WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:21.080 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:21.080 --> 00:25.000 Your detective sergeant, you're assigned a robbery detail. 00:25.000 --> 00:27.400 A wholesale drug company has been held up. 00:27.400 --> 00:30.400 Four thousand dollars in narcotics has been taken. 00:30.400 --> 00:32.400 Your job, find it. 00:32.400 --> 00:51.400 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 00:51.400 --> 00:56.400 For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 00:56.400 --> 01:02.400 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 01:02.400 --> 01:13.400 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 01:13.400 --> 01:16.400 It was Tuesday, July 10th. It was hot in Los Angeles. 01:16.400 --> 01:18.400 We were working the night watch out of robbery detail. 01:18.400 --> 01:23.400 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Chief of Detective Stad Brown. My name is Friday. 01:23.400 --> 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. 01:27.400 --> 01:29.400 The coffee room. 01:29.400 --> 01:30.400 Joe, Frank, over here. 01:30.400 --> 01:31.400 Hi, Luke. 01:31.400 --> 01:32.400 Hi, Rachie. 01:32.400 --> 01:33.400 Want a cup of coffee? 01:33.400 --> 01:34.400 Yes, I'll get it, Joe. 01:34.400 --> 01:35.400 Okay. How's it going, Luke? 01:35.400 --> 01:36.400 Pretty good. Kind of hot. 01:36.400 --> 01:37.400 Yeah. 01:37.400 --> 01:40.400 Makes me wish I'd brought that patio out of that place. 01:40.400 --> 01:41.400 You got a dime of change, Joe? 01:41.400 --> 01:44.400 Yeah, wait a minute. Here you go. 01:44.400 --> 01:48.400 Thanks. 01:48.400 --> 01:50.400 That was a half, you know. Bring me some change. 01:50.400 --> 01:51.400 No, worry. 01:51.400 --> 01:52.400 Wait a minute. 01:52.400 --> 01:53.400 You want to take one of these cups, Joe? 01:53.400 --> 01:54.400 Yeah, I got it. 01:54.400 --> 01:56.400 How about you? You want some more, Luke? 01:56.400 --> 01:57.400 No, thanks. 01:57.400 --> 01:59.400 Okay. Well, what do you got for us, Luke? 01:59.400 --> 02:01.400 I gave you the call as soon as we got it. 02:01.400 --> 02:04.400 The way it builds is that a patrolman picked him up over on Monte Vista. 02:04.400 --> 02:05.400 Uh-huh. 02:05.400 --> 02:06.400 Spotted him in a parked car. 02:06.400 --> 02:09.400 Checked on it and found the guy was pretty sick. 02:09.400 --> 02:13.400 First he thought it might be a 502, but after he got a good look, figured it was a heart attack. 02:13.400 --> 02:14.400 Uh-huh. 02:14.400 --> 02:15.400 The fellow was out cold. Couldn't tell anything. 02:15.400 --> 02:16.400 Uh-huh. 02:16.400 --> 02:19.400 They called an ambulance and took the guy over to Lincoln Heights Receiving. 02:19.400 --> 02:20.400 Gave him treatment there. 02:20.400 --> 02:22.400 Checking it out, they found several puncture marks on his arm. 02:22.400 --> 02:23.400 Thought he might be a diabetic. 02:23.400 --> 02:24.400 Uh-huh. 02:24.400 --> 02:25.400 His appearance was shock. 02:25.400 --> 02:28.400 Checked on his personal effects and came up with this. 02:28.400 --> 02:29.400 Uh-huh. 02:29.400 --> 02:30.400 Drug vial. 02:30.400 --> 02:31.400 Uh-huh. 02:31.400 --> 02:32.400 Let me see, Joe. 02:32.400 --> 02:33.400 Oh, yeah. Here you go. 02:33.400 --> 02:35.400 The label's all cut up, but there's enough left to tell the serial numbers. 02:35.400 --> 02:36.400 Yeah. 02:36.400 --> 02:37.400 One of the vitals taken from Arnold's. 02:37.400 --> 02:38.400 Morphine. 02:38.400 --> 02:39.400 That's right. 02:39.400 --> 02:40.400 What's his name? 02:40.400 --> 02:41.400 Norman Carey. 02:41.400 --> 02:42.400 What you got on him? 02:42.400 --> 02:43.400 Not much. 02:43.400 --> 02:46.400 According to R&I, he's been picked up a couple of times from Marks. 02:46.400 --> 02:47.400 He said anything to you? 02:47.400 --> 02:49.400 Not much. He's feeling pretty rocky. 02:49.400 --> 02:50.400 Still coming out of it. 02:50.400 --> 02:51.400 I haven't been able to get anything out of him. 02:51.400 --> 02:53.400 What'd you say about the vial? 02:53.400 --> 02:54.400 Nothing. 02:54.400 --> 02:55.400 Acts like a war prisoner. 02:55.400 --> 02:57.400 All he says is his name, gives us address. 02:57.400 --> 02:58.400 So check out. 02:58.400 --> 02:59.400 Couple guys over there now. 02:59.400 --> 03:00.400 Uh-huh. 03:00.400 --> 03:01.400 Figured you'd want a piece of it. 03:01.400 --> 03:03.400 Might be able to get something out of him. 03:03.400 --> 03:04.400 Oh, I don't know. 03:04.400 --> 03:05.400 No reason for us to make it if you guys didn't. 03:05.400 --> 03:06.400 Well, maybe. 03:06.400 --> 03:07.400 Might give it a try. 03:07.400 --> 03:08.400 Okay. 03:08.400 --> 03:09.400 Finished? 03:09.400 --> 03:10.400 Yeah. 03:10.400 --> 03:11.400 Here, I'll take the cups. 03:11.400 --> 03:12.400 Okay. 03:12.400 --> 03:14.400 I have the change from that half. 03:14.400 --> 03:15.400 Wait a minute, buddy. 03:15.400 --> 03:16.400 I'll give it to you on the way back. 03:16.400 --> 03:17.400 All right. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.400 All right. 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 Let's go. 03:19.400 --> 03:20.400 Okay. 03:20.400 --> 03:23.400 You want to check your gun? 03:23.400 --> 03:24.400 Yeah. 03:24.400 --> 03:29.400 You want to give us a check for these, please? 03:29.400 --> 03:30.400 Oh, yeah. 03:30.400 --> 03:31.400 Has anybody talked to Curie? 03:31.400 --> 03:32.400 Not that I know of. 03:32.400 --> 03:33.400 He hadn't made any calls. 03:33.400 --> 03:34.400 No one's been here to see him. 03:34.400 --> 03:35.400 The morphine vial, the only thing he had on him? 03:35.400 --> 03:36.400 Yeah. 03:36.400 --> 03:37.400 Turned his pockets, but it's all we could find. 03:37.400 --> 03:38.400 Fellas might do better in his room. 03:38.400 --> 03:39.400 There'll be a real break if it ends right here, won't it? 03:39.400 --> 03:40.400 That's for sure. 03:40.400 --> 03:41.400 Here you go. 03:41.400 --> 03:42.400 Number six is a belly gun. 03:42.400 --> 03:43.400 All right. 