WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 The story will about to hear its true. Only the nation has been trained to protect the 00:10.000 --> 00:11.000 innocent. 00:11.000 --> 00:25.000 Your detective sergeant has assigned a robbery detail. A lone bandit robbed a jewelry store 00:25.000 --> 00:33.000 and robbed a life. He takes $5,000 in touch with stone. He's reckless. He's well armed. 00:33.000 --> 00:35.000 We're done. Get in. 00:35.000 --> 00:46.000 Right now, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation 00:46.000 --> 00:50.000 with the Los Angeles Police Department, we will travel step by step on the side of the 00:50.000 --> 00:55.000 road. The law for an actual case can derive from official police violence. From beginning 00:55.000 --> 01:00.000 to end, from crime to punishment, Dragmatt is the story of your police force in action. 01:00.000 --> 01:08.000 It's Tuesday, December 7th. It's silly and more funny. We're working the day watch out 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 of robbery detail. My partner is Benny Mayer, the boss of Captain Gideon. My name's Friday. 01:13.000 --> 01:21.000 It was 1.48 p.m. when I got to the basement of the City Hall. The carpool. 01:21.000 --> 01:22.000 No. 01:22.000 --> 01:27.000 Yeah, right. 01:27.000 --> 01:30.000 Hi, Jay. 01:30.000 --> 01:38.580 This is from the 01:38.580 --> 02:02.040 back. 02:02.040 --> 02:03.040 $5,000. 02:03.040 --> 02:06.040 I told you we must have had the jewelry store pretty well taped. 02:06.040 --> 02:07.040 I mean, like you said, practice. 02:07.040 --> 02:09.040 We could be mature one day as well. 02:09.040 --> 02:14.040 Attention all units, all units, at 30 and Victor, 30 and Victor. 02:14.040 --> 02:15.040 You get it up, huh? 02:15.040 --> 02:16.040 Yeah. 02:16.040 --> 02:17.040 Handle the gun. 02:17.040 --> 02:20.040 All units, at 30 and Victor, attack the back. 02:20.040 --> 02:21.040 Give them a hand with a gun. 02:21.040 --> 02:23.040 Code C-E-N-A-P-E-C-E-N. 02:23.040 --> 02:25.040 Oh, this is a roll-on, huh? 02:25.040 --> 02:26.040 Yeah, I think Victor gets it in. 02:26.040 --> 02:27.040 Yeah, I'll call him. 02:27.040 --> 02:29.040 80-3 to Control 1. 02:29.040 --> 02:31.040 80-3 to Control 1. 02:31.040 --> 02:34.040 Control 1, 30-K, I'm down. 02:34.040 --> 02:36.040 80-K, I'm from Investigation. 02:36.040 --> 02:38.040 80-Vectors, 283-67. 02:38.040 --> 02:39.040 Roger, 80-Vectors. 02:39.040 --> 02:42.040 Both 70-Vectors, 283-67. 02:42.040 --> 02:44.040 I might see it up ahead, Joe. 02:44.040 --> 02:45.040 Yeah. 02:45.040 --> 02:48.040 Right in the middle of the intersection, over the car turned over. 02:48.040 --> 02:50.040 You want to go in? 02:50.040 --> 02:51.040 Yeah. 02:51.040 --> 02:52.040 Let's go. 02:55.040 --> 02:58.040 Man, the flesh got on straight over there, Victor. 02:58.040 --> 02:59.040 I want to put a gift in your face. 02:59.040 --> 03:02.040 Excuse me, please. Let it through, please. 03:02.040 --> 03:04.040 Don't just stand around looking. 03:04.040 --> 03:06.040 Did somebody call the police yet? Excuse me. 03:06.040 --> 03:07.040 You were involved, Lee? 03:07.040 --> 03:08.040 Sure, I was in it. 03:08.040 --> 03:09.040 Did anybody call the police? 03:09.040 --> 03:11.040 No police. I was just with him. 03:11.040 --> 03:12.040 Oh, I'm too glad to see you. 03:12.040 --> 03:14.040 An awful lot of trouble. 03:14.040 --> 03:16.040 Well, how about this man here? What happened? 03:16.040 --> 03:18.040 Oh, I flung him. I had to. 03:18.040 --> 03:19.040 What do you mean? 03:19.040 --> 03:22.040 Well, I don't know what happened. He went a little crazy, I guess. 03:22.040 --> 03:23.040 He pulled this gun on me. 03:23.040 --> 03:25.040 How is he, Jeff? 03:25.040 --> 03:27.040 He's got a bump over here. He could be all right otherwise. 03:27.040 --> 03:29.040 Okay, then. 03:29.040 --> 03:32.040 Ernie Brooks. That truck over there, that's what I was driving. 03:32.040 --> 03:35.040 I was coming down third street and I stopped with a red light over there. 03:35.040 --> 03:37.040 That's the one over there? 03:37.040 --> 03:38.040 Yeah. 03:38.040 --> 03:42.040 And when the light turned green, I started across the intersection. 03:42.040 --> 03:45.040 I was laying here, came bowing down, Victor. 03:45.040 --> 03:47.040 Went right through the red light, hit the front of my truck. 03:47.040 --> 03:50.040 Flipped his car right over on the side, just like a suit. 03:50.040 --> 03:51.040 Yeah, go ahead. 03:51.040 --> 03:53.040 The guy went a little crazy, I guess. 03:53.040 --> 03:57.040 Right after the crack up, I pulled the truck to the curb and got out. 03:57.040 --> 04:00.040 This fella here was just climbing out of the top side of his car. 04:00.040 --> 04:01.040 Didn't seem hurt at all. 04:01.040 --> 04:02.040 Yeah, right. 04:02.040 --> 04:06.040 Well, when he saw me coming over to him, he pulled the gun and pointed it at me. 04:06.040 --> 04:08.040 Then he turned and started running. I couldn't figure it out. 04:08.040 --> 04:09.040 What'd you do? 04:09.040 --> 04:12.040 Well, soon as he turned his back to run, I went for him and tackled him. 04:12.040 --> 04:14.040 Felt like a tiger. 