1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,800 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,840 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,520 Fatima cigarettes. 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:27,520 Best of all long cigarettes brings you dragnet. 5 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,280 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,120 You're assigned to narcotics detail. 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:36,400 A band of dope peddlers launches a full scale operation in your city. 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:42,400 Their merchandise, marijuana, their victims, high school students. 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:43,960 Your job. 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,080 Get them. 11 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,400 You'll be amazed when you compare Fatima with other long cigarettes. 12 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,120 You'll find they now cost the same. 13 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,040 But in Fatima the difference is quality. 14 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,680 You see Fatima is the quality king size cigarette. 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:07,040 Because it contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended. 16 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,280 And Fatima is extra mild. 17 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,360 With a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 18 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,200 So compare Fatima yourself. 19 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,360 Fatimas now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,840 But your first puff will tell you. 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,200 Ah, that's different. 22 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,320 Yes in Fatima the difference is quality. 23 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:31,640 Ask your dealer for Fatima. 24 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,620 For quality king size cigarette. 25 00:01:34,620 --> 00:01:37,340 Best of all long cigarettes. 26 00:01:37,340 --> 00:01:42,080 Start enjoying Fatima tomorrow. 27 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,120 Dragnet. 28 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,960 The documentary drama of an actual crime. 29 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,920 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department. 30 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:57,160 You will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed 31 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,480 from official police files. 32 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:00,960 From beginning to end. 33 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:02,520 From crime to punishment. 34 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:08,600 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 35 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,120 Was Thursday April 11th. 36 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,720 Was warm in Los Angeles. 37 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,120 We were working the day watch out on narcotics detail. 38 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:15,680 My partner's Ben Romero. 39 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,040 The boss is Captain Kearney. 40 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,040 My name's Friday. 41 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:24,400 I was on the way back from R&I and it was 10.25 a.m. when I got to Central Station. 42 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,400 Narcotics detail. 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:26,400 Joe? 44 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,400 Hi. 45 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:28,400 What'd you find out? 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:29,400 Talked to the coroner. 47 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,400 He finished posting the body. 48 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,400 Yeah. 49 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,240 Caused the death of multiple fractures of the skull. 50 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:34,240 Internal injury. 51 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,200 Boy was 17 years old. 52 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,200 You checked the car? 53 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,400 Yeah, the kid must have been doing at least 70 when he hit that street light. 54 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,400 It's a real mess. 55 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,840 The car was really wound around that pole. 56 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,520 We're gonna have to dig up a fast answer somewhere. 57 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,160 A lot of you ragged. 58 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,080 Well, there's only one way to burn it out. 59 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,760 Find the big man and throw the book at him. 60 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,760 Make him an example. 61 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:53,760 We'll never forget, huh? 62 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:54,760 You checked the juvenile bureau? 63 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,760 Yeah, the evidence has been booked with the property clerk. 64 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,120 How about the boy's parents? 65 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,680 Mrs. Moore wasn't feeling too well. 66 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:00,680 He drove her home. 67 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:01,840 Father's still down in the hall. 68 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,600 Inspector Walker's office. 69 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,600 Can we talk to him now? 70 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,400 Yeah, he should be free by now. 71 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:07,400 Let me check the book. 72 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,400 Already dead. 73 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:09,400 There's no calls. 74 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,400 Oh, okay. 75 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:11,400 Let's go. 76 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,240 You know, there's only one thing fortunate about this whole thing. 77 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:17,240 What do you mean? 78 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,880 Well, the kid being alone when he cracked up would have been a slaughter if he had a 79 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,520 car full of his friends with him. 80 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,120 It's still pretty grim. 81 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,800 How's the boy's father taking it? 82 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:27,800 Usual. 83 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:28,800 Pretty rough. 84 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,800 He should be able to help some. 85 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,800 Yeah. 86 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:33,800 Mr. Morrill? 87 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:34,800 Yes, Sergeant. 88 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,800 The inspector asked me to wait here for you. 89 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:38,800 Yes, sir. 90 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:39,800 This is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 91 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:40,800 Mr. Morrill, Joe. 92 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:41,800 How do you do, Mr. Friday? 93 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,240 I just don't understand it, Sergeant. 