03:43.400 --> 03:44.400 Thank you. 03:44.400 --> 03:49.400 No, that's mine. 03:49.400 --> 03:50.400 Here's yours, Frank. 03:50.400 --> 03:51.400 Okay. 03:51.400 --> 03:52.400 Here's your change. 03:52.400 --> 03:53.400 All right. 03:53.400 --> 03:54.400 Thank you. 03:54.400 --> 03:55.400 Anything on the car that was in? 03:55.400 --> 03:56.400 No. 03:56.400 --> 03:58.400 The officer that picked him up went over it, but they didn't turn in anything. 03:58.400 --> 03:59.400 Is he the registered owner? 03:59.400 --> 04:00.400 Yeah. 04:00.400 --> 04:01.400 You want to talk to Curie again, huh? 04:01.400 --> 04:02.400 That's right. 04:02.400 --> 04:05.400 How long is he going to be here? 04:05.400 --> 04:07.400 We'll take him downtown in the morning. 04:07.400 --> 04:08.400 Right. 04:08.400 --> 04:11.400 I'll be out front when you're ready to leave. 04:11.400 --> 04:12.400 Okay. 04:12.400 --> 04:17.400 I'll be back in a minute. 04:17.400 --> 04:20.400 You back again? 04:20.400 --> 04:22.400 That's right. 04:22.400 --> 04:25.400 Brought some help, huh? 04:25.400 --> 04:28.400 Want to ask you some questions, fella. 04:28.400 --> 04:30.400 My name's Norman Curie. 04:30.400 --> 04:32.400 I live at 9672 Farnham Street. 04:32.400 --> 04:33.400 Yeah, I've heard. 04:33.400 --> 04:34.400 Then you've had it for me. 04:34.400 --> 04:36.400 I'm not giving you the time until I talk to a lawyer. 04:36.400 --> 04:38.400 Where'd you get the morphine vial? 04:38.400 --> 04:39.400 My name's Norman Curie. 04:39.400 --> 04:42.400 I live at 9672 Farnham Street. 04:42.400 --> 04:44.400 Look, you're in for a lot more than a narco charge. 04:44.400 --> 04:45.400 From where you sit? 04:45.400 --> 04:47.400 No matter how you see it, you got trouble, Curie. 04:47.400 --> 04:48.400 Go ahead, cop. 04:48.400 --> 04:50.400 I like stories. 04:50.400 --> 04:52.400 You're not doing yourself any good with this routine. 04:52.400 --> 04:53.400 You're not doing me any harm. 04:53.400 --> 04:54.400 I don't have to talk to you. 04:54.400 --> 04:56.400 Nothing in the book says I got to give you fresh air. 04:56.400 --> 04:58.400 Now all of you, get off my back. 04:58.400 --> 05:00.400 Come in here and try to nail anything more than narcotics on me. 05:00.400 --> 05:03.400 The guys in the coffee room will laugh you right out of the station. 05:03.400 --> 05:06.400 Once around, I'll give it to you again. 05:06.400 --> 05:11.400 My name's Norman Curie and I live at 9672 Farnham Street and that's it. 05:11.400 --> 05:12.400 You're giving us no more. 05:12.400 --> 05:13.400 You've had it. 05:13.400 --> 05:14.400 All right, let's go. 05:14.400 --> 05:16.400 How long are you going to hold me here? 05:16.400 --> 05:17.400 You'll be moved in the morning. 05:17.400 --> 05:18.400 When do I call a lawyer? 05:18.400 --> 05:19.400 I'll leave word out front. 05:19.400 --> 05:20.400 Thanks. 05:20.400 --> 05:21.400 Okay. 05:23.400 --> 05:24.400 Jim, want a locker? 05:26.400 --> 05:27.400 You guys understand, huh? 05:27.400 --> 05:28.400 What? 05:28.400 --> 05:31.400 Hope you ain't sorry about what I said, just that there isn't anything I can give you. 05:31.400 --> 05:32.400 Yeah, sure. 05:32.400 --> 05:33.400 Just that nobody likes to be shoved around. 05:33.400 --> 05:36.400 Just to the point where everybody's on your back, a guy don't like it. 05:36.400 --> 05:37.400 Yeah. 05:37.400 --> 05:39.400 Might not look like it, fella, but I ain't trying to be a big man. 05:39.400 --> 05:40.400 Well, I wouldn't worry about it. 05:40.400 --> 05:41.400 Huh? 05:41.400 --> 05:42.400 You're not. 05:47.400 --> 05:51.400 The following morning, the suspect was removed to the main jail and booked in on suspicion 05:51.400 --> 05:54.400 of violation of the State Narcotics Act, a felony. 05:54.400 --> 05:56.400 It was photographed and fingerprinted. 05:56.400 --> 05:59.400 The combined efforts of the Narcotics Division and robbery detail had been devoted to the 05:59.400 --> 06:02.400 apprehension of the thieves who'd stolen the drugs. 06:02.400 --> 06:06.400 The arrest of Curie had been the first lead we'd gotten to the disposition of the stolen 06:06.400 --> 06:09.400 merchandise, but without his cooperation, there was little chance that we could get 06:09.400 --> 06:11.400 to the ringleaders. 06:11.400 --> 06:16.400 The next day, Frank and I checked with informants who might be able to supply us with any information. 06:16.400 --> 06:18.400 All of Curie's known associates were interrogated. 06:18.400 --> 06:20.400 None of them helped us. 06:20.400 --> 06:23.400 We got word that Curie had been released on bail at noon. 06:23.400 --> 06:27.400 Narcotics Division had assigned officers to follow him, and all of his actions were 06:27.400 --> 06:29.400 being observed. 06:29.400 --> 06:31.400 Everyone he met was being checked on. 06:31.400 --> 06:34.400 5, 10 p.m., Wednesday afternoon. 06:34.400 --> 06:39.400 We got back to the city hall from a meeting with Captain Carl Shy of Narcotics. 06:39.400 --> 06:41.400 I got the log we can check out. 06:41.400 --> 06:43.400 Yeah, been a long day, hasn't it? 06:43.400 --> 06:44.400 Yeah, you can say that again. 06:44.400 --> 06:46.400 A lot of walking. 06:46.400 --> 06:48.400 You want to check the books? 06:48.400 --> 06:50.400 Yeah. 06:52.400 --> 06:54.400 Anything? 06:54.400 --> 06:56.400 Yeah, Skipper wants to see us. 06:56.400 --> 06:58.400 He's in Thad Brown's office. 06:58.400 --> 06:59.400 Yeah? 06:59.400 --> 07:01.400 Friday. 07:01.400 --> 07:03.400 Curie, what do you want? 07:03.400 --> 07:05.400 I got something for you. 07:05.400 --> 07:06.400 All right. 