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The documented drama of an actual crime. 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 26 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:09,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 27 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:16,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 28 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 It was Tuesday, August 18th. It was warm in Los Angeles. 29 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 We were working the day watch out of burglary detail. 30 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name is Friday. 31 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,000 It was 1.34 p.m. when we got to the second floor of the Central Jail building. The crime lab. 32 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 We couldn't sleep last night. Faye and I had another beef. 33 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Oh, what about this time? 34 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Cards, you know, can I ask you? 35 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Yeah? 36 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Folks next door came over after dinner and we got to playing. They play real good. 37 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Mm-hmm. 38 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 It wasn't long before we really getting schlocked. 39 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 What? 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 You know, schlocked. Beaten. 41 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Oh. 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Terrible. 43 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Yeah. 44 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Last hand, they go down right away, Joe. Seemed like everything I threw them, they could use. 45 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Picked up everything. 46 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 I couldn't do anything right. Just kept building up males, they did. 47 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Big thing for us was to get out as quick as we could. You know, get the hand over with? 48 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Yeah. 49 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Faye wasn't doing any good. Finally, I still don't know how they let it happen. 50 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 I got enough points to go down, so I asked Faye if it's okay. 51 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Uh-uh. 52 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 You have to do that, you know, ask your partner's permission to get the hand over. 53 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Yeah. 54 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 You know that? 55 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Yeah, well, you. 56 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Well, you might not believe it, but you know what she said? 57 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 No. Just sat there and said she didn't think it was time. 58 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Is that right? 59 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Yeah. I know it's kind of picky, but there they were, the other kids just piling up points, schlocking us all over the place. 60 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Schlocking. 61 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Yeah. Handed them around a couple more times. Each time I asked Faye if she wants to get out, each time, you know what she says? 62 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,000 No. 63 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 That's it. No. 64 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Well, what finally happened? 65 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Oh, the other folks ran out of cards. Wasn't any more play, so they got out. 66 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Thirty-six hundred points. And I found out why Faye didn't want to quit. 67 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Why? 68 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Had to deuce. 69 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 What? 70 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 A deuce, a two, you know? 71 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Yeah. 72 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 She said she didn't want to get caught with it. 73 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Yeah, well, we better get started, huh? 74 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Wait a minute. That's not the worst of it, let me tell you. 75 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 All right. 76 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,000 All night we're playing, see, all night. I'm saving cards. You know, I'm like tens. 77 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Like to get tens. I save tens. 78 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Yeah. I guess everybody saves tens. 79 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Well, I save more than other guys. We get all through and you know what? 80 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:34,000 We find out there are only seven tens in the deck. One of them's missing. All night. There's seven tens. 81 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Well, that's dreadful. 82 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Well, I tell you, you're a schlock. Schlocks. 83 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 I couldn't sleep a wink. 84 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Roddy? 85 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Yeah, Ray? 86 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Leg here. 87 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Girls out to lunch. I'm on my way. 88 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Come on back. 89 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Hi, how's it going, Ray? 90 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Moving around is about all. Hot out, huh? 91 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Yeah, paper says it's going to go over 90 today. 92 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Too hot for me. 93 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Yeah. Well, how you coming on the job this morning? 94 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Just finishing up. Looks like the rest of them. 95 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Yeah. 96 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Got some pictures here. Take a look. 97 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Here's pictures of the marks they left on the door this morning. 98 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 See those two long scratches on the wood? 99 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Yeah, here? 100 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Yeah, over here. Here's a picture from the Argosy Manufacturing Company's door. 101 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 See? Same two marks. 102 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Pretty safe bet to figure that both doors are open to the same pry bar. 103 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Yeah, same type of entrance made this time, huh? 104 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Yeah, just the one mark on the door. 105 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 They know what they're doing. Insert the bar, hit it once, and the door opens. 106 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 How about the safe? What do you got on that? 107 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Here. This is a picture we got of the room. Same as the others. 108 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Standard rip job. Nothing different there. 109 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 How about marks? 110 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 No, no help there. Here's the pictures. 111 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Looks like the same tool that was used on the other jobs. 112 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Did you find anything else, Ray? 113 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 No. At least nothing that helps. 