94 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,360 I don't understand any of it. 95 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,440 My boy Ken wasn't the type to go racing around like that in the car. 96 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,800 He never took the car without my permission. 97 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,400 I just don't know what got into it. 98 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,160 Had you noticed at all whether your boy was acting a little strange the last few weeks 99 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,160 or so? 100 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,160 No. 101 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,000 Of course, I only saw Ken in the morning, a few hours in the evening. 102 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 I'm at the office all day. 103 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,400 Why do you ask that? 104 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,960 Well, was he going out very often on school nights, keeping odd or unusual hours? 105 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,320 He used to go to the library three or four nights a week to do his schoolwork. 106 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,080 Got home about midnight a few times, and I warned him about that. 107 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,200 Did you have any way of knowing if he was really spending his nights at the library? 108 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,280 No, but I took his word for it. 109 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:23,160 Ken didn't lie to me. 110 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,040 What's this have to do with the auto accident, Sergeant? 111 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,560 I don't think I understand. 112 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,720 The officers investigating the accident, sir. 113 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,480 They checked over the car afterward. 114 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:31,480 Why was it? 115 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:32,480 Were the brakes bad? 116 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:33,480 What'd they find? 117 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,480 Bill? 118 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:35,480 Yeah. 119 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:44,000 You see this small metal case, we found it in the front seat on the floor of the car. 120 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 What's that stuff inside? 121 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Did this belong to Ken? 122 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Yes, sir. 123 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 We think he was using it. 124 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 What for? 125 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 I don't know. 126 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,920 It's marijuana. 127 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,560 Men and women who traffic in narcotics all the way from the small time peddler to the 128 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,040 big wholesaler are rated among the lowest kind of criminal. 129 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,160 One step lower, you find an even more vicious kind. 130 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,000 Those who lure youngsters into the deadly trap of narcotics who feed on the nickels 131 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,060 and dimes by supplying their young victims with dope. 132 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:18,120 The death of 17-year-old Kenneth Morrow was the second of its kind within eight months. 133 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,360 It seemed to stem from unidentified suspects who were making it their business to build 134 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,240 a thriving marijuana trade among high school students. 135 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,720 Thursday, 11 a.m., we continued to question the dead boy's father, Thomas Morrow, but 136 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,480 he couldn't tell us anything further that might help. 137 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,080 Friday, April 12, we checked with the principal of the high school which the Morrow boy attended. 138 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,480 We talked to the boy's teachers and checked his school record. 139 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,760 His marks had been above average till about three months before when they began to fall 140 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,440 off for no apparent reason. 141 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,000 We got a list of most of the boy's friends from his teachers and we started checking 142 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,280 them out. 143 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:58,240 One was a 16-year-old blonde girl, Peggy Kane, supposedly Kenneth Morrow's girlfriend. 144 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:03,880 We found her waiting outside the music room. 145 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,040 Yes, Ken and I went around together for a while. 146 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,040 He was a real nice boy. 147 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,960 Did you see each other quite a bit, Peggy? 148 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,680 Oh, for about five or six months. 149 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,500 Yes, we got along fine. 150 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:15,920 Just after Christmas was the last time I went out with him and we double dated. 151 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:16,920 Mm-hmm. 152 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:17,920 Did he seem all right to you then? 153 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,440 I mean, did he act different at all? 154 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,480 Well, a little different, yes. 155 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:22,480 Not silly, you know. 156 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,080 He just wasn't like he used to be. 157 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,080 How do you mean? 158 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:26,920 Well, he didn't talk the same. 159 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,040 Ken was a real nice boy most of the time. 160 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,720 I guess he started getting in with the wrong crowd. 161 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,800 He began to swear, you know, bad talk, things like that. 162 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:35,800 When did all this start, Peggy? 163 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:36,800 Do you remember? 164 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:37,800 Just before Christmas, I think. 165 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,800 I'm not sure. 166 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:39,800 Poor Ken. 167 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,000 Was there anything else you might have noticed? 168 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,680 I don't know. 169 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,440 Ken used to be pretty good about his studies and all of a sudden it seemed he just didn't 170 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:49,440 care. 171 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:54,920 Sometimes he'd come into the library, we used to study there, and he'd make a lot of noise. 172 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,400 Just changed, that's all. 173 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,720 For a while we didn't see each other there anymore. 174 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,480 Well, why was that, Peggy? 175 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,320 We just didn't come down. 176 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,080 I called his house a couple of times. 177 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,560 His folks said he was at the library. 