07:06.400 --> 07:07.400 All right if I sit down? 07:07.400 --> 07:09.400 Sure, go ahead. 07:09.400 --> 07:12.400 It's a lousy deal, Friday, lousy. 07:12.400 --> 07:13.400 It is. 07:13.400 --> 07:14.400 Worst. 07:14.400 --> 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. 07:17.400 --> 07:19.400 What are you talking about? 07:19.400 --> 07:21.400 Well, you took the supply away from me last night. 07:21.400 --> 07:23.400 I had to make another connection this morning. 07:23.400 --> 07:25.400 As soon as I got out, I went over to see him. 07:25.400 --> 07:27.400 He treated me like I just got into town. Lousy. 07:27.400 --> 07:29.400 If you're going to act like that, it's going to cost him. 07:29.400 --> 07:30.400 Is that so? 07:30.400 --> 07:32.400 Yeah, you better call that Luccarelli. Is that his name? 07:32.400 --> 07:33.400 That's right. 07:33.400 --> 07:35.400 Yeah, get him over here. He's going to want to hear it too. 07:35.400 --> 07:36.400 Hear what? 07:36.400 --> 07:38.400 I'm going to give you a chapter and verse on the whole deal. 07:42.400 --> 07:46.400 Frank put in a call to Narcotics Division and asked Sergeant Roxy Luccarelli to come over to the office. 07:46.400 --> 07:49.400 It took him less than five minutes to get there. 07:49.400 --> 07:54.400 In the meantime, we briefly questioned Curie and found that he wanted to cooperate fully in the apprehension of the gang. 07:54.400 --> 07:57.400 When Roxy got there, we started to get the full story. 07:57.400 --> 07:59.400 All right, what can you tell us about the robbery? 07:59.400 --> 08:01.400 Nothing. I didn't have any part of it. 08:01.400 --> 08:02.400 Where'd you get the M? 08:02.400 --> 08:03.400 Picked it up in the bar. 08:03.400 --> 08:04.400 You got the address? 08:04.400 --> 08:05.400 Yeah, placed down on Fifth. 08:05.400 --> 08:06.400 Who's your connection? 08:06.400 --> 08:07.400 Guy named Corbett. 08:07.400 --> 08:08.400 Got a first name for him? 08:08.400 --> 08:09.400 Olin. 08:09.400 --> 08:11.400 How's that go? O-L-A-N? 08:11.400 --> 08:12.400 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 08:12.400 --> 08:13.400 When'd you make the buy? 08:13.400 --> 08:15.400 Yesterday afternoon. 08:15.400 --> 08:16.400 The whole vial? 08:16.400 --> 08:17.400 Yeah. 08:17.400 --> 08:18.400 Did you scratch out the label? 08:18.400 --> 08:19.400 No, no, it was that way when I got it. 08:19.400 --> 08:20.400 Did you know the stuff was stolen? 08:20.400 --> 08:23.400 I put it down that I didn't ask for an original bill of sale. 08:23.400 --> 08:24.400 What about this Corbett? 08:24.400 --> 08:25.400 What do you know about him? 08:25.400 --> 08:26.400 Been hanging around the place a long time. 08:26.400 --> 08:27.400 I see him there all the time. 08:27.400 --> 08:28.400 Ever been in trouble? 08:28.400 --> 08:29.400 You mean with the cops? 08:29.400 --> 08:30.400 Yeah. 08:30.400 --> 08:31.400 I don't know. 08:31.400 --> 08:32.400 I guess he's been picked up a couple of times for possession. 08:32.400 --> 08:33.400 You ever done any time? 08:33.400 --> 08:35.400 Couple months in the county jail. 08:35.400 --> 08:36.400 Probation? 08:36.400 --> 08:37.400 I think so. 08:37.400 --> 08:40.400 I never got in a big conversation with him about it. 08:40.400 --> 08:41.400 You know where he got the stuff? 08:41.400 --> 08:42.400 I can't pin it down for you. 08:42.400 --> 08:43.400 Got an idea? 08:43.400 --> 08:44.400 It must be the bar. 08:44.400 --> 08:46.400 A lot of places there you can get connection. 08:46.400 --> 08:47.400 You know who it could have been? 08:47.400 --> 08:48.400 No. 08:48.400 --> 08:50.400 Anybody around there got a lot of money that they can't explain? 08:50.400 --> 08:52.400 Most of the customers will fit that. 08:52.400 --> 08:54.400 You want to give us a description of this Corbett? 08:54.400 --> 08:55.400 What's that for? 08:55.400 --> 08:56.400 Like check his record. 08:56.400 --> 08:57.400 Oh. 08:57.400 --> 08:58.400 Well, let's see. 08:58.400 --> 09:01.400 I think he's about 45, maybe 46. 09:01.400 --> 09:02.400 Around in there someplace. 09:02.400 --> 09:03.400 Yeah. 09:03.400 --> 09:05.400 I guess he's about 160 pounds. 09:05.400 --> 09:07.400 Five feet nine, I think. 09:07.400 --> 09:08.400 Go ahead. 09:08.400 --> 09:10.400 Well, he's got kind of dark hair. 09:10.400 --> 09:12.400 Gray, you know, in here. 09:12.400 --> 09:13.400 You know, around the temples. 09:13.400 --> 09:14.400 Yeah. 09:14.400 --> 09:15.400 Like that. 09:15.400 --> 09:16.400 Anything else about him? 09:16.400 --> 09:17.400 Well, he's got a kind of limp. 09:17.400 --> 09:19.400 One leg is shorter than the other. 09:19.400 --> 09:20.400 You know which leg it is? 09:20.400 --> 09:22.400 No. 09:22.400 --> 09:24.400 No, I never pay any attention to it. 09:24.400 --> 09:26.400 Ring any bells for you, Rocks? 09:26.400 --> 09:27.400 It might be. 09:27.400 --> 09:28.400 I think I know who he's talking about. 09:28.400 --> 09:29.400 I'll check on it. 09:29.400 --> 09:30.400 All right. 09:35.400 --> 09:36.400 How about it, Kerry? 09:36.400 --> 09:37.400 You know if any more of the stuff has been passed? 09:37.400 --> 09:39.400 Well, I can't say for sure. 09:39.400 --> 09:41.400 This is the first bunch of it I bought. 09:41.400 --> 09:43.400 Guess there's some more of it that's been pushed. 09:43.400 --> 09:44.400 Well, it sure jolted me. 09:44.400 --> 09:46.400 I'm not used to that drugstore stuff. 09:46.400 --> 09:47.400 You know anybody that's bought? 09:47.400 --> 09:48.400 No. 09:48.400 --> 09:50.400 How come the stuff you got wasn't cut? 09:50.400 --> 09:51.400 I don't know. 09:51.400 --> 09:52.400 I guess somebody goofed. 09:52.400 --> 09:54.400 Sure made me sick. 09:54.400 --> 09:56.400 What happened when you went back there today? 