114 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Layton Prince picked up a couple from the safe. 115 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Belonged to the manager of the place. Nothing else would give us anything. 116 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Well, I'd say that was the same bunch. 117 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Yeah, either that or they're lending their tools to the boys in the neighborhood. 118 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Yeah, well, that is likely. 119 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Cigarette, Ray? 120 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Yeah, thanks. 121 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Ray? 122 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Here's the light. 123 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Ray? 124 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Thanks. 125 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Really leaning on you guys for this one, huh? 126 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Yeah, Skipper's taking a lot of heat. 127 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 What's this make for them? 34 or 35? 128 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 35. Six months. 129 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Any near at all? 130 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 No, not much. 131 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Got anything to tell how many men there are? 132 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 That'd be hard to say for sure. 133 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 The way they work figures about three or four maybe. 134 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Yeah, that's the way it looks. 135 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Take that number to pull out the operation as smooth as they're doing it though, Ray. 136 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 You got anything at all to work on? 137 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Well, we checked around town. There aren't any rumbles. 138 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 One of the tightest gangs that we've seen in a long time. 139 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Doesn't seem like anybody outside knows what's going on. 140 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 We checked the places around. Nobody's spending a lot of money they can't account for. 141 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 How much they take so far? 142 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Well, what they got this morning, let's see, it comes to a little under $36,000, doesn't it, Frank? 143 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Yeah. What about you, Ray? You turn up anything we can use? 144 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Nothing that points any place. 145 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 We know how they got in, how they hit the safe. That isn't going to help much. 146 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Same M.O. as the others. 147 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 You haven't got any idea who they are, huh? 148 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 No, nothing. 149 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 If we had any idea who they are, we could maybe use the anthracene on their tools. 150 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 That's great. We've got to find the tools before we use that. 151 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 We've got no idea where they plan them. 152 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Seems that one of your informants would be able to come up with something on it. 153 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Yeah, you'd think so. We've checked them all, Ray. No leads to the gang. 154 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Doesn't seem there's anybody in town that knows who they are. 155 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Anybody new operating on them? 156 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 No, we checked that out, too. 157 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 We've had the stats office make so many runs that they're wearing out the cards. 158 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 M.O. isn't new. It's been used before, but all the possibles have been checked out. 159 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Stuff from Brereton up at C.I.I., the other lead from the A.P.B.s, they've all been cleared. 160 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Now, we've got just what we started with, a gang working when they want to, where they want to. 161 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 There's nothing we can do about it. 162 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Well, I wish there was more I could do to help out. 163 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 I've got to get back to work. Got some precipitant tests. Homicide wants us this afternoon. 164 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Yeah, well, we'll see you later, Ray. 165 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Right. You want this stuff booked? 166 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Yeah, we'll take care of it. 167 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Okay. 168 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Excuse me a minute. 169 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Yeah. 170 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Crime lab, Pinker. 171 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Yeah? 172 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Yeah, they're both here. 173 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Which one? 174 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Yeah, hold on. Joe? 175 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Yeah? 176 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 To you, office. 177 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Thanks. 178 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Friday. 179 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Oh, yeah, Chandler. 180 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Uh-huh. 181 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Wendy Call. 182 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Yeah, well, what's that number? 183 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 4-4? Right. 184 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Yeah, I'll call him right away. 185 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Right. Bye. 186 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Chandler, huh? 187 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Yeah, Don Jackson called. Said he wanted to get in touch with us. 188 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Jackson? Doesn't ring any bells. 189 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 It's the guy we pinched last month. 190 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Remember? Looked like the guy who was in on the service station jobs. 191 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Oh, yeah, I remember. 192 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 The guy with the wax mustache, huh? 193 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Mm-hmm. 194 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Hello. Don Jackson? 195 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Oh, could I speak to him, please? 196 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Don, this is Joe Friday. 197 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Yeah. 198 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Mm-hmm. 199 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Yeah, well, it's 1-47 now. 200 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Take us about 10 minutes. 201 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000 How about 2? 202 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 All right. Fine. Yeah, we know where it is. 203 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Right. We'll see you there. All right? 