04:14.040 --> 04:18.040 That's why I said I flung him. I had to, Arthur. 04:18.040 --> 04:21.040 There's something awful funny about the whole thing, Lady Lila. 04:21.040 --> 04:23.040 Well, look here. 04:23.040 --> 04:26.040 There was spots right here. I fell out of this coat when I flung him. 04:26.040 --> 04:29.040 You take a look. Yeah? Here. 04:29.040 --> 04:31.040 There's been three or four dozen in there. 04:31.040 --> 04:32.040 Rings all kinds. 04:32.040 --> 04:35.040 Well, looks like diamonds in them, doesn't it? 04:39.040 --> 04:42.040 They all got up the riot and they took the unconscious fuel robber, 04:42.040 --> 04:44.040 suspect of juggling with the receiving officer. 04:44.040 --> 04:47.040 After he was revived and treated for cuts and dizziness, 04:47.040 --> 04:50.040 he took him back to the city hall of the interrogation room. 04:50.040 --> 04:53.040 We heard of the description of the jewelry store bandit almost exactly. 04:53.040 --> 04:56.040 He refused to talk and wouldn't even give us his name. 04:56.040 --> 05:00.040 He had his fingerprints taken and then he had been kept to eye on eye. 05:00.040 --> 05:03.040 The man was identified as Brian Albert Nicolle. 05:03.040 --> 05:06.040 At the time, they got a full sum of the two-time losers. 05:06.040 --> 05:11.040 He took one five-year term for armed robbery and another three years for ADW. 05:11.040 --> 05:14.040 He checked out the red car he'd been driving and found out that it had been stolen 05:14.040 --> 05:16.040 two blocks from the scene of the holocaust. 05:16.040 --> 05:20.040 We had the manager of the jewelry store which had been robbed, brought downtown. 05:20.040 --> 05:22.040 He identified Nicolle as the bandit. 05:22.040 --> 05:24.040 The suspect still refused to talk. 05:24.040 --> 05:29.040 Ben and I took him to the main jail where he was booked on suspicion 211-3. 05:29.040 --> 05:32.040 415 PM, he took back in at the office. 05:33.040 --> 05:35.040 He took some of them a long time to learn. 05:35.040 --> 05:36.040 Yeah, two-time loser. 05:36.040 --> 05:38.040 This one ought to finish him. 05:38.040 --> 05:41.040 I can't figure. He's been out of post in seven months and going right back in again. 05:41.040 --> 05:42.040 Yeah. 05:42.040 --> 05:47.040 Well, we did get the complaint from the bureau tomorrow and said we were only to third. 05:47.040 --> 05:48.040 Yeah. 05:48.040 --> 05:51.040 Maybe check with the manager of the jewelry store for us. 05:51.040 --> 05:55.040 I wonder if Nicolle could have been in on those gas-taking hold-ups. Remember? 05:55.040 --> 05:56.040 At least. 05:56.040 --> 05:57.040 Yeah. 05:57.040 --> 06:00.040 Well, we'll have him in a show up Thursday and see what happens. 06:00.040 --> 06:02.040 You won't take care of the arrest report. 06:02.040 --> 06:06.040 No, I'll get out an APD too. My turn up's a not bad job, don't it? 06:06.040 --> 06:09.040 I'm too hungry. You still got that candy bar tonight? 06:09.040 --> 06:12.040 Yeah, I'll go get it. 06:12.040 --> 06:13.040 Here you go. 06:16.040 --> 06:18.040 Who's the man you were with the other day? 06:18.040 --> 06:21.040 I don't know. He made me like a horse. Dan and Sam. 06:21.040 --> 06:22.040 I'll try. 06:22.040 --> 06:23.040 I'll get it. 06:26.040 --> 06:27.040 What do you got, Joe? 06:27.040 --> 06:28.040 A gate. 06:29.040 --> 06:30.040 I like that. 06:30.040 --> 06:31.040 What? 06:31.040 --> 06:32.040 Nicolle. The escape. 06:32.040 --> 06:36.040 A broadcast and an all-points bulletin were gotten out on burning Nicolle. 06:36.040 --> 06:39.040 All units in the vicinity of the escape were alerted. 06:39.040 --> 06:42.040 An hour passed. There was no report on the suspect. 06:42.040 --> 06:45.040 They checked with the main jail and got the details on their fate. 06:45.040 --> 06:48.040 They told us that while Nicolle was being locked up in his cell, 06:48.040 --> 06:51.040 he pushed his fingers into the door jamb and had them badly masked 06:51.040 --> 06:53.040 and the cell door closed on him. 06:53.040 --> 06:55.040 Both of Nicolle's wrists were then handcuffed, 06:55.040 --> 06:57.040 and along with two other ailing suspects, 06:57.040 --> 06:59.040 he was taken over to Georgia City and killed. 06:59.040 --> 07:02.040 Two other ailing suspects were taken over to Georgia City 07:02.040 --> 07:05.040 receiving hospital by a pair of transportation officers. 07:05.040 --> 07:07.040 Going up the stairs to the hospital, 07:07.040 --> 07:09.040 Nicolle had turned suddenly, 07:09.040 --> 07:11.040 took one of the officers in his stomach, 07:11.040 --> 07:13.040 and plugged the other one in his face. 07:13.040 --> 07:15.040 It happened at about 414 PM. 07:15.040 --> 07:18.040 By 11 o'clock that night, there wasn't a trace of the suspect. 07:18.040 --> 07:21.040 7.30 the next morning, Ben and I took back in for work. 07:21.040 --> 07:23.040 Nicolle was still alive. 07:25.040 --> 07:28.040 Overnight report, Joe. Hamill left. 07:28.040 --> 07:30.040 What do we got? 07:30.040 --> 07:31.040 Yeah. 07:31.040 --> 07:34.040 Electric store, gas station. 