1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,560 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,200 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:15,200 Dragnet. 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:25,400 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,040 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 6 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,800 A narcotic ring has been supplying drugs to the teenagers in your city. 7 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,120 There's no lead to the identity of the key people in the operation. 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,720 Your job, find them. 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,000 It was Monday, February 9th. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,280 It was cold in Los Angeles. 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,960 We were working the day watch out of juvenile detail. 12 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:47,960 My partner's Frank Smith. 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:48,960 The boss is Captain Powers. 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:49,960 My name's Friday. 15 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,600 I was on my way into the office and it was 8.01 a.m. when I got to Georgia Street Juvenile. 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,600 The squad room. 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,320 How's it going? 18 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:58,280 Hi, how are you? 19 00:00:58,280 --> 00:00:59,280 Hi, buddy. 20 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:00,280 Been in long? 21 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:01,280 Since about 7.30. 22 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:02,280 How come? 23 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:03,280 I couldn't sleep. 24 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:04,280 What's the matter? 25 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:05,280 Anything wrong? 26 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,280 A family had a beef. 27 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,280 One of the kids was sick. 28 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,280 We were up with him most of the night. 29 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,280 What's the matter? 30 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,320 I took him over the rides yesterday. 31 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:14,320 The rides? 32 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:16,600 You know, the place over there without the merry-go-round. 33 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,140 Got him carried away, I guess. 34 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:20,760 He sure had a good time, though. 35 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,160 Took in everything, roller coaster, airplanes, all works. 36 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,760 She can't expect us to do it on an empty stomach. 37 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:28,760 We had a little something beef. 38 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:30,040 Guess maybe we overdid it. 39 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,880 Anyway, the youngster got sick last night. 40 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,480 Faye says I'm to blame. 41 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,440 One thing led to something else and the beef was on. 42 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,440 So you just got up and came into work, huh? 43 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:39,440 Yeah. 44 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,760 Stopped and had some breakfast, read the paper, come on in. 45 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:42,760 How's the kid now? 46 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:43,760 Okay, it was nothing serious. 47 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,760 A little too much cotton candy, though. 48 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,920 Faye's got a tendency to make too much of those things, but, you know, she always does. 49 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:51,920 Yeah. 50 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:52,920 Something we can do for you, young fella? 51 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,920 I'd like to talk to somebody. 52 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,920 All right, come on in. 53 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,320 Maybe we can help you. 54 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,320 You're a cop? 55 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:02,320 That's right. 56 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:03,320 Frank Smith, my name's Friday. 57 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:04,320 Hi. 58 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:05,320 Hello, son. 59 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:06,320 What do you want to see us about? 60 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:07,320 Kind of private. 61 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,560 Is there someplace else we can go to talk? 62 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:10,560 Oh, we can, yeah. 63 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,840 There's a room down in the hall. 64 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:12,840 Well, that might be better. 65 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,840 All right, we can go down there. 66 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,400 Come on. 67 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:18,400 Down this way. 68 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,400 Yeah. 69 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,400 Just a minute. 70 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,400 This is it right here. 71 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,400 Go ahead. 72 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,400 Yeah. 73 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,400 All right, you want to take a chair right there, son? 74 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,400 Okay. 75 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:36,320 All right, now what can we do for you? 76 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,320 I want you to put me in jail. 77 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:39,720 Why? 78 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:40,720 Because it's the only way I'll stop. 79 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:41,720 I know it. 80 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,720 I've got to be in the cell or I'll do it again. 81 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:45,240 What do you mean, son? 82 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,240 I'm hooked bad. 83 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,240 I want to stop. 84 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:54,480 It was a nice looking boy, well dressed and clean. 85 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,960 He looked like he was in his late teens. 86 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,440 He asked us to put him in a cell. 87 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,880 There was an intenseness in his eyes that showed that he was serious. 88 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:02,880 Frank and I questioned him further. 89 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,440 What's your name, son? 90 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:05,440 John Coulter. 91 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,440 Spell the last name for me. 92 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:08,440 C-O-L-T-E-R. 93 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,040 How old are you? 94 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,040 Seventeen. 