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The documented drama of an actual crime. 01:58.000 --> 02:03.000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 02:03.000 --> 02:09.000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 02:09.000 --> 02:16.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 It was Tuesday, August 18th. It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 We were working the day watch out of burglary detail. 02:25.000 --> 02:29.000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name is Friday. 02:29.000 --> 02:34.000 It was 1.34 p.m. when we got to the second floor of the Central Jail building. The crime lab. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 We couldn't sleep last night. Faye and I had another beef. 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 Oh, what about this time? 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Cards, you know, can I ask you? 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Yeah? 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 Folks next door came over after dinner and we got to playing. They play real good. 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 Mm-hmm. 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 It wasn't long before we really getting schlocked. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 What? 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 You know, schlocked. Beaten. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Oh. 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Terrible. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.000 Yeah. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 Last hand, they go down right away, Joe. Seemed like everything I threw them, they could use. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 Picked up everything. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 I couldn't do anything right. Just kept building up males, they did. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 Big thing for us was to get out as quick as we could. You know, get the hand over with? 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 Yeah. 03:10.000 --> 03:14.000 Faye wasn't doing any good. Finally, I still don't know how they let it happen. 03:14.000 --> 03:18.000 I got enough points to go down, so I asked Faye if it's okay. 03:18.000 --> 03:19.000 Uh-uh. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 You have to do that, you know, ask your partner's permission to get the hand over. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 Yeah. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 You know that? 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Yeah, well, you. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 Well, you might not believe it, but you know what she said? 03:29.000 --> 03:33.000 No. Just sat there and said she didn't think it was time. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 Is that right? 03:34.000 --> 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. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 Schlocking. 03:42.000 --> 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? 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 No. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 That's it. No. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Well, what finally happened? 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 Oh, the other folks ran out of cards. Wasn't any more play, so they got out. 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 Thirty-six hundred points. And I found out why Faye didn't want to quit. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 Why? 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 Had to deuce. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 What? 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 A deuce, a two, you know? 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 Yeah. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 She said she didn't want to get caught with it. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 Yeah, well, we better get started, huh? 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 Wait a minute. That's not the worst of it, let me tell you. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 All right. 04:15.000 --> 04:20.000 All night we're playing, see, all night. I'm saving cards. You know, I'm like tens. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Like to get tens. I save tens. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Yeah. I guess everybody saves tens. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 Well, I save more than other guys. We get all through and you know what? 04:27.000 --> 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. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Well, that's dreadful. 04:36.000 --> 04:40.000 Well, I tell you, you're a schlock. Schlocks. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 I couldn't sleep a wink. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 Roddy? 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 Yeah, Ray? 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 Leg here. 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 Girls out to lunch. I'm on my way. 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 Come on back. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 Hi, how's it going, Ray? 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Moving around is about all. Hot out, huh? 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 Yeah, paper says it's going to go over 90 today. 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 Too hot for me. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Yeah. Well, how you coming on the job this morning? 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Just finishing up. Looks like the rest of them. 05:00.000 --> 05:01.000 Yeah. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 Got some pictures here. Take a look. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 Here's pictures of the marks they left on the door this morning. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 See those two long scratches on the wood? 05:10.000 --> 05:11.000 Yeah, here? 05:11.000 --> 05:15.000 Yeah, over here. Here's a picture from the Argosy Manufacturing Company's door. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 See? Same two marks. 05:18.000 --> 05:21.000 Pretty safe bet to figure that both doors are open to the same pry bar. 05:21.000 --> 05:23.000 Yeah, same type of entrance made this time, huh? 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 Yeah, just the one mark on the door. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 They know what they're doing. Insert the bar, hit it once, and the door opens. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 How about the safe? What do you got on that? 