07:34.040 --> 07:36.040 Another electric store. 07:36.040 --> 07:39.040 Hopefully, we haven't held up between midnight and 2 AM. 07:39.040 --> 07:41.040 Take a look at the balance of the script. 07:41.040 --> 07:42.040 Yeah, yeah. 07:42.040 --> 07:45.040 WMA, five feet nine, like 50 pounds. 07:45.040 --> 07:48.040 Hidden bill, dark-haired, very dark eyes. 07:48.040 --> 07:50.040 First reflection, deep scar on cheek. 07:50.040 --> 07:51.040 How about it? 07:51.040 --> 07:53.040 We didn't waste time getting started, did we? 07:53.040 --> 07:55.040 We put a big cum down on Nicolle. 07:55.040 --> 07:57.040 Diamond chest, a liquor store. 07:57.040 --> 07:59.040 We were helping, we didn't have any clothes, no money. 07:59.040 --> 08:01.040 How about that car you used on those jobs? 08:01.040 --> 08:03.040 Bill and I were covering it early this morning. 08:03.040 --> 08:05.040 We were going over to the plant. 08:05.040 --> 08:06.040 What about it, Joe? 08:06.040 --> 08:07.040 Really? 08:07.040 --> 08:08.040 Yeah, I'll miss one right away. 08:08.040 --> 08:10.040 Where did you get that call from again? 08:10.040 --> 08:11.040 What's that? 08:11.040 --> 08:12.040 It was the name, Andre. 08:12.040 --> 08:14.040 Once we were out, we were in the canvass, 08:14.040 --> 08:16.040 going over to one of the great schools over in Boilhike. 08:16.040 --> 08:18.040 Who might be able to tell you something? 08:18.040 --> 08:19.040 Me about what? 08:19.040 --> 08:20.040 Nicolle. 08:20.040 --> 08:21.040 I saw him last night. 08:23.040 --> 08:25.040 We got in the car and drove over to the Boilhike 08:25.040 --> 08:28.040 to a place where we located Matthew Hobbs' place of residence. 08:28.040 --> 08:30.040 It was a small store on Delray Avenue, 08:30.040 --> 08:32.040 one block from the neighborhood grammar school. 08:32.040 --> 08:34.040 The sign out in front read, 08:34.040 --> 08:37.040 made you neither candy parlor and variety store. 08:37.040 --> 08:39.040 It was the usual display in the window. 08:39.040 --> 08:41.040 A wind-up train, a few inexpensive dolls, 08:41.040 --> 08:44.040 pencils, writing fabric, keys, and crepe paper. 08:44.040 --> 08:46.040 Inside, the main attraction was 08:46.040 --> 08:50.040 two long showcases filled with a variety of penny candies. 08:50.040 --> 08:52.040 There was a small photo spot in the middle of the store 08:52.040 --> 08:54.040 topped with a flag of Warren Marba. 08:54.040 --> 08:56.040 Matthew Hobbs was a small thin man. 08:56.040 --> 08:58.040 He looked to be in his mid-fifties. 08:58.040 --> 09:00.040 The cat behind one of the counters 09:00.040 --> 09:02.040 filling cellophane bags with Christmas candy 09:02.040 --> 09:03.040 while he talked to us. 09:03.040 --> 09:05.040 We asked him about Nicolle. 09:05.040 --> 09:07.040 Yes, that's right. 09:07.040 --> 09:08.040 I saw him there last night. 09:08.040 --> 09:10.040 About ten o'clock, ten-fifteen. 09:10.040 --> 09:11.040 No later. 09:11.040 --> 09:13.040 He wanted me to help him. 09:13.040 --> 09:15.040 Did you know Nicolle that well, Mr. Hobbs? 09:15.040 --> 09:17.040 As well as I know most of the kids who grew up around here. 09:17.040 --> 09:19.040 Yes, I guess I knew him well. 09:19.040 --> 09:21.040 What did he ask for in the way of help? 09:21.040 --> 09:23.040 His money, clothes. 09:23.040 --> 09:25.040 He got no family left. 09:25.040 --> 09:27.040 I guess I was the only one who got scammed there. 09:27.040 --> 09:30.040 Well, how is it that you didn't notify us too, Mr. Hobbs? 09:30.040 --> 09:32.040 I knew you'd ask. 09:32.040 --> 09:34.040 Like a prince, I told you it's best to please. 09:34.040 --> 09:36.040 You didn't need that bag there, Sergeant? 09:36.040 --> 09:38.040 No. 09:38.040 --> 09:40.040 No, no, no, the number two. 09:40.040 --> 09:42.040 Yeah, those, yeah. 09:42.040 --> 09:43.040 All right, here. 09:43.040 --> 09:44.040 Thank you. 09:44.040 --> 09:46.040 As I said, he knocked on my back door 09:46.040 --> 09:48.040 about ten o'clock, now let him in. 09:48.040 --> 09:50.040 I said, just like an animal. 09:50.040 --> 09:52.040 Some kind of crazy animal. 09:52.040 --> 09:54.040 You mean a fox, Tom? 09:54.040 --> 09:56.040 Yeah, but the thing tonight that you was broken. 09:56.040 --> 09:58.040 I made me file off and hand that to you. 09:58.040 --> 10:00.040 I was doing it first. 10:00.040 --> 10:02.040 I had no idea what was going on. 10:02.040 --> 10:04.040 He said he'd clean me if I didn't help him. 10:04.040 --> 10:06.040 But threateningly, I never saw a burn like that before. 10:06.040 --> 10:08.040 Uh-huh. 10:08.040 --> 10:10.040 You know, Sergeant, I knew that boy 10:10.040 --> 10:12.040 when he was in grammar school right up the street there. 10:12.040 --> 10:14.040 And he'd sit down and think sometimes, huh, 10:14.040 --> 10:16.040 where they'd grow up and change. 10:16.040 --> 10:18.040 What happened after you took the cuffs off of him? 10:18.040 --> 10:20.040 He got out of his gear clothes and put on one of my suits. 