178 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,360 I didn't say anything to him. 179 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,640 Well, did Ken have many friends here at school? 180 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:10,640 Do you know that? 181 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:11,640 Not many, no. 182 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:12,640 I see. 183 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,120 Of those he did have, who would you say was closer to him? 184 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:17,920 Gee, I don't know, Sergeant. 185 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,160 There were half a dozen of them. 186 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:21,640 Ken used to be with all of them. 187 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,160 No one boy in particular. 188 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,480 Well, Bob Lavelle maybe. 189 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,760 I saw Ken in Bob's car a few times. 190 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,520 Does Lavelle go to school here? 191 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,160 Yes, he's a senior. 192 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,040 Ken used to work with Bob down in the cafeteria after school, but he got in the mix up, he 193 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,040 was fired. 194 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:37,040 Bob was fired? 195 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,040 No, Ken. 196 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,840 He was rude to one of the ladies down there who does the cooking. 197 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:41,840 Bob still works there. 198 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,960 Would he be at the cafeteria now, do you know? 199 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:44,960 Yes, I think so. 200 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:46,640 The fountain's open until about 3.30. 201 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,200 And you think that this Bob Lavelle was about the closest friend that Ken had, huh? 202 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:51,760 I think so. 203 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,920 The only one I know, anyway. 204 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,200 Have you talked to Ken's folks? 205 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:56,200 Yeah, we have. 206 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:57,200 I feel so sorry for him. 207 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,720 Gee, I think I have to go now, Sergeant. 208 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,000 I have a chemistry class. 209 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,560 Just one more question, Peggy. 210 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,600 Last time you went out with Ken on this double date, who was the other couple? 211 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:08,600 Do you remember? 212 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,600 I don't remember their names. 213 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,080 They were some kids I never saw before. 214 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Ken knew them. 215 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:14,360 It wasn't much of a date. 216 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,800 Where did you go? 217 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,000 We started for the show, but Ken changed his mind. 218 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,600 He wanted to go to the beach and park. 219 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,520 He was acting funny, talking all the time, saying silly things. 220 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:24,720 The other boy was the same way. 221 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:25,720 Were they drinking? 222 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,840 No, I never saw Ken take a drink. 223 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,880 I couldn't smell any liquor on his breath. 224 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:30,880 I don't know. 225 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:31,880 It was such a silly thing. 226 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:32,880 What was that? 227 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,120 Well, maybe it's just my imagination, but Ken and this other boy had a real terrible 228 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,040 musty smell about them. 229 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,920 I kidded them about it, and they said they'd been to a tea party. 230 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:43,920 That's where they got it. 231 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,760 They kept talking silly like that all evening. 232 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:46,760 I see. 233 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,920 Was the musty smell all over the car or just on the boys? 234 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:49,920 All over. 235 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,360 It kind of made me sick, but they didn't seem to mind it. 236 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,400 Look, I'd like you to think real careful, Peggy. 237 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,600 Have you ever come across that musty smell on anybody around the school here? 238 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,640 Yes, I have a couple of times. 239 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:01,640 Makes me sick. 240 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:02,640 What is it? 241 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,280 Who did you notice it on, Peggy? 242 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,280 Bob Lavelle. 243 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:10,400 Ben and I went back to the principal's office and checked the record on Robert Lavelle. 244 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,000 He was 18 years old, and he was scheduled to graduate in June. 245 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,120 The registrar told us that there was a good chance that he wouldn't be graduated because 246 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,000 his marks had been poor for the better part of the year. 247 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,880 They dropped even lower during the present semester. 248 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,480 Lavelle had played football the year before and had made third string on the All-City 249 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:27,480 team. 250 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,040 He was well liked by his teachers. 251 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,120 For the last two years, he'd worked part-time at the school soda farm. 252 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,600 We went down to interview him. 253 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:37,600 Nice setup, huh? 254 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:38,600 Yeah. 255 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:39,600 Cafeteria, soda farm. 256 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,280 Wasn't like that in my day. 257 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,480 It must be the boy there behind the counter. 258 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,480 Oh, yeah. 259 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,480 Let's sit down. 260 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,920 How about that, Joe? 261 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:52,920 What's that? 262 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:53,920 That sign hanging up there. 263 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:54,920 Idiot special. 264 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:01,640 Five scoops of ice cream, marshmallow, bananas, chocolate, strawberry flavoring, whipped cream 265 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,280 topping, maraschino cherries, chopped nuts, and onion. 