95 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,040 What do you love, son? 96 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,160 Do you have to have that? 97 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,640 Hasn't got anything to do with why I'm here. 98 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:18,080 Well, we'll have to have it, son. 99 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,080 1896 Dillon Street. 100 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,080 Is that in L.A.? 101 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:23,080 Yeah. 102 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,640 How big a habit do you have, son? 103 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:25,640 I'm using four a day. 104 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,600 How long you been hooked? 105 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,880 A year, a day before yesterday. 106 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,640 Want to let us see your arms? 107 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:32,640 Yeah. 108 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:37,280 You got a lot of marks there, haven't you? 109 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:38,280 Yeah, I guess so. 110 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,280 A couple of them there. 111 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,280 We better have the doctor look at them. 112 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,280 All right. 113 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,280 I don't care anymore. 114 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,520 How long since you had a fix? 115 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:46,520 Last night. 116 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,600 You must be feeling a little rough by now, then, aren't you? 117 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:50,600 Not easy. 118 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,080 I don't guess it is. 119 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,040 Hey, you mind pulling those blinds? 120 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,040 They're awful bright in here. 121 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,680 Yeah, I'll get it. 122 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,240 You live with your folks? 123 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,240 My mother. 124 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,400 My father died when I was five. 125 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:06,800 Your mother know about this? 126 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:07,800 No. 127 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,480 She's going to have to, you know. 128 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,840 Then you're going to tell her I'm not. 129 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:12,840 All right. 130 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:13,840 We'll take care of that. 131 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:14,840 Is life better now, son? 132 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:15,840 Yeah, thanks. 133 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,840 When did you eat last? 134 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:17,840 Yesterday. 135 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:18,840 You hungry now? 136 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:19,840 No. 137 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:20,840 How about a cup of coffee? 138 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:21,840 No, thanks. 139 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:24,840 How'd you get started on this stuff? 140 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,840 It probably runs like all the rest of the stories you've heard. 141 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:30,840 Well, why don't you tell us yours, anyway? 142 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:31,840 All right. 143 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,840 I'm sure we can't get you something. 144 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,840 Only one thing of doing any good, and you can't give that to me. 145 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:39,840 All right, go ahead. 146 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,840 How'd you get started? 147 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:46,840 A couple of years ago, it was Halloween. 148 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:48,840 Kids had a party. 149 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,840 We all went to this house. 150 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:54,840 Kid that owned it had the rooms all decorated up, you know, paper streamers and those cardboard 151 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:55,840 skeletons. 152 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,840 Had the whole place done up like that. 153 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:00,840 We got there and found out they were figuring to play games. 154 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:04,840 We went the game route for a while, and a bunch of us decided to leave. 155 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:06,840 Things were dull, so we left. 156 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:07,840 Where'd you go? 157 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:10,840 We just drove around for a while, tried to figure something to do. 158 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:11,840 Whose car did you have? 159 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:13,840 One of the kids had his father's. 160 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:15,840 All right, go ahead. 161 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:18,840 Well, we drove around for a while, and one of the kids said for us to go up to Mulholland. 162 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:20,840 Go up and scare the lovers up there. 163 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:21,840 Yeah. 164 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,840 Wasn't anything else to do, so we drove up. 165 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:28,840 When we got there, one of the guys, a fellow I didn't know too good, said he had some tea. 166 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:30,840 Said we should have a blast party. 167 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:32,840 This boy was at the other party, was he? 168 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:34,840 Yeah, but I didn't know him. 169 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,840 Didn't meet him until we were out on the ride. 170 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:37,840 Did he go to your school? 171 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:38,840 No. 172 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:40,840 All right, son, go ahead. 173 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:42,840 Well, we parked, and he took out these cigarettes. 174 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:44,840 They had them in a tobacco can. 175 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:47,840 You know, like you buy pipe tobacco in there. 176 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:51,840 Had them in one of them. 177 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:53,840 Then we lit up and started to smoke. 178 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:56,840 At first it made me sick. I didn't like it much. 179 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:00,840 Come right down to it, I didn't think the whole thing was such a good idea. 180 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:02,840 Why'd you do it then? 181 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:06,840 All the kids there had to, or they'd have said I was chicken. 182 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,840 All right. How'd you get started on the hard stuff? 