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Here. This is a picture we got of the room. Same as the others. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Standard rip job. Nothing different there. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 How about marks? 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 No, no help there. Here's the pictures. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 Looks like the same tool that was used on the other jobs. 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 Did you find anything else, Ray? 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 No. At least nothing that helps. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 Layton Prince picked up a couple from the safe. 05:47.000 --> 05:50.000 Belonged to the manager of the place. Nothing else would give us anything. 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 Well, I'd say that was the same bunch. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 Yeah, either that or they're lending their tools to the boys in the neighborhood. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 Yeah, well, that is likely. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Cigarette, Ray? 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 Yeah, thanks. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Ray? 06:01.000 --> 06:02.000 Here's the light. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 Ray? 06:08.000 --> 06:09.000 Thanks. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 Really leaning on you guys for this one, huh? 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 Yeah, Skipper's taking a lot of heat. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 What's this make for them? 34 or 35? 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 35. Six months. 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 Any near at all? 06:18.000 --> 06:19.000 No, not much. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 Got anything to tell how many men there are? 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 That'd be hard to say for sure. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 The way they work figures about three or four maybe. 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 Yeah, that's the way it looks. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 Take that number to pull out the operation as smooth as they're doing it though, Ray. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 You got anything at all to work on? 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 Well, we checked around town. There aren't any rumbles. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 One of the tightest gangs that we've seen in a long time. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 Doesn't seem like anybody outside knows what's going on. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 We checked the places around. Nobody's spending a lot of money they can't account for. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 How much they take so far? 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 Well, what they got this morning, let's see, it comes to a little under $36,000, doesn't it, Frank? 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 Yeah. What about you, Ray? You turn up anything we can use? 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 Nothing that points any place. 06:49.000 --> 06:52.000 We know how they got in, how they hit the safe. That isn't going to help much. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Same M.O. as the others. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 You haven't got any idea who they are, huh? 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 No, nothing. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 If we had any idea who they are, we could maybe use the anthracene on their tools. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 That's great. We've got to find the tools before we use that. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 We've got no idea where they plan them. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 Seems that one of your informants would be able to come up with something on it. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 Yeah, you'd think so. We've checked them all, Ray. No leads to the gang. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 Doesn't seem there's anybody in town that knows who they are. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Anybody new operating on them? 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 No, we checked that out, too. 07:15.000 --> 07:19.000 We've had the stats office make so many runs that they're wearing out the cards. 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 M.O. isn't new. It's been used before, but all the possibles have been checked out. 07:22.000 --> 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. 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 Now, we've got just what we started with, a gang working when they want to, where they want to. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 There's nothing we can do about it. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Well, I wish there was more I could do to help out. 07:34.000 --> 07:38.000 I've got to get back to work. Got some precipitant tests. Homicide wants us this afternoon. 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 Yeah, well, we'll see you later, Ray. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Right. You want this stuff booked? 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 Yeah, we'll take care of it. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 Okay. 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 Excuse me a minute. 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 Yeah. 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 Crime lab, Pinker. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 Yeah? 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 Yeah, they're both here. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Which one? 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 Yeah, hold on. Joe? 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 Yeah? 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 To you, office. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 Thanks. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Friday. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 Oh, yeah, Chandler. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 Uh-huh. 08:04.000 --> 08:05.000 Wendy Call. 08:06.000 --> 08:07.000 Yeah, well, what's that number? 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 4-4? Right. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Yeah, I'll call him right away. 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 Right. Bye. 08:13.000 --> 08:14.000 Chandler, huh? 