204 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Bye. 205 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 What's he want? 206 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 He wants to see us about the rip jobs. 207 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Yeah? 208 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Says he's got a rumble on him. 209 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Don Jackson had been a suspect in a series of service station burglaries we'd investigated. 210 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 He'd been picked up and interrogated, 211 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 but investigations showed that he couldn't have been involved in the thefts. 212 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Since he'd been released, we'd heard nothing from him, 213 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,000 and as far as we knew, he'd gone back to his job in a downtown clothing store. 214 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 From what he told me on the phone, 215 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 he had some information about the current series of safe burglaries. 216 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 1-48 p.m. 217 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Frank and I left the crime lab and drove over to the store where Jackson worked. 218 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 He managed to get relieved, and he took us to a small coffee shop near the store. 219 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 We sat down and ordered some coffee, 220 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 and Jackson told us what he knew about the burglaries. 221 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Now, I could be wrong about this. I don't think so. 222 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 But outside, it could be. 223 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Uh-huh. Don, you got any one reason for figuring that the Scott fellas tied in with the jobs? 224 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Well, nothing I can put my finger on, you know, 225 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 just that the guy's never done a full day's work in his life. 226 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Don't think he knows what a callous is. 227 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Yet he's always loaded, always got a role. 228 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 It's real, too. 229 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Not like them you see sometimes with a big bill on the outside and ones in the middle. 230 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Now, this guy's loaded, you know? 231 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Yeah. Where'd you meet him? 232 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Well, I was sitting in a bar down the street one night, having a belt before dinner. 233 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 We got to talking, ended up beating together that night. 234 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 You remember when this was, Don, when you first met him? 235 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Well, let me see. Yeah, it was the day I got the trench coat from England. 236 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Now, let me see. That make it about August 4th. 237 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Yeah, yeah, it was the night I got the coat. 238 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Come to think of it, that's what got us to talking, the coat. 239 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 I don't understand. 240 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Well, you see, I got this here coat. I had it sent over from England. 241 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 It's a real beauty. All kinds of linings and wind straps in the sleeves. 242 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 It's great, you know? Uh-huh. 243 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Well, I had him send this coat to the store. 244 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 It got there on the 4th. I had it with me that night. 245 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 And Scotty noticed it. We got to talking about clothes and went to dinner. 246 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 He asked me how much the coat cost. 247 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 I told him, run about 40, maybe 50 bucks. 248 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,000 He asked me if I could get one for him and I told him, sure. 249 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 It'd take a couple of weeks. Uh-huh. 250 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Well, he asked me to send a letter to my friend, the air mail special, 251 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 and asked him to send the coat over by express. 252 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 I told him I would, and then he asked me if I wanted to pay me then. 253 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,000 I told him, no, wait until I knew just how much the coat was going to run. 254 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 You know, duty and postage and all that. Yeah, I know. 255 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Well, he said that'd be okay with him. 256 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 I saw him a couple of times after that, and every time he'd ask about the coat, 257 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 I told him that was in the works, you know. 258 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Well, finally got the coat. It was beautiful. Never saw the guy again. 259 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 I'm out 46 bucks. 260 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,000 I promise Scotty, leave me with that coat. My own money, too. 46 bucks. 261 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 I don't make enough to lose that kind of money, you know. 262 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,000 That's too bad, Jackson, but why do you figure this got anything to do with the burglaries? 263 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Well, now I just told you, for one thing, the money. 264 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Always had a lot, but had never had a job. 265 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 No place to get the money. 266 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Not only that, but one night, well, I saw him. 267 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 We were going out to dinner, and he said he couldn't quite make it then. 268 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:38,000 That something had come up, that he had to take a rain check, you know. Uh-huh. 269 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Well, I asked him what had come up, what was so important. 270 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 He said he had to see a guy over in East L.A. some sort of business deal. 271 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 He say what this deal was about? 272 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 No, he wouldn't say. The next day he shows up loaded. 273 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Got a roll on, choke a horse. 274 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Now I asked him where to get it. 275 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 I kid him about being one of the guys who ripped the safe in the August he planned. 276 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 What did he say to that? 277 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Nothing, just got real serious, you know. 278 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Asked me why I asked him that. 279 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Well, it made me think he was in on the job. 280 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 I kept telling him I didn't know anything about it. I was just kidding. 281 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 He finally bought it and said it was okay, but he said I shouldn't go around saying things like that. 282 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 All right, go ahead. 