183 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:12,840 Oh, I just got to the point where there wasn't much kick in tea. 184 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:14,840 You know, same thing all the time. 185 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:16,840 I wanted to go up a step. 186 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:17,840 Who set you up? 187 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:19,840 One of the kids I met. 188 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:21,840 Wasn't the same boy who had the marijuana, was it? 189 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:22,840 No. 190 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:26,840 You see, once in a while we'd go to a big blast party at somebody's house. 191 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:29,840 The other kids there. New ones. I met Jerry there. 192 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:31,840 Jerry, that's the boy's name? 193 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:32,840 Yeah, Jerry Rowe. 194 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:33,840 How old is he? 195 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:34,840 Nineteen. 196 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:35,840 See who? 197 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:36,840 Yeah. 198 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:37,840 Was he when you met him? 199 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:38,840 I guess so. 200 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:40,840 How do you spell his last name, son? 201 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:41,840 R-O-A-T-H. 202 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,840 How'd he turn you on? 203 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:46,840 We were talking about tea. How the kick wore off. 204 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:49,840 And he said there was something else. Something that had a real jolt. 205 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:50,840 Yeah. 206 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:57,840 Ah! Boy, it's rough. I'm starting to get cramps. 207 00:06:57,840 --> 00:06:59,840 You better have that cup of coffee now. 208 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:04,840 All right. 209 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:06,840 Feel pretty rough, don't you, son? 210 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:11,840 Yeah. It's a good thing I'm here or I'd start looking for a connection. 211 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,840 Did you take your first shot of heroin the night you met this Rowe kid? 212 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,840 Yeah. We went outside to his car. He had a fit there and he cooked up a fix. 213 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,840 He took one, then I tried it. 214 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:21,840 What happened? 215 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,840 Never got so sick in my life. Thought I was gonna die. 216 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,840 Figure what's happened since then might have been a good thing. 217 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,840 How you been supporting your habit? 218 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,840 Only a couple of ways. You steal or you start pushing yourself. 219 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:36,840 Which way do you go? 220 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:37,840 Both. 221 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:38,840 What'd you steal? 222 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:43,840 Anything I could sell. Never took anything from anybody else, though. All from my own house. 223 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,840 Most of the stuff was given to me. Rings, my watch, whatever I could raise a buck on. 224 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:48,840 Where'd you get rid of it? 225 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:54,840 Around the school. Couldn't go near a pawn shop, but the kids didn't care as long as they got a bargain. 226 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:59,840 Sold my old man's watch for three bucks. 17 jewels, solid gold, three bucks. 227 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:00,840 What were you pushing? 228 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,840 Tea, H, anything. I'd buy the H and then cut it myself. 229 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:09,840 You don't have to do that many times until you got a couple of extra caps. That took care of me for a while. 230 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:10,840 Yeah. 231 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:15,840 Pretty soon there was never enough. Got so as I was always looking forward to the next fix. 232 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:17,840 When'd you start maiming him? 233 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:23,840 I chipped with the stuff for a couple of months. Skin pops. Then that wasn't enough. Started in the arm. 234 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,840 When'd you find out that you were hooked, son? Do you remember? 235 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:27,840 About a year. 236 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,840 Took a while, huh? 237 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:36,840 I figured it would never happen. Thought I could beat it. Turn it off when I wanted to. Didn't work out that way. 238 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,840 Didn't you know you had it bad when the charge went up? 239 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:46,840 Not really. I still thought I could quit when I wanted to. Just never seemed to get that far. Kept putting it off. 240 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,840 Guess if I figured I could start the next day, didn't matter much. 241 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,840 Time I decided to quit, I couldn't. 242 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,840 Here's your coffee, John. Brought one for you too, Joe. 243 00:08:58,840 --> 00:08:59,840 Thanks. 244 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:04,840 Hot. 245 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:06,840 Try to get it down. It'll make you feel a little better. 246 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:07,840 Yeah. 247 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,840 Cramp's getting worse. You got a doctor here? 248 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:15,840 Yeah, there's one upstairs. 249 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,840 I'd better see him. Might be something he can do. 250 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:18,840 Is your mother at home? 251 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,840 No, she works. She there now? 252 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:21,840 What time is it? 253 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:22,840 Quarter nine. 254 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,840 It'll be about ten minutes. 255 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:25,840 Better give us the number, huh? 256 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,840 Yeah. You're gonna call her, huh? 257 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:29,840 That's right. 258 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:30,840 Gonna tell her about it? 259 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:31,840 Yeah. 260 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,840 Gonna take it pretty hard. I don't think she knows anything about it. 261 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:36,840 Well, we have to do it. 262 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,840 I guess so. Tell her how there's a cure, though, huh? She's gonna be pretty scared. 