10:20.040 --> 10:22.040 Took what I had in my wallet, $12, 10:22.040 --> 10:24.040 and then he kept running around and he found my gun. 10:24.040 --> 10:26.040 He took that with him, too. 10:26.040 --> 10:28.040 Well, didn't you think of calling for help? 10:28.040 --> 10:30.040 Not the way we like it, Sergeant. 10:30.040 --> 10:32.040 Just like a crazy animal. 10:32.040 --> 10:34.040 He would kill me if I tried anything. 10:34.040 --> 10:36.040 Warned me not to tell anybody. 10:36.040 --> 10:38.040 He would come back and kill me if I did. 10:38.040 --> 10:40.040 Well, I waited this morning and I called the police. 10:40.040 --> 10:42.040 He said McCoy took a gun from Mr. Ham. 10:42.040 --> 10:44.040 What kind of a gun was it? 10:44.040 --> 10:46.040 32 automatic. 10:46.040 --> 10:48.040 A Colt. I've had it for years. 10:48.040 --> 10:50.040 I've had it for the new people. 10:50.040 --> 10:54.040 He took just what he pleased, clothes, gun, money. 10:54.040 --> 10:56.040 If you want the truth, Sergeant, I just thought he was brave enough 10:56.040 --> 10:58.040 to try to stop him. 10:58.040 --> 11:00.040 Well, when McCoy left here, did you know that he had a car? 11:00.040 --> 11:02.040 No, he left on foot. 11:02.040 --> 11:06.040 Walked across the street and went down that way, uh, Georgetown. 11:06.040 --> 11:08.040 I don't know, I... I don't suppose you'll get too far. 11:08.040 --> 11:10.040 I hope not. 11:10.040 --> 11:12.040 Do you have any idea who he might have had a contact with? 11:12.040 --> 11:14.040 One of his old friends, his wallet? 11:14.040 --> 11:16.040 No, he doesn't have any folks I know of. 11:16.040 --> 11:18.040 It's a terrible thing, isn't it, kids growing up? 11:18.040 --> 11:20.040 Yeah. 11:20.040 --> 11:22.040 There's a change, like McCoy. 11:22.040 --> 11:24.040 I can understand them when they're kids. 11:24.040 --> 11:26.040 I've seen hundreds of them come through here. 11:26.040 --> 11:28.040 I know what they're thinking, how they feel. 11:28.040 --> 11:30.040 Kind of a hobby. 11:30.040 --> 11:32.040 I understand kids. 11:32.040 --> 11:34.040 There's other things that go up. 11:34.040 --> 11:36.040 All of a sudden they stop being kids. 11:36.040 --> 11:38.040 I don't understand them after that. 11:38.040 --> 11:42.040 After we left the county store, we went back to the office. 11:42.040 --> 11:48.040 We got out a supplementary APD containing a description of the suspect's clothing and the gun that he'd stolen. 11:48.040 --> 11:50.040 Together with Gonzales and Penner from robbery, 11:50.040 --> 11:54.040 that and I checked all of McCoy's known friends in the usual hangout. 11:54.040 --> 11:56.040 Stakeouts were placed. We got nowhere. 11:56.040 --> 11:58.040 The ladies and holdups continued. 11:58.040 --> 12:02.040 Thank you, the victims identified McCoy as the bandit. 12:02.040 --> 12:04.040 He was the same M.O. in each case. 12:04.040 --> 12:06.040 He worked only on the weekends, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. 12:06.040 --> 12:11.040 He'd steal a car, pull three holdups in the train general area within an hour, 12:11.040 --> 12:14.040 abandon the car in the train area, and then disappear. 12:14.040 --> 12:17.040 Two weeks passed, and then a month. 12:17.040 --> 12:19.040 The weekend robberies went on. 12:19.040 --> 12:23.040 In the most recent holdup victims, we found out that McCoy had picked up a partner. 12:23.040 --> 12:25.040 We checked the man's description through his staff office. 12:25.040 --> 12:30.040 Each of their stolen cars used by the suspects and then abandoned were kept for print. 12:30.040 --> 12:32.040 They failed to identify the second man. 12:32.040 --> 12:34.040 The holdups continued. 12:34.040 --> 12:36.040 McCoy and his partner were still alive. 12:36.040 --> 12:38.040 Monday, January 26, 830 A.M. 12:38.040 --> 12:40.040 Saturday night, I met with Captain Bidium. 12:40.040 --> 12:46.040 What's the constable? 12:46.040 --> 12:50.040 He used three holdups, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 12:50.040 --> 12:52.040 He proved his point. He's consistent. 12:52.040 --> 12:53.040 Now when do you blow the whistle on him? 12:53.040 --> 12:55.040 We're doing everything we can to be done. 12:55.040 --> 12:56.040 State that. Get some info on duty. 12:56.040 --> 12:58.040 By the end of the day, by the 20th, I want some results. 12:58.040 --> 12:59.040 I want them fast. 12:59.040 --> 13:02.040 How about the time listed for the three pickups last night? 13:02.040 --> 13:03.040 They've been double checked. 13:03.040 --> 13:04.040 Well, correct. 13:04.040 --> 13:05.040 There's something else for you. 13:05.040 --> 13:07.040 What is it, John? 13:07.040 --> 13:11.040 The drug store out in West Hollywood, robbed at 1114 P.M. 13:11.040 --> 13:12.040 Yeah? 13:12.040 --> 13:17.040 I know this one. Coffee shop out in the valley, robbed at 1121 P.M. 13:17.040 --> 13:19.040 Both of them, you've seen them, over the same area. 13:19.040 --> 13:20.040 That doesn't save them. 13:20.040 --> 13:23.040 They couldn't have made it from the spot in West Hollywood out to the valley in seven minutes. 