketball pants on? Here, drop these for me.
-Clarence: Why am I going to jail?
Can anybody please tell me why I'm going to jail, man?
I ain't done nothing wrong, man.
Can I please get some water or something, please?
-We'll work on it. Sit down.
Can you run me through what happened,
'cause I was the second car here.
-When we pulled up right here in the driveway,
We was in the driveway already before he even turned his lights on.
In the driveway I got out the car,
I walked up to the gate and was opening the gate
And he said, "hold on, hold on."
I just held open the gate
And I walked in the gate and I took off running.
-Just, I-- -why are you running, man?
-Because I didn't wanna go to jail, man.
I just did a year in the county.
Left my wife for a whole year.
Now I'm away from her again.
-Was that meth that you dropped, that was yours?
-I didn't have no meth with me. -Okay.
-I didn't have no drugs on me, man.
-Okay, so say that you didn't have any drugs, right,
And you just stayed in the car?
-Clarence: Every time I have an encounter with the police,
I go to jail, no matter what.
-And why is that? -They find a reason to take me to jail.
-Why is that? -Because I'm a criminal, man.
They say I'm a criminal. It's just what happens.
Every time I have an encounter with the police,
-I go to jail, man. -Alright.
-I've been doing everything I can to stay out of jail.
-Okay. -It's just that nothing works, man.
Nothing works... Nothing works for me.
Maybe they could get me some help.
-You think it was a bad idea to run though?
-Yeah, it was a very bad idea to run.
I should have just set my ass right there
Where I was at and not ran,
And I wouldn't be in this (bleep) situation.
-You were inside that shed, right?
Did you hear us knocking?
-Did I hear y'all knocking? -Yeah.
-I heard the dog barking.
-Deputy zackman: You didn't hear us, like--
-I didn't wanna leave my wife, man. -Deputy zackman: Okay.
My wife, she takes medication and all that,
And she can't be alone, man.
Y'all don't understand. Y'all don't, y'all don't understand.
She's freaking out about it right now, I promise you she is.
-But you just kinda put yourself
In a tough situation, you know, by-by running.
If you just stayed there, maybe it would have...
-Everything happens for a reason, man.
-Yeah, that's true. -But I ain't have no drugs.
That ain't mine, man.
-Okay, but good luck with everything, clarence, okay?
-More so anything, I'm mad at myself.
-Deputy zackman: Okay. Alright, man. Good luck, okay?
-So we're looking for a blue color.
That'll be... Yeah, it's gonna be positive for methamphetamines.
-I mean, that's a good amount of methamphetamines,
So that could explain why he's running,
'cause that would be a trafficking amount.
-Fto isaac quintero: I love this town.
I grew up here in las vegas.
My whole family is from here.
I have family members inside law enforcement
And I grew up playing sports,
And I like helping out with my community
If that's... With police work or with sports,
Just helping out in every way that I possibly can.
Alright, so we just have an unregistered car
That just took off from us.
Looks like he's trying to avoid us,
And we're pulling in right here, so...
(siren wails)
Hey, get over here.
Get in front of the car.
-What are you doing? -Come on, bro.
-Get in front of the car.
What... Hey, get in front of my car.
-Sorry, I-- -don't walk back towards your car.
-Sorry. -What are you doing?
-How you doing? -Quintero: You're driving like a crazy person.
-Come here. -I seen you were coming,
And I was just trying to get my car home.
-Let's see. -What's wrong with your car?
-Hands behind your back. -You see,
It doesn't have no (bleep), uh, windows, sir.
-I apologize. -Fto quintero: Windows?
That's a little suspicious.
-Do you have any drugs on you? -Yes.
-Fto quintero: Okay, I'm just gonna handcuff you right now, okay?
Alrighty.
-Can you please be careful? My hands are hurting.
-Okay, take a deep breath. That's gonna be fine, okay?
-But first things first, do you have any open needles?
-Woman: On my person?
-Fto quintero: On your person. -No.
-Quintero: In that car? -Yes.
-Okay. So, obviously your car's unregistered, okay? -Woman: Yes.
-And you were driving extremely fast.
-'cause I seen you coming and I was scared.
-Were you trying to get away?
-No, no, I just wanted to get parked so I can get home,
Because I don't want to get my car taken.
-Fto quintero: So why didn't you come up to my car right away
When you started walking away?
I thought you were gonna run for a second.
-I'm on a donut, sir, and I was checking my tire.
-You were checking your tire? -Seriously, I...
-Yeah, my front right tire.
I had a blowout last night.
-And, uh... -Okay.
When was the last time you used drugs?
-Woman: Uh, I don't use drugs.
-Fto quintero: You don't use drugs at all? -Woman: No.
-Okay, so when I asked you if you had any drugs on you,
-You said yes. -Yes.
Because I'm not gonna lie.
-Okay, what drugs do you have on you?
-Um, I'm-I'm pretty sure it's some kind of crystal,
But I don't use crystal.
It was left in the cigarette pack
And my friend gave me the last cigarette.
-Fto quintero: You have any warrants, ma'am?
What was the very last thing you've been arrested for?