283 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Well, I got the coat and looked Scotty up to give it to him. 284 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Wouldn't pay for it. 285 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:21,000 They lost the coat thing up or something, I don't know, set the wrong size, and I'm stuck with it. 286 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 He wouldn't have anything to do with it. 287 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 I figured since I ordered it for him, it ain't my fault that it's big. 288 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 He should pay for it, you know, 46 bucks. 289 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Now any way you look at it, I laid out the dough. 290 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 I figured he should make good on it. 291 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 He wouldn't do it. 292 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,000 And I got sore and I figured maybe you'd like to know how he acted about the August he job. 293 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Lousy bum. 46 bucks that coat cost. 294 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 You know where the Scot lives? 295 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 I haven't got the slightest idea, but I got his phone number, though. I'll give you that. 296 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Can you give us a description of him? 297 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Sure, he's a sneaky little guy. 298 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 No wonder the coat won't fit. 299 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Little bitty guy, you know. 300 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Yeah, now you say his full name is Leonard Scott, is that right? 301 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Yeah, crummy bum. I hope you get him. 302 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Well, we'll talk to him, Don. 303 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 He knows something about it. I bet money on it he knows. 304 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Say, I don't like to bring this up, but you guys could do me a big favor, you know. 305 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 What's that? 306 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 No, I don't suppose you could. 307 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000 What is it, Don? 308 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,000 You know anybody could use a size 52 trench coat? 309 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,000 We continued to talk to Don Jackson. We got the description of Leonard Scott and his phone number. 310 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 3.15 p.m. We drove back to the city hall and checked the name through RNI. 311 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 We came up with several possibles. 312 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 The mug shots were pulled on them and they were shown to Jackson. 313 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 He was able to identify one of them as the man he told us about. 314 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000 The suspect had a record for burglary and had served two terms in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. 315 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 He'd served his full term and was not on parole. 316 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:49,000 We checked the last address on his convict registration card and we found that he lived in a rooming house on West 11th Street. 317 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,000 The phone number he'd given Jackson was the same as the one on the registration card. 318 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 We drove over to talk to him. 319 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,000 We found that he wasn't in his room and from the landlady we learned that he was expected back around seven that evening. 320 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000 We checked his room in company with the landlady and then we called the office and told them where we were 321 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 in the event they had to contact us. 322 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,000 We waited in the living room of the house for the suspect to return. 323 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 7.15 p.m. 324 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Sure? 325 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Yeah. He matches the description, doesn't he? Come on. 326 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Just a minute. You Leonard Scott? 327 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Yeah. Who are you? 328 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Police officers. Like to talk to you. 329 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 What's this all about? 330 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Be better if we went up to your room. 331 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Oh. All right. Come on up. 332 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Can't you give me some idea what this is all about? 333 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 We'll talk to you about it. 334 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Go ahead. Open the door. 335 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Go ahead. 336 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Yeah. 337 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Okay. What's the pitch? 338 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 You've been through it before. You're an ex-con. You know the pitch. 339 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 You tell us what you do for a living? 340 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 I work. 341 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Doing what? 342 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 I'm a salesman. 343 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 What do you sell? 344 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Different things. What's all this prove? You guys coming in here making like big men. I'm going straight. I work for a living. 345 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Now either tell me what this is all about or get out of here. 346 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 You remember what you were doing on August 4th? 347 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 It's a long time ago. 348 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 You remember what you were doing? 349 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 You have to think about it. It's a long time ago. 350 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Why don't you take your time? We'd like to know. 351 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 August 4th, huh? 352 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Yeah. 353 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Oh, sorry, fellas. Can't remember a thing. 354 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 How about the 5th? 355 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Same there. 356 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 6th? 357 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Nothing. How about the 7th of August? 358 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Oh, I can give you a hand there. I had a dinner with a friend. 359 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Then we went to a show. I had a few drinks after and then I came home. 360 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Who's the friend? 361 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Well, I know. What's his name? 362 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Why I gotta tell you that? 363 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 We gotta check your alibi. 364 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,000 What do I need an alibi for? I haven't done anything. My time's clean. I got nothing to explain to you. 365 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Then maybe you can clear up a few things for us. 366 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 I would like to help the cops out. What do you want to know? 367 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:44,000 How come you remember what you were doing on August 7th? You got trouble with time before then, haven't you? 368 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 What's so important with the dates? Maybe if you tell me what you're after, I can help you out. 369 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 You quit being cagey. Maybe I can come up with the answers. 