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 Yeah, Don Jackson called. Said he wanted to get in touch with us. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 Jackson? Doesn't ring any bells. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 It's the guy we pinched last month. 08:20.000 --> 08:23.000 Remember? Looked like the guy who was in on the service station jobs. 08:23.000 --> 08:24.000 Oh, yeah, I remember. 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 The guy with the wax mustache, huh? 08:26.000 --> 08:27.000 Mm-hmm. 08:27.000 --> 08:28.000 Hello. Don Jackson? 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Oh, could I speak to him, please? 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 Don, this is Joe Friday. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 Yeah. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 Mm-hmm. 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Yeah, well, it's 1-47 now. 08:35.000 --> 08:37.000 Take us about 10 minutes. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.000 How about 2? 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 All right. Fine. Yeah, we know where it is. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Right. We'll see you there. All right? 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 Bye. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 What's he want? 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 He wants to see us about the rip jobs. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.000 Yeah? 08:47.000 --> 08:48.000 Says he's got a rumble on him. 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 Don Jackson had been a suspect in a series of service station burglaries we'd investigated. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 He'd been picked up and interrogated, 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 but investigations showed that he couldn't have been involved in the thefts. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 Since he'd been released, we'd heard nothing from him, 09:04.000 --> 09:08.000 and as far as we knew, he'd gone back to his job in a downtown clothing store. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 From what he told me on the phone, 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 he had some information about the current series of safe burglaries. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 1-48 p.m. 09:14.000 --> 09:18.000 Frank and I left the crime lab and drove over to the store where Jackson worked. 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 He managed to get relieved, and he took us to a small coffee shop near the store. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 We sat down and ordered some coffee, 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 and Jackson told us what he knew about the burglaries. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 Now, I could be wrong about this. I don't think so. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 But outside, it could be. 09:31.000 --> 09:34.000 Uh-huh. Don, you got any one reason for figuring that the Scott fellas tied in with the jobs? 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 Well, nothing I can put my finger on, you know, 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 just that the guy's never done a full day's work in his life. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 Don't think he knows what a callous is. 09:41.000 --> 09:44.000 Yet he's always loaded, always got a role. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 It's real, too. 09:45.000 --> 09:50.000 Not like them you see sometimes with a big bill on the outside and ones in the middle. 09:50.000 --> 09:51.000 Now, this guy's loaded, you know? 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Yeah. Where'd you meet him? 09:53.000 --> 09:57.000 Well, I was sitting in a bar down the street one night, having a belt before dinner. 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 We got to talking, ended up beating together that night. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 You remember when this was, Don, when you first met him? 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 Well, let me see. Yeah, it was the day I got the trench coat from England. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 Now, let me see. That make it about August 4th. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 Yeah, yeah, it was the night I got the coat. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Come to think of it, that's what got us to talking, the coat. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 I don't understand. 10:15.000 --> 10:19.000 Well, you see, I got this here coat. I had it sent over from England. 10:19.000 --> 10:22.000 It's a real beauty. All kinds of linings and wind straps in the sleeves. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 It's great, you know? Uh-huh. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Well, I had him send this coat to the store. 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 It got there on the 4th. I had it with me that night. 10:29.000 --> 10:33.000 And Scotty noticed it. We got to talking about clothes and went to dinner. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 He asked me how much the coat cost. 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 I told him, run about 40, maybe 50 bucks. 10:38.000 --> 10:41.000 He asked me if I could get one for him and I told him, sure. 10:41.000 --> 10:43.000 It'd take a couple of weeks. Uh-huh. 10:43.000 --> 10:47.000 Well, he asked me to send a letter to my friend, the air mail special, 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 and asked him to send the coat over by express. 10:49.000 --> 10:53.000 I told him I would, and then he asked me if I wanted to pay me then. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 I told him, no, wait until I knew just how much the coat was going to run. 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 You know, duty and postage and all that. Yeah, I know. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 Well, he said that'd be okay with him. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 I saw him a couple of times after that, and every time he'd ask about the coat, 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 I told him that was in the works, you know. 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 Well, finally got the coat. It was beautiful. Never saw the guy again. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 I'm out 46 bucks. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 I promise Scotty, leave me with that coat. My own money, too. 46 bucks. 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 I don't make enough to lose that kind of money, you know. 11:19.000 --> 11:22.000 That's too bad, Jackson, but why do you figure this got anything to do with the burglaries? 