13:23.040 --> 13:25.040 It's not possible. There's a report check-in. 13:25.040 --> 13:27.040 I know, but how could they do it? 13:27.040 --> 13:29.040 Mr. Senator, we're talking. 13:29.040 --> 13:30.040 That's what he's got to be. 13:30.040 --> 13:32.040 I can give you the shortcuts, you know? 13:32.040 --> 13:34.040 McCoy, find him. 13:34.040 --> 13:39.040 Another two weeks passed, and then two weeks more. 13:39.040 --> 13:43.040 Besides the extra men and units put in service on weekends, 13:43.040 --> 13:46.040 two dozen separate space outfares established in areas where we figured 13:46.040 --> 13:48.040 McCoy and his accomplice would cite. 13:48.040 --> 13:51.040 Didn't help much. The holdups continued. 13:51.040 --> 13:52.040 There was only one difference. 13:52.040 --> 13:55.040 The description of the bandit didn't drive anymore. 13:55.040 --> 13:58.040 We still didn't have an answer to the superhuman speed that the T. Berman 13:58.040 --> 14:04.040 TV show and robbing victims at widely separated points all within a short period of time. 14:04.040 --> 14:06.040 We stayed on it. 14:06.040 --> 14:08.040 Friday, February 21st. 14:08.040 --> 14:12.040 Ben and I took our pain on night state out in a vacant store on Sunset Boulevard. 14:12.040 --> 14:15.040 We were trying to cover a drug store in a bar directly across the street. 14:15.040 --> 14:17.040 We spent two weekends on the job. 14:17.040 --> 14:19.040 It was quiet. Nothing happened. 14:19.040 --> 14:22.040 The third weekend was no different. 14:22.040 --> 14:27.040 One thing for sure, we never have any luck taking state out, ruining this empty store 14:27.040 --> 14:29.040 must be the graphiest place in town. 14:29.040 --> 14:32.040 Oh, we've had worse. 14:32.040 --> 14:33.040 What time is it? 14:33.040 --> 14:37.040 Five past midnight. 14:37.040 --> 14:41.040 That little band over in the bar sure earned their money, don't they? 14:41.040 --> 14:43.040 They were loud all the way. 14:43.040 --> 14:46.040 Here, Ben. Can you stop a look? 14:46.040 --> 14:49.040 Hey, they were all retired on the street, I see. 14:49.040 --> 14:52.040 Oh yeah, they're heading for the bar. 14:52.040 --> 14:53.040 What do you think? 14:53.040 --> 14:57.040 They've got dark hair, got the same belt. I got to get in a hurry. 14:57.040 --> 14:59.040 I'm going in the bar. 14:59.040 --> 15:04.040 Come on, come on. 15:04.040 --> 15:06.040 Come on, we better hurry. 15:06.040 --> 15:09.040 Right there, come on. 15:09.040 --> 15:11.040 All right, throw them again. 15:11.040 --> 15:13.040 Look out. 15:13.040 --> 15:14.040 Hold it, hold it. 15:14.040 --> 15:17.040 Throw them again. 15:17.040 --> 15:20.040 Now come on, who's behind your head? 15:20.040 --> 15:26.040 I'll take them. 15:26.040 --> 15:29.040 All right, hold it right there. 15:29.040 --> 15:30.040 You all right, Ben? 15:30.040 --> 15:31.040 Yeah. 15:31.040 --> 15:33.040 You had a good time. 15:33.040 --> 15:35.040 I liked both of them. I meant right after that, huh? 15:35.040 --> 15:36.040 Well, you better look again. 15:36.040 --> 15:37.040 Huh? 15:37.040 --> 15:47.040 Either one of them's Nicole. 15:47.040 --> 15:55.040 You are listening to Dragnet, a series of authentic case histories documented from official files. 15:55.040 --> 16:01.040 Many of our corporate customers are worried about employees going wild purchasing office supplies. 16:01.040 --> 16:09.040 Safeoflinks.com allows them to set up workflow approvals and gives them more control over purchases. 16:09.040 --> 16:19.040 Safeoflinks.com and IBM are bringing office supplies and office management together. 16:19.040 --> 16:23.040 Safeoflinks.com, vice president of business to business e-commerce, 16:23.040 --> 16:26.040 Safeoflinks took a great idea of a balanced workflow. 16:26.040 --> 16:37.040 Safeof revolutionized the office supply industry to the extent that it was able to do so. 16:37.040 --> 16:58.040 From the time that you enter one of 300 almond villages in Oregon, 16:58.040 --> 17:01.840 that's the P. Alvin there, decided to break down and cooperate. 17:01.840 --> 17:03.840 1 AM, they interrogated him. 17:03.840 --> 17:05.840 I got something out of it going on, helping you. 17:05.840 --> 17:08.240 You know, I forget I helped you when you get me in court. 17:08.240 --> 17:09.840 You know, I was just being over my speech. 17:09.840 --> 17:12.240 You made me out of court, I went to surely. 17:12.240 --> 17:13.840 I knew I never could have went for it. 17:13.840 --> 17:15.240 Believe me, it won't happen again. 17:15.240 --> 17:17.440 The caller, he talked me in with a car to the left, 17:17.440 --> 17:19.440 he helped me on my pickup. 17:19.440 --> 17:22.240 I was his partner in the Sparksman factory road trip. 17:22.240 --> 17:23.040 Yeah, that's right. 17:23.040 --> 17:25.240 You can't even call me a school-proved sister, man. 17:25.240 --> 17:27.040 I was stuck there enough to go for it. 17:27.040 --> 17:28.440 How long did you work with him? 17:28.440 --> 17:30.440 Just a couple of weeks then. 17:30.440 --> 17:31.440 Three, four maybe. 