370 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,000 The Argosy manufacturing plant had their safe ripped open on that night. You look good for the job. 371 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Oh, you're out of your mind. 372 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Yeah, we got a witness who tells us you showed up with a pocketful of money the next day. 373 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,000 You've fallen twice before for burglary. 374 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,000 You can't account for your time before or after the day, but you happen to have an alibi for the night of the heist. 375 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,000 You got no steady job, but you got plenty of money. Now, come off it, Scott. We got you nailed for the job and you know it. 376 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 You got a choice of giving us a hand on this thing and it'll be marked down in your favor, 377 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,000 or you can be a big man and stand for this thing alone. It's up to you. We'll play it any way you want. 378 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 You figure you can make me for the jobs? 379 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Looks like it won't be too tough. 380 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 You're in the middle, Scott. Why don't you cop out? 381 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 What do I get for turning pink? 382 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 I told you it'd be marked down that way. 383 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 How about it, Scott? 384 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 All right, I guess I gotta go with you. 385 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 I wasn't in on the jobs. I didn't really have anything to do with the casing. 386 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 It helped a little bit. Not much, just a little. 387 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Where'd you figure it? 388 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Once I worked as a lookout for him. 389 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Who are they? 390 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 I can give you the names. 391 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 I'd like to see you get them, lousy bunch. Hope you get them good. 392 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Make every one of them lousy mums the way they treated me. 393 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 What do you mean by that? 394 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Big deal. Have the cops run around in circles. Big deal. Nothing. 395 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Work along with them. Everything will be fine. Big deal. 396 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,000 How many of them are there? 397 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Four. Four real bums. They said they were gonna take care of me. 398 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 They told me I'd get my share of the money. Lousy liars. 399 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,000 One job I was with them. 400 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 After that, they told me I hadn't done enough to earn my way, 401 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 that I wasn't any help to anybody. 402 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Well, next time you see them, you can tell them. 403 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Yeah? 404 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 They were wrong. 405 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 We got the names of the four men who were involved in the burglaries. 406 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 We took Leonard Scott down to the city hall 407 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 and pulled the packages on the four suspects. 408 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 He gave us a positive identification on them. 409 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,000 We checked with Captain Wisdom and it was decided to wait 410 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,000 until we could catch the suspects in the actual attempt to commit a burglary. 411 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 We checked out the address of the four suspects 412 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 and got as much information as we could on them 413 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 without letting them know that they were under surveillance. 414 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Additional teams of men were assigned to the stakeout. 415 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Each of them was watched 24 hours a day 416 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 and each of the teams of detectives were in constant contact with the burglary division. 417 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Two days passed. 418 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 None of the suspects made any attempt to make contact with the others. 419 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 We met with the district attorney and it was decided that 420 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 in the interest of bringing the gang to justice, 421 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 the first suspect, Leonard Scott, should be released from custody 422 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 to act as an informant for us. 423 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 He would be kept under constant surveillance. 424 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Frank and I were assigned to follow him. 425 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 In the next three days, he went about his business as usual. 426 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Each evening he'd leave his rooming house and walk through the bars in the downtown area. 427 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 He told us that contact and information regarding the burglaries 428 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,000 was made by the leader of the gang, one of the suspects named Howard Ramsey. 429 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 On Monday, August 24th, we saw Ramsey approach Leonard Scott. 430 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 They talked briefly in the rear of a bar on 6th Street and then Ramsey left. 431 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 We waited for about 15 minutes and then we saw Scott leave the bar. 432 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 We followed him down the street to an all-night coffee stand. 433 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 We sat down next to him at the counter and at the first opportunity, 434 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 he told us what Ramsey had said. 435 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 You guys haven't got long to wait. 436 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 What did he say? 437 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 The deal's set. It's gonna be a machine shop out in West L.A. 438 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Rumble is the safe, has over 25 grand in it. 439 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Biggest job they've tackled. 440 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Can you say how it's gonna work? 441 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Yeah, I'll fill you in on it. 442 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 I thought you might want to get in touch with your office, so... 443 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,000 How's that? 444 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,000 You're gonna work tonight. 445 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 You are listening to Dragnet, 446 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 the authentic story of your police force in action. 