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Well, now I just told you, for one thing, the money. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 Always had a lot, but had never had a job. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 No place to get the money. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 Not only that, but one night, well, I saw him. 11:31.000 --> 11:34.000 We were going out to dinner, and he said he couldn't quite make it then. 11:34.000 --> 11:38.000 That something had come up, that he had to take a rain check, you know. Uh-huh. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 Well, I asked him what had come up, what was so important. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 He said he had to see a guy over in East L.A. some sort of business deal. 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 He say what this deal was about? 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 No, he wouldn't say. The next day he shows up loaded. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 Got a roll on, choke a horse. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Now I asked him where to get it. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 I kid him about being one of the guys who ripped the safe in the August he planned. 11:55.000 --> 11:56.000 What did he say to that? 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 Nothing, just got real serious, you know. 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 Asked me why I asked him that. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Well, it made me think he was in on the job. 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 I kept telling him I didn't know anything about it. I was just kidding. 12:05.000 --> 12:10.000 He finally bought it and said it was okay, but he said I shouldn't go around saying things like that. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 All right, go ahead. 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 Well, I got the coat and looked Scotty up to give it to him. 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Wouldn't pay for it. 12:16.000 --> 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. 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 He wouldn't have anything to do with it. 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 I figured since I ordered it for him, it ain't my fault that it's big. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 He should pay for it, you know, 46 bucks. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 Now any way you look at it, I laid out the dough. 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 I figured he should make good on it. 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 He wouldn't do it. 12:33.000 --> 12:37.000 And I got sore and I figured maybe you'd like to know how he acted about the August he job. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Lousy bum. 46 bucks that coat cost. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 You know where the Scot lives? 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 I haven't got the slightest idea, but I got his phone number, though. I'll give you that. 12:44.000 --> 12:45.000 Can you give us a description of him? 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Sure, he's a sneaky little guy. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 No wonder the coat won't fit. 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Little bitty guy, you know. 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 Yeah, now you say his full name is Leonard Scott, is that right? 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 Yeah, crummy bum. I hope you get him. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 Well, we'll talk to him, Don. 12:55.000 --> 12:58.000 He knows something about it. I bet money on it he knows. 12:58.000 --> 13:03.000 Say, I don't like to bring this up, but you guys could do me a big favor, you know. 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 What's that? 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 No, I don't suppose you could. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 What is it, Don? 13:08.000 --> 13:12.000 You know anybody could use a size 52 trench coat? 13:20.000 --> 13:24.000 We continued to talk to Don Jackson. We got the description of Leonard Scott and his phone number. 13:24.000 --> 13:28.000 3.15 p.m. We drove back to the city hall and checked the name through RNI. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 We came up with several possibles. 13:29.000 --> 13:32.000 The mug shots were pulled on them and they were shown to Jackson. 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 He was able to identify one of them as the man he told us about. 13:35.000 --> 13:40.000 The suspect had a record for burglary and had served two terms in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 He'd served his full term and was not on parole. 13:43.000 --> 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. 13:49.000 --> 13:53.000 The phone number he'd given Jackson was the same as the one on the registration card. 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 We drove over to talk to him. 13:55.000 --> 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. 14:00.000 --> 14:04.000 We checked his room in company with the landlady and then we called the office and told them where we were 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 in the event they had to contact us. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 We waited in the living room of the house for the suspect to return. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 7.15 p.m. 14:13.000 --> 14:14.000 Sure? 14:14.000 --> 14:17.000 Yeah. He matches the description, doesn't he? Come on. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 Just a minute. You Leonard Scott? 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 Yeah. Who are you? 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 Police officers. Like to talk to you. 14:22.000 --> 14:23.000 What's this all about? 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 Be better if we went up to your room. 14:25.000 --> 14:28.000 Oh. All right. Come on up. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 Can't you give me some idea what this is all about? 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 We'll talk to you about it. 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 Go ahead. Open the door. 14:40.000 --> 14:41.000 Go ahead. 14:41.000 --> 14:42.000 Yeah. 14:47.000 --> 14:48.000 Okay. What's the pitch? 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 You've been through it before. You're an ex-con. You know the pitch. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 You tell us what you do for a living? 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 I work. 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 Doing what? 