09:56.400 --> 09:57.400 Well, I walked into the place. 09:57.400 --> 09:59.400 I figured I'd get something up. 09:59.400 --> 10:01.400 You'd have thought I was a cop. 10:01.400 --> 10:02.400 All right. 10:02.400 --> 10:05.400 Now, wasn't anybody in the place that had anything to do with me. 10:05.400 --> 10:06.400 Was Corbett there? 10:06.400 --> 10:07.400 You mean this morning? 10:07.400 --> 10:08.400 Yeah. 10:08.400 --> 10:10.400 No, but at least I didn't see him. 10:10.400 --> 10:11.400 Hold on a minute. 10:13.400 --> 10:14.400 Robbery Friday. 10:14.400 --> 10:16.400 Just a minute. 10:16.400 --> 10:18.400 Murphy. 10:18.400 --> 10:19.400 No, he's not here. 10:19.400 --> 10:21.400 Can I take a message? 10:21.400 --> 10:22.400 All right. 10:22.400 --> 10:23.400 I'll have him. 10:23.400 --> 10:25.400 I'll have him call us as soon as he gets in. 10:25.400 --> 10:26.400 You bet. 10:27.400 --> 10:29.400 Did you hear anything about the robbery? 10:29.400 --> 10:30.400 No, I didn't. 10:30.400 --> 10:33.400 A couple of small type rumbles are out, but nothing you can pin down. 10:33.400 --> 10:34.400 What'd they say? 10:34.400 --> 10:35.400 Just that there was a heist. 10:35.400 --> 10:36.400 No names used. 10:36.400 --> 10:37.400 Anything on who's responsible? 10:37.400 --> 10:39.400 I told you it was just a small rumble. 10:39.400 --> 10:40.400 What do you figure about it? 10:40.400 --> 10:41.400 Huh? 10:41.400 --> 10:42.400 You got any ideas who might have done it? 10:42.400 --> 10:44.400 Nothing you can take to court. 10:44.400 --> 10:46.400 I'd give you pretty short odds on Corbett, though. 10:46.400 --> 10:47.400 You got any close friends around the place? 10:47.400 --> 10:49.400 Oh, he knows everybody there. 10:49.400 --> 10:51.400 He spend more time with anybody special? 10:51.400 --> 10:53.400 No, he usually just comes in, sits around. 10:53.400 --> 10:54.400 He got a job? 10:54.400 --> 10:55.400 Not so it shows. 10:55.400 --> 10:56.400 Where does he live? 10:56.400 --> 10:57.400 He never told me. 10:58.400 --> 10:59.400 Why'd you come in here, Keery? 10:59.400 --> 11:00.400 Huh? 11:00.400 --> 11:01.400 What are you trying to build with us? 11:01.400 --> 11:02.400 Nothing. 11:02.400 --> 11:04.400 I just got real hacked this morning with the way those guys shoved me around. 11:04.400 --> 11:05.400 I want to see them get what they got coming. 11:05.400 --> 11:07.400 You don't want nothing for yourself? 11:07.400 --> 11:08.400 Just to see them get paid. 11:08.400 --> 11:10.400 You got any ideas how we can do that? 11:10.400 --> 11:11.400 Yeah. 11:12.400 --> 11:13.400 All right, we're waiting. 11:13.400 --> 11:14.400 Let me nail them for you. 11:15.400 --> 11:16.400 Spell it out. 11:16.400 --> 11:18.400 Look, you can't get within 10 feet of them. 11:18.400 --> 11:19.400 The whole bar is hinky. 11:19.400 --> 11:20.400 Now let me go in and get them. 11:20.400 --> 11:22.400 We can't give you anything for it. 11:22.400 --> 11:23.400 I'm not asking for anything. 11:23.400 --> 11:24.400 You just let me go along with you guys. 11:24.400 --> 11:27.400 Let me go in and blow the whistle on those guys who pull the heist. 11:27.400 --> 11:28.400 Doesn't make a lot of sense, Keery. 11:28.400 --> 11:30.400 You coming in here and wanting to help us, there's got to be something behind it. 11:30.400 --> 11:32.400 Now what's it going to cost you to find out? 11:32.400 --> 11:35.400 You going to have a tail on me from the time I walk out of here? 11:35.400 --> 11:36.400 It's not going to do you any harm to let me go. 11:36.400 --> 11:38.400 You're laying yourself right in the middle of the tracks, you know. 11:38.400 --> 11:39.400 I know that. 11:39.400 --> 11:43.400 But it's worth it to see the expression on their faces when you kick the door in. 11:43.400 --> 11:45.400 All right, we'll have to check it with a skipper. 11:45.400 --> 11:46.400 Well, you go ahead. 11:46.400 --> 11:47.400 Guys, play it any way you want. 11:47.400 --> 11:49.400 Don't make a pound of me. 11:49.400 --> 11:51.400 If you want me on your side, I'm there. 11:51.400 --> 11:53.400 What happens if they find out? 11:53.400 --> 11:54.400 Send roses. 11:54.400 --> 11:56.400 All right, Keery, we'll buy a piece of it. 11:56.400 --> 11:57.400 But I'm going to give you something going in. 11:57.400 --> 11:58.400 What's that? 11:58.400 --> 12:00.400 There's going to be a lot of men working on this. 12:00.400 --> 12:03.400 If one of them gets in trouble over you, you better start running 12:03.400 --> 12:05.400 because there isn't going to be a big enough handicap for you. 12:05.400 --> 12:07.400 I'm not asking for one, am I? 12:07.400 --> 12:09.400 If it works out, you'll get a piece of the credit. 12:09.400 --> 12:11.400 It'll go in the books that way, and that's all. 12:11.400 --> 12:12.400 It doesn't matter to me at all. 12:12.400 --> 12:14.400 All I want to see is for those guys to get theirs. 12:14.400 --> 12:15.400 All right. 12:15.400 --> 12:17.400 Well, this time I thought they were friends of mine, 12:17.400 --> 12:19.400 and they'd turn around and pull a stunt like this. 12:19.400 --> 12:20.400 It's pretty lousy. 12:20.400 --> 12:21.400 All I want is a connection. 12:21.400 --> 12:23.400 They've got the stuff that isn't going to cost them anything. 12:23.400 --> 12:24.400 You got it wrong there, fella. 12:24.400 --> 12:25.400 Huh? 12:25.400 --> 12:26.400 It's going to cost them. 12:26.400 --> 12:31.400 Frank came back from R&I with the information that the suspect, 12:31.400 --> 12:34.400 Olin Corbett, had a long record in Los Angeles 12:34.400 --> 12:38.400 listing arrests for narcotics suspicion, a burglary suspicion, a robbery, and ADW. 12:38.400 --> 12:40.400 While Keery waited in the squad room, 12:40.400 --> 12:43.400 Luca Raleigh, Frank, and I talked with Captain Donahoe. 