266 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,800 No, you're reading over. 267 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,680 That's on the hamburger sign there. 268 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:09,680 Oh. 269 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:10,680 Yeah? 270 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:11,680 You want something? 271 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:12,680 Chocolate soda. 272 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,640 Could you make it with vanilla ice cream, please? 273 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:15,960 Chocolate soda with vanilla cream. 274 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:16,960 Are you Bob Lavelle? 275 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:17,960 Yeah, that's right. 276 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:18,960 Police officers, Bob. 277 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:19,960 We'd like to talk to you. 278 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:20,960 Oh. 279 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:22,720 Well, I'm pretty busy right now. 280 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:23,720 Got to clean up. 281 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,720 We close in a few minutes. 282 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,400 I'll make you soda right away. 283 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:28,400 You say chocolate? 284 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:29,400 Yeah, that's right. 285 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,600 Well, we'll make it brief. 286 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,160 Did you know Ken Morrow, Bob? 287 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:35,160 Oh, yeah. 288 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:36,920 He used to work here. 289 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,800 Did you spend much time with him outside of school, I mean? 290 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Not much. 291 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,720 Went to a couple of shows together. 292 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:44,720 It's about all. 293 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,720 I'm kind of rushed now. 294 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,680 When was the last time that you saw him? 295 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:50,680 You remember? 296 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:53,680 A week ago, I guess. 297 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:57,000 Too bad about Ken. 298 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,360 How about the night he was in the accident? 299 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,360 Did you see him then? 300 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,000 No, I didn't know him too well. 301 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,280 He went around with a different crowd. 302 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,880 They reached me a bag of those cashews, huh, Joe, on the card there? 303 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:12,880 Yeah. 304 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:13,880 There you go. 305 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:14,880 Oh, thanks. 306 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,880 Want some? 307 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:18,880 Crisp. 308 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:19,880 No, no thanks. 309 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,880 The nuts or the dime, Officer? 310 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,880 Right there on the counter, Bob. 311 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:26,880 Oh, yeah. 312 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,880 I gotta get going soon as I close. 313 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,360 I have to get out of town. 314 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,480 We talked to some of Ken Morrow's friends around the school, Bob. 315 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,320 They tell us that he used to drive around in your car with you quite a bit. 316 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,080 Just a couple of times around school. 317 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,080 You hadn't been with him for about a week before the accident. 318 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,080 That's right. 319 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:47,080 Just what I told you. 320 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:54,080 You want a little whipped cream on that? 321 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,080 Yeah, yeah, a little. 322 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,080 How about a cherry? 323 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,080 Good. 324 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:00,080 Good idea. 325 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,080 There you are. 326 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,080 Thank you. 327 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,080 Too late to fix a hamburger? 328 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,080 Yeah, I really gotta close up. 329 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:13,080 It's getting a little late, officers, I'm gonna have to close up right now. 330 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,080 We'll make it fast. 331 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,080 Did you notice anything different about the Morrow boy in the last few weeks? 332 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,080 Anything peculiar at all? 333 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,080 No, he was the same as ever. 334 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,080 I didn't notice anything. 335 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,080 All right, look, Bob, we're gonna lay it out for you. 336 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,080 Did you know he was using marijuana? 337 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,080 No, I didn't know anything about it. 338 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,080 Do you have any idea where he might have gotten it? 339 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,080 I wouldn't know that. 340 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,080 Look, you mind if I lock up the counter now? 341 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,080 I'll come around the other side. 342 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,080 Sure, go ahead. 343 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,080 I didn't know that about Ken, officer. 344 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,080 I wouldn't know where he got his stuff. 345 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,080 You sure he was using marijuana? 346 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,080 Well, we found some in his car, we found some more in his locker upstairs. 347 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,080 That's tough. 348 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,080 Anything more, officer, I gotta hurry. 349 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,080 Well, it's just routine, Bob. 350 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,080 We did the same with the other boys we talked to. 351 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,080 We'd like to check your locker. 352 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,080 You don't mind, do you? 353 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,080 I gotta get out of town. 354 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,080 I'm late now. 355 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:02,080 Your locker's just upstairs, isn't it? 356 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:03,080 It won't take that long. 357 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,080 It's important to me. 358 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:05,080 I gotta get out of town. 359 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:06,080 We've got our car outside. 