17:31.440 --> 17:32.440 I didn't get along with him. 17:32.440 --> 17:34.040 Nobody gets along with him. 17:34.040 --> 17:35.840 He's a little crazy, you know what I'm saying? 17:35.840 --> 17:37.240 Who's working with him? 17:37.240 --> 17:37.840 I don't know. 17:37.840 --> 17:41.240 He's had two, three different guys down the woods with him. 17:41.240 --> 17:43.440 Say, Sergeant, can I have a drink of water, please? 17:43.440 --> 17:44.840 I'll get you some tea. 17:52.240 --> 17:53.640 I'll tell you what, man. 17:53.640 --> 17:55.240 How about the way that Cody works? 17:55.240 --> 17:58.440 He's been through three or four robberies in that old town. 17:58.440 --> 18:00.640 A lot of guys work on that, Joe. 18:00.640 --> 18:02.640 Oh, they all take it the same way, huh? 18:02.640 --> 18:03.640 Yeah, sure. 18:03.640 --> 18:06.640 When I left him on one on my own, I picked up a partner 18:06.640 --> 18:07.640 and used his system. 18:07.640 --> 18:09.640 Pretty good one, huh? 18:09.640 --> 18:11.440 Yeah, it looked like a good one. 18:11.440 --> 18:14.040 Yeah, he was picking up a hot car, dropping it down. 18:14.040 --> 18:14.840 Yeah, you got it. 18:14.840 --> 18:16.640 Must be half a dozen guys in this town 18:16.640 --> 18:18.040 working with just the man on the phone. 18:18.040 --> 18:18.640 It's a McCoy. 18:18.640 --> 18:19.640 He called it cool. 18:19.640 --> 18:21.040 Where do we find a PTO? 18:21.040 --> 18:21.440 McCoy? 18:21.440 --> 18:22.840 No, not for sure. 18:22.840 --> 18:24.040 He's got figures, you know. 18:24.040 --> 18:25.240 He's a museum guy. 18:25.240 --> 18:27.240 He only comes up for a weekend's work. 18:27.240 --> 18:29.640 On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, he takes off again. 18:29.640 --> 18:30.840 Takes off for what? 18:30.840 --> 18:33.640 When down by a border someplace, Tom says, you know, 18:33.640 --> 18:35.240 I'm not sure. 18:35.240 --> 18:37.240 You know, don't forget I'm helping you, huh? 18:37.240 --> 18:39.240 You'll never know how cooperative I am. 18:39.240 --> 18:40.240 Oh, we'll let him know, PTO. 18:40.240 --> 18:41.840 Where's the last time you saw McCoy? 18:41.840 --> 18:43.440 Oh, it's been a month anyway. 18:43.440 --> 18:45.240 I never want to see him again. 18:45.240 --> 18:46.640 So it may help you. 18:46.640 --> 18:48.440 I know where his cell phone stays. 18:48.440 --> 18:51.240 Well, probably on cell phone, in part, I can give you a address. 18:51.240 --> 18:53.240 He probably goes there once in a while. 18:53.240 --> 18:54.240 Mm-hmm. 18:54.240 --> 18:55.440 Anywhere else he thinks of? 18:55.440 --> 18:57.440 No, I'll ask about it. 18:57.440 --> 18:59.640 He won't be any pushover, so I can like I said, 18:59.640 --> 19:01.640 I can give you a little crazy. 19:01.640 --> 19:03.440 It's not going to be an easy one to take. 19:03.440 --> 19:04.440 Well, we'll give it a try. 19:04.440 --> 19:05.840 Oh, I mean it that way. 19:05.840 --> 19:08.440 He's wild, but together, my dear. 19:08.440 --> 19:09.440 Just one thing. 19:09.440 --> 19:10.240 Sure. 19:10.240 --> 19:11.840 You'll have to come first. 19:11.840 --> 19:16.240 345 AM. 19:16.240 --> 19:17.640 Pete Albiner, the new The Complex, 19:17.640 --> 19:20.840 we booked at the Minigale on suspicion 211-22. 19:20.840 --> 19:22.440 The next morning, better I checked out 19:22.440 --> 19:24.240 the address of Nicole's girlfriend, 19:24.240 --> 19:26.040 which Albiner had given us. 19:26.040 --> 19:28.040 The girlfriend's name was Esther Ravine. 19:28.040 --> 19:31.040 She told us that she hadn't seen Nicole in more than two weeks. 19:31.040 --> 19:34.040 They asked her if she knew where this estate stayed when he was in town. 19:34.040 --> 19:36.240 She gave us an address on South Seacoast. 19:36.240 --> 19:39.040 We called in and arranged for a stakeout on the girl's place, 19:39.040 --> 19:41.640 and we drove over to check the address that she'd given us. 19:41.640 --> 19:44.640 There was a small apartment court on the edge of the industrial district. 19:44.640 --> 19:47.440 Nicole wasn't there, neither was her manager. 19:47.440 --> 19:48.440 We talked to one of the tenants. 19:48.440 --> 19:52.240 They told us that the manager on Mrs. Clarifon came without a town. 19:52.240 --> 19:53.640 He said that last year was gone. 19:53.640 --> 19:56.440 Her daughter Norma was looking after the place. 19:56.440 --> 19:57.840 Her daughter was employed as a secretary 19:57.840 --> 20:01.440 at the Blue Crop Hospital plan office over on Wilshire Boulevard. 20:01.440 --> 20:03.440 We called the office and arranged for another stakeout 20:03.440 --> 20:04.840 at the apartment court. 20:04.840 --> 20:06.040 1.25 PM. 20:06.040 --> 20:09.040 We located Elaine and his daughter at the Blue Crop office on Wilshire. 20:09.040 --> 20:11.640 We showed her Nicole's mug shot. 20:11.640 --> 20:15.840 My sister, one of Mom's kids, Mr. Reynolds, 20:15.840 --> 20:17.440 she's in Bungalow 5. 20:17.440 --> 20:20.240 Anyone staying with him this Sunday? 20:20.240 --> 20:22.440 No, in Georgia, Steve, I didn't know. 20:22.440 --> 20:24.440 He has visitors, though. 