1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,080 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,000 Your detective sergeant, you're assigned a robbery detail. 3 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,400 A wholesale drug company has been held up. 4 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,400 Four thousand dollars in narcotics has been taken. 5 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,400 Your job, find it. 6 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:51,400 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 7 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:56,400 For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 8 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:02,400 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 9 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:13,400 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 10 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,400 It was Tuesday, July 10th. It was hot in Los Angeles. 11 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,400 We were working the night watch out of robbery detail. 12 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,400 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Chief of Detective Stad Brown. My name is Friday. 13 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,400 We're on our way out from the office and it was 10.51 p.m. when we got to Highland Park Division. 14 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,400 The coffee room. 15 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,400 Joe, Frank, over here. 16 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:31,400 Hi, Luke. 17 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:32,400 Hi, Rachie. 18 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,400 Want a cup of coffee? 19 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,400 Yes, I'll get it, Joe. 20 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:35,400 Okay. How's it going, Luke? 21 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:36,400 Pretty good. Kind of hot. 22 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,400 Yeah. 23 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,400 Makes me wish I'd brought that patio out of that place. 24 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:41,400 You got a dime of change, Joe? 25 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,400 Yeah, wait a minute. Here you go. 26 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,400 Thanks. 27 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,400 That was a half, you know. Bring me some change. 28 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:51,400 No, worry. 29 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:52,400 Wait a minute. 30 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,400 You want to take one of these cups, Joe? 31 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:54,400 Yeah, I got it. 32 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,400 How about you? You want some more, Luke? 33 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,400 No, thanks. 34 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,400 Okay. Well, what do you got for us, Luke? 35 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,400 I gave you the call as soon as we got it. 36 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,400 The way it builds is that a patrolman picked him up over on Monte Vista. 37 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:05,400 Uh-huh. 38 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:06,400 Spotted him in a parked car. 39 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,400 Checked on it and found the guy was pretty sick. 40 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,400 First he thought it might be a 502, but after he got a good look, figured it was a heart attack. 41 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:14,400 Uh-huh. 42 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,400 The fellow was out cold. Couldn't tell anything. 43 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,400 Uh-huh. 44 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,400 They called an ambulance and took the guy over to Lincoln Heights Receiving. 45 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,400 Gave him treatment there. 46 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,400 Checking it out, they found several puncture marks on his arm. 47 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,400 Thought he might be a diabetic. 48 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,400 Uh-huh. 49 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,400 His appearance was shock. 50 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,400 Checked on his personal effects and came up with this. 51 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:29,400 Uh-huh. 52 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,400 Drug vial. 53 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,400 Uh-huh. 54 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:32,400 Let me see, Joe. 55 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Oh, yeah. Here you go. 56 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,400 The label's all cut up, but there's enough left to tell the serial numbers. 57 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,400 Yeah. 58 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,400 One of the vitals taken from Arnold's. 59 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,400 Morphine. 60 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,400 That's right. 61 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:40,400 What's his name? 62 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,400 Norman Carey. 63 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,400 What you got on him? 64 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,400 Not much. 65 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,400 According to R&I, he's been picked up a couple of times from Marks. 66 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,400 He said anything to you? 67 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,400 Not much. He's feeling pretty rocky. 68 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,400 Still coming out of it. 69 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,400 I haven't been able to get anything out of him. 70 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,400 What'd you say about the vial? 71 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:54,400 Nothing. 72 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Acts like a war prisoner. 73 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,400 All he says is his name, gives us address. 74 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:58,400 So check out. 75 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,400 Couple guys over there now. 76 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,400 Uh-huh. 77 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,400 Figured you'd want a piece of it. 78 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,400 Might be able to get something out of him. 79 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:04,400 Oh, I don't know. 80 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,400 No reason for us to make it if you guys didn't. 81 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:06,400 Well, maybe. 82 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:07,400 Might give it a try. 83 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,400 Okay. 84 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:09,400 Finished? 85 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,400 Yeah. 86 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:11,400 Here, I'll take the cups. 87 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,400 Okay. 88 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,400 I have the change from that half. 89 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:15,400 Wait a minute, buddy. 90 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,400 I'll give it to you on the way back. 91 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,400 All right. 92 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,400 All right. 93 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Let's go. 94 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,400 Okay. 95 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,400 You want to check your gun? 96 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,400 Yeah. 97 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,400 You want to give us a check for these, please? 98 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Oh, yeah. 99 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,400 Has anybody talked to Curie? 100 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:32,400 Not that I know of. 101 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,400 He hadn't made any calls. 