12:43.400 --> 12:44.400 We filled him in on what had happened, 12:44.400 --> 12:47.400 and it was decided to accept Keery's offer of help. 12:47.400 --> 12:51.400 The next morning, Thursday, July 12th, we started the operation. 12:51.400 --> 12:54.400 An effort was made to find Olin Corbett without result. 12:54.400 --> 12:56.400 In order to make sure the safety of our informant 12:56.400 --> 13:00.400 was arranged for an officer from Narcotics Division to be planted in the bar. 13:00.400 --> 13:02.400 One of the younger officers was chosen for the job, 13:02.400 --> 13:05.400 and at 10.05 a.m. he took up his position in the place. 13:05.400 --> 13:09.400 At 10.34 a.m., Frank and I, along with Luca Raleigh and Keery, got there. 13:09.400 --> 13:11.400 We parked down the street and let our contact out of the car. 13:11.400 --> 13:13.400 We walked down the block and entered the bar. 13:13.400 --> 13:15.400 Ten minutes later, he hurried back. 13:15.400 --> 13:17.400 Looks like something's wrong. 13:17.400 --> 13:18.400 You want to open the door, Frank? 13:18.400 --> 13:20.400 Yeah. 13:20.400 --> 13:22.400 What are you guys trying to pull? 13:22.400 --> 13:23.400 What are you talking about? 13:23.400 --> 13:25.400 You ain't much better than they are, a lousy thing all the way around. 13:25.400 --> 13:27.400 One thing I figured sure was I'd be able to touch you guys. 13:27.400 --> 13:29.400 All right, now calm down, Keery, and tell us what's wrong. 13:29.400 --> 13:30.400 What did you plant the cop for in there? 13:30.400 --> 13:31.400 What? 13:31.400 --> 13:33.400 Everybody knows who he is, or isn't anything going on. 13:33.400 --> 13:35.400 What's the matter? Don't you trust me, is that it? 13:35.400 --> 13:37.400 We wanted to make sure you'd be able to walk out of the place, that's all. 13:37.400 --> 13:39.400 It didn't work out that way. 13:39.400 --> 13:41.400 The guy's in the airplane for keeps, the whole place is wide for sound. 13:41.400 --> 13:43.400 All right, then we gotta go after him a different way. 13:43.400 --> 13:45.400 It's gonna have to do without me. 13:45.400 --> 13:47.400 After today, I don't dare go into the place. 13:47.400 --> 13:48.400 They all figure I brought the fuzz in. 13:48.400 --> 13:49.400 You won't have to go back. 13:49.400 --> 13:51.400 Thanks a lot. 13:51.400 --> 13:52.400 I sure goes to show you. 13:52.400 --> 13:53.400 What's that? 13:53.400 --> 13:55.400 Play footsie with the cops. You're bound to get burned. 13:55.400 --> 13:56.400 We appreciate what you did. 13:56.400 --> 13:57.400 A lot of good that does. 13:57.400 --> 13:59.400 The word gets out I'm in big trouble. 13:59.400 --> 14:01.400 As soon as those guys find out I've been going with you, I've had it. 14:01.400 --> 14:03.400 Give me one good reason why you had to put the cop in there. 14:03.400 --> 14:04.400 What kind of insurance is that? 14:04.400 --> 14:05.400 Yours. 14:05.400 --> 14:06.400 Huh? 14:06.400 --> 14:07.400 We're trying to keep you alive. 14:11.400 --> 14:13.400 We went back to the office and talked with Captain Donahoe. 14:13.400 --> 14:15.400 We told him what had happened. 14:15.400 --> 14:18.400 After conversations with Chief of Detective Stad Brown and Captain Carl Shy, 14:18.400 --> 14:23.400 it was decided that the bar on 5th Street was important enough to warrant a 24-hour stakeout. 14:23.400 --> 14:27.400 The crime lab was contacted and we asked their aid in arranging the surveillance. 14:27.400 --> 14:31.400 Lieutenant Lee Jones suggested a camera mounted in a delivery truck. 14:31.400 --> 14:34.400 We got in touch with one of the larger truck rental services in the city 14:34.400 --> 14:36.400 and we got permission to use their equipment. 14:36.400 --> 14:39.400 It was decided that a panel truck parked a short distance from the bar 14:39.400 --> 14:42.400 could be used to observe both the front and rear entrances. 14:42.400 --> 14:47.400 A small slot was cut in the side of the truck so that a 16-millimeter camera could be used. 14:47.400 --> 14:51.400 Frank and I spent an hour with Lieutenant Jones going over the workings of the camera. 14:51.400 --> 14:54.400 The following morning we took up our positions outside the bar. 14:54.400 --> 14:57.400 For the next 12 hours we took pictures of everybody entering and leaving the place. 14:57.400 --> 15:00.400 Men from Narcotics Division relieved us during the nighttime hours. 15:00.400 --> 15:03.400 For three days the surveillance continued without result. 15:03.400 --> 15:05.400 Hundreds of feet of film were exposed and processed. 15:05.400 --> 15:08.400 Still we were no closer to apprehending the suspects. 15:08.400 --> 15:12.400 During this time we hadn't seen Olin Corbett, the man who'd sold the morphine to Kerry. 15:12.400 --> 15:15.400 Thursday morning, July 17th, Frank and I took up our positions in the truck. 15:15.400 --> 15:17.400 You checked the camera this morning? 15:17.400 --> 15:20.400 No. Luke said we'd probably have to put in a new film magazine, didn't he? 15:20.400 --> 15:24.400 Yeah, I'd better take care of that. 15:24.400 --> 15:27.400 You know how to do this? 15:27.400 --> 15:29.400 Well, you were there when Lee explained it, weren't you? 15:29.400 --> 15:31.400 Yeah, but I kind of forgot. 15:31.400 --> 15:33.400 Well, that's good. Then I'd better know how, huh? 15:33.400 --> 15:36.400 Yeah. Here's the film. 15:36.400 --> 15:39.400 All right, let me take a look. 15:39.400 --> 15:41.400 Nothing to it. You just follow these lines here. 15:41.400 --> 15:43.400 Oh, yeah, that's right. 15:43.400 --> 15:45.400 You want to throw that little catch there? 15:45.400 --> 15:47.400 No, no, no. This one. This one. 15:47.400 --> 15:48.400 Oh, yeah. 15:48.400 --> 15:49.400 Okay. 15:49.400 --> 15:51.400 Should we go under that thing? 