360 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,080 We'll drive you down. 361 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:08,080 We'll be down there in no time. 362 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:09,080 No, I've already got a ride. 363 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,080 Can't you check it tomorrow? 364 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:11,080 It's not gonna take a minute, Bob. 365 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,080 Now, let's go, huh? 366 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,080 All right. 367 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,080 Say, I happen to remember. 368 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,080 I didn't bring my locker key today. 369 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:22,080 Can't tell. 370 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,080 Yeah. 371 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,080 Come to think of it, I don't know where it is. 372 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:27,080 I guess I lost it. 373 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,080 Well, we must have a passkey around here, don't we? 374 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,080 I don't think so. 375 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,080 Well, we'll ask at the office, huh? 376 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,080 You're putting me in a jam, officer. 377 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:35,080 That's gonna take time. 378 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,080 I'm due downtown. 379 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,080 I'm sorry, Bob, but we gotta check it. 380 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,080 I got my locker all jammed up with stuff. 381 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:41,080 It'll take us an hour. 382 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:42,080 Office is down there, Jim. 383 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,080 Yeah, all right, let's go. 384 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:48,080 I don't know why you're picking on me. 385 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,080 My locker's jammed. 386 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,080 They can't get it open. 387 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,080 Why are you picking on me? 388 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,080 Let's ask in here. 389 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,080 Go ahead, Bob. 390 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,080 Close the door. 391 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:03,080 Yeah. 392 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,080 I got my key. I'll show you. 393 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,080 Robert LaVelle took us to his locker and opened it. 394 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,080 Hidden inside one of his gym shoes, 395 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,080 we found four sticks of medium-grade marijuana. 396 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,080 We took them, put them in an envelope, and sealed it. 397 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,080 On the way downtown, the boy told us 398 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,080 that he'd been buying this stuff for about six months 399 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,080 and reselling it to some of the students at the high school. 400 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,080 Said that he paid 50 cents apiece for the sticks 401 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,080 and sold them for 75. 402 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,080 He was an occasional user himself. 403 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,080 Before we turned him over to the juvenile officers, 404 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,080 he told us that a man named Ray Jensen 405 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,080 supplied him with a marijuana. 406 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,080 Jensen's address was a trailer camp 407 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,080 in the southwest part of Los Angeles. 408 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,080 We drove out and checked with the operator of the camp. 409 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:45,080 He pointed out Jensen's trailer at the rear of the camp. 410 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,080 That one, Joe? The blue and gray one? 411 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,080 Yeah, this is good right here. 412 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,080 Okay. 413 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,080 Looks like Jensen's doing well, huh? 414 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,080 Yeah, nice-looking trailer. 415 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,080 Just a minute. 416 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,080 Yeah? Weesawks. 417 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,080 All right, open it up. Get out of here. 418 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,080 Come on, watch it, Joe. 419 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,080 All right, hold it, mister. Get out. Get out. 420 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,080 All right, Jensen. 421 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,080 That's good, Ben. I'll get him. 422 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,080 Come on, get out. 423 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,080 What's the pitch, huh? Where's your warrant? 424 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,080 It's all over the floor, Jensen. Marijuana. 425 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,080 Who tipped? One of those lousy kids, huh? 426 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:36,080 Which one? 427 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:37,080 You guess. You know enough of them. 428 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,080 You can't have me for all that. I'm not the big guy. 429 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:40,080 All right, then who is? 430 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,080 I don't know. I'm only one of the mules. 431 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,080 Where do you get your stuff? 432 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,080 The big guy, the big tomato. That's what they call him. 433 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:46,080 Yeah? 434 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,080 Big man. Nobody sees him. 435 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,080 I don't even know what he looks like. Neither do you. 436 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,080 You let us worry about that. Come on. 437 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,080 Big tomato, that's what they call him. 438 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,080 You won't get him. He's smart. You won't get him in 89 years. 439 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,080 Maybe not, but we'll get him. 440 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,080 You are listening to Dragnet. 441 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,080 Authentic stories of your police force in action. 442 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,080 Now, here's an authentic report from Fatima cigarettes. 443 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,080 1949. 444 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,080 Fatima more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 445 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,080 1950. 446 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,080 Another record-breaking year. 447 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:32,080 With more long cigarette smokers insisting on Fatima quality than ever before. 448 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,080 In 1951, enjoy Fatima quality yourself. 449 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,080 Yes, friends, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 450 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,080 Quality of tobaccos. 