263 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:42,840 How do you mean? 264 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:44,840 She read where only two percent come out of it. 265 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,840 Well, there's less than that who want to be helped. There's a lot less. 266 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:49,840 Yeah? 267 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,840 Maybe you got a piece of that two percent. 268 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:57,840 Eight fifty-seven a.m. 269 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,840 The boy was taken up to see the doctor on duty at the receiving hospital. 270 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,840 At a couple of minutes after nine, we put in a call to the firm where his mother was employed. 271 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,840 We talked to the personnel manager and he said he'd have Mrs. Coulter call us. 272 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,840 A few minutes later, the phone rang and we talked to the woman. 273 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,840 We told her briefly what had happened and asked her to come right over to the office. 274 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,840 At nine twenty-five a.m., the door to the squad room opened 275 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,840 and a tired-looking woman who looked to be in her late forties or early fifties entered. 276 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,840 She identified herself as Nora Coulter and asked us what had happened to her son. 277 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,840 He's upstairs right now, Mrs. Coulter. The doctor's looking at him. 278 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,840 You tell me he's been using narcotics. 279 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:31,840 That's right. 280 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:32,840 You know what he says? 281 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:33,840 Well, he's admitted it to us. 282 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:34,840 He'll be all right. 283 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,840 Well, we think so. He's got an infection on his arm caused by a bad needle. 284 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:38,840 But it's gonna be all right. 285 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:39,840 That's right. 286 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:41,840 You have a cigarette, Sergeant? 287 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:42,840 Yeah. Hang on. 288 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:43,840 Thanks. 289 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:44,840 Help yourself. 290 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:45,840 Here's a light. 291 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,840 I guess I should have known it'd be something like this. 292 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:53,840 May I pardon? 293 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,840 I should have known. I had to show up someplace. 294 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:57,840 I don't think I understand, Mrs. Coulter. 295 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,840 There's a trouble spot in the mall, Sergeant, all of them. 296 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:01,840 This is Johnny's. 297 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,840 If you don't think I'm saying this personal to you, 298 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,840 it's just what I've seen in the years I've gone around. 299 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,840 Trouble spot in all men. 300 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:10,840 Did you know your son was using heroin? 301 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,840 No, I didn't have any idea. 302 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,840 According to what he told us, he's been hooked for over a year. 303 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,840 You must have noticed something, didn't you? 304 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,840 When you use the word hooked, I'm afraid I don't understand that kind of talk. 305 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:21,840 I'm sorry. I mean, he's been an addict for that long. 306 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,840 Sergeant, I've been working for a long time. 307 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,840 Ever since Johnny's father died. I worked before then. 308 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,840 When I get home after standing on my feet all day, 309 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,840 I got a few more important things to do than wonder what he's doing. 310 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,840 All I can do to just drag myself down to the factory every morning. 311 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,840 Yes, ma'am. 312 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,840 Always something bills to go over, 313 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,840 decide who's going to have to wait this month, clothes to wash and iron. 314 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,840 The time I just get the things done that have to be taken care of. 315 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,840 That's all I can do to climb into bed before I pass out. 316 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:51,840 All right, Mr. Coulter, we understand. 317 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,840 I wonder if you do. 318 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:54,840 How's that? 319 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,840 I said I wonder if you do understand. 320 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Have you ever raised a boy by yourself? 321 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,840 No, ma'am. 322 00:11:58,840 --> 00:11:59,840 I have. 323 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:01,840 Believe me, it isn't easy. 324 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,840 Since 11 years ago, I've been a mother and a father both to Johnny. 325 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,840 I always knew there'd be something that'd blow up. 326 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,840 I knew it because he's just like his father, exactly like him. 327 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,840 I'm 35 years old. 328 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,840 35, and for the past 17 years I haven't had a minute of happiness. 329 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,840 Yes, ma'am. 330 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,840 Anything we can get for you, Mrs. Coulter? 331 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:22,840 No. 332 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,840 Only thing I want is a little happiness. 333 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,840 It seems like there just isn't going to be any of that while I'm on this earth. 334 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,840 I'm sick, Sergeant. 335 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,840 I'm old and I'm sick and I can't go through any more of this. 336 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,840 Your boy's pretty sick, too, yeah? 337 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:36,840 Yes. 338 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,840 I know all about that, too. 339 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,840 I read how none of them cured work. 340 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,840 What'd they say, 2%? 341 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,840 There's something else I gotta carry. 342 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:45,840 Might be a little different with John. 343 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:46,840 I don't see why. 344 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:47,840 No reason for him to be something special. 