15:51.400 --> 15:53.400 You want to do it? 15:53.400 --> 15:55.400 No, go ahead, Joe. 15:55.400 --> 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. 15:59.400 --> 16:00.400 No, you're wrong. 16:00.400 --> 16:01.400 The little knob right over there. 16:01.400 --> 16:02.400 No, you were wrong. 16:02.400 --> 16:04.400 All right, you going to turn it? 16:04.400 --> 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. 16:07.400 --> 16:09.400 Yeah, but you're supposed to turn that little gizmo. 16:09.400 --> 16:10.400 We turn it after we thread it up. 16:10.400 --> 16:11.400 Oh, all right. 16:11.400 --> 16:13.400 Well, I remember that you turned it. 16:13.400 --> 16:15.400 You know you're a big help to me, Frank. 16:15.400 --> 16:18.400 Yeah. 16:18.400 --> 16:20.400 Boy, it's going to be another hot one. 16:20.400 --> 16:21.400 It's hot in this truck, too. 16:21.400 --> 16:22.400 Yeah. 16:22.400 --> 16:24.400 I'd say a pack of different lunch today. 16:24.400 --> 16:27.400 Chopped egg sandwiches and potato salad. 16:27.400 --> 16:28.400 Want one? 16:28.400 --> 16:29.400 A little early, don't you think? 16:29.400 --> 16:31.400 Oh, it might be. I figured you might be a little hungry, though. 16:31.400 --> 16:32.400 No, not right now. 16:32.400 --> 16:33.400 Frank. 16:33.400 --> 16:34.400 Yeah. 16:34.400 --> 16:35.400 Want to switch on the camera? 16:35.400 --> 16:36.400 Huh? Got something? 16:36.400 --> 16:37.400 Come here. Take a look. 16:37.400 --> 16:39.400 No, up this way. See them come up the street? 16:39.400 --> 16:40.400 No, where? 16:40.400 --> 16:41.400 Right there, see? 16:41.400 --> 16:42.400 Huh? 16:42.400 --> 16:43.400 Just passing the bakery there. 16:43.400 --> 16:44.400 Oh, yeah. 16:44.400 --> 16:45.400 It looks like Corbett to me. 16:45.400 --> 16:46.400 Yeah. 16:46.400 --> 16:47.400 All right. 16:47.400 --> 16:48.400 He's going into the bar. 16:48.400 --> 16:49.400 Yeah, first time we've seen him. 16:49.400 --> 16:50.400 Mm-hmm. 16:50.400 --> 16:51.400 Alone. 16:51.400 --> 16:52.400 You better call Luke. 16:52.400 --> 16:53.400 Have him put a tail on the guy when he leaves. 16:53.400 --> 16:54.400 Yeah. 16:54.400 --> 16:55.400 Wait a minute. 16:55.400 --> 16:56.400 Huh? 16:56.400 --> 16:57.400 Corbett's coming out the side door. 16:57.400 --> 16:58.400 Yeah, he's going back to that Cadillac. 16:58.400 --> 16:59.400 Uh-huh. 16:59.400 --> 17:01.400 You see that copple in the alley? 17:01.400 --> 17:03.400 No, it must have been while we were loading the camera. 17:03.400 --> 17:04.400 Oh. 17:04.400 --> 17:05.400 Wait a minute. 17:05.400 --> 17:06.400 There's a woman behind the wheel. 17:06.400 --> 17:07.400 Oh, she's getting out. 17:07.400 --> 17:08.400 You getting everything there? 17:08.400 --> 17:09.400 Yeah, I think so. 17:09.400 --> 17:11.400 When you're not now, why'd you stop? 17:11.400 --> 17:13.400 Well, I just took my thumb off for a minute. 17:13.400 --> 17:14.400 I'll start again. 17:14.400 --> 17:16.400 Looks like she's giving Corbett something. 17:16.400 --> 17:17.400 Yeah, a small package. 17:17.400 --> 17:19.400 We better have him picked up and see what it is. 17:19.400 --> 17:21.400 As soon as he leaves, I'll get in touch with Luke. 17:21.400 --> 17:22.400 Okay, cut the camera. 17:22.400 --> 17:23.400 That's enough. 17:23.400 --> 17:24.400 You better get on with it. 17:24.400 --> 17:25.400 He's shoving off. 17:25.400 --> 17:26.400 The car's leaving too. 17:26.400 --> 17:27.400 You want to get the license number? 17:27.400 --> 17:28.400 Yeah. 17:28.400 --> 17:29.400 It's 2-Victor-22-876. 17:29.400 --> 17:30.400 Might be a break. 17:30.400 --> 17:31.400 Yeah. 17:31.400 --> 17:32.400 At least we know one thing. 17:32.400 --> 17:33.400 Huh? 17:33.400 --> 17:34.400 We've got a contact. 17:34.400 --> 17:45.400 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your 17:45.400 --> 17:51.400 police force in action. 17:51.400 --> 18:04.400 We got in touch with the narcotics office and made arrangements for Corbett to be taken 18:04.400 --> 18:05.400 into custody. 18:05.400 --> 18:08.400 The arrest itself was made in such a way as to appear routine. 18:08.400 --> 18:12.400 A check of DMV gave us the name of the owner of the black Cadillac that we'd seen behind 18:12.400 --> 18:13.400 the bar. 18:13.400 --> 18:19.400 The car was registered to a Mrs. Bula Pringle, 5742 Los Feliz Boulevard, legal the same. 18:19.400 --> 18:22.400 We ran the name through R&I, but we found no criminal record for it. 18:22.400 --> 18:26.400 The pictures we'd taken were processed and shown to the witnesses of the warehouse robbery. 18:26.400 --> 18:30.400 Two of them positively identified Corbett as the lookout man on the job. 18:30.400 --> 18:33.400 Frank and I, along with Roxy Luccarelli, talked to him at the main jail, but he refused to 18:33.400 --> 18:36.400 give us any information regarding the holdup. 18:36.400 --> 18:38.400 He was booked on charges of robbery. 18:38.400 --> 18:41.400 For the next week, a constant surveillance was kept on the Pringle woman. 18:41.400 --> 18:44.400 All of the people she came into contact with were checked on. 18:44.400 --> 18:47.400 We made several attempts to search her home, but there was always somebody there. 18:47.400 --> 18:52.400 On Tuesday, July 24th, a week after we'd first observed her, she was seen at the bar again. 18:52.400 --> 18:55.400 This time, she passed a small package to one of the regulars of the place. 18:55.400 --> 18:58.400 He was taken into custody and found to have had a large quantity of pure morphine in his 18:58.400 --> 19:01.400 possession, but he refused to say where he'd gotten it. 19:01.400 --> 19:05.400 Without finding the cache of narcotics, there was little reason to take the woman into custody. 19:05.400 --> 19:08.400 On Wednesday, July 25th, we got word that she'd left her home. 19:08.400 --> 19:11.400 Frank and I drove out there and succeeded in making a complete search of the place, but 19:11.400 --> 19:12.400 we found nothing. 