102 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:34,400 No one's been here to see him. 103 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:35,400 The morphine vial, the only thing he had on him? 104 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,400 Yeah. 105 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,400 Turned his pockets, but it's all we could find. 106 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,400 Fellas might do better in his room. 107 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:39,400 There'll be a real break if it ends right here, won't it? 108 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,400 That's for sure. 109 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:41,400 Here you go. 110 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:42,400 Number six is a belly gun. 111 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:43,400 All right. 112 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:44,400 Thank you. 113 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,400 No, that's mine. 114 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,400 Here's yours, Frank. 115 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:51,400 Okay. 116 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,400 Here's your change. 117 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:53,400 All right. 118 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:54,400 Thank you. 119 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,400 Anything on the car that was in? 120 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:56,400 No. 121 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,400 The officer that picked him up went over it, but they didn't turn in anything. 122 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,400 Is he the registered owner? 123 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:00,400 Yeah. 124 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,400 You want to talk to Curie again, huh? 125 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,400 That's right. 126 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,400 How long is he going to be here? 127 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,400 We'll take him downtown in the morning. 128 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:08,400 Right. 129 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,400 I'll be out front when you're ready to leave. 130 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,400 Okay. 131 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:17,400 I'll be back in a minute. 132 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,400 You back again? 133 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,400 That's right. 134 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,400 Brought some help, huh? 135 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,400 Want to ask you some questions, fella. 136 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,400 My name's Norman Curie. 137 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,400 I live at 9672 Farnham Street. 138 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,400 Yeah, I've heard. 139 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:34,400 Then you've had it for me. 140 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,400 I'm not giving you the time until I talk to a lawyer. 141 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,400 Where'd you get the morphine vial? 142 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,400 My name's Norman Curie. 143 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,400 I live at 9672 Farnham Street. 144 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,400 Look, you're in for a lot more than a narco charge. 145 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,400 From where you sit? 146 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,400 No matter how you see it, you got trouble, Curie. 147 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:48,400 Go ahead, cop. 148 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,400 I like stories. 149 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,400 You're not doing yourself any good with this routine. 150 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,400 You're not doing me any harm. 151 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:54,400 I don't have to talk to you. 152 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,400 Nothing in the book says I got to give you fresh air. 153 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,400 Now all of you, get off my back. 154 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,400 Come in here and try to nail anything more than narcotics on me. 155 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,400 The guys in the coffee room will laugh you right out of the station. 156 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,400 Once around, I'll give it to you again. 157 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:11,400 My name's Norman Curie and I live at 9672 Farnham Street and that's it. 158 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:12,400 You're giving us no more. 159 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,400 You've had it. 160 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:14,400 All right, let's go. 161 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,400 How long are you going to hold me here? 162 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,400 You'll be moved in the morning. 163 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:18,400 When do I call a lawyer? 164 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:19,400 I'll leave word out front. 165 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,400 Thanks. 166 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,400 Okay. 167 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:24,400 Jim, want a locker? 168 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:27,400 You guys understand, huh? 169 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,400 What? 170 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,400 Hope you ain't sorry about what I said, just that there isn't anything I can give you. 171 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:32,400 Yeah, sure. 172 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:33,400 Just that nobody likes to be shoved around. 173 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,400 Just to the point where everybody's on your back, a guy don't like it. 174 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:37,400 Yeah. 175 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,400 Might not look like it, fella, but I ain't trying to be a big man. 176 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:40,400 Well, I wouldn't worry about it. 177 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:41,400 Huh? 178 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,400 You're not. 179 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,400 The following morning, the suspect was removed to the main jail and booked in on suspicion 180 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,400 of violation of the State Narcotics Act, a felony. 181 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,400 It was photographed and fingerprinted. 182 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,400 The combined efforts of the Narcotics Division and robbery detail had been devoted to the 183 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,400 apprehension of the thieves who'd stolen the drugs. 184 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,400 The arrest of Curie had been the first lead we'd gotten to the disposition of the stolen 185 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,400 merchandise, but without his cooperation, there was little chance that we could get 186 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,400 to the ringleaders. 187 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:16,400 The next day, Frank and I checked with informants who might be able to supply us with any information. 188 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,400 All of Curie's known associates were interrogated. 189 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,400 None of them helped us. 190 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,400 We got word that Curie had been released on bail at noon. 191 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,400 Narcotics Division had assigned officers to follow him, and all of his actions were 192 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,400 being observed. 193 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,400 Everyone he met was being checked on. 194 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,400 5, 10 p.m., Wednesday afternoon. 195 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,400 We got back to the city hall from a meeting with Captain Carl Shy of Narcotics. 196 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,400 I got the log we can check out. 197 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,400 Yeah, been a long day, hasn't it? 198 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,400 Yeah, you can say that again. 199 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,400 A lot of walking. 200 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,400 You want to check the books? 201 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,400 Yeah. 202 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,400 Anything? 203 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,400 Yeah, Skipper wants to see us. 204 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,400 He's in Thad Brown's office. 205 00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:59,400 Yeah? 206 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,400 Friday. 