345 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,840 No reason for him to be cured. 346 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:50,840 Yes, there is. 347 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:51,840 He wants it, Mrs. Coulter. 348 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:52,840 What's going to happen to him? 349 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,840 We'll file a petition on him. 350 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:55,840 After that? 351 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,840 No, they'll have to make an appearance in juvenile court. 352 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,840 They'll decide what treatment's going to be best for him. 353 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:00,840 Can I see him? 354 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:01,840 Yes, ma'am. 355 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:02,840 We can take care of that. 356 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:04,840 Frank, you want to see if the doctor's through them? 357 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:05,840 Yeah. 358 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,840 You have another cigarette, Sergeant. 359 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:09,840 Yes, there you are. 360 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:11,840 Here's a match. 361 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,840 Thanks, Sergeant. 362 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,840 It's all right. 363 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,840 I'll tell you something, Mrs. Coulter. 364 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:19,840 Your son's pretty sick. 365 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,840 He's not going to look too good when you see him. 366 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:22,840 He been hurt? 367 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,840 Not so it shows, but he's going through a great deal of pain. 368 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:26,840 There's going to be a lot more. 369 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,840 For both of us, Sergeant. 370 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,840 I guess you're right at that. 371 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,840 It might be better if you remember that he's just a youngster. 372 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:34,840 He's only 17. 373 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:35,840 I won't forget. 374 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:36,840 He's mine. 375 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:37,840 All right. 376 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:38,840 He's made a mistake, but he knows it. 377 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,840 And he's taking it on himself to try and do something about it. 378 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,840 I'll tell you something, Sergeant. 379 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:43,840 All right. 380 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,840 I've had a lot of trouble with Johnny. 381 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,840 When he was little, he was always running away from home. 382 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,840 By the time he got to school, he played hooky a couple of times a week. 383 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,840 High school, it was the same thing, but that's not the worst of it. 384 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:54,840 Ma'am? 385 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:55,840 He's been stealing. 386 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,840 From his own mother, he's been stealing. 387 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:58,840 Yes, ma'am. 388 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,840 He told us. 389 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:01,840 He admitted it? 390 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:02,840 Yes, he did. 391 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,840 Well, there you are. 392 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:05,840 Not bad enough. 393 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:06,840 He's a dope fiend. 394 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:07,840 He's a thief, too. 395 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,840 I wasn't sure about the stealer, and I just thought so. 396 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,840 A few things have been missing around the house, and I've asked Johnny about him. 397 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,840 He'd offered some half-baked story, and now I know. 398 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:17,840 He's a thief. 399 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,840 I haven't got enough. 400 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,840 Try to take it easy with the boy. 401 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:23,840 Take it easy? 402 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,840 That's a laugh. 403 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,840 All I've done for him, nice home. 404 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,840 Not real big or fancy, but it's clean. 405 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,840 We've got a kind of closet, sort of, nice and big with a window. 406 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:34,840 Got that all fixed up for Johnny. 407 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:35,840 Airplane pictures on the walls. 408 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:36,840 The best I could do. 409 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:37,840 We eat good. 410 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:38,840 Never gotten hungry. 411 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,840 Lord knows I have, but he hasn't. 412 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:42,840 No reason for him to do a thing like this. 413 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,840 No reason at all. 414 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:49,840 Yes, ma'am. 415 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,840 Hello, Mother. 416 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,840 I know all about it, Johnny. 417 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,840 These men told me all the time I've been telling you it'd end up like this. 418 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:03,840 You in trouble with the police, you just wouldn't listen. 419 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,840 You thought you knew better than me. 420 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,840 Well, you found out how much you know. 421 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,840 Yeah. 422 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:11,840 I'm sorry about it. 423 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,840 It's a little late for that. 424 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,840 How am I going to go home with all the neighbors knowing about what's happened? 425 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:17,840 I'm sorry. 426 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,840 Well, with that lot of good that's going to do. 427 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,840 I had you home right now. 428 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:26,840 I'd show you and don't think you're too big for me to do it. 429 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,840 You want to take me upstairs, Mr. Smith? 430 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:29,840 Yeah. 431 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:30,840 Just a minute. 