20:24.440 --> 20:25.440 Is there something wrong? 20:25.440 --> 20:27.640 When did you see this man last? 20:27.640 --> 20:29.040 This man? 20:29.040 --> 20:33.440 When I was leaving for work, he was outside working in his car. 20:33.440 --> 20:34.640 He was just taking a picture. 20:34.640 --> 20:36.240 Go ahead. 20:36.240 --> 20:38.040 Hey, Carl. 20:38.040 --> 20:40.640 You see? 20:40.640 --> 20:43.240 I see. 20:43.240 --> 20:46.040 No, just address the letter to Blue Crop Hospital, 20:46.040 --> 20:49.640 and you can send it back there at the Wilshire office. 20:49.640 --> 20:51.640 That's all right. 20:51.640 --> 20:54.440 You're welcome. 20:54.440 --> 20:55.840 I'm sorry. 20:55.840 --> 20:57.240 I don't know what I'm going to say. 20:57.240 --> 21:00.240 You told us that you saw this man looking at his car this morning. 21:00.240 --> 21:02.840 Oh, yes, he was, like, parked right outside his car. 21:02.840 --> 21:04.640 I couldn't bear where I missed it. 21:04.640 --> 21:05.840 I'm going to tell Mom about it. 21:05.840 --> 21:06.840 I need to get home. 21:06.840 --> 21:09.440 What's that mean? 21:09.440 --> 21:12.040 It was hurting my stomach because it's not that time of year. 21:12.040 --> 21:13.040 That's why I noticed it. 21:13.040 --> 21:14.440 What's that? 21:14.440 --> 21:17.840 It was something that lightens the place on his car. 21:17.840 --> 21:19.240 Did you get the number? 21:19.240 --> 21:20.640 It's right here on the screen. 21:20.640 --> 21:25.040 One thirty-two p.m. 21:25.040 --> 21:27.040 With the information furnished by the girl, 21:27.040 --> 21:30.040 Ben got on the phone and called in a description of the suspect's car 21:30.040 --> 21:32.440 together with a few sets of license numbers. 21:32.440 --> 21:36.440 With a 1941 Ford sedan, dark blue, white side, and low tires. 21:36.440 --> 21:40.440 Communications got out of broadcast and a supplementary APV on it. 21:40.440 --> 21:44.440 At six p.m., Ben and I relieved the men on a stakeout at Nicole's apartment. 21:44.440 --> 21:45.440 They waited. 21:45.440 --> 21:46.840 No sign of them. 21:46.840 --> 21:48.640 They checked with the office on the hour. 21:48.640 --> 21:50.240 No sign of the car. 21:50.240 --> 21:51.440 Eight p.m. 21:51.440 --> 21:52.440 Still nothing going. 21:52.440 --> 21:53.440 Eleven o'clock. 21:53.440 --> 21:54.240 Nothing. 21:54.240 --> 21:55.640 The dollar continued from Rob. 21:55.640 --> 21:58.440 We drove out and relieved us and we headed back to the office. 21:58.440 --> 22:01.440 Eleven twenty-six p.m. 22:01.440 --> 22:02.440 What do you think? 22:02.440 --> 22:03.640 I don't know. 22:03.640 --> 22:05.640 It's like every hole I could think of. 22:05.640 --> 22:07.040 There's good for a break in there. 22:07.040 --> 22:07.840 Over here. 22:07.840 --> 22:09.240 I can use these things. 22:09.240 --> 22:09.840 Really? 22:09.840 --> 22:11.240 What is it? 22:11.240 --> 22:12.640 What's he doing? 22:12.640 --> 22:13.440 Right away. 22:13.440 --> 22:15.240 Yeah, right away. 22:15.240 --> 22:15.840 You ever? 22:15.840 --> 22:17.640 I'm here going to move on. 22:17.640 --> 22:18.240 Yeah? 22:18.240 --> 22:19.840 12th and Beacon, Southeast corner. 22:19.840 --> 22:20.440 Where is it? 22:20.440 --> 22:21.240 Nicole Leach's car. 22:21.240 --> 22:22.240 They got it spotted. 22:25.840 --> 22:27.440 Eleven fifty-six p.m. 22:27.440 --> 22:30.040 Ben and I built it in the vicinity of 12th and Beacon home. 22:30.040 --> 22:31.440 Checked with the men in unit 80K. 22:31.440 --> 22:32.840 He spotted the car. 22:32.840 --> 22:34.840 They'd gotten out a code five on it. 22:34.840 --> 22:36.440 The description matched perfectly. 22:36.440 --> 22:40.640 A 1941 Ford sedan, dark blue, white sidewall tires. 22:40.640 --> 22:45.440 The license number was one of those given us by the apartment manager's daughter that afternoon. 22:45.440 --> 22:50.040 Together with the two men in 86K, he staked out on the suspect's car at a distance. 22:50.040 --> 22:52.640 It parked almost exactly in the middle of the block. 22:52.640 --> 22:56.840 About 20 feet behind it, a red and white delivery truck was parked. 22:56.840 --> 22:58.440 The street looked fairly deserted. 22:58.440 --> 23:03.240 The only place of business open was a small corner bar supply under the block. 23:03.240 --> 23:04.540 12th street. 23:04.540 --> 23:05.440 One a.m. 23:05.440 --> 23:07.640 No one came near the dark blue sedan. 23:07.640 --> 23:08.840 We waited. 23:08.840 --> 23:09.840 Two a.m. 23:09.840 --> 23:11.640 The corner bar closed up. 23:11.640 --> 23:15.640 A man came out, got on the red and white delivery truck, and drove off. 23:15.640 --> 23:16.840 10.30 a.m. 23:16.840 --> 23:19.040 The dark blue sedan was still sitting there. 23:19.040 --> 23:20.240 We kept waiting. 23:20.240 --> 23:23.240 Roger. 50 now. Code seven. 23:23.240 --> 23:25.840 One way or the other, I wish you'd make up your mind. 23:25.840 --> 23:27.040 It's a long way. 23:27.040 --> 23:30.440 It's colder in here than it was in that vacant store. 23:30.440 --> 23:32.040 But it kept. It kept repeating. 