207 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,400 Curie, what do you want? 208 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,400 I got something for you. 209 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,400 All right. 210 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,400 All right if I sit down? 211 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Sure, go ahead. 212 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,400 It's a lousy deal, Friday, lousy. 213 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:13,400 It is. 214 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:14,400 Worst. 215 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,400 Sitting in a can trying to figure out some way to keep them clean, they pull a stunt like this on me. 216 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,400 What are you talking about? 217 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,400 Well, you took the supply away from me last night. 218 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,400 I had to make another connection this morning. 219 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,400 As soon as I got out, I went over to see him. 220 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,400 He treated me like I just got into town. Lousy. 221 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,400 If you're going to act like that, it's going to cost him. 222 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:30,400 Is that so? 223 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,400 Yeah, you better call that Luccarelli. Is that his name? 224 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:33,400 That's right. 225 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,400 Yeah, get him over here. He's going to want to hear it too. 226 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:36,400 Hear what? 227 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,400 I'm going to give you a chapter and verse on the whole deal. 228 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,400 Frank put in a call to Narcotics Division and asked Sergeant Roxy Luccarelli to come over to the office. 229 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,400 It took him less than five minutes to get there. 230 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:54,400 In the meantime, we briefly questioned Curie and found that he wanted to cooperate fully in the apprehension of the gang. 231 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,400 When Roxy got there, we started to get the full story. 232 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,400 All right, what can you tell us about the robbery? 233 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,400 Nothing. I didn't have any part of it. 234 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:02,400 Where'd you get the M? 235 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Picked it up in the bar. 236 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:04,400 You got the address? 237 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:05,400 Yeah, placed down on Fifth. 238 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:06,400 Who's your connection? 239 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,400 Guy named Corbett. 240 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,400 Got a first name for him? 241 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,400 Olin. 242 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,400 How's that go? O-L-A-N? 243 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:12,400 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 244 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:13,400 When'd you make the buy? 245 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,400 Yesterday afternoon. 246 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:16,400 The whole vial? 247 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:17,400 Yeah. 248 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:18,400 Did you scratch out the label? 249 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:19,400 No, no, it was that way when I got it. 250 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:20,400 Did you know the stuff was stolen? 251 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,400 I put it down that I didn't ask for an original bill of sale. 252 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,400 What about this Corbett? 253 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,400 What do you know about him? 254 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:26,400 Been hanging around the place a long time. 255 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:27,400 I see him there all the time. 256 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Ever been in trouble? 257 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:29,400 You mean with the cops? 258 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:30,400 Yeah. 259 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:31,400 I don't know. 260 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,400 I guess he's been picked up a couple of times for possession. 261 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:33,400 You ever done any time? 262 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,400 Couple months in the county jail. 263 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,400 Probation? 264 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:37,400 I think so. 265 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,400 I never got in a big conversation with him about it. 266 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:41,400 You know where he got the stuff? 267 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:42,400 I can't pin it down for you. 268 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,400 Got an idea? 269 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:44,400 It must be the bar. 270 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,400 A lot of places there you can get connection. 271 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:47,400 You know who it could have been? 272 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,400 No. 273 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,400 Anybody around there got a lot of money that they can't explain? 274 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,400 Most of the customers will fit that. 275 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,400 You want to give us a description of this Corbett? 276 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:55,400 What's that for? 277 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,400 Like check his record. 278 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:57,400 Oh. 279 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:58,400 Well, let's see. 280 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,400 I think he's about 45, maybe 46. 281 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,400 Around in there someplace. 282 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:03,400 Yeah. 283 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,400 I guess he's about 160 pounds. 284 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,400 Five feet nine, I think. 285 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:08,400 Go ahead. 286 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,400 Well, he's got kind of dark hair. 287 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,400 Gray, you know, in here. 288 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:13,400 You know, around the temples. 289 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,400 Yeah. 290 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:15,400 Like that. 291 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:16,400 Anything else about him? 292 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:17,400 Well, he's got a kind of limp. 293 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,400 One leg is shorter than the other. 294 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:20,400 You know which leg it is? 295 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,400 No. 296 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,400 No, I never pay any attention to it. 297 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,400 Ring any bells for you, Rocks? 298 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,400 It might be. 299 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:28,400 I think I know who he's talking about. 300 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:29,400 I'll check on it. 301 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,400 All right. 302 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:36,400 How about it, Kerry? 303 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:37,400 You know if any more of the stuff has been passed? 304 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,400 Well, I can't say for sure. 305 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,400 This is the first bunch of it I bought. 306 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,400 Guess there's some more of it that's been pushed. 307 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:44,400 Well, it sure jolted me. 308 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,400 I'm not used to that drugstore stuff. 309 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,400 You know anybody that's bought? 