432 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:32,840 I got some more things to say to you. 433 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,840 Don't you go walking out on me like that. 434 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:35,840 I don't feel so good. 435 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:36,840 I'd like to be by myself. 436 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:37,840 I'll talk to you later. 437 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:38,840 You'll talk to me now. 438 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,840 I've got a lot of things I want to tell you, all the trouble you've caused. 439 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,840 I'm sorry. 440 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,840 Please, Mr. Smith, it's tough enough. 441 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:46,840 All right, let's go. 442 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:47,840 You bring him back here. 443 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,840 You bring him back! 444 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,840 Well, that's it. 445 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,840 Now they're both gone. 446 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,840 Now there isn't anybody. 447 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,840 Anything we can get for you, Miss Coulter? 448 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:02,840 Yeah. 449 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,840 Get me a reason why this had to happen. 450 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:05,840 Give me one. 451 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,840 Do you know one? 452 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,840 Well, I can't be sure. 453 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,840 What do you mean by that? 454 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:12,840 Just like you said before. 455 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:13,840 What? 456 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,840 He's your son. 457 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,840 We made arrangements for Mrs. Coulter to be taken to her home. 458 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,840 That night, John Coulter was kept at Georgia Street Jail. 459 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,840 The next morning, we filed a petition on him. 460 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,840 We had one of the doctors at the county hospital talk to Mrs. Coulter, 461 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,840 and he finally convinced her that her son would get proper treatment at one of the state hospitals, 462 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,840 and she signed the necessary papers. 463 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,840 For the next three days, the boy had it pretty rough. 464 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,840 If the novice drug user had the opportunity to witness a patient going through withdrawal pains, 465 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,840 the majority of drug traffic would be brought to a halt. 466 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,840 Because of the sincerity of the Coulter boy, Frank and I spent as much time as we could spare with him 467 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:50,840 while he was going through the symptoms. 468 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,840 He complained of violent headaches and stomach cramps, the usual things. 469 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,840 He was unable to keep any food down. 470 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,840 His eyes watered constantly, and for 72 hours, he was in a state of constant violent pain. 471 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:02,840 On the fourth day, he began to recover. 472 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,840 He was able to take some warm beef broth, and apparently was on his way to being physically well. 473 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,840 On Saturday, February 15th, we talked to him at the hospital. 474 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:11,840 Rough go. 475 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:12,840 Yeah. 476 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,840 I think we've got the worst of it behind you now. 477 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,840 Best thing I've heard for a week. 478 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,840 Don't think I could go through any more of it. 479 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,840 Well, you got a maiden, huh, John? 480 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,840 From here on in, you'll get all the help we can give you. 481 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:24,840 Well, you guys have done a lot already. 482 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:29,840 Couple of times there, I think I would have gone off my rocker if I hadn't been able to talk to you. 483 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,840 Well, that's what we're here for. 484 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:33,840 Hey, either one of you got any gum? 485 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,840 Yeah, sure. Here's some. 486 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:36,840 Jumpy. 487 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,840 I gotta do something to calm down. 488 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,840 You seen my mother? 489 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:43,840 She called us yesterday, yeah. 490 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:45,840 How's she getting along? 491 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,840 A lot better. One of the doctors here at the hospital talked to her. 492 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,840 Said she wants to see you. 493 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:51,840 What's that gonna prove? 494 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,840 Be the same thing? 495 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:55,840 Her telling me how tired she is, how I'm a goofball. 496 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,840 I don't think so this time. 497 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,840 It hasn't been easy for her either, you know. 498 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:01,840 Maybe not, I don't know. 499 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,840 I want to give her a chance to make it up. 500 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:05,840 She wants to. 501 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:06,840 Yeah. 502 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,840 I guess there isn't much more I can do. 503 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,840 All right, now there's a couple of things we want to ask you. 504 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:11,840 What? 505 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,840 We want the man who kept you supplied. 506 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:14,840 Names? 507 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:15,840 That's right. 508 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,840 You figure I'll tell you? 509 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,840 Don't you figure you will? 510 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,840 Wrong base. 511 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,840 I'm a bum in a lot of ways, but I ain't gonna get anybody else in trouble. 