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 I'm a salesman. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 What do you sell? 14:56.000 --> 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. 15:00.000 --> 15:03.000 Now either tell me what this is all about or get out of here. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 You remember what you were doing on August 4th? 15:05.000 --> 15:06.000 It's a long time ago. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 You remember what you were doing? 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 You have to think about it. It's a long time ago. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 Why don't you take your time? We'd like to know. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 August 4th, huh? 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 Yeah. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Oh, sorry, fellas. Can't remember a thing. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 How about the 5th? 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Same there. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 6th? 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Nothing. How about the 7th of August? 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Oh, I can give you a hand there. I had a dinner with a friend. 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 Then we went to a show. I had a few drinks after and then I came home. 15:27.000 --> 15:28.000 Who's the friend? 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 Well, I know. What's his name? 15:30.000 --> 15:31.000 Why I gotta tell you that? 15:31.000 --> 15:32.000 We gotta check your alibi. 15:32.000 --> 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. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Then maybe you can clear up a few things for us. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 I would like to help the cops out. What do you want to know? 15:40.000 --> 15:44.000 How come you remember what you were doing on August 7th? You got trouble with time before then, haven't you? 15:44.000 --> 15:48.000 What's so important with the dates? Maybe if you tell me what you're after, I can help you out. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 You quit being cagey. Maybe I can come up with the answers. 15:50.000 --> 15:54.000 The Argosy manufacturing plant had their safe ripped open on that night. You look good for the job. 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 Oh, you're out of your mind. 15:55.000 --> 15:59.000 Yeah, we got a witness who tells us you showed up with a pocketful of money the next day. 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 You've fallen twice before for burglary. 16:00.000 --> 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. 16:04.000 --> 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. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 You got a choice of giving us a hand on this thing and it'll be marked down in your favor, 16:11.000 --> 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. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 You figure you can make me for the jobs? 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 Looks like it won't be too tough. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 You're in the middle, Scott. Why don't you cop out? 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 What do I get for turning pink? 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 I told you it'd be marked down that way. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 How about it, Scott? 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 All right, I guess I gotta go with you. 16:28.000 --> 16:32.000 I wasn't in on the jobs. I didn't really have anything to do with the casing. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 It helped a little bit. Not much, just a little. 16:34.000 --> 16:35.000 Where'd you figure it? 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Once I worked as a lookout for him. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 Who are they? 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 I can give you the names. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 I'd like to see you get them, lousy bunch. Hope you get them good. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 Make every one of them lousy mums the way they treated me. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 What do you mean by that? 16:46.000 --> 16:50.000 Big deal. Have the cops run around in circles. Big deal. Nothing. 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 Work along with them. Everything will be fine. Big deal. 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 How many of them are there? 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 Four. Four real bums. They said they were gonna take care of me. 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 They told me I'd get my share of the money. Lousy liars. 17:00.000 --> 17:01.000 One job I was with them. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 After that, they told me I hadn't done enough to earn my way, 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 that I wasn't any help to anybody. 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 Well, next time you see them, you can tell them. 17:06.000 --> 17:07.000 Yeah? 17:07.000 --> 17:08.000 They were wrong. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 We got the names of the four men who were involved in the burglaries. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 We took Leonard Scott down to the city hall 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 and pulled the packages on the four suspects. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 He gave us a positive identification on them. 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 We checked with Captain Wisdom and it was decided to wait 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 until we could catch the suspects in the actual attempt to commit a burglary. 17:29.000 --> 17:32.000 We checked out the address of the four suspects 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 and got as much information as we could on them 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 without letting them know that they were under surveillance. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Additional teams of men were assigned to the stakeout. 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 Each of them was watched 24 hours a day 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 and each of the teams of detectives were in constant contact with the burglary division. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Two days passed. 17:46.000 --> 17:49.000 None of the suspects made any attempt to make contact with the others. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 We met with the district attorney and it was decided that 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 in the interest of bringing the gang to justice, 17:54.000 --> 17:57.000 the first suspect, Leonard Scott, should be released from custody 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 to act as an informant for us. 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 He would be kept under constant surveillance. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 Frank and I were assigned to follow him. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 In the next three days, he went about his business as usual. 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 Each evening he'd leave his rooming house and walk through the bars in the downtown area. 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 He told us that contact and information regarding the burglaries 18:13.000 --> 18:17.000 was made by the leader of the gang, one of the suspects named Howard Ramsey. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 On Monday, August 24th, we saw Ramsey approach Leonard Scott. 18:20.000 --> 18:24.000 They talked briefly in the rear of a bar on 6th Street and then Ramsey left. 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 We waited for about 15 minutes and then we saw Scott leave the bar. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 We followed him down the street to an all-night coffee stand. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 We sat down next to him at the counter and at the first opportunity, 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 he told us what Ramsey had said. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 You guys haven't got long to wait. 18:36.000 --> 18:37.000 What did he say? 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 The deal's set. It's gonna be a machine shop out in West L.A. 18:39.000 --> 18:42.000 Rumble is the safe, has over 25 grand in it. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 Biggest job they've tackled. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 Can you say how it's gonna work? 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 Yeah, I'll fill you in on it. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 I thought you might want to get in touch with your office, so... 18:47.000 --> 18:48.000 How's that? 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 You're gonna work tonight. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 You are listening to Dragnet, 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 the authentic story of your police force in action. 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? 19:09.000 --> 19:14.000 Chesterfield, first to give you premium quality in both regular and king size. 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 Chesterfield, first choice of young America 19:17.000 --> 19:21.000 from a survey of 274 leading colleges and universities. 19:21.000 --> 19:24.000 Chesterfield, first to give you this report. 19:24.000 --> 19:27.000 A doctor has been making thorough examinations 19:27.000 --> 19:31.000 of a group of Chesterfield smokers every two months for a full year. 19:31.000 --> 19:36.000 And he reports no adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses 19:36.000 --> 19:38.000 from smoking Chesterfield. 19:38.000 --> 19:42.000 Try Chesterfield, regular or king size. 19:42.000 --> 19:46.000 Chesterfield is America's best cigarette buy. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 9.32 p.m. We got the rest of the story from Leonard Scott. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 The plan, as he outlined it for us, was that the four other suspects 20:03.000 --> 20:06.000 would not meet until they were at the plant that was to be burglarized. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 We got in touch with the men who were following the suspects 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 and told them what had happened. 20:10.000 --> 20:15.000 10.07 p.m. We met with Captain Wisdom and put the operating plan into effect. 20:15.000 --> 20:18.000 It had been arranged that all of the men following the suspects 20:18.000 --> 20:21.000 would be in three-way radio cars so that constant communication 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 could be kept between the units of the operation. 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 Additional officers were planted on the roofs of the buildings 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 surrounding the plant to be burglarized. 20:28.000 --> 20:31.000 These men would be equipped with walkie talkie so they could keep in constant touch 20:31.000 --> 20:34.000 with each other and with us in a three-way radio car. 20:34.000 --> 20:38.000 In this way, we could direct operations and we'd have a complete picture 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 of what was happening in the immediate vicinity. 20:40.000 --> 20:43.000 A blockade system was set up to be put into operation once the suspects 20:43.000 --> 20:46.000 had entered the trap so that escape would be impossible. 20:46.000 --> 20:51.000 11.45 p.m. The plan was completed and the men involved were in their assigned positions. 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 We followed Leonard Scott to his rooming house and he changed to his working clothes. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 He came out of his house and we followed him out the freeway to Hollywood. 20:58.000 --> 21:02.000 From there, he drove out Sunset Boulevard to Whittier Drive in Beverly Hills 21:02.000 --> 21:05.000 and then he went out Wilshire Boulevard toward West L.A. 21:05.000 --> 21:09.000 As we drove, we could hear the other units reporting the position of the men that they were following. 21:09.000 --> 21:12.000 All of the suspects left their homes at approximately the same time 21:12.000 --> 21:16.000 and it looked as if they would get to the plant within a couple of minutes of the scheduled time. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 Scott had told us that they would not meet at the plant, 21:18.000 --> 21:21.000 but they'd rendezvoused at Drive-In a couple of blocks from the plant. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 There, they would be given their instructions. 21:23.000 --> 21:27.000 2.16 a.m. The five cars pulled into the Drive-In and after a brief conversation, 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 they all left and drove toward the plant. 21:29.000 --> 21:34.000 2.23 a.m. All the police units got into their positions as arranged. 21:34.000 --> 21:38.000 Frank and I took up our position and we listened to the reports coming in over the radio. 21:39.000 --> 21:43.000 Unit 1KY80, Unit 1KY80, Rubels, come in. 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 Unit 1KY80 to Rubels, go ahead. 