310 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:48,400 No. 311 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,400 How come the stuff you got wasn't cut? 312 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:51,400 I don't know. 313 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:52,400 I guess somebody goofed. 314 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,400 Sure made me sick. 315 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,400 What happened when you went back there today? 316 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:57,400 Well, I walked into the place. 317 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,400 I figured I'd get something up. 318 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,400 You'd have thought I was a cop. 319 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:02,400 All right. 320 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,400 Now, wasn't anybody in the place that had anything to do with me. 321 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:06,400 Was Corbett there? 322 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:07,400 You mean this morning? 323 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,400 Yeah. 324 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,400 No, but at least I didn't see him. 325 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:11,400 Hold on a minute. 326 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:14,400 Robbery Friday. 327 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,400 Just a minute. 328 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,400 Murphy. 329 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,400 No, he's not here. 330 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Can I take a message? 331 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:22,400 All right. 332 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:23,400 I'll have him. 333 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,400 I'll have him call us as soon as he gets in. 334 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:26,400 You bet. 335 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,400 Did you hear anything about the robbery? 336 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:30,400 No, I didn't. 337 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,400 A couple of small type rumbles are out, but nothing you can pin down. 338 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:34,400 What'd they say? 339 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,400 Just that there was a heist. 340 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,400 No names used. 341 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:37,400 Anything on who's responsible? 342 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,400 I told you it was just a small rumble. 343 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:40,400 What do you figure about it? 344 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:41,400 Huh? 345 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:42,400 You got any ideas who might have done it? 346 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,400 Nothing you can take to court. 347 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,400 I'd give you pretty short odds on Corbett, though. 348 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:47,400 You got any close friends around the place? 349 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,400 Oh, he knows everybody there. 350 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,400 He spend more time with anybody special? 351 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,400 No, he usually just comes in, sits around. 352 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,400 He got a job? 353 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,400 Not so it shows. 354 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,400 Where does he live? 355 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:57,400 He never told me. 356 00:10:58,400 --> 00:10:59,400 Why'd you come in here, Keery? 357 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:00,400 Huh? 358 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,400 What are you trying to build with us? 359 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,400 Nothing. 360 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,400 I just got real hacked this morning with the way those guys shoved me around. 361 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,400 I want to see them get what they got coming. 362 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,400 You don't want nothing for yourself? 363 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,400 Just to see them get paid. 364 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,400 You got any ideas how we can do that? 365 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,400 Yeah. 366 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,400 All right, we're waiting. 367 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:14,400 Let me nail them for you. 368 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:16,400 Spell it out. 369 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,400 Look, you can't get within 10 feet of them. 370 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:19,400 The whole bar is hinky. 371 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:20,400 Now let me go in and get them. 372 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,400 We can't give you anything for it. 373 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,400 I'm not asking for anything. 374 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,400 You just let me go along with you guys. 375 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,400 Let me go in and blow the whistle on those guys who pull the heist. 376 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:28,400 Doesn't make a lot of sense, Keery. 377 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,400 You coming in here and wanting to help us, there's got to be something behind it. 378 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,400 Now what's it going to cost you to find out? 379 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,400 You going to have a tail on me from the time I walk out of here? 380 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:36,400 It's not going to do you any harm to let me go. 381 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,400 You're laying yourself right in the middle of the tracks, you know. 382 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:39,400 I know that. 383 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,400 But it's worth it to see the expression on their faces when you kick the door in. 384 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,400 All right, we'll have to check it with a skipper. 385 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:46,400 Well, you go ahead. 386 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Guys, play it any way you want. 387 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,400 Don't make a pound of me. 388 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,400 If you want me on your side, I'm there. 389 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,400 What happens if they find out? 390 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,400 Send roses. 391 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,400 All right, Keery, we'll buy a piece of it. 392 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,400 But I'm going to give you something going in. 393 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:58,400 What's that? 394 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:00,400 There's going to be a lot of men working on this. 395 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,400 If one of them gets in trouble over you, you better start running 396 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,400 because there isn't going to be a big enough handicap for you. 397 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,400 I'm not asking for one, am I? 398 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,400 If it works out, you'll get a piece of the credit. 399 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,400 It'll go in the books that way, and that's all. 400 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:12,400 It doesn't matter to me at all. 401 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,400 All I want to see is for those guys to get theirs. 402 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:15,400 All right. 403 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,400 Well, this time I thought they were friends of mine, 404 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,400 and they'd turn around and pull a stunt like this. 405 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,400 It's pretty lousy. 406 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,400 All I want is a connection. 407 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,400 They've got the stuff that isn't going to cost them anything. 408 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,400 You got it wrong there, fella. 