19:12.400 --> 19:15.400 A check of her car turned up none of the stolen narcotics. 19:15.400 --> 19:16.400 The surveillance continued. 19:16.400 --> 19:17.400 Another week passed. 19:17.400 --> 19:21.400 Wednesday, August 1st, she again made a meet and turned over a package of narcotics, which 19:21.400 --> 19:23.400 we believed to have been taken in the robbery. 19:23.400 --> 19:27.400 After talking to the man we'd picked up, Frank and I met in the squad room. 19:27.400 --> 19:29.400 He isn't going to give us anything. 19:29.400 --> 19:30.400 No. 19:30.400 --> 19:32.400 Well, we'll talk to DA's office in the morning, see what we can do. 19:32.400 --> 19:35.400 There's got to be something about the Pringle woman that will tell us where the narcotics are. 19:35.400 --> 19:36.400 Well, you've been over all the information. 19:36.400 --> 19:37.400 Have you spotted anything? 19:37.400 --> 19:39.400 No, but she's got to pick it up someplace. 19:39.400 --> 19:40.400 Where? 19:40.400 --> 19:41.400 I don't know. 19:41.400 --> 19:42.400 You got the list of places she goes to? 19:42.400 --> 19:43.400 Yeah, in my locker. 19:43.400 --> 19:45.400 You want to get them, I'll check the book. 19:45.400 --> 19:46.400 Yeah. 19:46.400 --> 19:50.400 Where are they, Joe? 19:50.400 --> 19:51.400 Top shelf there. 19:51.400 --> 19:52.400 Should be on the left side. 19:52.400 --> 19:53.400 Huh? 19:53.400 --> 19:55.400 Top shelf on the left side, right in front of you. 19:55.400 --> 19:58.400 Oh, yeah, here I go. 19:58.400 --> 19:59.400 Anything on the book for us? 19:59.400 --> 20:00.400 No. 20:00.400 --> 20:02.400 Okay, let's go over these again. 20:02.400 --> 20:03.400 All right. 20:03.400 --> 20:05.400 Here's a report from Roxy. 20:05.400 --> 20:09.400 This woman's got regular appointments at the beauty shop. 20:09.400 --> 20:10.400 She has her hair fixed on Thursdays. 20:10.400 --> 20:13.400 That's her car serviced at the corner of Salmon Harbor. 20:13.400 --> 20:18.400 Name of the market where she gets her groceries, her bank, the kid who delivers the morning 20:18.400 --> 20:19.400 paper. 20:19.400 --> 20:20.400 They've all been checked down. 20:20.400 --> 20:21.400 What about her boyfriend? 20:21.400 --> 20:22.400 Checked him way back. 20:22.400 --> 20:23.400 There's nothing there. 20:23.400 --> 20:25.400 You know anything about her kids? 20:25.400 --> 20:27.400 Two boys buy a former marriage. 20:27.400 --> 20:29.400 One's 10, the other's 12. 20:29.400 --> 20:31.400 They stay at the school in the valley. 20:31.400 --> 20:33.400 Address is on the report there. 20:33.400 --> 20:34.400 Oh, yeah, here. 20:34.400 --> 20:35.400 Sees the kid about every week. 20:35.400 --> 20:36.400 Mm-hmm. 20:36.400 --> 20:38.400 Well, you can say she's an attentive mother. 20:38.400 --> 20:40.400 Well, maybe she's got another reason. 20:40.400 --> 20:41.400 What do you mean? 20:41.400 --> 20:43.400 A couple of days after she sees the kid, she makes a drop. 20:43.400 --> 20:44.400 Yeah. 20:44.400 --> 20:45.400 The way it looks done in here. 20:45.400 --> 20:46.400 Yeah. 20:46.400 --> 20:48.400 Maybe she's got something besides kids over at that school. 20:48.400 --> 20:54.400 Frank and I made arrangements to search the room occupied by the Pringle youngsters. 20:54.400 --> 20:56.400 We drove out to the valley and talked with the head of the school. 20:56.400 --> 21:00.400 Without telling him what we were looking for, Frank and I got into the room and began to 21:00.400 --> 21:01.400 go over it. 21:01.400 --> 21:04.400 Anything in the closet? 21:04.400 --> 21:05.400 Wait a minute. 21:05.400 --> 21:06.400 A couple of suitcases here. 21:06.400 --> 21:08.400 Looks like they're full of clothes. 21:08.400 --> 21:10.400 Nothing in these drawers. 21:10.400 --> 21:12.400 Hold it a minute, Joe. 21:12.400 --> 21:13.400 Huh? 21:13.400 --> 21:15.400 The suitcase here looks like a makeup kit. 21:15.400 --> 21:16.400 What's in it? 21:16.400 --> 21:17.400 I can't tell. 21:17.400 --> 21:18.400 It's locked. 21:18.400 --> 21:19.400 Let's see it. 21:19.400 --> 21:20.400 Take a look. 21:20.400 --> 21:23.400 You got anything I can use to open the case? 21:23.400 --> 21:25.400 I'll try this. 21:25.400 --> 21:26.400 Okay. 21:26.400 --> 21:31.400 Well, that does it. 21:31.400 --> 21:32.400 Yeah. 21:32.400 --> 21:33.400 Take a look. 21:33.400 --> 21:34.400 Mm-hmm. 21:34.400 --> 21:36.400 Want to take it back to town? 21:36.400 --> 21:38.400 Better than have the serial numbers checked. 21:38.400 --> 21:39.400 Not much doubt, huh? 21:39.400 --> 21:40.400 No. 21:40.400 --> 21:41.400 Just about wraps it up, doesn't it? 21:41.400 --> 21:44.400 Let's bring a Pringle woman in and talk to her, see what she can come up with on this. 21:44.400 --> 21:46.400 The way Roxy puts it, she's a pretty good talker. 21:46.400 --> 21:48.400 She's going to have to be, isn't she? 21:48.400 --> 21:55.400 Frank and I left the school and drove back to the Los Feliz address. 21:55.400 --> 21:57.400 The black Cadillac was parked in the driveway. 21:57.400 --> 22:00.400 We told the maid who answered the door who we were and what we wanted. 22:00.400 --> 22:05.400 She showed us into the library of the house and asked us to wait while she went to get Mrs. Pringle. 22:05.400 --> 22:06.400 It's quite a pad, huh, Joe? 22:06.400 --> 22:08.400 Yeah, it's pretty big. 22:08.400 --> 22:10.400 Faye's been after me to get one of these. 22:10.400 --> 22:11.400 What's that? 22:11.400 --> 22:13.400 See, one of these three-dimensional viewers. 22:13.400 --> 22:15.400 You know, got little pictures in them. 22:15.400 --> 22:16.400 Faye says they're great for the kids. 22:16.400 --> 22:17.400 Yeah. 22:17.400 --> 22:18.400 Got all kind of pictures. 