447 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? 448 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Chesterfield, first to give you premium quality in both regular and king size. 449 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Chesterfield, first choice of young America 450 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,000 from a survey of 274 leading colleges and universities. 451 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Chesterfield, first to give you this report. 452 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 A doctor has been making thorough examinations 453 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000 of a group of Chesterfield smokers every two months for a full year. 454 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,000 And he reports no adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses 455 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,000 from smoking Chesterfield. 456 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Try Chesterfield, regular or king size. 457 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Chesterfield is America's best cigarette buy. 458 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,000 9.32 p.m. We got the rest of the story from Leonard Scott. 459 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 The plan, as he outlined it for us, was that the four other suspects 460 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,000 would not meet until they were at the plant that was to be burglarized. 461 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 We got in touch with the men who were following the suspects 462 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 and told them what had happened. 463 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:15,000 10.07 p.m. We met with Captain Wisdom and put the operating plan into effect. 464 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,000 It had been arranged that all of the men following the suspects 465 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000 would be in three-way radio cars so that constant communication 466 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 could be kept between the units of the operation. 467 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Additional officers were planted on the roofs of the buildings 468 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 surrounding the plant to be burglarized. 469 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,000 These men would be equipped with walkie talkie so they could keep in constant touch 470 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 with each other and with us in a three-way radio car. 471 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000 In this way, we could direct operations and we'd have a complete picture 472 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 of what was happening in the immediate vicinity. 473 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 A blockade system was set up to be put into operation once the suspects 474 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 had entered the trap so that escape would be impossible. 475 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,000 11.45 p.m. The plan was completed and the men involved were in their assigned positions. 476 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 We followed Leonard Scott to his rooming house and he changed to his working clothes. 477 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 He came out of his house and we followed him out the freeway to Hollywood. 478 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 From there, he drove out Sunset Boulevard to Whittier Drive in Beverly Hills 479 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,000 and then he went out Wilshire Boulevard toward West L.A. 480 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 As we drove, we could hear the other units reporting the position of the men that they were following. 481 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000 All of the suspects left their homes at approximately the same time 482 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,000 and it looked as if they would get to the plant within a couple of minutes of the scheduled time. 483 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Scott had told us that they would not meet at the plant, 484 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 but they'd rendezvoused at Drive-In a couple of blocks from the plant. 485 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 There, they would be given their instructions. 486 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 2.16 a.m. The five cars pulled into the Drive-In and after a brief conversation, 487 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 they all left and drove toward the plant. 488 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,000 2.23 a.m. All the police units got into their positions as arranged. 489 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Frank and I took up our position and we listened to the reports coming in over the radio. 490 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Unit 1KY80, Unit 1KY80, Rubels, come in. 491 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Unit 1KY80 to Rubels, go ahead. 492 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 I'm on the roof of the building directly across the street from the factory, Joe. 493 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 I can see the suspects now. 494 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 How many of them are there? 495 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,000 I can see three. I think there's a couple more at the corner as lookouts. 496 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Hey, Donovan's down the block. Maybe he can see the others. 497 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Unit 1KY80 to Donovan, come in, please, over. 498 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 This is Donovan. Yeah, there's one of them on the corner down here. 499 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 He drove up and got out to take a look at the motor of his car. 500 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 He's over there working on it now. 501 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,000 This Rubels, I can see another one at the other corner. 502 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 He's changing a tire. 503 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Got the jack under the car, but he's not trying to get the wheel off. 504 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000 The others are at the factory door now. 505 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 You see anything where you are, Joe? 506 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Not much. Shadows across the street. I can't see the doorway. 507 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 What are they doing now? 508 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 They're inside now. They forced the lock on the door and got inside. 509 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 The door's closed. I can't see them anymore, Joe. 510 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 All units, this is Friday in Unit 1KY80. 511 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 All units move in to apprehend suspects. 512 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Repeat, move in to apprehend suspects. 513 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Units 2R4, 5, 6 and 7 and Unit 2R20. 514 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Move to blockade positions. 515 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 All right, let's go. Right. 516 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 They got the place covered in back, okay? 517 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Yeah, all covered. All right. 518 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 This ought to do it, huh? Right. 519 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 All right, let's go. Yeah. 520 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Well, I got the lookout. Yeah, I see. 521 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Well, let's take it easy, huh? 522 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 See them? 523 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 No. There's a light back there. Looks like the office. 