409 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:25,400 Huh? 410 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:26,400 It's going to cost them. 411 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,400 Frank came back from R&I with the information that the suspect, 412 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,400 Olin Corbett, had a long record in Los Angeles 413 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,400 listing arrests for narcotics suspicion, a burglary suspicion, a robbery, and ADW. 414 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,400 While Keery waited in the squad room, 415 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,400 Luca Raleigh, Frank, and I talked with Captain Donahoe. 416 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,400 We filled him in on what had happened, 417 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,400 and it was decided to accept Keery's offer of help. 418 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,400 The next morning, Thursday, July 12th, we started the operation. 419 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,400 An effort was made to find Olin Corbett without result. 420 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,400 In order to make sure the safety of our informant 421 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,400 was arranged for an officer from Narcotics Division to be planted in the bar. 422 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,400 One of the younger officers was chosen for the job, 423 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,400 and at 10.05 a.m. he took up his position in the place. 424 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,400 At 10.34 a.m., Frank and I, along with Luca Raleigh and Keery, got there. 425 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,400 We parked down the street and let our contact out of the car. 426 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,400 We walked down the block and entered the bar. 427 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,400 Ten minutes later, he hurried back. 428 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,400 Looks like something's wrong. 429 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:18,400 You want to open the door, Frank? 430 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,400 Yeah. 431 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,400 What are you guys trying to pull? 432 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:23,400 What are you talking about? 433 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,400 You ain't much better than they are, a lousy thing all the way around. 434 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,400 One thing I figured sure was I'd be able to touch you guys. 435 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,400 All right, now calm down, Keery, and tell us what's wrong. 436 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:30,400 What did you plant the cop for in there? 437 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:31,400 What? 438 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,400 Everybody knows who he is, or isn't anything going on. 439 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,400 What's the matter? Don't you trust me, is that it? 440 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,400 We wanted to make sure you'd be able to walk out of the place, that's all. 441 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,400 It didn't work out that way. 442 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,400 The guy's in the airplane for keeps, the whole place is wide for sound. 443 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,400 All right, then we gotta go after him a different way. 444 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,400 It's gonna have to do without me. 445 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,400 After today, I don't dare go into the place. 446 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:48,400 They all figure I brought the fuzz in. 447 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:49,400 You won't have to go back. 448 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Thanks a lot. 449 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:52,400 I sure goes to show you. 450 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:53,400 What's that? 451 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,400 Play footsie with the cops. You're bound to get burned. 452 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:56,400 We appreciate what you did. 453 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:57,400 A lot of good that does. 454 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,400 The word gets out I'm in big trouble. 455 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,400 As soon as those guys find out I've been going with you, I've had it. 456 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,400 Give me one good reason why you had to put the cop in there. 457 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:04,400 What kind of insurance is that? 458 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:05,400 Yours. 459 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:06,400 Huh? 460 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:07,400 We're trying to keep you alive. 461 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,400 We went back to the office and talked with Captain Donahoe. 462 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,400 We told him what had happened. 463 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,400 After conversations with Chief of Detective Stad Brown and Captain Carl Shy, 464 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:23,400 it was decided that the bar on 5th Street was important enough to warrant a 24-hour stakeout. 465 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,400 The crime lab was contacted and we asked their aid in arranging the surveillance. 466 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,400 Lieutenant Lee Jones suggested a camera mounted in a delivery truck. 467 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,400 We got in touch with one of the larger truck rental services in the city 468 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,400 and we got permission to use their equipment. 469 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,400 It was decided that a panel truck parked a short distance from the bar 470 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,400 could be used to observe both the front and rear entrances. 471 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:47,400 A small slot was cut in the side of the truck so that a 16-millimeter camera could be used. 472 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:51,400 Frank and I spent an hour with Lieutenant Jones going over the workings of the camera. 473 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,400 The following morning we took up our positions outside the bar. 474 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,400 For the next 12 hours we took pictures of everybody entering and leaving the place. 475 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,400 Men from Narcotics Division relieved us during the nighttime hours. 476 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,400 For three days the surveillance continued without result. 477 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,400 Hundreds of feet of film were exposed and processed. 478 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,400 Still we were no closer to apprehending the suspects. 479 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,400 During this time we hadn't seen Olin Corbett, the man who'd sold the morphine to Kerry. 480 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,400 Thursday morning, July 17th, Frank and I took up our positions in the truck. 481 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,400 You checked the camera this morning? 482 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,400 No. Luke said we'd probably have to put in a new film magazine, didn't he? 483 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Yeah, I'd better take care of that. 484 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,400 You know how to do this? 485 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,400 Well, you were there when Lee explained it, weren't you? 486 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,400 Yeah, but I kind of forgot. 487 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,400 Well, that's good. Then I'd better know how, huh? 488 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,400 Yeah. Here's the film. 489 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,400 All right, let me take a look. 490 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,400 Nothing to it. You just follow these lines here. 491 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,400 Oh, yeah, that's right. 492 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,400 You want to throw that little catch there? 493 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,400 No, no, no. This one. This one. 494 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,400 Oh, yeah. 495 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:49,400 Okay. 496 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,400 Should we go under that thing? 497 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400 You want to do it? 498 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,400 No, go ahead, Joe. 499 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,400 I think you're supposed to turn that little gizmo there, that one, to make sure you're threaded up all right. 