451 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,080 The finest Turkish and domestic varieties, extra mild and superbly blended. 452 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:51,080 To give you a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 453 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,080 Quality of manufacture. 454 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:57,080 Smooth plump cigarettes rolled in the finest paper money can buy. 455 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,080 Quality. 456 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,080 Even to the appearance of the bright clean golden yellow package. 457 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:08,080 Carefully wrapped and sealed to bring you Fatima's rich, fresh, extra mild flavor. 458 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,080 Compare Fatima yourself. 459 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:14,080 Fatima's now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 460 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:19,080 But your first puff will tell you, ah, that's different. 461 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:23,080 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 462 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,080 Start enjoying Fatima quality yourself. 463 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,080 Insist on Fatima. 464 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,080 The quality king-size cigarette. 465 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,080 Best of all, long cigarettes. 466 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:42,080 Friday, April the 12th, 7 p.m. 467 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,080 We searched the trailer and a stakeout was placed on it. 468 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,080 And then we took Ray Jensen downtown to the main jail where he was booked for suspicion of narcotics, a felony. 469 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,080 The next day, Ben and I went back and questioned him. We got nowhere. 470 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,080 The only thing he'd tell us was that the leader of the marijuana ring was unknown to him. 471 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,080 The Big Tomato, that's all he could tell us. 472 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:07,080 We went back and started rechecking leads furnished just by some of the high school boys who had purchased narcotics from Robert Lavelle. 473 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,080 They all ended nowhere. 474 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:15,080 Meantime, the flow of marijuana into the schools and into the hands of the teenage students continued. 475 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,080 We'd no sooner choke off one source of supply when two more would turn up. 476 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,080 We knew that there was only one real solution. 477 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:26,080 Find the gang leader and wipe out the entire supply and distribution setup. 478 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,080 We stayed on it. Monday, April 22nd. 479 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:34,080 Ben got a call from one of his informants that he had a lead on the source of marijuana on the east side of town. 480 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:40,080 The informant's name was Willie Breck, a groundskeeper at a golf course near one of the city high schools. 481 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:45,080 We drove out to talk to him. We located Breck by the clubhouse near the first tee. 482 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,080 On the tee now, R. Cory, Richard Bridget. 483 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,080 You remember my partner, don't you Willie Joe Friday? 484 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:52,080 Oh yeah, hi. 485 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:53,080 How are you, Willie? 486 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,080 Kind of busy today, big tournament. 487 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,080 Yeah, quite a crowd you got here. It's a nice turnout. 488 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,080 You've been having trouble, huh? How to marry in town? 489 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,080 Yeah, you think you can help us? 490 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:09,080 Maybe I can. Dirty business, working high school kids with that stuff. It's real dirty. 491 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:10,080 Any ideas, Willie? 492 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:15,080 Don't know how much of it's true. It's all from the grapevine downtown. 493 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,080 The boss is somebody they call the Big Tomato. It's funny when that. 494 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,080 Any idea who he is? 495 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:26,080 Couldn't say. He's getting lots of this stuff in though. Usual feed line over from Mexico. 496 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:27,080 What else, Willie? 497 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:31,080 I hear there's more on the way. Don't know when though. 498 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,080 It's a proper high school trade. Guess they figure they got a good business. 499 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,080 How they getting jump over, you know? 500 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,080 No, but it's getting here. Almost any kid can get some over on this side of town. 501 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,080 Imagine that. Kids in their teens. Weed hits. 502 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,080 How about this Big Tomato, Willie? No word it though? 503 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:48,080 Just one, pretty thin. 504 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:49,080 Yeah. 505 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,080 There's a connection. Lives over on Hauser Boulevard. 506 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,080 Got his number here somewhere. 507 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:01,080 Supposed to be the main connection for this Tomato guy. 508 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,080 Oh yeah, there's his address. 509 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,080 Third number there. It's a six. His name is Tony Childs. 510 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,080 Is he supposed to handle all this stuff? 511 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,080 Most would, I hear. Gets it off in the Big Tomato. 512 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,080 That about it? 513 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,080 That's it. Tony Childs. You got the address. 514 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,080 Many thanks, Willie. When anything comes up, you'll call, huh? 515 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:20,080 Sure thing. 516 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,080 How's the job out here? 517 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:27,080 Better than yours. I sure wouldn't want it. Working every day around joy poppers, mules, main liners. 518 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,080 Somebody's gotta do it, Willie. 519 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:35,080 Yeah, but not for me, Sergeant. Those doasters are all lice. Selling junk to kids. 520 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,080 Guess you met the lowest, huh? 521 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,080 No, not yet. We're looking for him. 522 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:48,080 We went back to the office and checked the name and address of Tony Childs through R&I. 523 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:53,080 No previous record. A stakeout was placed on his home and at his place of business. 524 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,080 Childs himself was placed under 24-hour surveillance. 