524 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Wait a minute. Yeah. 525 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 All of them must be back there. Sounds like they're putting a bar 526 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 into the back of the safe, doesn't it? Yeah. 527 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Are there any rubles? 528 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 All right, let's go. They're in the office now. 529 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000 You want to move in from that side? Right. 530 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 All right, let's go. All right. 531 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Come on, get on it. We haven't got all night. 532 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 That safe felt like a sardine can. 533 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,000 There's no reason to take this along. 534 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,000 We're doing the best we can. 535 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 We got the 10 or 5 bricks giving us trouble. 536 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Yeah, let me take a look. 537 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 All right, hold it right where you are. 538 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Cops, let's get out of here. Watch them, Joe. 539 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 I'll get them. Right. 540 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Come on, Ramsey. You got no place to go. 541 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 The building's surrounded. 542 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Back here, Joe. 543 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Get out of here, cops. You're never going to take us. 544 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Pull it up. Don't shoot anymore. I give up. I give up. 545 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Come on, cops. Come on and get it. 546 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 He ain't talking for me. I've had it. 547 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 I don't want any more shooting. I give up. 548 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000 All right, throw your guns out here. 549 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Here's mine. 550 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 All right, come on out of there. Get over there. 551 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Get your hands back of your head. 552 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Stand right there and don't move. 553 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 I gave up, didn't I? I didn't want any more of it. 554 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Come on, Ramsey. Your partner was smart. 555 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Why don't you play it that way, too? 556 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 You come and get me, cop. 557 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,000 All right. You win. I'm out of shells. Don't shoot. 558 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Throw that gun out here. 559 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 All right, now come on out of there. 560 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Keep your hands back of your head. Come on, move. 561 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 That's good. Right there. 562 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000 All right, all right. 563 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Come on, Ramsey. Over there next to your partner. 564 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Now stand still, both of you. 565 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Put your hands against the wall. 566 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Stand still and don't move. 567 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,000 All right, they're clean, Joe. 568 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 There were three of them. Where's the other one? 569 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 I made a break for the front door. They got them out there. 570 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Lousy luck all the way around. 571 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 How'd you know? Who told you? 572 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,000 That doesn't make any difference. 573 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Well, somebody had to tell you. 574 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 You'd never find out if somebody had told you. 575 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Yeah, that's right. Come on, let's go now. 576 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Well, who told you? Who turned Fink? 577 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Somebody had to tell you, didn't they? 578 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Well, don't you worry about it, mister. 579 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,000 What do you mean? 580 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,000 You're going to have a lot of time to figure it out. 581 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Now let's go. 582 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 The story you've just heard was true. 583 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 584 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 On January 14th, trial was held in Department 89, 585 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Superior Court of the State of California, 586 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 587 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 588 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 589 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 590 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 I'd like to talk to you people who don't smoke Chester for the 591 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,000 fields. 592 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 I'm convinced that if you try just one carton, 593 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 you'll find that they're best for you. 594 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 They're milder and they have a wonderful taste. 595 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Most important, they have premium quality in both sizes, 596 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 regular or king size. 597 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 So pick up that carton, will you? 598 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Chesterfields, try them. 599 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Howard Allen, Ramsey, Jack Irwin, McArthur, 600 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 and the other two suspects were tried and convicted of 601 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 15 counts of burglary in the first degree. 602 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 They received sentences as prescribed by law. 603 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Burglary in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment 604 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than 605 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,000 five years. 606 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Because of his cooperation, Leonard James Scott was given 607 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 a lighter sentence and at the conclusion of his prison term 608 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 was placed on probation for a period of two years. 609 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Ladies and gentlemen, we wish to thank the editors of TV Guide 610 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 for the cover picture and story on Dragnet. 611 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,000 You can get TV Guide at your favorite newsstand. 612 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:13,000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases 613 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 from official files. 614 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police 615 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 W.H. 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