500 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:00,400 No, you're wrong. 501 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:01,400 The little knob right over there. 502 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,400 No, you were wrong. 503 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,400 All right, you going to turn it? 504 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,400 I'm going to turn it as soon as I get this threaded up. If you turn it now, you tear the film. 505 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,400 Yeah, but you're supposed to turn that little gizmo. 506 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:10,400 We turn it after we thread it up. 507 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:11,400 Oh, all right. 508 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,400 Well, I remember that you turned it. 509 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,400 You know you're a big help to me, Frank. 510 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,400 Yeah. 511 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,400 Boy, it's going to be another hot one. 512 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,400 It's hot in this truck, too. 513 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:22,400 Yeah. 514 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,400 I'd say a pack of different lunch today. 515 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,400 Chopped egg sandwiches and potato salad. 516 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:28,400 Want one? 517 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:29,400 A little early, don't you think? 518 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,400 Oh, it might be. I figured you might be a little hungry, though. 519 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:32,400 No, not right now. 520 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:33,400 Frank. 521 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:34,400 Yeah. 522 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:35,400 Want to switch on the camera? 523 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:36,400 Huh? Got something? 524 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:37,400 Come here. Take a look. 525 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,400 No, up this way. See them come up the street? 526 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,400 No, where? 527 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,400 Right there, see? 528 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,400 Huh? 529 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:43,400 Just passing the bakery there. 530 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:44,400 Oh, yeah. 531 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:45,400 It looks like Corbett to me. 532 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,400 Yeah. 533 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,400 All right. 534 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:48,400 He's going into the bar. 535 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,400 Yeah, first time we've seen him. 536 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,400 Mm-hmm. 537 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:51,400 Alone. 538 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:52,400 You better call Luke. 539 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:53,400 Have him put a tail on the guy when he leaves. 540 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:54,400 Yeah. 541 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:55,400 Wait a minute. 542 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:56,400 Huh? 543 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,400 Corbett's coming out the side door. 544 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:58,400 Yeah, he's going back to that Cadillac. 545 00:16:58,400 --> 00:16:59,400 Uh-huh. 546 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,400 You see that copple in the alley? 547 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,400 No, it must have been while we were loading the camera. 548 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:04,400 Oh. 549 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:05,400 Wait a minute. 550 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:06,400 There's a woman behind the wheel. 551 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:07,400 Oh, she's getting out. 552 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:08,400 You getting everything there? 553 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:09,400 Yeah, I think so. 554 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,400 When you're not now, why'd you stop? 555 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,400 Well, I just took my thumb off for a minute. 556 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,400 I'll start again. 557 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,400 Looks like she's giving Corbett something. 558 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:17,400 Yeah, a small package. 559 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,400 We better have him picked up and see what it is. 560 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,400 As soon as he leaves, I'll get in touch with Luke. 561 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:22,400 Okay, cut the camera. 562 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,400 That's enough. 563 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:24,400 You better get on with it. 564 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:25,400 He's shoving off. 565 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:26,400 The car's leaving too. 566 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:27,400 You want to get the license number? 567 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:28,400 Yeah. 568 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:29,400 It's 2-Victor-22-876. 569 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,400 Might be a break. 570 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:31,400 Yeah. 571 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:32,400 At least we know one thing. 572 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:33,400 Huh? 573 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,400 We've got a contact. 574 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:45,400 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your 575 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:51,400 police force in action. 576 00:17:51,400 --> 00:18:04,400 We got in touch with the narcotics office and made arrangements for Corbett to be taken 577 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,400 into custody. 578 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,400 The arrest itself was made in such a way as to appear routine. 579 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,400 A check of DMV gave us the name of the owner of the black Cadillac that we'd seen behind 580 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,400 the bar. 581 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:19,400 The car was registered to a Mrs. Bula Pringle, 5742 Los Feliz Boulevard, legal the same. 582 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,400 We ran the name through R&I, but we found no criminal record for it. 583 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,400 The pictures we'd taken were processed and shown to the witnesses of the warehouse robbery. 584 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,400 Two of them positively identified Corbett as the lookout man on the job. 585 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,400 Frank and I, along with Roxy Luccarelli, talked to him at the main jail, but he refused to 586 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,400 give us any information regarding the holdup. 587 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,400 He was booked on charges of robbery. 588 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,400 For the next week, a constant surveillance was kept on the Pringle woman. 589 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,400 All of the people she came into contact with were checked on. 590 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,400 We made several attempts to search her home, but there was always somebody there. 591 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:52,400 On Tuesday, July 24th, a week after we'd first observed her, she was seen at the bar again. 592 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,400 This time, she passed a small package to one of the regulars of the place. 593 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,400 He was taken into custody and found to have had a large quantity of pure morphine in his 594 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,400 possession, but he refused to say where he'd gotten it. 595 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:05,400 Without finding the cache of narcotics, there was little reason to take the woman into custody. 596 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,400 On Wednesday, July 25th, we got word that she'd left her home. 597 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,400 Frank and I drove out there and succeeded in making a complete search of the place, but 598 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:12,400 we found nothing. 