525 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:01,080 A week passed. Nothing happened. Another week. Still nothing. 526 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:06,080 There was no letup in the supply of marijuana finding its way into the city and into the schools. 527 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:10,080 We couldn't see the beginnings of the racket, but we saw the end result. 528 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,080 The percentage of juvenile users was still in the upswing. 529 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:18,080 Wednesday, May 8th. We heard rumbles of another big marijuana buy in the offing. 530 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,080 Either it failed to materialize or we missed it. 531 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:26,080 Friday, May 10th. Ben and I took our turn shadowing the suspect, Tony Childs. 532 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,080 Can you see him from here, Joe? 533 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,080 Yeah. He's still in the barbershop. There's two guys with him. 534 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,080 Yeah. Ten past four. We better check in, huh? 535 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,080 Yeah, I'll call in, huh? 536 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,080 Drugstore there. No telephone. 537 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,080 Yeah, all right. I'll be right back. 538 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,080 Narcotics, please. Thank you. 539 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,080 Yeah, Johnny. This is Joe Friday. 540 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,080 Yeah. Yeah, we got him paid. 541 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,080 Okay, right away. Bye. 542 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,080 What have you got? 543 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,080 Tony Childs. They want him picked up right away. 544 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,080 How come? 545 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,080 Well, they just raided this place. They found 32 ounces of weed in his room. 546 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:28,080 Supposed to have more on him. 547 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:29,080 Let's go. 548 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,080 Come on. 549 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,080 What do you think, trouble? 550 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:39,080 Don't be surprised. 551 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,080 Childs, I'd like to talk to you. 552 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:46,080 What's that? 553 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,080 Police officers like to talk to you and your two friends here downtown. 554 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,080 Can't make it, copper. I'm flying to Vegas tonight. 555 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:53,080 We want to see you downtown first. 556 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,080 Good luck. Don't push me, huh? 557 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,080 Nobody's pushing you, Childs. We want to see you downtown. 558 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,080 Now, come on. Let's go. 559 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,080 Look out, Joe! 560 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:04,080 You ready to wrap him, Sam? 561 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,080 Watch him! 562 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,080 That's it. Three of them. 563 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,080 Okay. 564 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,080 Not getting them? 565 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,080 All right. Come on, you. 566 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,080 I'm glad this doesn't come up often. 567 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,080 Where's the barber? 568 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,080 He ran outside. 569 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,080 Rough one, huh? 570 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,080 Yeah. 571 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,080 What's your hunch, Joe? 572 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,080 Think one of these three is the big tomato? 573 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,080 I don't know. Let's ask him. 574 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,080 A search of the barber's shop failed to reveal the presence of any narcotics. 575 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:55,080 Tony Childs and his two companions were found to have a dozen sticks of marijuana in their possession. 576 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:01,080 They were treated for cuts and bruises at Georgia Street and then booked for suspicion of narcotics, a felony, at the main jail. 577 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:06,080 Three other men found at Childs' apartment at the time of the raid were also booked. 578 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,080 We got nowhere questioning any of them. 579 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:13,080 As usual, we had the small fry, but the ringleader, the big tomato, was still in the clear. 580 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:18,080 Still free to hire somebody else to run the marijuana supply line into the high schools. 581 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,080 Three weeks passed. 582 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,080 Together with Captain Kearney and Sergeant Barr, Ben and I rechecked our earlier leads. 583 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,080 We ran down anything that even looked like it might be promising. 584 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,080 Nothing panned out. Wednesday, June 5th, 5.30 p.m. 585 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,080 We got a call from the main jail. Tony Childs wanted to talk to us. 586 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,080 Ben and I went over to see him. 587 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,080 Charles? 588 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,080 I got something for you. 589 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,080 Been playing the stooge long enough. If I'm good enough for jail, so's he. 590 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,080 All right, what do you got? 591 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,080 There's a big buy coming off. When you get him, tell him how long I've been in here. 592 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,080 What kind of a buy? 593 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,080 Mary, one of the biggest. It was set up before I got in here. 594 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,080 Where's your mate gonna be? 595 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,080 Bruno Street, down by the train yards. I'll draw you a map. 596 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,080 Set up's the same. Car pulls up and honks a couple of times in an alley down there. 597 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,080 Who's handling the buy? 598 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,080 A big man. Don't waste any time. 599 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,080 When is it? 600 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,080 Tonight. 601 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,080 We went back to the office and met with Sergeants Barr and Jacobson. 8 p.m. 602 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,080 Ben and I took up our positions on the stakeout along with the rest of the men. 603 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,080 We had a clear view of the exact location where the buy was to be made. 604 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:27,080 We waited. 10 p.m. 11 p.m. No one showed. Midnight came and went. 605 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:38,080 1.30 a.m. Still no sign. At 18 minutes of 2, we spotted a man carrying a shopping bag emerge from behind a row of freight cars near the end of the rail yard. 606 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,080 He made his way across the street to the alley. He stood back in the shadows. 