-Woman: Uh, my felony registration.
-Fto quintero: Felony registration? -Woman: Yeah.
-Fto quintero: Alrighty, hang tight, let me run you up really fast.
You said no warrants, right? Not on probation?
Okay.
So we pulled up behind her.
Obviously it's an unregistered car.
Back window is broken out.
As we try to get behind her, she pulls inside here,
Which is a known drug area.
She admitted to telling me that she has drugs on her,
And then obviously what we pulled out
Was the methamphetamine.
Lisa, you've never been arrested for drugs?
You have multiple... You have like two or three charges
Inside your criminal record for drugs.
-Lisa: Well, I just didn't think...
I thought... I think that they were just tickets,
Because I really don't use drugs like that.
-I smoke weed. -You just smoke weed?
-Lisa: Yeah. -So you've never used meth before?
-No, I've used meth before. I'm from oklahoma.
That's like the meth capital of the world.
-Quintero: Some people use meth in oklahoma, is that what you're saying?
-A lot of people use meth in oklahoma. -Fto quintero: Okay.
-That's part of the reason why I left oklahoma. -Okay.
-...But I come from a long family of meth heads,
And I unfortunately don't wanna live like that.
So, like I've--
-Quintero: Why do you have meth on you, then?
-Because the guy that gave me the last cigarette
Was like, "hey, there's some (bleep) in there,"
And I'm like, "I don't want the (bleep),
I just want the cigarette."
And he just like threw the cigarettes in my car.
-So why'd you keep the meth on you if you knew it's a felony?
-It wasn't intentional.
It was just the wrong place, wrong time.
-Wrong place, wrong time. -Definitely, for sure.
-You don't think I've heard that before on this job?
-Absolutely, sure.
-Wrong place, wrong time, right place, right time?
-Absolutely -fto quintero: Maybe one or the other?
What happened to the back windshield?
Why is it broken out like that?
-My ex-boyfriend broke my windows.
-Fto quintero: All of them, or just that one?
-All of them, except for that one. (laughs)
-Fto quintero: So you only got one left?
-Three days later, I was just sitting in my car
And I rolled my window up and I was like,
"oh, my god, I got a window." (laughs)
-Po ii tj hickman: Got needles all in the door right here.
Bunch of needles everywhere though,
Making me kinda nervous.
-Fto quintero: Uh, she gives consent to search the car,
As long as we don't make it a mess.
Don't know how it can get messier than this.
There's a little tooter that we found inside her purse,
Which is just drug paraphernalia
That they use to smoke it out of.
Oh, yay, now we got a stack of debit cards and credit cards.
That is not her.
That is her.
-Lisa: I try not to drive as much as possible
Because of these circumstances.
I cleaned out, uh, somebody's pool today to get...
Because I'm trying to earn money to get my front window first,
You know, of course, but, um, I try not to drive it.
-Po ii tj hickman: What about when it rains and all that?
You just don't drive it or... When it's windy?
-I... There's a car port at my friend's house.
-Po ii hickman: Okay. -Fto quintero: Since we have you here with the door open already,
Obviously when we were going through your stuff
That you consented for us to go through,
I found a couple debit cards and credit cards not in your name.
Who are these people?
-Um, can you show them to me so I can see what... -Fto quintero: Sure.
This card right here.
-I don't know the name on that one.
I don't know that one at all, by any means.
-Fto quintero: What do you use this for?
-Lisa: I don't use that.
-Fto quintero: Where'd it come from?
-My friend that uses...
-(fto quintero laughs) -um... I know it's horrible.
You could drug test me right now and I won't come up for anything
-That you think that I would, I promise you. -Sure.
-Um, he was like, "hold this," and of course, my dumb ass did.
-Fto quintero: Can you agree that this sounds weird
That you're holding somebody else's drugs,
You're holding somebody else's tooter,
You're holding somebody else's debit cards
Without their consent?
-Lisa: You gotta understand, man. I'm really--
-I'm trying to understand. Explain to me.
-I know. I'm trying, man. -Okay.
-Like, I'm really just trying to get it together.
Like, I literally have no family out here.
It's just me by myself.
I don't really have any positive friends.
They all are on drugs and I'm trying to get away from it,
And I can't just shun my friends 'cause they're users.
I cannot do the drugs and just try to help them out
In a positive way, you know what I mean?
-That's the best I can do. -Sure.
And like, I'm like, I feel like I'm gonna change the world
One person at a time, little by little.
-This is what's gonna happen today, okay?
-So you're gonna be getting arrested for the drugs,
-The drug paraphernalia... -I can tell you...
-...And, listen here,
And the credit cards, the debit cards
That you are in possession of without their consent.
You don't even know who half these people are.
-Yes, I do.
-Let me go get you a water, okay?
Watch your toe, watch your toe.
-Po ii hickman: No, this is not normal at all.
I've seen a car with no windows on the doors, but never...
-Both: ...The rear and the front windshield.
-Po ii hickman: I told her maybe next time
She needs to wear a helmet or something,
Because this is the strangest car I've ever seen.
-(over radio): 132 and bush, I've got him at gunpoint.
-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)