599 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,400 A check of her car turned up none of the stolen narcotics. 600 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,400 The surveillance continued. 601 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:17,400 Another week passed. 602 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,400 Wednesday, August 1st, she again made a meet and turned over a package of narcotics, which 603 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,400 we believed to have been taken in the robbery. 604 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:27,400 After talking to the man we'd picked up, Frank and I met in the squad room. 605 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,400 He isn't going to give us anything. 606 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:30,400 No. 607 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,400 Well, we'll talk to DA's office in the morning, see what we can do. 608 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,400 There's got to be something about the Pringle woman that will tell us where the narcotics are. 609 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:36,400 Well, you've been over all the information. 610 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,400 Have you spotted anything? 611 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,400 No, but she's got to pick it up someplace. 612 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:40,400 Where? 613 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:41,400 I don't know. 614 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,400 You got the list of places she goes to? 615 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,400 Yeah, in my locker. 616 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,400 You want to get them, I'll check the book. 617 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:46,400 Yeah. 618 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,400 Where are they, Joe? 619 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,400 Top shelf there. 620 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:52,400 Should be on the left side. 621 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:53,400 Huh? 622 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,400 Top shelf on the left side, right in front of you. 623 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,400 Oh, yeah, here I go. 624 00:19:58,400 --> 00:19:59,400 Anything on the book for us? 625 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,400 No. 626 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,400 Okay, let's go over these again. 627 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:03,400 All right. 628 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,400 Here's a report from Roxy. 629 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,400 This woman's got regular appointments at the beauty shop. 630 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,400 She has her hair fixed on Thursdays. 631 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,400 That's her car serviced at the corner of Salmon Harbor. 632 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:18,400 Name of the market where she gets her groceries, her bank, the kid who delivers the morning 633 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,400 paper. 634 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:20,400 They've all been checked down. 635 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:21,400 What about her boyfriend? 636 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,400 Checked him way back. 637 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:23,400 There's nothing there. 638 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,400 You know anything about her kids? 639 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,400 Two boys buy a former marriage. 640 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,400 One's 10, the other's 12. 641 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,400 They stay at the school in the valley. 642 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,400 Address is on the report there. 643 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,400 Oh, yeah, here. 644 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,400 Sees the kid about every week. 645 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,400 Mm-hmm. 646 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,400 Well, you can say she's an attentive mother. 647 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,400 Well, maybe she's got another reason. 648 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:41,400 What do you mean? 649 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,400 A couple of days after she sees the kid, she makes a drop. 650 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:44,400 Yeah. 651 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:45,400 The way it looks done in here. 652 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:46,400 Yeah. 653 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,400 Maybe she's got something besides kids over at that school. 654 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:54,400 Frank and I made arrangements to search the room occupied by the Pringle youngsters. 655 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,400 We drove out to the valley and talked with the head of the school. 656 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,400 Without telling him what we were looking for, Frank and I got into the room and began to 657 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:01,400 go over it. 658 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,400 Anything in the closet? 659 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,400 Wait a minute. 660 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:06,400 A couple of suitcases here. 661 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,400 Looks like they're full of clothes. 662 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,400 Nothing in these drawers. 663 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,400 Hold it a minute, Joe. 664 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,400 Huh? 665 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,400 The suitcase here looks like a makeup kit. 666 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:16,400 What's in it? 667 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:17,400 I can't tell. 668 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:18,400 It's locked. 669 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,400 Let's see it. 670 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,400 Take a look. 671 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,400 You got anything I can use to open the case? 672 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,400 I'll try this. 673 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:26,400 Okay. 674 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,400 Well, that does it. 675 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:32,400 Yeah. 676 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:33,400 Take a look. 677 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,400 Mm-hmm. 678 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,400 Want to take it back to town? 679 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,400 Better than have the serial numbers checked. 680 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,400 Not much doubt, huh? 681 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,400 No. 682 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:41,400 Just about wraps it up, doesn't it? 683 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,400 Let's bring a Pringle woman in and talk to her, see what she can come up with on this. 684 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,400 The way Roxy puts it, she's a pretty good talker. 685 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,400 She's going to have to be, isn't she? 686 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:55,400 Frank and I left the school and drove back to the Los Feliz address. 687 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,400 The black Cadillac was parked in the driveway. 688 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,400 We told the maid who answered the door who we were and what we wanted. 689 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:05,400 She showed us into the library of the house and asked us to wait while she went to get Mrs. Pringle. 690 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:06,400 It's quite a pad, huh, Joe? 691 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,400 Yeah, it's pretty big. 692 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,400 Faye's been after me to get one of these. 693 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:11,400 What's that? 694 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,400 See, one of these three-dimensional viewers. 695 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,400 You know, got little pictures in them. 696 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,400 Faye says they're great for the kids. 697 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,400 Yeah. 698 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:18,400 Got all kind of pictures. 