607 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:47,080 As soon as the car gets in the alley, we pull up and block it, hon. 608 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,080 Yeah, that's right. Beck will do the same thing down at the other end. 609 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,080 Headlights coming in the alley. 610 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:12,080 Wait a minute. No, no, they're going on through. 611 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:13,080 What's the time now? 612 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,080 Four minutes to 2. 613 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:24,080 We waited. 18 minutes passed. Still no sign of the car that, according to Charles, was supposed to be there for the big buy. 614 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:30,080 We could still see the figure of a man with a shopping bag huddled in the alley. 3 a.m. 615 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,080 Joe? Yeah? Car down there in the alley? 616 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,080 Yeah. 617 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,080 That's it. You want to start up? Yep. 618 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,080 Just enough to block the alley. 619 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,080 That's good. 620 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,080 All right, come on, let's go. 621 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,080 Come on. 622 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,080 All right, kill your engine and get out of the car. 623 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,080 Joe, look out! 624 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,080 They can't go far. 625 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,080 Come on. 626 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,080 All right, let's get them out of there. 627 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,080 Yeah. 628 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,080 Here's three of them. 629 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,080 Here's the guy with the shopping bag. 630 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,080 All right, I got it. 631 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,080 Fresh, not some cold. 632 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,080 That's one. 633 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,080 Easy there. 634 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,080 Yep. 635 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:23,080 Pull right over there, will you? Get his coat off of that. I got it. 636 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,080 That's it. 637 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,080 There we are. 638 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,080 All three of them. 639 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,080 Yeah. 640 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,080 Hey, hey, look at this, Joe. 641 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,080 Found one of them in this guy's hand. 642 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,080 In the can, huh? 643 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,080 Mm-hmm. 644 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,080 Full of marijuana. 645 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,080 Did you look at the labels on those cans? 646 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,080 Yeah. 647 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,080 Fancy solid packed to man. 648 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,080 Yeah. 649 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:48,080 There he is, a big tomato. 650 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,080 The story you have just heard was true. 651 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,080 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 652 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,080 On October 3rd, trial was held in Superior Court, 653 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,080 Department 89, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 654 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,080 In a moment, the results of that trial. 655 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,080 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 656 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,080 Thank you. 657 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,080 Jack, you're a great actor. 658 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,080 You're a great actor. 659 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,080 You're a great actor, and you'll be a great actor in the future. 660 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,080 Thank you. 661 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,080 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 662 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,080 Thank you. 663 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,080 Friends, if you're a long cigarette smoker, like I am, 664 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,080 remember in Fatima, the difference is quality. 665 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,080 Now, believe me, this difference is mighty important. 666 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:31,080 So important that you'll always remember the first pack of Fatimas that you buy. 667 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,080 Fatima's fast-growing popularity backs me up on that. 668 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,080 But look, you can prove it to yourself by getting a pack of Fatimas tomorrow. 669 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,080 And your first pack will convince you to go right on smoking them. 670 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,080 Join me in the new thousands who enjoy Fatima's extra mildness. 671 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,080 Fatima's rich, better flavor and aroma. 672 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,080 You'll discover what all we Fatima smokers know. 673 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,080 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 674 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,080 John A. Stanson, alias the Big Tomato, along with his associates in the Narcotic Gang, 675 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,080 was tried and convicted for violating the State Narcotic Act. 676 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,080 He received sentences as prescribed by law, 677 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,080 and are now serving their terms in the state penitentiary. 678 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,080 The radio editors of the United States and Canada have named Dragnet 679 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,080 the best radio program of its type for 1950. 680 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,080 And Dragnet's Jack Webb, the most promising star of tomorrow. 681 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:31,080 On behalf of Dragnet, I'd like to thank the radio editors of the United States and Canada 682 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,080 and the editors of Motion Picture Daily, 683 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,080 who conducted the voting in the 15th annual poll for Fame magazine. 684 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,080 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 685 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,080 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, 686 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,080 Los Angeles Police Department. 687 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:02,080 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet, 688 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,080 and the other portions transcribed from Los Angeles. 689 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:31,080 Later, here's Spellbound with Joseph Cotton on Screen Directors on NBC.