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 I'm on the roof of the building directly across the street from the factory, Joe. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 I can see the suspects now. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 How many of them are there? 21:54.000 --> 21:58.000 I can see three. I think there's a couple more at the corner as lookouts. 21:58.000 --> 22:01.000 Hey, Donovan's down the block. Maybe he can see the others. 22:01.000 --> 22:04.000 Unit 1KY80 to Donovan, come in, please, over. 22:04.000 --> 22:07.000 This is Donovan. Yeah, there's one of them on the corner down here. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 He drove up and got out to take a look at the motor of his car. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 He's over there working on it now. 22:11.000 --> 22:14.000 This Rubels, I can see another one at the other corner. 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 He's changing a tire. 22:16.000 --> 22:19.000 Got the jack under the car, but he's not trying to get the wheel off. 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 The others are at the factory door now. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 You see anything where you are, Joe? 22:24.000 --> 22:27.000 Not much. Shadows across the street. I can't see the doorway. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 What are they doing now? 22:29.000 --> 22:33.000 They're inside now. They forced the lock on the door and got inside. 22:33.000 --> 22:36.000 The door's closed. I can't see them anymore, Joe. 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 All units, this is Friday in Unit 1KY80. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 All units move in to apprehend suspects. 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 Repeat, move in to apprehend suspects. 22:43.000 --> 22:47.000 Units 2R4, 5, 6 and 7 and Unit 2R20. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Move to blockade positions. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 All right, let's go. Right. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 They got the place covered in back, okay? 22:54.000 --> 22:59.000 Yeah, all covered. All right. 23:00.000 --> 23:03.000 This ought to do it, huh? Right. 23:06.000 --> 23:09.000 All right, let's go. Yeah. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 Well, I got the lookout. Yeah, I see. 23:17.000 --> 23:24.000 Well, let's take it easy, huh? 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 See them? 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 No. There's a light back there. Looks like the office. 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 Wait a minute. Yeah. 23:32.000 --> 23:35.000 All of them must be back there. Sounds like they're putting a bar 23:35.000 --> 23:38.000 into the back of the safe, doesn't it? Yeah. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Are there any rubles? 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 All right, let's go. They're in the office now. 23:43.000 --> 23:47.000 You want to move in from that side? Right. 23:48.000 --> 23:51.000 All right, let's go. All right. 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 Come on, get on it. We haven't got all night. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 That safe felt like a sardine can. 23:58.000 --> 23:59.000 There's no reason to take this along. 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 We're doing the best we can. 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 We got the 10 or 5 bricks giving us trouble. 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 Yeah, let me take a look. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 All right, hold it right where you are. 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 Cops, let's get out of here. Watch them, Joe. 24:09.000 --> 24:10.000 I'll get them. Right. 24:10.000 --> 24:11.000 Come on, Ramsey. You got no place to go. 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 The building's surrounded. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 Back here, Joe. 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 Get out of here, cops. You're never going to take us. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 Pull it up. Don't shoot anymore. I give up. I give up. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 Come on, cops. Come on and get it. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 He ain't talking for me. I've had it. 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 I don't want any more shooting. I give up. 24:27.000 --> 24:28.000 All right, throw your guns out here. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 Here's mine. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 All right, come on out of there. Get over there. 24:32.000 --> 24:33.000 Get your hands back of your head. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 Stand right there and don't move. 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 I gave up, didn't I? I didn't want any more of it. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 Come on, Ramsey. Your partner was smart. 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 Why don't you play it that way, too? 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 You come and get me, cop. 24:43.000 --> 24:46.000 All right. You win. I'm out of shells. Don't shoot. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 Throw that gun out here. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 All right, now come on out of there. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 Keep your hands back of your head. Come on, move. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 That's good. Right there. 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 All right, all right. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 Come on, Ramsey. Over there next to your partner. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 Now stand still, both of you. 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 Put your hands against the wall. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 Stand still and don't move. 25:04.000 --> 25:08.000 All right, they're clean, Joe. 25:08.000 --> 25:10.000 There were three of them. Where's the other one? 25:10.000 --> 25:12.000 I made a break for the front door. They got them out there. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 Lousy luck all the way around. 25:14.000 --> 25:15.000 How'd you know? Who told you? 25:15.000 --> 25:16.000 That doesn't make any difference. 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 Well, somebody had to tell you. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 You'd never find out if somebody had told you. 25:19.000 --> 25:20.000 Yeah, that's right. Come on, let's go now. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 Well, who told you? 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