699 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,400 Yosemite, Yellowstone. 700 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:20,400 Pretty interesting. 701 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:21,400 All in 3D, too. 702 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,400 Gentlemen, something you want to see me about? 703 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,400 Well, police officers, Mrs. Pringle. 704 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,400 Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 705 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,400 Yes, I know. 706 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,400 What was it you wanted to see me about? 707 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,400 You know a man named Olin Corbett? 708 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,400 Corbett? No, I don't think so. 709 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,400 How about Peter Ulrich? 710 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:36,400 Nothing there either. 711 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,400 You mind telling me what this is all about? 712 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,400 Well, I think you know as well as we do, don't you? 713 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,400 It's some kind of a joke. I'm afraid I can't go along with it. 714 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,400 No, ma'am, it's no joke. 715 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:47,400 You're trying to say something. 716 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,400 Why not stop going in circles and come right to the point? 717 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,400 All right. You're under arrest, Mrs. Pringle. 718 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:53,400 For what? 719 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,400 Robbery and narcotics. 720 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:56,400 Would you like to sit down? 721 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,400 No, thank you. 722 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:58,400 No. 723 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,400 Anything I can get for you? A drink, maybe? 724 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,400 No. 725 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,400 Uh-huh. 726 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,400 You must have some kind of evidence to make a charge like this. 727 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,400 We have. 728 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:09,400 You mind telling me what it is? 729 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,400 We've got motion pictures of you meeting the men that I mentioned. 730 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,400 Pictures of you passing the narcotics to them. 731 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,400 We checked your children's school. 732 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,400 We found that makeup kit. 733 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,400 Not much doubt, then, is there? 734 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:22,400 No, ma'am. 735 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,400 Nothing I can do? 736 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,400 No. Get your coat. 737 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,400 I guess so. 738 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,400 Now, Mrs. Pringle. 739 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:30,400 What? 740 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,400 This house and the car. 741 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,400 You mind telling me why you went into a thing like this? 742 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,400 I guess it'd sound pretty silly to you. 743 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,400 Right now, it's pretty wild to me. 744 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,400 We'll listen if you want to tell us. 745 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,400 I divorced my husband several years ago, Mr. Smith. 746 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,400 I got a good settlement. A lot of alimony. 747 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,400 Gave me just about everything I wanted. 748 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:49,400 Maybe it gave me too much. 749 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,400 I didn't have anything to look forward to. 750 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,400 Nothing to act as a sort of challenge. 751 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,400 You understand? 752 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,400 I guess so. 753 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,400 I met a man. Nice enough guy. 754 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,400 One thing led to another, and he suggested the robbery. 755 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,400 Sounded like something to do. 756 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,400 Something so I wouldn't be bored anymore. 757 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,400 That's why we did it. 758 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,400 It wasn't the money with me. I guess it was with him. 759 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,400 You want to give us the name? 760 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:15,400 No. 761 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,400 Might as well. It's all finished now anyway. 762 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,400 All right. Want to get that coat now? 763 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,400 Yeah. 764 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,400 How long will they send me to prison for? 765 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,400 We wouldn't know. That's up to the judge. 766 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,400 I hear the place is a lot better than it used to be. 767 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,400 Lots of things to do. 768 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,400 Jobs so you can keep your mind occupied. 769 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,400 That's right. And you can be sure of one thing. 770 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,400 What's that? 771 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,400 You won't be bored. 772 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:49,400 The story you have just heard is true. 773 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,400 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 774 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,400 On December 18th, trial was held in Department 97, 775 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,400 Superior Court of the State of California, 776 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,400 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 777 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,400 In a moment, the results of that trial. 778 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,400 They can write them down. 779 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:16,400 Go ahead. 780 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,400 Norman Gerald Keery was tried and convicted 781 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,400 a violation of the State Narcotics Act, a felony, one count, 782 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,400 Olin Lambert Corbett, Beulah Valerie Pringle, 783 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,400 Peter Larson Ulrich were 784 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,400 tried and found guilty of robbery in the first degree 785 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,880 of the State Narcotics Act, a felony. 786 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,480 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment 787 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,240 in the state penitentiary for a period 788 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,400 of not less than five years. 789 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,760 Violation of the State Narcotics Act, a felony, 790 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,840 is punishable by imprisonment for a period 791 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,520 of from five years to life in the state penitentiary. 792 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,020 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 793 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,140 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases 794 00:25:58,140 --> 00:25:59,840 from official files. 795 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,400 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 796 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,000 WH Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 797 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:33,000 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"]