22:18.400 --> 22:19.400 Yosemite, Yellowstone. 22:19.400 --> 22:20.400 Pretty interesting. 22:20.400 --> 22:21.400 All in 3D, too. 22:21.400 --> 22:23.400 Gentlemen, something you want to see me about? 22:23.400 --> 22:25.400 Well, police officers, Mrs. Pringle. 22:25.400 --> 22:26.400 Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 22:26.400 --> 22:27.400 Yes, I know. 22:27.400 --> 22:29.400 What was it you wanted to see me about? 22:29.400 --> 22:31.400 You know a man named Olin Corbett? 22:31.400 --> 22:33.400 Corbett? No, I don't think so. 22:33.400 --> 22:35.400 How about Peter Ulrich? 22:35.400 --> 22:36.400 Nothing there either. 22:36.400 --> 22:38.400 You mind telling me what this is all about? 22:38.400 --> 22:41.400 Well, I think you know as well as we do, don't you? 22:41.400 --> 22:44.400 It's some kind of a joke. I'm afraid I can't go along with it. 22:44.400 --> 22:46.400 No, ma'am, it's no joke. 22:46.400 --> 22:47.400 You're trying to say something. 22:47.400 --> 22:50.400 Why not stop going in circles and come right to the point? 22:50.400 --> 22:52.400 All right. You're under arrest, Mrs. Pringle. 22:52.400 --> 22:53.400 For what? 22:53.400 --> 22:55.400 Robbery and narcotics. 22:55.400 --> 22:56.400 Would you like to sit down? 22:56.400 --> 22:57.400 No, thank you. 22:57.400 --> 22:58.400 No. 22:58.400 --> 23:00.400 Anything I can get for you? A drink, maybe? 23:00.400 --> 23:01.400 No. 23:01.400 --> 23:03.400 Uh-huh. 23:03.400 --> 23:06.400 You must have some kind of evidence to make a charge like this. 23:06.400 --> 23:08.400 We have. 23:08.400 --> 23:09.400 You mind telling me what it is? 23:09.400 --> 23:12.400 We've got motion pictures of you meeting the men that I mentioned. 23:12.400 --> 23:14.400 Pictures of you passing the narcotics to them. 23:14.400 --> 23:16.400 We checked your children's school. 23:16.400 --> 23:19.400 We found that makeup kit. 23:19.400 --> 23:21.400 Not much doubt, then, is there? 23:21.400 --> 23:22.400 No, ma'am. 23:22.400 --> 23:24.400 Nothing I can do? 23:24.400 --> 23:26.400 No. Get your coat. 23:26.400 --> 23:28.400 I guess so. 23:28.400 --> 23:29.400 Now, Mrs. Pringle. 23:29.400 --> 23:30.400 What? 23:30.400 --> 23:31.400 This house and the car. 23:31.400 --> 23:34.400 You mind telling me why you went into a thing like this? 23:34.400 --> 23:35.400 I guess it'd sound pretty silly to you. 23:35.400 --> 23:37.400 Right now, it's pretty wild to me. 23:37.400 --> 23:39.400 We'll listen if you want to tell us. 23:39.400 --> 23:43.400 I divorced my husband several years ago, Mr. Smith. 23:43.400 --> 23:45.400 I got a good settlement. A lot of alimony. 23:45.400 --> 23:48.400 Gave me just about everything I wanted. 23:48.400 --> 23:49.400 Maybe it gave me too much. 23:49.400 --> 23:51.400 I didn't have anything to look forward to. 23:51.400 --> 23:53.400 Nothing to act as a sort of challenge. 23:53.400 --> 23:54.400 You understand? 23:54.400 --> 23:56.400 I guess so. 23:56.400 --> 23:59.400 I met a man. Nice enough guy. 23:59.400 --> 24:03.400 One thing led to another, and he suggested the robbery. 24:03.400 --> 24:05.400 Sounded like something to do. 24:05.400 --> 24:07.400 Something so I wouldn't be bored anymore. 24:07.400 --> 24:09.400 That's why we did it. 24:09.400 --> 24:12.400 It wasn't the money with me. I guess it was with him. 24:12.400 --> 24:14.400 You want to give us the name? 24:14.400 --> 24:15.400 No. 24:15.400 --> 24:18.400 Might as well. It's all finished now anyway. 24:18.400 --> 24:20.400 All right. Want to get that coat now? 24:20.400 --> 24:22.400 Yeah. 24:22.400 --> 24:25.400 How long will they send me to prison for? 24:25.400 --> 24:28.400 We wouldn't know. That's up to the judge. 24:28.400 --> 24:30.400 I hear the place is a lot better than it used to be. 24:30.400 --> 24:32.400 Lots of things to do. 24:32.400 --> 24:34.400 Jobs so you can keep your mind occupied. 24:34.400 --> 24:37.400 That's right. And you can be sure of one thing. 24:37.400 --> 24:38.400 What's that? 24:38.400 --> 24:40.400 You won't be bored. 24:40.400 --> 24:49.400 The story you have just heard is true. 24:49.400 --> 24:52.400 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 24:52.400 --> 24:55.400 On December 18th, trial was held in Department 97, 24:55.400 --> 24:57.400 Superior Court of the State of California, 24:57.400 --> 24:59.400 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 24:59.400 --> 25:01.400 In a moment, the results of that trial. 25:01.400 --> 25:06.400 They can write them down. 25:06.400 --> 25:16.400 Go ahead. 25:16.400 --> 25:18.400 Norman Gerald Keery was tried and convicted 25:18.400 --> 25:21.400 a violation of the State Narcotics Act, a felony, one count, 25:21.400 --> 25:24.400 Olin Lambert Corbett, Beulah Valerie Pringle, 25:24.400 --> 25:27.400 Peter Larson Ulrich were 25:27.400 --> 25:29.400 tried and found guilty of robbery in the first degree 25:29.400 --> 25:31.880 of the State Narcotics Act, a felony. 25:31.880 --> 25:34.480 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment 25:34.480 --> 25:36.240 in the state penitentiary for a period 25:36.240 --> 25:38.400 of not less than five years. 25:38.400 --> 25:40.760 Violation of the State Narcotics Act, a felony, 25:40.760 --> 25:42.840 is punishable by imprisonment for a period 25:42.840 --> 25:45.520 of from five years to life in the state penitentiary. 25:45.520 --> 25:49.020 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 25:54.960 --> 25:58.140 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases 25:58.140 --> 25:59.840 from official files. 25:59.840 --> 26:02.400 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 26:02.400 --> 26:05.000 WH Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 26:05.000 --> 26:33.000 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"]