512 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,840 You told us about this Jerry Roke, didn't you? 513 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:26,840 Yeah. 514 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:27,840 We got a want out on him now. 515 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,840 Only be a matter of time before we pick him up. 516 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:30,840 Then let him tell you. 517 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,840 Do you think you got it a little wrong here? 518 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:33,840 Yeah. 519 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:35,840 What these people do for you? 520 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:36,840 They're friends. 521 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,840 Check the books. 522 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,840 Go over what they've done for you against what you've done for them. 523 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:42,840 What do you mean? 524 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:43,840 You're a big boy. 525 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,840 Figure it out for yourself. 526 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,840 You know they tell us there's an estimated 25,000 narcotic users right here in Los Angeles, 527 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,840 and a big part of them are kids. 528 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:52,840 Read's good. 529 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:53,840 Figures always help. 530 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:54,840 I know, you remember something else, youngster. 531 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:56,840 You came to us and you asked for help, didn't you? 532 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,840 You walked into the office, you said you were in trouble. 533 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,840 We're not trying to steal a plea or sound like big men, 534 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,840 but when you said you wanted help, we didn't ask if you could afford it. 535 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,840 We didn't care. 536 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,840 Now, these people are such good friends, why didn't you go to them? 537 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,840 I'll tell you why you didn't. 538 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:12,840 Because you were scared. 539 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:14,840 You knew what would happen if you walked up to them with empty pockets. 540 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,840 You knew they'd spit right in your face. 541 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,840 They're your buddy as long as you can pay for it. 542 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,840 As soon as you're broke, they never met you today. 543 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,840 Loyalty's fine. It's a good thing. 544 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,840 People could use a lot more of it, but turn it around, son. 545 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,840 You've stolen things from your own family to support this habit. 546 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,840 Now, how loyal have your friends been when you haven't had the price of a cap? 547 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,840 How quick did they come through for you then? 548 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,840 You know what it's like in here. You've had it bad. 549 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,840 Any of your friends been around to see you? 550 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,840 Any of them been willing to hold your head while your insides fell out? 551 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,840 Now, we asked you a question. 552 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,840 We don't really need the answer from you. 553 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,840 We'll pick up the people who did this. 554 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,840 We'll reach every one of them from the mule that sold you that first cap 555 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,840 to the guy who's been bringing the stuff right into the country. 556 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,840 We just figured you'd like the chance to help out the other 25,000. 557 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,840 I guess we had it wrong, didn't we? 558 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,840 There's the phone. 559 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,840 Put in a call to one of your high-powered friends. 560 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,840 See how fast they come through for you now. 561 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,840 You don't need us, and we don't need you. 562 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,840 Let's go, Frank. Yeah. 563 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,840 Wait a minute. Yeah. 564 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,840 I'll give you the names. 565 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:19,840 We talked to the boy for another hour and a half. 566 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,840 During that time, he gave us as much information as he could 567 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,840 on the operation of the narcotics ring. 568 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,840 He supplied us with the names, dates, times, and places. 569 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,840 However, he could only go so high in the organization. 570 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,840 Frank and I went back to the office, and we called narcotics detail. 571 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,840 We talked to Sergeant Roxy Luccarelli and his partner, Steve Broadhurst. 572 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,840 We filled him in on what had happened and gave them a list of the names we had. 573 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,840 The roundup of narcotics salesmen started. 574 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,840 Inside the next 24-hour period, 14 men and women had been taken into custody. 575 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,840 Each one of them was interrogated, but they either didn't know the name 576 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,840 of the key man in the operation or they refused to speak. 577 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,840 They were all booked on various sections of the state narcotics code. 578 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,840 On Wednesday, February 18th, we received word that Jerry Rhoades had been 579 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,840 picked up in a washroom in Pershing Square. 580 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,840 Frank and I went over to the main jail to talk to him. 581 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,840 All right, get it over with. 582 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,840 We want one thing from you, Rhoades. Yeah? 583 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,840 The name of the wheel. I don't know what you're talking about. 584 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,840 Roll up your sleeves, boy. What for? 585 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,840 Roll them up. 586 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:18,840 Let's see the other one. They're both the same. 587 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,840 Let's see it. 588 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,840 Mark, what's that proof? 589 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,840 That you're left-handed. When'd you have your last fix? 590 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,840 Who says I use this stuff at all? 591 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,840 I'll come off it, Rhoades. We got you and you know it. 592 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,840 I don't see where it says that. How old are you? 593 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,840 You got the record. Look it up. 594 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,840 You're a big talker, aren't you, son? I live that way, too. 595 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,840 Well, you're just taking a little drop, kid. 596 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,840 You won't keep me here for more than 12 hours. 