23:32.040 --> 23:35.040 Yeah, right off the hook. 23:35.040 --> 23:36.640 80K to control one. 23:36.640 --> 23:38.240 80K to control one. 23:38.240 --> 23:41.240 Control one to 80K. Go ahead. 23:41.240 --> 23:43.840 80K to control one. We clear. 23:43.840 --> 23:46.840 Control one to 80K. Stand by. 23:46.840 --> 23:48.240 Oh, you're on smoke. 23:48.240 --> 23:49.440 Oh, I'm out. 23:49.440 --> 23:50.240 You too? 23:50.240 --> 23:51.040 Yeah. 23:51.040 --> 23:52.640 I guess we do without you. 23:52.640 --> 23:54.240 Control one to 80K. 23:54.240 --> 23:57.040 Control one to 80K. You're clear. 23:57.040 --> 23:59.240 Code one. 23:59.240 --> 24:01.040 80K to control one. Roger. 24:01.040 --> 24:01.840 10-86. 24:01.840 --> 24:03.440 Let me have a look, Joe. 24:03.440 --> 24:04.440 This kind of car. 24:04.440 --> 24:05.040 Yeah. 24:05.040 --> 24:07.040 Far end of the block opposite side. 24:07.040 --> 24:08.040 Isn't that this way? 24:08.040 --> 24:08.840 Yeah. 24:08.840 --> 24:10.040 You make out two of them there? 24:10.040 --> 24:10.840 Uh-huh. 24:10.840 --> 24:12.440 Two. 24:12.440 --> 24:14.440 They're passing by just to drain it. 24:14.440 --> 24:15.640 Oh, yeah. 24:15.640 --> 24:16.840 Yeah. 24:16.840 --> 24:18.240 They're getting there, I think. 24:18.240 --> 24:19.440 Come on. 24:21.840 --> 24:22.440 I'll just go. 24:22.440 --> 24:23.440 They're getting out. 24:23.440 --> 24:24.040 All right, hold it there. 24:24.040 --> 24:25.240 Both of you. 24:25.240 --> 24:26.640 Now, Joe. 24:26.640 --> 24:28.440 Get off the toy. 24:28.440 --> 24:29.240 Find a car. 24:29.240 --> 24:31.240 Uh-huh. 24:31.240 --> 24:32.240 All right, hold it. 24:32.240 --> 24:33.440 Don't shoot, Joe. 24:33.440 --> 24:34.240 Drop the gun. 24:34.240 --> 24:34.840 Both of you. 24:34.840 --> 24:35.640 Harry, don't shoot. 24:35.640 --> 24:36.240 Drop the gun. 24:36.240 --> 24:38.040 Don't kill it. 24:38.040 --> 24:38.640 Get up, Harry. 24:38.640 --> 24:39.240 Don't kill it. 24:39.240 --> 24:39.640 Come on. 24:39.640 --> 24:40.440 Pull him up. 24:40.440 --> 24:41.040 Don't shoot. 24:41.040 --> 24:41.640 Here's my gun. 24:41.640 --> 24:44.240 Don't shoot. 24:44.240 --> 24:45.040 Pull him. 24:45.040 --> 24:45.640 Come on, Harry. 24:45.640 --> 24:49.040 You gotta shut up. 24:49.040 --> 24:49.840 Let's go. 24:49.840 --> 24:50.240 Let's go. 24:50.240 --> 24:52.040 Yeah, careful. 24:52.040 --> 24:53.640 There's a gun. 24:53.640 --> 24:54.040 Don't shoot. 24:54.040 --> 24:54.640 He's got my hand. 24:54.640 --> 24:55.040 Drop it. 24:55.040 --> 24:56.040 I'll keep him up. 24:56.040 --> 24:57.040 OK, I will. 24:57.040 --> 24:57.640 But don't shoot. 24:57.640 --> 24:58.440 I didn't use my gun. 24:58.440 --> 24:59.440 Harry did. 24:59.440 --> 25:00.840 I told you to come on me, you heard me. 25:00.840 --> 25:01.640 You heard me. 25:01.640 --> 25:02.640 Told me to not to shoot. 25:02.640 --> 25:03.240 Check my gun. 25:03.240 --> 25:04.040 I didn't shoot it, too. 25:04.040 --> 25:04.640 Come on. 25:04.640 --> 25:05.640 Get him out in front of me. 25:05.640 --> 25:06.640 I'll get you in the car. 25:06.640 --> 25:07.640 Come on, Lofi. 25:07.640 --> 25:08.640 Third time for me. 25:08.640 --> 25:09.640 My right foot. 25:09.640 --> 25:10.640 You ready? 25:10.640 --> 25:11.640 Let's go. 25:11.640 --> 25:12.640 Please, huh? 25:12.640 --> 25:13.640 You ain't break? 25:13.640 --> 25:14.640 You took the wrong time to call me. 25:14.640 --> 25:15.640 Please, huh? 25:15.640 --> 25:16.640 This is the third time for me. 25:16.640 --> 25:17.640 I'm no good in that. 25:17.640 --> 25:18.640 You had your chances to take them away. 25:18.640 --> 25:19.640 Let's make a deal. 25:19.640 --> 25:20.640 I'm no good in jail. 25:20.640 --> 25:21.640 No good at all. 25:21.640 --> 25:22.640 We're a little better out here. 25:22.640 --> 25:23.640 Let's go. 25:23.640 --> 25:36.640 The story you just heard was true. 25:36.640 --> 25:42.640 Only the men were there to protect the innocent. 25:42.640 --> 25:47.640 On May 24th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, 25:47.640 --> 25:48.640 State of California. 25:48.640 --> 25:50.640 In a moment, the results of that trial. 25:50.640 --> 26:02.640 Vernon Niccoli and his accomplices were tried and convicted on several counts of first degree 26:02.640 --> 26:03.640 robbery. 26:03.640 --> 26:08.640 They received sentences as prescribed by law and are now serving their terms in the state 26:08.640 --> 26:09.640 penitentiary. 26:09.640 --> 26:14.640 First degree robbery is punishable by a prison term of not less than five years with a maximum 26:14.640 --> 26:15.640 life term. 26:15.640 --> 26:20.640 Ladies and gentlemen, the Red Cross has been asked by your government to help the nation 26:20.640 --> 26:22.640 mobilize for defense. 26:22.640 --> 26:25.640 You can help by giving generously to the Red Cross. 26:25.640 --> 26:29.640 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authenticators from official files. 26:29.640 --> 26:33.640 Technical advice comes from the Office of the People's Police, W.H. 26:33.640 --> 26:45.640 Butcher, Los Angeles Police Department.