597 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,840 Don't make book on this. Well, I got a lot of friends in this town. 598 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,840 They'll get me out. You keep believing that. 599 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:46,840 We put a hold on you when we came in. What's that mean? 600 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:48,840 It means you'll be dropped into an ISO cell. 601 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,840 We'll talk to you without us knowing about it. 602 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,840 Everybody comes near you is gonna be checked back to the time they were born. 603 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,840 And what's that gonna prove? We'll get to the wheel. 604 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,840 You talk loud, cop, but I got trouble with my ears. 605 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,840 All right, you sit right where the kid. 606 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,840 You'll be screaming for us to talk with you. Yeah, sure. 607 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,840 Keep believing it, because I'll give you one thing free. 608 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,840 Yeah? Next time we're here, it'll be to listen. 609 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,840 Jerry Rhoades was returned to his cell, 610 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,840 and Frank and I went back to the investigation. 611 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,840 For the next two days, we kept a constant check on the suspect. 612 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,840 During that time, nobody had attempted to see him or talk to him. 613 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,840 Saturday, February 21st, we got back to the office from lunch. 614 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,840 Want to check the book? Yeah. 615 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,840 Anything? Yeah, we're supposed to call him in jail. 616 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,840 Rhoades probably wants to talk. 617 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,840 Well, we might have tried to spring him. Yeah. 618 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,840 This Friday, juvenile. 619 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,840 When? We'll be right over. 620 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,840 Rhoades? Yeah. 621 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,840 Want to talk? Well, maybe we can ask him. 622 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,840 They just cut him down. He tried to hang himself. 623 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,840 Frank and I left the office and drove over to the jail. 624 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,840 The boy had torn his trousers into strips and braided them into a rope. 625 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,840 He'd attempted to take his own life. 626 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,840 He'd been found on a routine check and had been cut down. 627 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,840 The accident had been discovered almost immediately, 628 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,840 and by the time we got there, he was almost fully recovered. 629 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,840 We talked to him in the interrogation room. 630 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,840 Kind of lousy way out, isn't it, kid? 631 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,840 It looked good at the time. How's it seem to you now? 632 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,840 I made a mistake. How do you feel? 633 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,840 Pretty lousy. You want to give us the name? 634 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,840 What kind of protection do I get? 635 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,840 How do you mean? Well, if I tell you, I got it. 636 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:28,840 No one's going to get me. 637 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,840 Well, we'll try to build some kind of a wall for you. 638 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,840 You won't note to me? No, not from us. 639 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,840 Hi. Name's Pollard Zern. 640 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,840 Want to spell that? Yeah. 641 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,840 Z-E-R-N-E. 642 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,840 He the top man? Yeah, I built the whole thing. 643 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,840 Did he bring the stuff into the country? 644 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:43,840 Yeah, Sergeant, he's got a boat. 645 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,840 He tells people he's going fishing for Albuquerque. 646 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,840 Where's he bringing it, from Mexico? 647 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Yeah, I've been with him a couple of times. 648 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,840 He lands the boat at a beach down there, 649 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,840 makes the contact, and then comes home, hides the stuff and fish. 650 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,840 Got the idea from an old movie. 651 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,840 That way, if they looked the boat over, chances are they won't find it. 652 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,840 Nice setup, huh? Yeah, it sure worked good for him. 653 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,840 Yeah. He made a mint, got a big house, 654 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,840 drives a new car, got everything he wants. 655 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,840 Just sits back and pulls a handle, jackpot, every time. 656 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,840 No, not this time. Huh? 657 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,840 He just turned a lemon. 658 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,840 HONKING 659 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,840 Pollard Harris Zern and the other members of the narcotics gang 660 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,840 were tried and convicted of violation of the State Narcotics Act, 661 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,840 a felony, and received sentence as prescribed by law. 662 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,840 A petition was filed on John Keith Coulter, 663 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,840 and he was made a ward of the juvenile court. 664 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,840 After treatment, he was pronounced cured 665 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,840 and returned to the custody of his mother. 666 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,840 You have just heard Dragnet, 667 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,840 the authentic story of your police force in action, 668 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,840 and starring Jack Webb, 669 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,840 a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 670 00:24:47,840 --> 00:25:02,840 HONKING 671 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:32,840 HONKING 672 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:46,840 HONKING 673 00:25:46,840 --> 00:26:01,840 HONKING